Events and readings for March
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$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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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