Join us for a night of Poetry Join us for a special event with Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford, Tim Gillespie and Timothy Kerlin. This meeting is free and open to the public, and presented in partnership with Free Range Poetry, Portland Ars Poetica, and Willamette Writers. TUESDAY, December 4, 2018 THE OLD CHURCH CONCERT…
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Corvallis: Writing a Play with Merridawn Duckler and Cristina White
Nothing Dull: Writing a Play 11/26/2018 “Drama” said Alfred Hitchcock, “is life with the dull bits cut out.” In NOTHING DULL: Writing A Play, playwrights Merridawn Duckler and Cristina White will talk about the fundamentals of writing a stage play and the ways they are relevant to other forms of writing. Whether you write fiction,…
Newport: Free Poetry Workshop with Rachel Barton
Rachel Barton Offers Free Poetry Workshop Looking for poetic inspiration? Corvallis poet Rachel Barton will get poets and non-poets writing at the Nov. 18 meeting of Willamette Writers Coast Chapter. The free workshop takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Newport Public Library. Barton will use the poems of accomplished poets to discuss…
Salem: Five Ways to Ratchet Up the Tension in Your Story with Chris Patchell
Five Ways to Ratchet Up the Tension in Your Story Meeting is on the second Wednesday, not the third. What’s the secret to writing a story that grips readers? Tension. Finding ways to ratchet up the tension in your story will keep readers flipping pages because they simply have to know what comes next! As…
Forming a Vancouver chapter
Join us to discuss a Vancouver Willamette Writers Chapter Do you live in Vancouver? We would love for you to join us to discuss forming a Vancouver chapter of Willamette Writers. We will meet at the Cascade Park Library (600 NE 136th Ave, Vancouver, WA 98684) on November 12th from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. Bring your ideas…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: Teresa Klepinger
Teresa Klepinger will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. Teresa Klepinger believes a dose of imagination can improve just about anything. Her love of storytelling began with “Genie” bedtime stories told by her father, continued through years of teaching elementary school, and stays close to her heart…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: C. LaVielle
C. LaVielle will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. I began my grown-up life as a biologist because I was, and still am, fascinated by people, plants, and animals and what makes them tick. I became a wife, a mother, and a healer specializing in tarot divination,…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: Rosemary Douglas Lombard
Rosemary Douglas Lombard will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. Rosemary Lombard, former university teacher, editor, and naturalist, now independent interdisciplinary researcher in animal cognition, brings to her writing decades of surprise and delight exploring turtles’ cognitive potential. Award winner in creative nonfiction and poetry, she has…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: Riley Costello
Riley Costello will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. Riley Costello, an Oregon native, writes the popular lifestyle and fashion blog, sincerelyriley.com. Waiting at Hayden’s is her first novel and the first book where readers can watch scenes unfold and shop the characters’ clothes. Costello coined and branded this…
Willamette Writers Author Signing: Jack Estes
Jack Estes will be signing books at booth 39 at the Portland Book Festival on November 10th. Jack Estes is the author of the critically acclaimed Vietnam memoir, A Field of Innocence – Finalist for the Oregon Book Awards- and his equally powerful, recent novel, A Soldier’s Son. His articles and essays have appeared in…