Presenters Featured Author Cari Luna Carolyn Rose Cari Luna is the author of The Carolyn J. Rose is the Revolution of Every Day, which is author of the popular currently a finalist for the Oregon Book Subbing isn’t for Sissies ene Award. The Oregonian named Luna’s series (No Substitute for debut novel a Top 10 Northwest Book R Murder, No Substitute for of 2013. She is a graduate of the MFA Money, and No Substitute Denfeld fiction program at Brooklyn College, for Maturity), as well as Rene Denfeld is the author of the award-winning novel and her writing has appeared in Salon, Jacobin, The the Catskill Mountains mysteries (Hemlock Rumpus, PANK, Avery Anthology, failbetter, Novembre The Enchanted (Harper), as well as several nonfiction Lake, Through a Yellow Wood, and The Devil’s books. The Enchanted was the #1 Oregonian Book of the Magazine, and elsewhere. Cari lives in Portland, Oregon. Tombstone). Other works include An Year, an Indie Next Pick, one of Powell's Top 5 Books of Uncertain Refuge, Sea of Regret, A Place of Forgetting, and projects written with her the Year, a finalist for the esteemed Flaherty prize, and Cathy Zimmerman husband, Mike Nettleton (The Hard Karma the winner of a prestigious French Prix award. Rene was Cathy Zimmerman is a retired Daily Shuffle, The Crushed Velvet Miasma, Drum raised in Portland, Oregon, in a low-income, racially News reporter and columnist, as well Warrior, Death at Devil’s Harbor, Deception at diverse family. In addition to writing she is the mother of as a feverish consumer of news, Devil’s Harbor, and the short story collection three kids she adopted from foster care. Her day job is novels and narrative non-fiction. A Sucker Punches). After 25 years as a working with men and women facing execution. pillar of Southwest Washington’s lively, television news producer, and assignment committed community of writers, she editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, uses her remarkable talents as both a and Washington, she’s almost retired in writer and teacher to nourish reading and writing, which Vancouver. Her interests are reading, she calls the bedrocks of culture. Now writing outside a swimming, walking, gardening, and NOT Robin Cody structured career at The Daily News, she wonders: How cooking Robin Cody as a youth took the Clackamas do writers make people and entire worlds come alive in River by inner tube, solo, all the way from our minds? How do they hook us with their stories and Estacada to the Willamette River in only two make us better for having read them? How can we days and never got over it. He is the author of improve our own abilities to do that? Joshua Howe Joshua Howe is Assistant Ricochet River, a novel. His Columbia River Professor of History and book, Voyage of a Summer Sun, won the Environmental Studies at Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. OSU Abbey Gaterud Reed College. Originally Press in 2012 published a collection of Cody’s Abbey Gaterud is the publisher at from Boise, Idaho, Josh taut true tales, Another Way the River Has. Ooligan Press, a student-staffed trade has a B.A. in History and publisher at Portland State Creative Writing from Middlebury College University’s graduate program in and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford. His publishing, as well as a professor of writing has appeared in Mountain Outlaw J.T. Bushnell publishing business and practices, Magazine, the Big Sky Weekly, and the J.T. Bushnell has written about the craft of book design, and digital design. An experienced and popular cycling website Velominati. His fiction for Poets & Writers, The Writer, and award-winning designer and publisher outside Ooligan, academic work has appeared in journals Fiction Writers Review, and has published his Abbey works with a wide variety of clients and runs Environmental History, Climatic Change, and stories in The Mississippi Review, Meridian, Iron Blueroad Press, a small literary press, with her father. A Historical Studies of the Natural Sciences, as recent Blueroad title, A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer’s & well as a collection on Scientific Naturalism. Horse Literary Review, New Madrid, and many Love, won the 2012 Minnesota Book Award for Creative Just out last year, his new book, Behind the other journals. Educated at Linfield College and Nonfiction and Memoir. She has an MS in Book Publishing Curve: Science and the Politics of Global University of Oregon, he now teaches writing from Portland State University and a BA in English from Warming, explores the political history of and literature at Oregon State University. Lewis & Clark College climate change since the 1950s.
7th Annual Kalama Word Catcher All about writing. All day. Saturday, April 25, 2015 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM April 25, 2015 Kalama Community Building 126 North 2nd Street, Kalama, WA
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Phone: ______E-mail:______I wish to register for: Please mark your workshop selections below. 1 Workshop: $25 2 Workshops: $45 MORNING SESSIONS (from 10 am - 12 pm) Non-Fiction Writing, or Storytelling With Evidence - Joshua Howe Better Beginnings - Robbin Cody Pitch Your Manuscript: Developing Ideas to Sell - Abbey Gaterud Growing the Story - Cari Luna AFTERNOON SESSIONS (from 2 pm - 4 pm) The Subjectivity of Time - J.T. Bushnell Beating Writer’s Block - Carolyn Rose Show, Don’t Tell - Cathy Zimmerman Writing From the Margins - Rene Denfeld I wish to pre-order a box lunch from the Kalama Antique Deli and Pastry Shoppe for $9.00: Ham & Cheese Turkey Veggie P re -R egistration
PLEASE FILL OUT A SEPARATE FORM FOR EACH PERSON FORM FOR EACH PLEASE FILL OUT A SEPARATE Make checks payable to: ENVISION KALAMA ( include $9.00 for lunch, if ordered ). TOTAL Please mail registration form and fee to: ENVISION KALAMA, PO Box 1931, Kalama WA 98625. ENCLOSED $ EVENT BROUGHT TO YOU BY: ENVISION KALAMA 7th Annual Kalama Word Catcher April 25, 2015 All about writing. All day. To register, mail in the attached form and payment to: Envision Kalama, Box 1931, Kalama, WA 98625 All about Writing. All Day Follow us on at “Kalama Word Catcher” Saturday, April 25, 2015 For more information, visit www.cityofalama.com/community 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM or contact Envision Kalama at 360.673.5310 Kalama Community Building 126 North 2nd Street, Kalama, WA Presenters’ Books Available for Purchase, 9AM - 5PM SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Registration 8AM - 9AM Complimentary pastries and cofee available in the Community Building. *Entrance on Elm Street
Prologue 9:00-9:15 Dan Roberts, Welcome and Introductions 9:15 - 9:45 AM 9:15-9:45 Rene Denfeld, “Te Writer In All of Us” MORNING WORKSHOPS Chapter I Non-Fiction Writing, Pitch Your Manuscript: Better Beginnings Growing the Story 10AM - 12PM or Storytelling With Evidence Developing Ideas to Sell with Joshua Howe with Abbey Gaterud with Robbin Cody with Cari Luna Many writers see fiction writing and non-fiction When you find yourself with an editor’s Openings are never good enough. Please bring To write with an outline is to begin with a plan, writing as very different endeavors. In this undivided attention, what do you say? to the workshop 10 copies of the first 500 words and to know where you’re headed. But what workshop, Josh Howe shows how basic Presenting your book—and yourself—to an of a piece of writing (fiction or nonfiction) that happens if you determine not to plan, if you skip concepts of narrative—emplotment, story industry professional doesn’t come easily. This you think has room for improvement. Read it the outline and plunge ahead with nothing more type, dramatic structure, and narrative workshop will help you develop the perfect pitch aloud while the rest of us see your words on than a few scraps of dialogue, an idea, or even argument—can enhance both your fiction and for your genre—one that will inspire confidence paper. Chances are, we can help each other by just a gut feeling? To write without a planned non-fiction. He will show examples, in both you and your manuscript. Participants sharing first impressions. This workshop is destination is to allow your work to surprise particularly from history writing. will learn what editors want to hear in a pitch and limited to 10 students. you—often in wonderful ways. In this generative how to deliver it effectively. We will cover workshop, we’ll use a series of writing prompts to tailoring a pitch according to genre and to the create free-writes that build on each other, letting publisher. Attendees will have the opportunity to go and allowing the words to take us wherever work on and discuss strategies for pitching their they lead. Please come with paper, pen or pencil, own projects. and a willingness to explore.
*PRE-ORDER STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. Chapter II Lunch: available from Kalama Antique Deli and Pastry Shoppe, $9.00* SEE BACK FOR DETAILS. 12PM - 2PM Rene Denfeld, featured author presentation | Readings by Robin Cody, Joshua Howe and J.T. Bushnell AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS Chapter III 2PM - 4PM Te Subjectivity of Time Show, Don’t Tell Beating Writer’s Block Writing From the Margins with J.T. Bushnell with Cathy Zimmerman with Carolyn Rose with Rene Denfeld We all know that different states of mind cause Find out why “Show, don’t tell” is a journalistic Using opinions and suggestions from dozens of This class will discuss how anyone can become a us to experience time differently, but for writers, commandment, explore skillful examples from established authors as well as comments from published author, no matter what their the process works in reverse—by manipulating works of fiction and non-fiction, and then try your those in attendance, this workshop looks at what background—no MFA required. Rene Denfeld the passage of time, we can depict different hand at fleshing out characters using that skill. The causes writers’ block and what some writers do to will share writing tips as well as publishing advice. states of mind. We’ll examine how writers move, technique is useful in any kind of writing project, get past fears and self-criticisms. The workshop stretch, condense, and fragment time, and what including memoir, columns, stories of all kinds. No includes block-busting writing exercises, ideas narrative effect it produces. homework—but we will be using excerpts from on creating “springboards” to enhance creativity, Falling From Horses, the latest novel by Molly and handouts with motivational tips. Gloss, and Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Both are masters of the art of “show, don’t tell.”
Epilogue 4PM - 5PM Complimentary tea and cookies in the Kalama Community Building
Register for 1 workshop for $25, or 2 workshops for $45. PRE-REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED, BUT STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
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