I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty well flummoxed by this whole thesis thing. I know I have to write something, and that I have to make it good, as opposed to letting my dog run over my keyboard and then correcting his punctuation and turning it in for class, which is what I do now. But beyond knowing I have to write something, I'm lost.
Theoretically, all the information is on the web site, I suppose. But unfortunately, web sites aren't great about answering questions. Lucky for us, though, Paul Collins and Michele Glazer ARE great about answering questions, which is why they are going to be our official question answerers at this little thesis Q&A coffee klatsch I'm planning!
So here are the details (or "deets" as the young kids say):
What: MFA Thesis Question and Answer Session
Where: NH 407, a.k.a. the English Department Conference Room
When: Thursday, December 3, from 3:oo p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
I am also compiling a list of questions ahead of time so that I can let Paul and Michele know what to expect. So send your most burning questions to gradlit@pdx.edu or respond to this post, and I'll make sure to include them.
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11.16.2009
6.04.2009
Write Around Portland--Community Writing Workshop!
'Prompt' Community Writing Workshop at Powell's City of Books Starts June 23 - Register Now
Write Around Portland is offering a special workshop designed for writers and aspiring writers in the greater Portland area who want to participate in a Write Around workshop and support the communities we traditionally serve.
'Prompt' your chance to write in community with others following the Write Around model while also providing support to writers who might not otherwise have access to writing and community. Pre-registration is required and is limited to 12 adults per workshop. Spaces are filling quickly. For more info and to register: http://www.writearound.org/
Summer Session: Eight Tuesdays, 6:15 - 8:45pm, June 23rd - August 11th
Cost: $285, payment plans available. Cost includes free parking, snacks and access to the “Bowels of Powell’s”
Facilitator: Sara Guest (bio below)
Based on the acclaimed Write Around Portland model, this dynamic workshop incorporates many of our favorite writing exercises designed to inspire the writing life, including freewriting; work with writing elements; strength-building feedback and early-draft revision. The workshop will cap off with a community broadside.
All proceeds go toward funding Write Around Portland programs, including workshops for people affected by HIV/AIDS, veterans living with PTSD, teen parents, those with physical or mental disabilities, people living in low income housing and others without access because of income, isolation or other barriers.
'Prompt' facilitator Sara Guest a BA in creative writing and an MA in literature. She is editor of VoiceCatcher3, an anthology of Portland women’s writing, and she workshopped fiction at the 2008 Tin House Writers Workshop. Sara is a former speech writer, writing instructor and has worked professionally as an editor for 15 years. She has facilitated numerous Write Around Portland workshops as a volunteer and in her current role on our staff as Program Coordinator.
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Robyn Steely, Executive Director
Write Around Portland
917 SW Oak St. #406
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: 503.796.9224
Fax: 503.295.7767
http://www.writearound.org
Just announced - 'Prompt'summer community writing workshop
at Powell's Books starts in June:
http://www.writearound.org/events/Prompt_Summer_Fall09. html
4.01.2009
Fishtrap--Memoir Course with John Daniel
Fishtrap is offering its second yearlong writing workshop, "Telling the Truth in the First Person," a memoir course with John Daniel. Registration for this yearlong course is open now.
In John's words, "Memoir means, in essence, writing from memory. If only it were as simple as that sounds. The memoirist must locate the story he wants and needs to tell, discover by writing his way into it the constellation of experiences that compose the story, and bring the story alive on the page, shaping it there as painstakingly as any fiction writer shapes a novel. It is a difficult voyage of discovery, but an exciting and rewarding one."
The aim of this course is for each participant to bring into being, in a period of twelve months, a substantial draft of a book-length memoir. The course is modeled after a year in a low-residency MFA program. It begins and ends with a one-week workshop at summer Fishtrap, 2009 and 2010, and the group convenes once for a briefer session in January 2010. Between these workshops participants correspond with the instructor individually, each sending 25 to 30 new pages per month for critique and discussion.
For complete details on this yearlong course in memoir with John Daniel, go to www.fishtrap.org/yearlong.shtml. Registration for this yearlong course is open now.
Author of three memoirs, two volumes of personal essays, and two collections of poems, John Daniel has won two Oregon Book Awards for Literary Nonfiction, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and James T. Thurber Writer-in-Residence at Ohio State
University, Daniel lives with his wife, Marilyn, in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon. His most recent books are "The Far Corner" (April 2009) and "Rogue River Journal."
In John's words, "Memoir means, in essence, writing from memory. If only it were as simple as that sounds. The memoirist must locate the story he wants and needs to tell, discover by writing his way into it the constellation of experiences that compose the story, and bring the story alive on the page, shaping it there as painstakingly as any fiction writer shapes a novel. It is a difficult voyage of discovery, but an exciting and rewarding one."
The aim of this course is for each participant to bring into being, in a period of twelve months, a substantial draft of a book-length memoir. The course is modeled after a year in a low-residency MFA program. It begins and ends with a one-week workshop at summer Fishtrap, 2009 and 2010, and the group convenes once for a briefer session in January 2010. Between these workshops participants correspond with the instructor individually, each sending 25 to 30 new pages per month for critique and discussion.
For complete details on this yearlong course in memoir with John Daniel, go to www.fishtrap.org/yearlong.shtml. Registration for this yearlong course is open now.
Author of three memoirs, two volumes of personal essays, and two collections of poems, John Daniel has won two Oregon Book Awards for Literary Nonfiction, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and James T. Thurber Writer-in-Residence at Ohio State
University, Daniel lives with his wife, Marilyn, in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon. His most recent books are "The Far Corner" (April 2009) and "Rogue River Journal."
April 7 Free Poetry Workshop with Barbara Drake
April 7 Free Poetry Workshop with Barbara Drake
Willamette Writers Coast Branch continues its free Writers-on-Writing workshops with Barbara Drake on March 7, 2009, at the Newport Public Library from 7-8:30pm. Known as a master teacher and poet, she will lead “It’s All About Words: a Poetry Workshop.”
“Does it matter which words you use in a poem as long as you have a good idea? Is a poem about something or can it be about language itself? Words are the building blocks of poetry but there are so many choices, how do we make those choices? In this workshop we will ask these questions and will use word exercises and language games to write drafts for new poems.”
With degrees from the University of Oregon, Barbara Drake has taught at Michigan State and Willamette Universities; Lewis & Clark, Whitman, Linfield, and Southern Oregon Community Colleges. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Northwest Art Foundation Grant, a NEA Fellowship, and the Edith Grant Distinguished Professor Award from Linfield College. She is best known for her textbook Writing Poetry, now reissued by Wadsworth in 1994. She also co-authored Concepts in Literature, Grades 7-12.
Her poetry chapbooks include What We Say to Strangers, Love at the Egyptian Theatre, Life in a Gothic Novel, Bees in Wet Weather, Space Before A, and most recently, Small Favors from Traprock Press. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies: Prescott Reader, Sumac Reader, The Plain Truth of Things, and O Poetry!
Her book of poetic essays, Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life (OSU Press, 1998) tells of
raising Romney sheep and wine grapes on a small farm near Yamhill.
She has published articles, reviews, fiction and poetry in Northwest Magazine, North American Review, Northwest Review, Centennial Review, Western Humanities Review, Green House, Wormwood Review, as well as the Oregon Literary Review and Windfall.
Thanks to a Lincoln County Cultural Trust 2009 grant to bring writing teachers into the schools, Barbara Drake will also be a visiting teacher in creative writing in Toledo High School.
The next Willamette Writers Coast Branch meeting on May 5 features Bob Welch with a Nonfiction Workshop, 7-8:30 p.m. Admission is free. Public welcome.
The Writers-on-Writing series is also sponsored by the Newport Public Library and the Sylvia Beach Hotel. Contacts: Sue Lick, 867-4692, suelick@casco.net; Dorothy Blackcrow Mack, 765-2383, dmack@centurytel.net; www.willamettewriters.com.
Willamette Writers Coast Branch continues its free Writers-on-Writing workshops with Barbara Drake on March 7, 2009, at the Newport Public Library from 7-8:30pm. Known as a master teacher and poet, she will lead “It’s All About Words: a Poetry Workshop.”
“Does it matter which words you use in a poem as long as you have a good idea? Is a poem about something or can it be about language itself? Words are the building blocks of poetry but there are so many choices, how do we make those choices? In this workshop we will ask these questions and will use word exercises and language games to write drafts for new poems.”
With degrees from the University of Oregon, Barbara Drake has taught at Michigan State and Willamette Universities; Lewis & Clark, Whitman, Linfield, and Southern Oregon Community Colleges. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Northwest Art Foundation Grant, a NEA Fellowship, and the Edith Grant Distinguished Professor Award from Linfield College. She is best known for her textbook Writing Poetry, now reissued by Wadsworth in 1994. She also co-authored Concepts in Literature, Grades 7-12.
Her poetry chapbooks include What We Say to Strangers, Love at the Egyptian Theatre, Life in a Gothic Novel, Bees in Wet Weather, Space Before A, and most recently, Small Favors from Traprock Press. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies: Prescott Reader, Sumac Reader, The Plain Truth of Things, and O Poetry!
Her book of poetic essays, Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life (OSU Press, 1998) tells of
raising Romney sheep and wine grapes on a small farm near Yamhill.
She has published articles, reviews, fiction and poetry in Northwest Magazine, North American Review, Northwest Review, Centennial Review, Western Humanities Review, Green House, Wormwood Review, as well as the Oregon Literary Review and Windfall.
Thanks to a Lincoln County Cultural Trust 2009 grant to bring writing teachers into the schools, Barbara Drake will also be a visiting teacher in creative writing in Toledo High School.
The next Willamette Writers Coast Branch meeting on May 5 features Bob Welch with a Nonfiction Workshop, 7-8:30 p.m. Admission is free. Public welcome.
The Writers-on-Writing series is also sponsored by the Newport Public Library and the Sylvia Beach Hotel. Contacts: Sue Lick, 867-4692, suelick@casco.net; Dorothy Blackcrow Mack, 765-2383, dmack@centurytel.net; www.willamettewriters.com.
Paulann Peterson Poetry Workshop, Sundays April 26 - May 31
DOWNSTREAM: WRITING WITH THE CURRENT
Join Paulann Petersen in a poetry workshop dedicated to creation, reflection, and craft.
Using notable poems as springboards, we'll turn ourselves loose in the river of words, letting language carry us along in its current. Each session, we’ll generate some new work. We’ll also look at your poems (either ones you’ve written in our workshop, or earlier ones you’ve brought with you) for possible ways to strengthen them through revision.
The word “revision” offers us a bracing truth. To truly revise is to do much more than mere editing and tinkering: it’s learning to see our poems anew, moving them toward their strengths. I’ll use critiques as opportunities for short lessons, addressing issues of craft raised by the particular poem we’re looking at. We'll be lingering in a few eddies, examining significant elements of craft such as line integrity, dramatic strategy, voice and trope.
My goal is to have each participant leave the workshop with both an outpouring of new material, and some new --or newly honed --tools for revision.
This workshop is open to writers of all levels of experience.
Sundays, 12-3 pm, April 26th to May 31st
Please go to
http://atticwritersworkshop.com/workshop/downstream-writing-current
Join Paulann Petersen in a poetry workshop dedicated to creation, reflection, and craft.
Using notable poems as springboards, we'll turn ourselves loose in the river of words, letting language carry us along in its current. Each session, we’ll generate some new work. We’ll also look at your poems (either ones you’ve written in our workshop, or earlier ones you’ve brought with you) for possible ways to strengthen them through revision.
The word “revision” offers us a bracing truth. To truly revise is to do much more than mere editing and tinkering: it’s learning to see our poems anew, moving them toward their strengths. I’ll use critiques as opportunities for short lessons, addressing issues of craft raised by the particular poem we’re looking at. We'll be lingering in a few eddies, examining significant elements of craft such as line integrity, dramatic strategy, voice and trope.
My goal is to have each participant leave the workshop with both an outpouring of new material, and some new --or newly honed --tools for revision.
This workshop is open to writers of all levels of experience.
Sundays, 12-3 pm, April 26th to May 31st
Please go to
http://atticwritersworkshop.com/workshop/downstream-writing-current
3.23.2009
Spring Literary Arts Workshops at Multnomah Arts Center
Spring Literary Arts Workshops at Multnomah Arts Center
The full catalog of spring classes at MAC can be downloaded at
www.multnomahartscenter.org.
For more information, or to register, call 503-823-2787.
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Writing & Reading Poetry
David Abel
In this workshop, we’ll look at how poetry works, as writers and as
readers. We’ll write in response to exercises, and in response to what
we read; we’ll read closely one another’s work, and the work of other
poets both familiar and not. The challenge of reading poetry pays off in
two ways: empathy for the situation of our readers, and the discovery of
new possibilities. Open to anyone (beginner or veteran) who writes
poetry and wants to deepen their understanding of the art.
Tuesdays 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 31 - May 26 [9 classes]
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Fiction Writing for Beginners
Susan Wickstrom
Are you ready to write the Great American Novel? Or do you simply want
to express yourself? Beginning fiction writers will find inspiration and
support through discussion and in-class exercises. No writing experience
necessary.
Thursdays 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
April 2 - June 4 [8 classes; no class on 4/23 or 5/21]
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Memoir Writing: The Literature of Memory
Lyssa Tall Anolik
Memory is not logical or tidy, but it is infinitely interesting. Learn
how to take the details that make up your life and turn them into
memoir, poems, or even fiction. We will engage in the free-writing
process using prompts to trigger and unlock the stories hidden within
you. We’ll address and put aside the inner critic, so that you may
engage your creative process in a safe and encouraging environment.
We’ll draw from Natalie Goldberg’s, “Old Friend from Far Away,” and
other texts. No writing experience necessary. All levels welcome.
Wednesdays 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
April 15 - May 27 [7 classes]
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Lifestory, Lifepath
Barbara Schramm
A good life story is one of the most important gifts we can offer
ourselves, our children, our friends, and our community. A meaningful
life contributes in generative ways to those around us. With that in
mind, this workshop will give you an opportunity to write your own life
story that may have become buried or eclipsed. This supportive class is
open to writers of all abilities.
Wednesdays 9:30-11:30 am
April 8 – May 27 [8 classes]
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Children's Writing: Let Your Imagination Fly (Ages: 8 - 12)
Lyssa Tall Anolik
Fly to the moon! Sail to the stars! Send thoughts aloft on a paper
airplane. Imagine yourself an astronaut or bird & write stories or
poetry about your travels! Students are welcome to support their writing
with illustrations. Increase communication & self- expression skills
while improving basic writing abilities.
Mondays 4:30 pm-5:30 pm
Apr. 20 - May 18 [5 classes]
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Writers’ Roundtable – April Henry
Get up-close and personal with mystery writer April Henry, the author of
five adult
mysteries including the four-book Claire Montrose series that began with
Square
in the Face. Henry also writes popular young adult thrillers such as
Shock Point
and Torched. She has been nominated for several literary prizes
including the
Oregon Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.
Moderated by Susan Wickstrom. Limited to 15 participants.
Wednesday May 13, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The full catalog of spring classes at MAC can be downloaded at
www.multnomahartscenter.org.
For more information, or to register, call 503-823-2787.
-----
Writing & Reading Poetry
David Abel
In this workshop, we’ll look at how poetry works, as writers and as
readers. We’ll write in response to exercises, and in response to what
we read; we’ll read closely one another’s work, and the work of other
poets both familiar and not. The challenge of reading poetry pays off in
two ways: empathy for the situation of our readers, and the discovery of
new possibilities. Open to anyone (beginner or veteran) who writes
poetry and wants to deepen their understanding of the art.
Tuesdays 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 31 - May 26 [9 classes]
-----
Fiction Writing for Beginners
Susan Wickstrom
Are you ready to write the Great American Novel? Or do you simply want
to express yourself? Beginning fiction writers will find inspiration and
support through discussion and in-class exercises. No writing experience
necessary.
Thursdays 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
April 2 - June 4 [8 classes; no class on 4/23 or 5/21]
-----
Memoir Writing: The Literature of Memory
Lyssa Tall Anolik
Memory is not logical or tidy, but it is infinitely interesting. Learn
how to take the details that make up your life and turn them into
memoir, poems, or even fiction. We will engage in the free-writing
process using prompts to trigger and unlock the stories hidden within
you. We’ll address and put aside the inner critic, so that you may
engage your creative process in a safe and encouraging environment.
We’ll draw from Natalie Goldberg’s, “Old Friend from Far Away,” and
other texts. No writing experience necessary. All levels welcome.
Wednesdays 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
April 15 - May 27 [7 classes]
-----
Lifestory, Lifepath
Barbara Schramm
A good life story is one of the most important gifts we can offer
ourselves, our children, our friends, and our community. A meaningful
life contributes in generative ways to those around us. With that in
mind, this workshop will give you an opportunity to write your own life
story that may have become buried or eclipsed. This supportive class is
open to writers of all abilities.
Wednesdays 9:30-11:30 am
April 8 – May 27 [8 classes]
-----
Children's Writing: Let Your Imagination Fly (Ages: 8 - 12)
Lyssa Tall Anolik
Fly to the moon! Sail to the stars! Send thoughts aloft on a paper
airplane. Imagine yourself an astronaut or bird & write stories or
poetry about your travels! Students are welcome to support their writing
with illustrations. Increase communication & self- expression skills
while improving basic writing abilities.
Mondays 4:30 pm-5:30 pm
Apr. 20 - May 18 [5 classes]
-----
Writers’ Roundtable – April Henry
Get up-close and personal with mystery writer April Henry, the author of
five adult
mysteries including the four-book Claire Montrose series that began with
Square
in the Face. Henry also writes popular young adult thrillers such as
Shock Point
and Torched. She has been nominated for several literary prizes
including the
Oregon Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.
Moderated by Susan Wickstrom. Limited to 15 participants.
Wednesday May 13, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
3.09.2009
Paulann Peterson Workshop--April 18--SILVERTON
Portland poet Paulann Petersen will lead a poetry writing workshop in Silverton on Saturday, April 18, the first day of the 2009 Silverton Poetry Festival. Petersen says: "Using notable poems as springboards, we'll turn ourselves loose in the river of words, letting language carry us along in its current. Our goal will be to have each participant leave the workshop with a little trove of new material. All levels of experience welcome." The workshop will be held 1:30-4:30 p.m. at the Frank Lloyd Wright Gordon House, 879 W. Main St. in Silverton. The fee is $30. Register by sending a check to the Silverton Poetry Association, 303 Coolidge St., Silverton, OR 97381.
Free Workshops, sponsored by Klamath County Library
The Friends of the Klamath County Library has received a $2,500 Pacific Power Foundation grant to help fund four one-day writing workshops and readings by well-known regional writers.
The free workshops will provide inspiration, guidance, and feedback to area residents who wish to further develop their own creative writing skills.
Invited writers include:
Bette Lynch Husted, for a memoir workshop March 14th ;Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar will hold a June workshop; in September Charles Goodrich will bring more poetry to bloom and in November poet Robert McDowell will discuss Poetry as Spiritual Practice.
All the workshops will be held at the Klamath County Library’s main branch in Klamath Falls
for more information e-mail Mary Hope at fishtrappe@hughes.net
Master Poetry Workshop Comes to Portland Saturday, March 14
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Kerri Buckley
kerri@kerribuckley. com
503-524-1000
Master Poetry Workshop Comes to Portland
Saturday, March 14
When Robert Bly visited Portland, he read his own poetry, and also poems by a younger poet he admired named Jay Leeming. Leeming's poetry has been hailed not only by Bly, but by Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Garrison Keller, who read Leeming's "Man Writes Poem" on the air. His book "Dynamite On A China Plate" (The Backwaters Press) was The Reader's Choice Award winner in 2003, and he is popular in England.
Leeming will be in Portland Saturday, March 14, to teach a master poetry class in Portland from 10 am to 4 pm. He plans on reading poems together with students by poets such as Pablo Neruda, Rilke and Emily Dickinson, then leading them in writing projects. Participants in the workshop should bring a notebook and something to write
with. He plans to focus on metaphor and revision, beginning with the Welsh myth of Taliesen, moving on to Neruda and Tomas Transtromer, then focusing on translations of poems by Rilke, Tu Fu, and the Italian poet Eugenio Montale. If time and number of students allow, there will be a chance to share work with each other.
The cost of the workshop is $60, payable in cash, USPS Money Order, or certified check. Lunch is on your own from 12:30 to 1:30.The workshop is a good way to get a jump start on National Poetry Month. Leeming's down-to-earth humor will make this event productive and memorable.
Poets in high school are welcome, too.
For more information, location, or to register for the workshop (space is limited!) please email kerri@kerribuckley. com.
Portland, OR
10 am to 4 pm
Saturday, March 14
____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _______
Poetry Reading by Jay Leeming at Blackbird Wines
Jay Leeming will follow his Master Poetry Workshop with a reading from his book "Dynamite On A China Plate" and signing at Blackbird Wines at 7 pm on Saturday. He'll have copies of his book for sale, so bring extra cash for books! Blackbird Wines offers wine by the glass or a sampler tasting. The address is 3519 N.E. 44th Ave@ Freemont, Portland, Oregon. This reading/signing is made possible by the generosity of Blackbird Wines.
For more information, please email kerri@kerribuckley. com.
____________ _________ _________ _________ __
Schedule:
Friday, March 13 Reading and Book Signing at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle - 7 pm
Saturday, March 14 Master Poetry Workshop, Email for location- Portland -10am to 4 pm
Saturday, March 14 Reading and Book Signing at Blackbird Wineshop, Portland -7 pm
Sunday, March 15 Master Poetry Workshop, Baked Alaska, Astoria, OR -10 am to 3 pm
Sunday, March 15, Reading and Book Signing at Lucy's Books, Astoria - 4 pm
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Kerri Buckley The Literary Cafe www.kmun.org literarycaferadio@ yahoo.com
Contact: Kerri Buckley
kerri@kerribuckley. com
503-524-1000
Master Poetry Workshop Comes to Portland
Saturday, March 14
When Robert Bly visited Portland, he read his own poetry, and also poems by a younger poet he admired named Jay Leeming. Leeming's poetry has been hailed not only by Bly, but by Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Garrison Keller, who read Leeming's "Man Writes Poem" on the air. His book "Dynamite On A China Plate" (The Backwaters Press) was The Reader's Choice Award winner in 2003, and he is popular in England.
Leeming will be in Portland Saturday, March 14, to teach a master poetry class in Portland from 10 am to 4 pm. He plans on reading poems together with students by poets such as Pablo Neruda, Rilke and Emily Dickinson, then leading them in writing projects. Participants in the workshop should bring a notebook and something to write
with. He plans to focus on metaphor and revision, beginning with the Welsh myth of Taliesen, moving on to Neruda and Tomas Transtromer, then focusing on translations of poems by Rilke, Tu Fu, and the Italian poet Eugenio Montale. If time and number of students allow, there will be a chance to share work with each other.
The cost of the workshop is $60, payable in cash, USPS Money Order, or certified check. Lunch is on your own from 12:30 to 1:30.The workshop is a good way to get a jump start on National Poetry Month. Leeming's down-to-earth humor will make this event productive and memorable.
Poets in high school are welcome, too.
For more information, location, or to register for the workshop (space is limited!) please email kerri@kerribuckley. com.
Portland, OR
10 am to 4 pm
Saturday, March 14
____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _______
Poetry Reading by Jay Leeming at Blackbird Wines
Jay Leeming will follow his Master Poetry Workshop with a reading from his book "Dynamite On A China Plate" and signing at Blackbird Wines at 7 pm on Saturday. He'll have copies of his book for sale, so bring extra cash for books! Blackbird Wines offers wine by the glass or a sampler tasting. The address is 3519 N.E. 44th Ave@ Freemont, Portland, Oregon. This reading/signing is made possible by the generosity of Blackbird Wines.
For more information, please email kerri@kerribuckley. com.
____________ _________ _________ _________ __
Schedule:
Friday, March 13 Reading and Book Signing at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle - 7 pm
Saturday, March 14 Master Poetry Workshop, Email for location- Portland -10am to 4 pm
Saturday, March 14 Reading and Book Signing at Blackbird Wineshop, Portland -7 pm
Sunday, March 15 Master Poetry Workshop, Baked Alaska, Astoria, OR -10 am to 3 pm
Sunday, March 15, Reading and Book Signing at Lucy's Books, Astoria - 4 pm
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Kerri Buckley The Literary Cafe www.kmun.org literarycaferadio@ yahoo.com
Kerri Buckley
The Literary Cafe
11.25.2008
Summer Fishtrap Workshops! -- deadline Jan 31, 09
Summer Fellowships
Each year, Fishtrap, Inc. awards up to five Fellowships valued at $1000 for Summer Fishtrap Workshops and Gathering, held every July at Wallowa Lake, Oregon. Awards are made on the basis of writing submission only, and are not limited to any one genre. Submissions should follow the Fishtrap mission, which is to promote "good writing in and about the West." Therefore, applicants should be from the West, or writing of the West. Fellowships cover the cost of a workshop, registration for the Gathering, and food and lodging for the week. A small travel stipend is also included.
It is the goal of Fishtrap's Fellowship program to recognize and encourage emerging writers. Previous Fellows include novelists Kathleen Tyau and Michael FitzGerald, poets Charles Goodrich and Marilyn Johnston, short fiction writer Kelly Magee, and non-fiction writer Ellie Waterston.
Because we now receive a high volume of Fellowship applications, we are unable to accept applications that don't follow the guidelines stated below. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT ACCEPT ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS. Thanks for reading these guidelines carefully.
Here's what to include in your Fellowship application:
A writing sample:
Material can be published or unpublished but MUST be in manuscript form, typed or printed– double-spaced for prose.
Writer's name MUST NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript.
Prose –fiction or non-fiction– 2500 words maximum; poetry 8 pages maximum.
If the work is from a book-length manuscript, you may send a half-page introduction in addition to the 2500 word selection.
DO NOT FOLD. Please use a 9" x 12" envelope to mail your manuscript flat.
Brief author's bio: The bio is not used in judging, but in publicizing winners.
Other optional enclosures: Self addressed stamped postcard if you'd like to be notified upon reciept of your manuscript. If you include an email address, this is the default method for receipt notification.
SASE if you want your manuscript returned to you. Make sure it has sufficient postage. If you do not provide a SASE with sufficient postage we'll dispose of the manuscript.
Fellowship applications must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2009. Awards will be made by March 27. Mail your application to: Fishtrap Fellowship c/o Fishtrap, PO Box 38, Enterprise, OR 97828
All applications will be read by a preliminary judging panel of current and/or past members of the Fishtrap Board of Directors. Final judging will be done by 2009 faculty members. None of the judges will see any information about the applicant, only the manuscript.
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