Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories.
The Big Grabowski co-authors Carolyn J. Rose and Mike Nettleton are interviewed on My Shelf:
Deb: Collaborative writing presents unique challenges; how was your collaborative experience? Any hints for success?
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Tangent presents: Jake Buffy, Brandon Downing, & Reg Johanson (Clinton Corner Cafe, @7:00pm): Tangent is pleased to host three exciting poets: Portland native Jake Buffy will be making his full-length reading debut; New York-based artist Brandon Downing will be screening some new film shorts; and Reg Johanson will be joining us all the way from Vancouver, BC to perform his new poetry.
Other Book Events Today:
Gala Celebration Honoring Local Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @3:00pm): Come celebrate the talents of the SCBWI-Oregon. Sixteen authors and illustrators of children’s and teen’s books will be here to present and sign their books, including Emily Whitman, Carmen Bernier-Grand, Lisa Schroeder, Dale Basye and Nancy Coffelt.
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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of March 13, 2010 through March 19, 2010 are:
Saturday March 13-
Gala Celebration Honoring Local Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @3:00pm): Come celebrate the talents of the SCBWI-Oregon. Sixteen authors and illustrators of children’s and teen’s books will be here to present and sign their books, including Emily Whitman, Carmen Bernier-Grand, Lisa Schroeder, Dale Basye and Nancy Coffelt.
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An impressive lineup will share their thoughts and insight into the publishing experience at this years Oolicon: Write to Publish held May 22-23 at Portland State University. Organized by Ooligan Press, the Write to Publish conference seeks to “demystify the publishing process for writers” by focusing not on “the craft of writing, but rather on the process of getting published.”
Featured at the open house event on the 23rd will be Chuck Palahniuk and Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as fellow Portland standouts Shannon Wheeler, creator of Too Much Coffee Man and Eisner Award-winning artist; Deborah Hopkinson, Oregon Book Award-winning children’s author; Virginia Euwer Wolff, National Book Award-winning YA fiction author; and Lilith Saintcrow, popular urban fantasy author.
The opening day (May 22nd) will feature workshops for writers and industry professionals. Ticket prices are $130 for writers for the full conference (this includes five workshops and the Open House on the second day) or $32 per workshop. Ticket prices are $215 for industry professionals for the full conference.
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VoiceCatcher, the Portland based anthology featuring new and established women writers of diverse perspectives, voices, ages, orientations, and experiences–is seeking submission for their 5th volume of poetry and prose.
The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2010. VoiceCatcher only publishes “new writing that has not been previously published,” and “only accepts submissions from women who consider themselves local Portland, OR area writers.” For further guidelines and submission details, please visit the VoiceCatcher website.
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The themes are all too common. Greed. Corruption. The evils and indifference of capitalism. The zealousness and righteousness of environmentalists. But they are common because they make for a good story, and one that we all love to read. And so it is with Daniel R. Cobb’s debut novel The Mine.
The Mine follows the story of Ryan, an eager underling at the Oregon DEQ charged with examining the applications for an expansion of a gold mine in Northeast Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. The gold mine is at the center of an extremely heated debate (CNN camera crews and all) between those that tout the jobs it brings to a destitute area, and those that point to the environmental destruction left in its wake. After reviewing the expansion proposals, Ryan concludes that the request should be denied based on a myriad of alarming environmental concerns. Unfortunately the final decision is not up to him, and this is where the story turns.
Ryan finds his boss, and the closest thing he has to a father, shot dead in the mans garage. Shortly after this the gold mines expansion request is granted, furthering Ryan’s state of despondence, and lurching him on a course that will put his life and that of his beloved wife Meagan at risk. This frenzy carries the rest of the story through the twist and turns that come from Ryan’s valiant if reckless pursuit to right the wrongs he sees in the world.
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The one thing about a blog is that with each new post added, the great content that came before it begins to get lost in the shuffle. And although it would be nice to believe that each of you wait with bated breath for every new post on Reading Local: Portland, we realize that for the majority of you life interrupts your RLP reading habits.
In order to bring some of that great content back to the forefront, and to help make things easier for the casual reader, we thought we would try a new post out every Sunday highlighting some of the great articles that found their way onto our site throughout the week. So without further ado, here are some of this past weeks best posts:
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Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories.
Underland Press is profiled as part of the B&N Review Small Press Spotlight series:
Since its inception in 2008, Underland Press has illustrated—by the small run of superior books it has so far published—the value of having a strong and individual creative vision guiding an enterprise, in place of a diffuse and lowest-common-denominator corporate consensus.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Dave Eggers Booksigning (Powells City of Books, @12:00pm): Join us when bestselling author Dave Eggers signs copies of his most recent books, The Wild Things and Zeitoun (McSweeney’s). A riveting work of nonfiction, Zeitoun explores the life of a prosperous Syrian-American who chose to stay in New Orleans through Hurricane Katrina — and then abruptly disappeared. Loosely based on the picture book by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze, The Wild Things is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control. Please note: This is a booksigning only; the author will not read from his work.
Other Book Events Today:
First Friday: Art and Letters (Downtown Camas, WA, @5:00pm): Local authors will sign, sell, and read from their books in shops and locations throughout downtown Camas. A collection of signed books donated by the authors will be raffled to benefit the nonprofit Friends of the Camas Library. Authors and local students will read from their works in the new Journey Community Church located on 4th Ave in downtown Camas.
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
The Big Book of Gross Stuff (Gibbs Smith Publisher), the latest release from Bart King, is now available for purchase.
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If you find yourself out and about tonight (3-4) for First Thursday you will have plenty of options, one of which is the grand opening of Galerie Salome. I realize this isn’t an art blog, but we have multi-talented authors in our vicinity whose creative limits seemingly know no bounds. So if you happen to be near NW 6th & Everett tonight, stop into Galerie Salome, as their first exhibit entitled “Only Dust and Rain” will feature 28 framed b/w portraits by Jaret Ferratusco of Corpse On Pumpkin Photography.
Of course some of you who have read this blog for a while might also recognize Jaret as the founder of Patient, Folded Hands Publishing and author of I Grew Up In Amaltherey Hill. So in addition to showing off his photography, Jaret will also do a 15-minute reading from Amaltherey Hill. Following this will be a live performance from Joey Casio off the esteemed NW punk rock label K Records out of Olympia.
Be there or be square!
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Jennie Shortridge and Erica Bauermeister (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Jennie Shortridge and Erica Bauermeister will read from their new novels. Jennie’s novel is When She Flew (New American Library), the story of a girl and her father found living off the grid in Forest Park. Inspired by real events that many of us remember, this novel is a warm-hearted story that imagines what happens when an injured war veteran and his 12-year-old naturalist daughter are 
brought back to “civilized” life after being on their own. Erica’s novel is The School of Essential Ingredients (Berkley), a tale of a cooking teacher and her students that navigates readers through each character’s personal dramas, memories and musings as they handle, slice, chop, blend, smell and taste. It is a remarkable debut novel that creates a captivating culinary world where the pleasures of sophisticated food come to mean much more than simple epicurean indulgence.
Other Book Events Today:
First Thursday Book Club (St. John’s Books, @5:30pm): Join us for the inaugural meeting of our First Thursday Book Club. Get in on the ground floor of a book club in the making! Our first selection is Jane Austen’s immortal, inimitable Pride & Prejudice. We invite you to read (or reread) this classic tale of money and marriage in Regency England–then sit down with us to discuss it over tea and cookies.. Future discussion books will be selected at this meeting.
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