Recent News
Oregon Book Club Winter Selection
We are excited to announce the Oregon Book Club Winter Selection: Mary Szybist’s Incarnadine, from the independent publishing pioneers at Graywolf Press.
read moreOregon Book Club Inaugural Selection
We are pleased to announce our inaugural Oregon Book Club selection, Disorder, by Dan DeWeese, published by Portland independent press Propeller Books.
read moreFormer OWC Board Member Art Johnson Passes
We were saddened this week to hear of the death of long-time member Arthur Johnson. Art was a former board member, a stalwart of our writing workshops, and an active participant in our scholarship and conference committees.
read more2012 Short Story and Poetry Contest Winners
Judges Gina Oschner and Sue Parman have announced the winners of the 2012 Oregon Writers Colony annual Short Story Contest and Elizabeth Bolton Poetry Contest.
read moreMembership Drive
Our 30-day membership drive was a booming success! We set a goal of adding 50 new members by the end of Wordstock, and exceeded that goal by eleven. We also added to our Oregon Book Club.
read moreOregon Book Club
The Oregon Book Club is a new membership level that connects great Oregon authors with Oregon Writers Colony members. Every season, we choose a soon-to-be-released book and mail it to Oregon Book Club members.
read moreOWC Names First Executive Director
After thirty years serving Oregon writers through conferences, workshops, and Colonyhouse, Oregon Writers Colony has named James Bernard Frost its first Executive Director.
read moreJump Start Meet-Ups
Jump Start is a series of small discussion groups based on specific topics, free for all interested writers, both OWC members and non-members.
read more2012 Elizabeth Bolton Poetry Contest
Oregon Writers Colony sponsors this annual poetry contest in honor of our late president, Elizabeth Bolton.
read moreNW Book Festival
OWC has reserved two spaces for our members at the 4th annual NW Book Festival.
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