THURSDAY AUGUST 22 MEETING FEATURES

GUILD MEMBERS’ READERS SHOWCASE

Central Oregon Writers Guild’s Thursday August 22, 2013 meeting will feature its Members’ Readers Showcase. Authors scheduled to read their original stories are Ruth Colter, J.T. Gregory, Mary Pax, Michael Rettig, Leland Spencer and Dennis Strachota. The meeting is free and everyone is welcome to attend. The location is COCC Redmond Campus, 2030 SE College Loop, Building 3, Room 309, 6:30 – 9 p.m. Please join us for an evening of creative and innovative story telling by your fellow authors. Refreshments will be served.

Reminder! The Literary Harvest Writing Contest deadline of September 2, 2013 is fast approaching! It is open to Central Oregon authors residing in Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes counties, as well as all Guild members. Entries will be accepted at the August 22 meeting or by mail (postmarked no later than September 2). Click on the 2013 Literary Harvest tab above for contest guidelines. And don’t forget—the top three winners receive cash prizes, and the top ten winners’ stories will be published in the 2013 Literary Harvest Chapbook, available at the Thursday December 19 Guild meeting.

THURSDAY JULY 25 MEETING FEATURES BEND AUTHOR ELLEN WATERSTON

Ellen Waterston, award-winning author and poet, is the special speaker at Central Oregon Writers Guild’s Thursday July 25 meeting. Ms. Waterston’s third collection of poetry, Via Lactea, published by Atelier 6000, will be released Fall of 2013. The book-length collection is based on her walking the Camino de Santiago April 2012. Other titles include: Cold Snap, Fishtrap, Inc., 2011 featuring assorted writings; Where The Crooked River Rises, a collection of personal and nature essays located in central Oregon’s high desert, OSU Press, 2010. Poetry awards include the 2009 and 2005 WILLA Award for her collections Between Desert Seasons and I Am Madagascar, respectively. Her memoir, Then There Was No Mountain, was rated one of the top ten books by the Oregonian in 2003 and earned her an appearance on Good Morning America. She served on the faculty of Summer Fishtrap 2012, and in 2013 was the keynoter at the Northwest Poets Concord and judged the Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. After eleven years as founder/director of The Nature of Words, a Bend-based literary arts non-profit, she passed the baton in 2012 to focus on her own writing and the Writing Ranch, which she founded in 2000, and which offers workshops and retreats for emerging writers in central Oregon, Europe and Mexico. She is currently working on a novel and a second memoir. She lives in Bend, Oregon. Her website is: www.ellenwaterston.com.

Central Oregon Writers Guild’s Thursday July 25 meeting takes place at COCC Redmond Campus, Building 3 Room 306, 6:30 p.m. Meetings are free and everyone is welcome to attend..

      Ellen Waterston