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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Today’s interview is with Sid Miller, the founder and executive editor of Burnside Review, which has a new issue due out in April. In addition to his duties with the journal, Sid has two new poetry collections out, one entitled Dot-to-Dot, Oregon (Ooligan Press) and the other Nixon on the Piano (David Robert Brooks). In reading Dot-to-Dot, Oregon I found Miller’s poetry provided an entry point through which I could relate to a genre that has escaped me nearly all of my life. I immediately skipped to the section on Northeast Oregon and began to experience the places I grew up through anothers eyes. And although the language is beautiful enough to gain appreciation from the most seasoned critic, it was this context that allowed the poems to find a home within a novice like myself. I highly recommend you pick up both of these new collections, I promise they will not disappoint.
Sid will be reading from Dot-to-Dot, Oregon tomorrow (1-21) at 7:30pm at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne.
Click through to read the interview and an excerpt of Sid’s work.
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This post is authored by contributor, Teresa Bergen. Ms. Bergen is the author of the novel Killing The President, and in addition to writing, transcribes and edits oral histories, paints animal portraits, makes costume devil horns, teaches yoga, and plays bass in an indie rock band.
More than 100 people came to a talk on publishing in the age of electronic readers Monday night. The University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center sponsored the event, which featured some A list hors d’oeuvres and free drinks, as well as a lively discussion with a lot of audience participation.
Three featured speakers first gave their takes on electronic readers such as Amazon’s Kindle. Katherine Dunn spoke as a writer. Vailey Oehlke, Multnomah County’s director of libraries talked on the library end of it. And Dennis Stovall of Portland State University’s Ooligan Press shared a publisher’s viewpoint. Turnbull Center director Al Stavitsky moderated.
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Mark this down on your calendars as a must attend event. Monday, November 16th at 6:00pm Al Stavitsky, Portland Director of U of O’s School of Journalism and Communication, will moderate a discussion on how “digital books change us as writers, publishers, and readers.” A panel full of heavy-hitters includes: Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love; Dennis Stovall, director of publishing and publisher of Ooligan Press at PSU; and Vailey Oehlke, director of Multnomah County Libraries.
Here is the teaser from U of O:
Electronic book devices such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony E-reader are part of a new wave in digital publishing–one that’s drawing attention in the media and creating an uncertain world for publishers, authors, journalists, librarians and booksellers. How do digital books change us as writers, publishers, and readers?
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