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Saturday, October 5
 

9:00am PDT

Banking Emotional Currency
Writers
avatar for Jamie Ford

Jamie Ford

Bio:Jamie Ford’s first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, has been hailed as “an impressive debut” by Lisa See and “mesmerizing and evocative” by Sara Gruen. A story about the friendship between a Chinese boy and a Japanese girl in Seattle at the time of... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

9:00am PDT

Lady in the House: Female Character Creation
Writers
avatar for Rosebud Ben-Oni

Rosebud Ben-Oni

Poet, Alice James Books
Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021. She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org... Read More →
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Holly Burdorff

Bio:Holly Burdorff is Managing Editor for HERKIND: A Literary Community Powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She’s an MFA candidate in creative writing at The Universityof Alabama, and she earned her BA in English from Denison University, where she servedas co-editor-in-chief... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

10:30am PDT

Songs to Read and Words to Play
Songwriters
avatar for Aaron Nigel Smith

Aaron Nigel Smith

Bio:Aaron Nigel Smith's “Call To Action” is to get kids moving. In 2002 he founded FUNdamentals of Music and Movement, an arts program which is now the program of choice to over 100 early education centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, NewYork, and Boston. His fun, inspired... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Children's (ABC)   Workshop

10:30am PDT

Kickstarter: An Author's Guide to Crowdfunding Success
Writers
avatar for Rebekah Tyler

Rebekah Tyler

Bio: Eight months, six countries, two boys, one mother and loads of baggage are the ingredients of Full Tilt, by New Zealander, Rebekah Tyler. This fearless and spirited memoir about love, loss and belonging is her first book. Orphaned at four, Rebekah was brought up by her grandmother... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

12:00pm PDT

Get Better Mileage with Your Writing Career: Go Hybrid!
Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

12:00pm PDT

How to Write the Weird: The Hows, Whys and Ways of Valuable Estrangements
Writers
avatar for Matt Schumacher

Matt Schumacher

Bio:Matt Schumacher serves as poetry editor for Phantom Drift and has published two collections of poetry, Spilling the Moon and The Fire Diaries. He lives in Portland.Phantom DriftPHANTOM DRIFT is a perfectbound literary journal dedicated to building an understanding of and... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

1:30pm PDT

An Agitation of Memory: Mixing Essay and Dream into Memoir
Writers
avatar for Jay R Ponteri

Jay R Ponteri

Bio:Jay Ponteri directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Marylhurst University and show:tell, The Workshop for Teen Writers & Artists. He is the founding editor of both the online literary magazine M Review and HABIT Books, a publisher of prose and poetry chapbooks... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

3:00pm PDT

Research and Empathy: Writing Across Cultures
Writers
avatar for Rosanne Parry

Rosanne Parry

Bio:Rosanne lives in Portland where she and her husband are raising four children, three chickens and five kinds of fruit. She works in a tree house in her back yard. She is the author of the award winning novels Heart of a Shepherd and Second Fiddle, and is a frequent visiting... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

3:00pm PDT

Tiny But Mighty: Flash Nonfiction
Writers
avatar for Nancy Linnon

Nancy Linnon

Bio:Nancy Linnon is a writer, teacher, and editor whose essays have appeared in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Los Angeles Review, Yoga International, Mothering and the anthologies What Wildness Is This, Rage & Reconciliation, and VoiceCatcher. Nancy started her career as a... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

4:30pm PDT

Sex and the Serious Novel
Writers
avatar for Chris Keil

Chris Keil

Bio:Chris Keil is a novelist and occasional university lecturer. He has worked as a sheep-farmer, a journalist, and a tour-guide in a number of European cities. In academic life he has published and lectured widely on traumatic memory and representations of the Holocaust, and... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:30pm - 5:45pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

4:30pm PDT

Writing the Deadly and the Wicked
Writers
avatar for Alissa Nutting

Alissa Nutting

Bio:Alissa Nutting's debut novel, Tampa, will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in July 2013. She is author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 4:30pm - 5:45pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop
 
Sunday, October 6
 

9:00am PDT

How to Write Stunning Sentences
Writers
avatar for Nina Schuyler

Nina Schuyler

Bio:Nina Schuyler's first novel, The Painting, was nominated for a Northern California Book Award and was a San Francisco Chronicle "Best Book of the Year." Booklist in a starred review called her latest novel, The Translator, "evocative, powerful, and well-paced." Her short... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

10:30am PDT

Injecting Your Prose with Poetry: How Assonance, Consonance, Rhythm amd Rhyme Can Make Your Sentence Sing
Writers
avatar for Jamie Iredell

Jamie Iredell

Bio:The author of Prose. Poems. a Novel., The Book of Freaks, and the forthcoming books, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac, and The Lake, Iredell's writing also appears in many literary magazines, including The Rumpus, The Literary Review, Gigantic, and Copper Nickel... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

10:30am PDT

Outlining It Might Not Kill You
Writers
avatar for Claudia Gray

Claudia Gray

Bio:Claudia Gray began her writing career with the EVERNIGHT series: four YA novels set in an eerie gothic boarding school. The EVERNIGHT books received critical acclaim from national media, earned Claudia the title of New York Times bestseller, and jumpstarted her career... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

12:00pm PDT

The Golden Road to Samarkand (or Any Other Destination, Including Home): Writing About Place
Writers
avatar for Jeff Fearnside

Jeff Fearnside

Bio:Jeff Fearnside is a writer, editor, teacher, workshop leader and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Learn more about his poetry, essays and world travels at jeff-fearnside.com. 

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

12:00pm PDT

Writing Bad
Writers
avatar for Karen Karbo

Karen Karbo

Bio:Karen Karbo is most well known for her best-selling Kick Ass Women series, the most recent of which is Julia Child Rules. How Georgia Became O'Keeffe, published in 2011, was hailed by Vanity Fair as "simply a revelation." The Gospel According to Coco Chanel appeared in... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

1:30pm PDT

From Pictures Come Words - 10,000 of Them: The science of stories reverse engineered from images
Writers
avatar for Ilvs Strauss

Ilvs Strauss

Bio:ilvs Strauss is a mixed-race writer, performer, mixed-media artist and lighting designer. She specializes in orginal slideshows with new narratives written for found images.

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

1:30pm PDT

Writers and Social Media: Developing a Distinctive, Memorable, Effective Voice
Writers
avatar for Nichole Bernier

Nichole Bernier

Bio:Nichole Bernier is author of the novel THE UNFINISHED WORK OF ELIZABETH D. (Crown/Random House, 2012), which spent eight weeks on the Boston Globe bestseller list and was a finalist for the New England Independent Booksellers fiction award. A Contributing Editor for Conde... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

3:00pm PDT

It's All in the Details
Writers
avatar for Teri J Brown

Teri J Brown

Bio:Teri Brown is proud of her two children but coming in a close second is the fact that she parachuted out of a plane and beat the original Legend of Zelda video game. Her young adult historical about Harry Houdini’s illegitimate daughter came out in June from Balzer+Bray... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
Planar Stage OCC, D-140
  Workshop

3:00pm PDT

Submitting to Literary Journals
Writers
avatar for Lisa Ohlen Harris

Lisa Ohlen Harris

Bio:Lisa Ohlen Harris is the author of The Fifth Season: A Daughter-in-Law’s Memoir of Caregiving (2013) and the Middle East memoir Through the Veil (2010). Lisa's four years of experience as the nonfiction editor of Relief Journal provide her with added insight to the submission... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop

4:30pm PDT

Major Minors: The Heavy Lifting Done by Secondary Characters
Writers
avatar for Natalie Serber

Natalie Serber

Author
Natalie Serber is the author of a memoir, Community Chest, and a story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a summer reading selection from O, the Oprah Magazine, and an Oregonian Top 10 Book of the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction has appeared in... Read More →

Sunday October 6, 2013 4:30pm - 5:45pm PDT
Lewis and Clark Stage OCC, D-139
  Workshop
 
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