The Ryzhkov Vendetta, an espionage suspense thriller by Barry L. Becker. Alexander Leonidovich Ryzhkov, a Russian oligarch and former general in the Russian Military Directorate (GRU), runs a covert operation in the Middle East, supplying a Saudi terrorist with four Russian nuclear suitcase bombs and a list of two American cities to target. A CIA…
“The Awakening of the Empath,” a story by re-emerging writer Patricia Anderson, was published at Altered Reality magazine. From the author: “This story began as a response to attending a baby’s funeral. I needed to express a crush of dark feelings. Eventually it reoriented from creative nonfiction to fiction. Initial response to my query letter…
The first installment of Emmeline Duncan’s Ground Rules Mystery Series, Fresh Brewed Murder, came out on March 30th, 2021, from Kensington. Fresh Brewed Murder is set at an inner-Portland food cart pod under threat of gentrification, and a killer is brewing up a world of trouble. Publisher’s Weekly said the novel is a “strong debut…
Oregon Book Awards Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of Literary Arts selected Eugene editor Elizabeth Lyon as the 2021 recipient of the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award “in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.” Find out more
Oregon Book Awards Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of Literary Arts selected Eugene editor Elizabeth Lyon as the 2021 recipient of the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award “in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.” Find out more
Anne Hillerman, an international best-selling author, will be a guest (5/1-6/30) on “Just Read It,” the YouTube series that features PNW writers with host Caroline Miller. Hillerman explains why she stepped into her father’s moccasins to continue the Tony Hillerman series featuring Navajo sleuths Jim Chee, and Joe Leaphorn as they patrol the Four Corners…
Written and directed by Cristina White, the film Tallulah is the Winner of the 2021 Local Film Audience Award at the 10th Annual McMinnville Short Film Festival. Produced by Corvallis Film Lab, Tallulah is about a prim Victorian woman and her shy fiancé. Their courtship is upended by a Puck-like provocateur with a real-estate romance…
Denied — Releases May 11, 2021, the second book in the Lefty nominated Kelly Pruett Mystery Series. Despite her injuries, PI Kelly Pruett is eager to get back to work. So when a mommy-to-be hires her to locate her estranged dad, Kelly is thankful for the straightforward missing-persons case. But as she rummages through his…
Gather, a new memoir by Cynthia Pappas. In her newest essay collection, Pappas details a life led deeply in place and attuned to the changing season of work on a family farm. Whether it’s about harvesting vegetables from the garden, joining with friends around the table, gathering her wits to outsmart a recalcitrant cow, or…
Opening with the epigraph, “What can I make it mean?” from Agon by Harold Bloom, this eclectic collection of poetry asks us to join the author as he explores a wide variety of landscapes, both internal and external. Leigh Zaph, an NYC expat now living on the Oregon coast, draws upon an academic and familial…
