Using Video to Connect with Your Audience This is our Fall Workshop. Video is a great way to connect with your audience and create relationships with your readers. When readers see you on video, something magical happens: you become a real person they connect with. That emotional engagement turns them into super fans. But video…
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Vancouver: How to Make Self-publishing Work for You with Carolyn L. Dean
How to Make Self-publishing Work for You There are many paths up the mountain to becoming a successful author, just as there are many definitions of success. Carolyn will be addressing several facets of self-publishing, including feasibility and profitability, individual goals and how to achieve them, how to avoid common pitfalls and scams, and more.…
Eugene: Writing By the Numbers with Jessica Cagle-Faber
Writing By the Numbers This meeting is on WEDNESDAY and not on our regular Thursday meeting day. When a writer friend announced he was trying to rack up 100 rejections as quickly as possible, Jessica thought, ‘that sounds gruesome.’ But she realized it would help her overcome the fear of putting her writing into the…
YWW Portland: Fun With Folklore with Kate Ristau
Fun With Folklore Folklore is the stories, art, music, and traditions that we share with our friends and inherit from our families. As writers, it can help us to think about why stories last — what makes them resonate across time and space? Join me to talk about how you can use folklore to launch…
Portland: Choreography of Violence: Writing horror and social satire with John Skipp
Choreography of Violence: Writing horror and social satire Lecture and discussion on the topic of writing horror and social satire About John Skipp John Skipp is a Saturn Award-winning filmmaker (TALES OF HALLOWEEN), Stoker Award-winning anthologist (DEMONS, MONDO ZOMBIE), and New York Times bestselling author (THE LIGHT AT THE END, THE SCREAM) whose books have…
Corvallis: September Open Mic
September Open Mic Reading your work or work-in-progress gives you the opportunity to hear and to be heard. Does the audience sigh? Do they gasp? Do they laugh outright? Does the page read smoothly for you? In other words, does your writing bring the audience into your experience successfully? Come read for applause and…
YWW Southern Oregon: Welcome Back – A YA Novel Discussion with Tehlor Kay Mejia and Michelle Ruiz Keil
Welcome Back – A YA Novel Discussion with Tehlor & Michelle NEW LOCATION AND TIME FOR 2019-2020: We will now be meeting on the third Saturday of each month at the Library in Grants Pass (200 NW C St, Grants Pass, OR 97526) from 10:30 am – noon. For this first month, we will have…
Salem: Fictional Perspectives with Eric Witchey
Fictional Perspectives with Eric Witchey Award-winning writer Eric Witchey will present a short discussion of the nature of point of view and how and why writers take such pains to manage it carefully. The discussion will include a group exercise reminiscent of the point of view experiments of Robert Coover. If participants would like to…
Member News: This Particular Happiness by Jackie Shannon Hollis
This Particular Happiness explores our most intimate conflicts and desires—about relationships, parenthood, and what makes life meaningful. Raised in rural Oregon in the 1960s, Jackie Shannon Hollis grew up playing “house” with baby dolls, riding horses, and tending to kittens and lambs on her family’s ranch. Other than her Aunt Lena, all of the women…
Member News: WW Member is featured author at the Fall Festival of the Arts!
Willamette Writers member Franklin Posner will be one of the featured authors at the Fall Festival of the Arts in Troutdale, Oregon, from Saturday, September 21st to Sunday, September 22nd. The Fall Festival of the Arts is sponsored by the West Columbia Gorge Chamber of Commerce and is a celebration of the thriving arts community…