1st June 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Deborah Reed (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Portland writer Deborah Reed will be here to read from her novel A Small Fortune, which she wrote under the pen name of Audrey Braun. This new book is a steamy thriller that begins in tropical Mexico, where Celia Donnelly goes for a restorative vacation to [...]
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31st May 2010 by
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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 May 31, 2010 through June 4, 2010 are: Monday May 31- Memorial Day-Thank you to all who have served! Tuesday June 1- Deborah [...]
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6th April 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Diane Hammond (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Diane Hammond will be here to read from her latest book, Seeing Stars, published by HarperCollins. Seeing Stars is a novel of hope, dreams, love and ambition. Set in Hollywood – where every child wants to be a star and every grownup wants a piece of [...]
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2nd April 2010 by
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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 April 3, 2010 through April 9, 2010 are: Saturday April 3- Kimberly Derting (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @2:00pm): A young adult [...]
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2nd February 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Kevin Sampsell (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): From writer and Future Tense publisher Kevin Sampsell comes A Common Pornography (Harper Perennial), a searing memoir, told in vignettes, that captures the history of an American family. Intertwining recollections of small-town youth with darker threads of family history, Sampsell reveals how incest, madness, [...]
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1st February 2010 by
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Willamette Writers just sent out word that their Kay Snow Writing Contest is still open for submissions until April 23rd, 2010. You can send an Entry in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Juvenile Short Story, Novel excerpt or Article – Fiction or Non-Fiction, Screenwriting, and Student Writing categories. This annual writing contest awards one first prize of [...]
1st December 2009 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Willamette Writers hosts the Writer’s Faire (The Old Church, @6:30pm): The Writer’s Faire is an opportunity for local authors to promote their work, sell books and “sound off” on upcoming releases and/or events in the writing community. The event will feature table space where authors may sign/sell their books as well [...]
27th November 2009 by
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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. Tuesday December 1st offers Portlanders a great holiday shopping [...]
21st November 2009 by
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I had a tough time picking an event to highlight today. I chose the Arty Words reading at Disjecta with Curtis White and David Biespiel, but could just have easily gone with the Tapestry of Tales Tellabration and Finale at The First Unitarian Church, or tonight’s benefit show of “Holidazed” at the Artists Repertory Theatre: [...]
18th October 2009 by
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Bill Johnson, Willamette Writers Office Manager, has done those of us who were unable to attend Wordstock and those looking to relive some of the highlights a favor by posting video footage from the Festival on his Oregon Writers Speak YouTube Channel. Included is video of representatives from Oregon Writers Colony, Write Around Portland, The [...]
