Thursday, February 12th @ 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 28th from 1-4 p.m.
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Did you know...
...that we are building a member library? Send us a signed copy of your book!
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Dear PNWA member,
Your monthly member newsletter is in! This newsletter is a benefit to all PNWA members.
If you have an announcement about your work or the world of writing, please send us an email at pnwa@pnwa.org so we can include it in next month's member newsletter. Please limit your announcement to 80-100 words. Use "Member Newsletter" as the subject title of your email.
(Announcements must be received by the 19th of the previous month to be included).
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member news
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Member Melissa Hudson is pleased to announce the release of her graphic novel, Witchfire, by Markosia on February 1st, 2015.
Witchfire is a dark historical fiction about a young peasant woman, Elspeth Reoch, who was tried and executed for witchcraft in the Scottish Highlands, circa 1622. It is based on the actual court records of her confession -- including lurid details about fairies and spells. The story is narrated through prison letters written from Elspeth to her daughter from Elspeth's cell before her inevitable execution at the stake. Find it at www.markosia.com.
Member G. Elizabeth Kretchmer will be co-facilitating SoulStretch: Gentle Yoga and Writing on the first Wednesday evening of each month at the Historic Shell Station in Downtown Issaquah, WA.
For more information or to register, visit SoulStretch on Facebook or send an email to
SoulStretchYogaAndWriting@gmail.com.
Member Michael Shurgot announces the publication of his memoir Could You Be Startin' from Somewhere Else? Sketches from Buffalo and Beyond. In his memoir, Shurgot examines his childhood in an immigrant neighborhood in Buffalo during the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Shurgot's memoir sketches his exuberant Irish mother, his reserved Ukrainian father, the turbulent family relations between parents and siblings, and the enduring love that holds the family together through personal and economic difficulties. Individual chapters detail surviving Buffalo's legendary winters, Shurgot's courageous yet pathetic efforts to emulate his father's athletic career, his early encounter and later struggle with faith, the "cruisin' culture" of the early 1960s, the demanding Jesuit education that eventually fosters Shurgot's academic career, and his reflections on his role as husband and father.
Kirkus review called Shurgot's book, "A delightful memoir of life upstate."
Member Judith Works is pleased to announce her recent publication, City of Illusions.
After seven years of childless marriage Laura needs a change. She finds a one-year assignment with the UN in Rome and talks her husband, Jake, into moving to the Eternal City for the great food, wine and art, and to reset their relationship on a more positive course. But her problems, muted in cool Seattle, only become magnified in the glare of the Roman sun. Laura must surmount the challenges of expat life and her marriage. Her quest for happiness in the ancient city of echoes, illusions, and yearning brings unexpected consequences. Are her dreams only an illusion?
Read an interview with Judith Works here.
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contests
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2015 PNWA Literary Contest
www.pnwa.org
Don't miss the opportunity to put your work to the test and compete with some of the best writing talent in our international PNWA Literary Contest. There are 12 categories, cash prizes, and every entry receives two valuable critiques. Winners are announced every year at the Summer Conference in front of writers, agents, and editors.
Deadline: February 20, 2015.
2015 CBC Creative Nonfiction Competition
The Creative Nonfiction Prize includes memoir, biography, humour writing, essay (including personal essay), travel writing and feature articles. Grand prize is $6,000.
Deadline: March 1, 2015
2015 Bellingham Review Literary Contests Bellingham Review offer three $1,000 first-place prizes for fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Winning entries and many runners up will be published in the Spring 2016 print edition, Issue 72.
Deadline: March 15, 2015. Tahoma Literary Review
www.tahomaliteraryview.com
Submissions of creative writing for Issue #4 of
TLR are open! We welcome your poetry, fiction, flash, nonfiction, and flash nonfiction. Deadline: April 30, 2015.
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local events and workshops
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Hugo Literary Series: Laugh after Death
hosted by the Richard Hugo House
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 7:30 p.m.
"Too soon!": the stern reproach awaiting comedians who crack jokes about the dearly and recently departed. The comedian is supposed to feel lousy and clumsy, but more often than not they seem tickled to have been scolded. To anyone who has encountered death up close, it is decidedly unfunny, except for when laughter is the only solace around. In any case, death and humor twin up in difficult, fascinating ways (as anyone who's read Amy Hempel's "In The Cemetery Where Al Jolson's Buried," or most of Lorrie Moore's best stories will tell you).
On Feb. 6, you'll hear three brave authors search for a space straddling laughter and death: Sheila Heti, author of the wildly popular How Should a Person Be?;
Richard Kenney, a poet with formal leanings and a precise, original voice; and Seattle poet and documentarian Anastacia Tolbert. Music from Tai Shan.
Talking Pages: Reading Series
hosted by Eastside Writes
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 7 p.m.
Talking Pages is a monthly series that brings together emerging and established writers to read from their work and discuss the craft of writing. Each month is dedicated to a single genre, alternating between fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's/YA. A typical evening begins with a reading and discussion by featured writers in the designated genre. The remainder of the evening is devoted to open mic readings by members of the audience.
focuses on creative nonfiction, a genre that uses the narrative techniques of fiction to explore the truth. Writers in this genre include memoirists, essayists, literary journalists, and even prose poets. Try your hand at this genre and share an excerpt of your work at the open mic portion of Talking Pages. Read our Participant Guidelines for more information.
Elissa Washuta, author of the 2014 memoir My Body Is a Book of Rules, will read to us from her work.
Lori A. May, whose latest book is The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship and the Writing Life, will speak about literary citizenship and the craft of writing nonfiction.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 7:30 PM
Terrance Hayes is the author of five volumes of poetry, including the forthcoming How to Be Drawn, which will be published in 2015. His last volume, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010. Among his many awards, he has been a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship. His work, which explores popular culture, race, music, cultural heritage, and masculinity, has appeared in three Best American Poetry collections. Hayes is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities National Student Poets Program, and currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Conferences
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Experience three days of immersion in learning writing craft, creating writing community and gleaning publishing information at one of the best writing conferences around. You'll share time with fellow writers; improve your writing project; practice creative writing skills, and connect with some of the top authors, literary agents and editors in the industry. If you write fiction or memoir, if you're interested in finding a literary agent, this conference is fine tuned for your needs.
The Kauai Writers Conference takes place on the beautiful island of Kauai at the oceanfront Courtyard Marriott. Take lunch on the beach or sitting under palm trees with fellow writers. Explore the island. You'll walk away refreshed, informed, and inspired.
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