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A Great Length of Time

November 11, 2015 By Becky Kjelstrom

Joyce Cresswell’s first novel is now available, if you’d like to order a copy please contact her here.

A Great Length of Time: Assigned as a nurse to a hospital ship during the Civil War, Dr. Rose Barnett hopes someone will apprentice her in the modern art of surgery. But she has more to learn than how to amputate the mangled limbs of Union soldiers. Confronted by her own preconceived notions of class, love, and race, she struggles to untangle life’s persistent contradictions. As a pacifist, her greatest challenge is coming to grips with the terrible ironies of war. As a woman, her challenge is to follow her heart. Based on the true story of a woman doctor in the American Civil War, A Great Length of Time is a woman’s view of the politics and gender roles of the day, offering a fresh look at the war and the women who nursed its soldiers.

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Terra Chapek launched online journal Underpass: Shortcut to to World Writing.

November 2, 2015 By Becky Kjelstrom Leave a Comment

Tarra1With help of international collaborators, Oregon Writers Colony member, Terra Chapek has just launched an online journal for literature in translation, Underpass: Shortcut to to World Writing. The website will feature fiction and narrative nonfiction from around the world., with a focus on translations into English from small and marginalized language group. It launched with sixteen modern writers from Croatia and will be launching new countries periodically, as time and submissions allow. More Information

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Jim Hardison

November 1, 2015 By Becky Kjelstrom Leave a Comment

Jim Hardison has worked as a writer, screen writer, animator and film director. He started his professional career by co-writing and producing a low-budget direct-to-video feature film, The Creature from Lake Michigan. Making a bad movie can be a crash course in the essential elements of good character and story, and The Creature From Lake Michigan was a tremendously bad movie. Shifting his focus entirely to animation, Jim joined Will Vinton Studios where he directed animated commercials for M&M’s and episodes of the stop-motion TV series Gary and Mike. While working at Vinton, he also co-wrote the television special Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy with actor Paul Reiser.

jim_hardisonJim has appeared on NBC’s The Apprentice as an expert advisor on brand characters, developed the characters and wrote the pilot episode for the PBS children’s television series SeeMore’s Playhouse and authored the graphic novel, The Helm, named one of 2010’s top ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens by YALSA, a branch of the American Library Association. These days, Jim is the creative director and co-owner of Character LLC, a company that does story-analysis for brands and entertainment properties. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his lovely wife, two amazing kids, one smart dog and one stupid dog. His epically silly epic fantasy, Fish Wielder, is set for publication by Fiery Seas Publishing in August of 2016.

Join Jim at the Publishing Conference March 5, 2015. He will be sharing his creative and detailed marketing plan he developed with his publisher.  He will present with Vargus Pike on marketing. More Info

 

 

 

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VoiceCatcher

October 30, 2015 By Becky Kjelstrom Leave a Comment

Book launch and 10th Anniversary

She Holds the Face of the World: Ten Years of VoiceCatcher

From 2005 through 2015, VoiceCatcher has lifted the voices of hundreds of women by publishing their poetry, fiction, nonfiction and artwork in six VoiceCatcher print anthologies and seven online issues of VoiceCatcher: a journal of women’s voices & visions.

With over 80 stories and poems, She Holds the Face of the World is a print collection of some of the most compelling works VoiceCatcher has published in the last decade. We invite everyone – men, women, young and old – to grab their favorite beverage, get comfortable in their favorite reading chair, and peruse these pages that celebrate women from all walks of life: their stories, their heartbreak, their humor, their courage and their strength.

Tuesday Dec. 1, 2015 7pm @ Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., Portland, OR 97217     (503) 286-9449

http://www.voicecatcher.org/

 

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Edit, edit, edit!

October 30, 2015 By Becky Kjelstrom Leave a Comment

editDo you have a first draft and don’t know what to do next?  Are you stuck in that infamous sophomore draft and need guidance?  Are you on draft nine and feel like you’re not finished?  Come to our Lit Lounge where expert editors will discuss what it takes to get a story ready to publish.  More Info

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