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OWC launches Instagram account

May 13, 2020 By Jan

OWC 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

March 3, 2020 By Jan

Maryka 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?

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Unwanted Sister, by Sandra Denbo and Tamarine Vilar

March 3, 2020 By Jan

Sandra Denbo and Tamara Vilar Sandra Denbo and Tamarine Vilar are co-authors of a new book, Unwanted Sister, a young adult novel published by Book, Lamp & Chair, LLC.

Callie Cooper’s first important job as a P.I. has her traveling to Newport, Oregon, where her grandmother’s cousin has been arrested for murdering her husband. Callie’s uncle Rudy has been grooming her in the business; but since he is unavailable to help, he’s letting her use his old beach cabin while she works the case.

Last year, Gary, the boy next door, professed his love for her; and she’s still trying to sort out her feelings for him. And now he’s accompanying her to Newport.

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Building Community: Rural Voices for Hope and Change: An Oregon Perspective, by Neal Lemery

January 28, 2020 By Jan

Nea Lemery Neal Lemery is the author of a new book, Building Community: Rural Voices for Hope and Change: An Oregon Perspective, a nonfiction book published by Happy House Press.

How are rural American communities working to build a better world? These are the stories of building a stronger rural America. These are the stories of a resurgence in diverse talents and work in progress to improve community services, relationships, and to further collective societal values and organizations. Active community involvement engages everyone to address social conditions and improve our collective lives.

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Give-A-Gift-Twice Campaign at Stumptown Lit Book Fair, featuring David Schneider

December 6, 2019 By Jan

David Schneider will sponsor a Give-A-Gift-Twice Campaign at Stumptown Lit Book Fair, Saturday, December 7, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. Stumptown Lit Book Fair happens at TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont, Portland, OR 97215.

In his Give-a-Gift-Twice campaign, and in support of the UPS Store Toys For Tots Literacy Program, for anyone who purchases DJ’s novel at the Stumptown Lit Book Fair on Dec. 7, DJ Schneider will donate a novel to Toys For Tots in their name.