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Join Us for Virtual Founders Day in 2020

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Val Brooks, Carol Cole, and Luca Har catch up at 2013 Founders Day.
Founders Day 2014

Many of us are missing the Annual Founders Day Celebration held each August at the Colonyhouse.

Through the years we’ve met other writers, talked of writing, listened to authors read their work, attended workshops and shared good food.

If you’ve participated in past Founders Day celebrations and you have a special memory of a past Founders Day please share it with us.

The deadline is September 5, 2020. Please limit your submission to 500 words. E-mail your reminiscence to marlenehow@comcast.net.

We will publish a special Founders Day Celebration Colonygram in late September.

As you reminisce about past celebrations please consider sending a check for $20 (our usual cost of Founders Day) to help with house-upkeep expenses during this time.

American Bluebeard: Lies and Dead Wives by Alene Reaugh

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Alene Reaugh Alene Reaugh is the author of a new book, American Bluebeard: Lies and Dead Wives, a work of true-crime nonfiction published by BookBaby.

This is the story of an American Bluebeard whose crimes at the turn of the twentieth century affected over fifty women. The story reveals the plight of his victims and the fate of the fiend that cruelly annihilated them.

He ran lonely hearts ads in local newspapers. He married as many as 50 women altogether, and after extracting their money, killed at least 22, and abandoned many more. He got away with it for twenty years until one suspicious wife brought him down.

American BluebeardBuy American Bluebeard: Lies and Dead Wives

Caroline Kurtz wins Best First Book from Presbyterian Writers Guild

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Caroline Kurtz received the Best First Book from the Presbyterian Writers Guild for her memoir A Road Called Down on Both Sides: Growing up in Ethiopia and America.

Caroline Kurtz, a missionary kid who from age 5 grew up in Ethiopia with her parents and siblings, has been named winner of the Presbyterian Writers Guild’s biennial Best First Book Award for the best first book by a Presbyterian author written during 2018-19. The Best First Book Award is co-sponsored by the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation and comes with a $500 cash prize. Her sister, Jane Kurtz, was also awarded the Distinguished Writer award for 2020.

Learn more at Kurtz sisters say Presbyterian Writers Guild awards are ‘extra special.’

OWC launches Instagram account

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Instagram logoOWC has officially launched on Instagram. Find us at @oregonwriterscolony.

Posts will appear on both Instagram and OWC’s FaceBook account. There are several poems there now, and more are coming.

Please send pics of you at your desk with a short blurb about your writing life under COVID-19. If you are launching a book or have an announcement, please send a pic of the cover and/or a pic of you and a very brief blurb. (Keep sending member news for the website to Send Us Your Member News.)

We have a couple of book announcements that will be going out this week.

Send your Instagram or Facebook submissions to info@oregonwriterscolony.org

Eden Waits, by Maryka Biaggio

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Maryka BiaggioMaryka Biaggio is the author of a new book, Eden Waits, a work of historical fiction published by Sunbury Press.

Eden Waits is based on the true story of Michigan’s utopian experiment. In 1893, Abraham and Elizabeth Byers launch Hiawatha Colony, a product-sharing community designed to support its members through self-sufficiency. But can this cooperative community withstand internal strife, the harsh wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the antagonism of the outside world?

Eden WaitsBuy Eden Waits

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Books by OWC Members

071820 American Bluebeard American Bluebeard 030302 Eden Waits Eden Waits 030320 Unwanted Sister Unwanted Sister 012820 Building Community Building Community: Rural Voices for Hope and Change 110119 A Bandstand for All Time A Bandstand for All Time 091819 Cosmic Cat Cosmic Cat 082019 Cat Summer Cat Summer

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