On a cold winter night, a passenger jet with 189 aboard crash landed, out of fuel, in a suburban neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Ten people died. The pilot was blamed and stripped of his career, and a sweeping transformation of flight crew training took place that made United Flight 173 (in)famous worldwide as the model…
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Feminist Bicycle Book Celebration
Help us celebrate the release of Bikes Not Rockets and True Trans Bike Rebel on November 6! We’ll be hosting a reading at the Central Branch of the Multnomah County Library starting at 6:30 p.m. Come meet the contributors, hear them speak, and get your book and zine signed! The venue is wheelchair accessible and…
Heidi Connolly hosting workshop: Writing With Your Authentic Voice
This unique workshop focuses on how to speak your truth specifically through the written word. Through one-on-one and group coaching and compelling tools and techniques, applicable not only to the process of writing and editing but to the living of life itself, you will access and explore the raw, authentic voice that is yours alone. REGISTER…
Member News: Ruth Q Leibowitz hosts retreat
Masks in the Attic: A half-day urban writing and mask-play retreat Come play and write together on Saturday, August 11 from 1 to 5. We will have at our disposal some powerful, funny, scary, quirky, and beautiful masks for you to choose and try on — in the attic. Each of us will take turns…
Sue Fagalde Lick publishes Up Beaver Creek
Sue Fagalde Lick, co-coordinator of Willamette Writers’ coast branch, has published a new novel titled Up Beaver Creek. Set in a real-life community south of Newport, Oregon, it follows the adventures of a woman who calls herself P.D. Recently widowed, she has come west to start a new life as a musician, but things keep…
Member News: Shaun Radecki Wins Award
Willamette Writers member and FilmLab alum, Shaun Radecki, won Best Genre Short in the Academy Award-qualifying Nashville Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition for his short screenplay Sergio: A Scorpion’s Tale.
Our 2018 Willamette Writers Annual Award Winners! We are pleased to congratulate our 2018 award winners, Chelsea Cain, Gayle Brandeis, and Ellen Urbani! Chelsea Cain has been awarded the “Distinguished NW Writer” award, Gayle Brandeis will receive the “Multi-Genre Maverick Writer” award, and Ellen Urbani will be presented the “New and Notable Writer” award. Chelsea…
Member News: Gretchen Van Lente Just Published Hydrophilica
Living in the thin strip that is Malibu, with celebrities on one side of the highway, and the wilderness of The Foothill Mountains on the other side, a young woman suffers cognitive dissonance. She hallucinates in order to pursue a more comfortable, less confusing life—as a rapacious swamp monster devoid of conscience. But as civilization…
Member News: New Release: DEBRIEFING THE DEAD by Kerry Blaisdell
DEBRIEFING THE DEAD by Kerry BlaisdellAvailable May 7, 2018 from The Wild Rose Press (bit.ly/DebriefingTheDead)!”Hyacinth Finch has got one foot in the grave, the other kicking ass.” The Dead Series Book 1 The only thing Hyacinth wants is her life back. Literally. She and her sister were murdered by Demons, leaving her young nephew, Geordi,…
Crafting Mysteries With Cat Winters
At our next Young Willamette Writers meeting, young adult author Cat Winters will join us to discuss crafting mysteries. Cat Winters is a critically acclaimed, award-winning author of four novels for teens: In the Shadow of Blackbirds, The Cure for Dreaming, The Steep and Thorny Way, and Odd & True. She is also the author…