Events and readings for March

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11 January 2015, 2:00pm|

Literary Arts Offers Memoir Writing Boot Camp with Oregon Book Award Winner Jay Ponteri

$350

January 11 – March 1, 2015
Sundays, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. (8 class meetings)

This class for aspiring memoir writers will help you complete the first draft of a memoir in just eight weeks. Participants will commit to an aggressive writing schedule and explore aspects of memory based writing in a supportive environment. You do not need permission to register, however you should have some prior experience in writing nonfiction, as well as a specific project to which you will devote these eight weeks. Participants will present their work to the class for discussion 3-4 times. Limited to 12 students.

Jay Ponteri’s memoir, Wedlocked, won the 2014 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction.  Jay 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. His chapbook of short prose, Darkmouth Strikes Again, was published in 2014 by Future Tense Books.  His essay “Listen to this” was mentioned as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2010. He has published prose in Del Sol Review, Seattle Review, Salamander, Cimarron Review, Puerto Del Sol, and Forklift, Ohio, among others. Most recently he published an essay on a Robert Walser sentence in Tinhouse.com‘s “Art of the Sentence” series.

To register, go to Literary Arts.

locationLiterary Arts
925 SW Washington St., Portland, OR 97205
503.227.2583

5 March 2015, 7:00pm|

Megan Kruse Book Launch at Elliott Bay Book Company

Please join Megan Kruse for the book launch of her debut novel Call Me Home at Elliott Bay Book Company.

locationElliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122
206-624-6600

7 March 2015, 1:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Barnes & Noble Downtown Seattle

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at the Downtown Seattle Barnes & Noble.

locationBarnes & Noble Downtown Seattle
600 Pine St. Suite 107, Seattle, WA 98101
206-264-0156

10 March 2015, 7:30pm|

Megan Kruse at Powell's Books

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Powell’s Books.

locationPowell's Books
1005 Burnside, Portland, OR 97209
503) 228-465

13 March 2015, 7:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Orca Books

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Orca Books.

locationOrca Books
509 East 4th Ave., Olympia, WA 98501
360-352-0123

14 March 2015, 12:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Barnes & Nobel Bellingham

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Barnes & Noble Bellingham.

locationBarnes & Noble Bellingham
4099 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98226
360-647-7018

17 March 2015, 7:30pm|

Megan Kruse at Unchaste Reading Series

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at the Unchaste Reading Series along with host Jenny Forrester and authors Tessara Gabrielle Dudley, Alison Hallett, Gigi Little, Melissa Duclos-Yourdon, Amanda Helstrom-White, Bonnie Ditlevsen and Monet P. Thomas. Minors allowed, cash bar, small donation requested.

locationThe American Legion Hall
2104 NE Alberta St., Portland , OR 97211
503.284.7272

18 March 2015, 6:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Barnes & Noble Tanasbourne/Beaverton

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Barnes & Noble Tanasbourne/Beaverton.

locationBarnes & Noble Tanasbourne/Beaverton
18300 NW Evergreen Pkwy., Beaverton, OR 97006
503-645-3046

21 March 2015, 2:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Barnes and Noble Olympia

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Barnes & Noble Olympia.

locationBarnes & Noble Olympia
1530 Black Lake Blvd. SW, Olympia, WA 98502
360-534-0388

24 March 2015, 7:00pm|

Megan Kruse at BookPeople of Moscow

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home along with Kim Barnes, author of In The Kingdom of Men, at BookPeople of Moscow. Kruse and Barnes will read from their work and then do a Q&A.

locationBookPeople of Moscow
521 S Main St., Moscow, ID 83843
208-882-2669

25 March 2015, 7:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Auntie’s Books

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Auntie’s Books. Jeff Rey will host this reading which includes special guests EWU MFA’ers Aileen Keown Vaux (class of 2013) and Elin Hawkinson (2016) who will also read from their work.

locationAuntie's Books
402 W Main Street, Spokane, WA 99201
509-838-0206

26 March 2015, 7:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Fact and Fiction Bookstore

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Fact & Fiction Bookstore.

locationFact & Fiction Bookstore
220 N Higgins, Missoula, MT 59802
406-243-1234

28 March 2015, 2:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Barnes and Noble Missoula

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Barnes & Noble Missoula.

locationBarnes & Noble Missoula
2640 N Reserve St., Missoula, MT 59808
406-721-0009

30 March 2015, 7:00pm|

Megan Kruse at Brazos Bookstore

Please join Megan Kruse reading from her debut novel Call Me Home at Brazos Bookstore.

locationBrazos Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet St., Houston, TX 77005
713-523-0701