Saturday, January 27, 2024

Five phases of writing with Abigail Raeke

HYBRID: In-person and online

Where: 1336 NW Flanders, Portland, OR 97209, or

Register for the meeting here. On the day of the meeting, a Zoom link will be sent to your email.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86420294001?pwd=ZTl2VzkvVTNmK0ZhN29lWUwxcFZNdz09

Join the Portland Chapter on February 6th @ 7:00PM to hear book coach Abigail Raeke talk about the Five Essential Phases of Writing Novels and Memoirs. Completing a successful book is a long-term, multi-faceted project. Get an inside look at the stages that support writing, building, and editing your best book, with practical tools and tips for each stage.

About Abigail Raeke

Abigail Raeke is a writer, developmental editor, and certified book coach with an MFA from Mills College. As a coach, Abbie empowers writers to tell their unique stories and craft strong books. Her instructive style demystifies the narrative process and provides skills that help authors achieve their publishing goals.

https://abigailraeke.com/

About Your Chapter Meeting

Willamette Writers meetings are free and open to all writers, 18 and up. Guests are welcome to make a donation at https://willamettewriters.org/donations/ to help support the cost of the meetings. For information on how to become a Willamette Writers member, click here: https://willamettewriters.org/register/individual/

Wellness

Willamette Writers continue to encourage mask-wearing at our in-person, indoor meetings. If you feel sick, please stay home and join us at one of our online Chapter Meetings.

Young Writers

Young writers are encouraged to join our **Young Willamette Writers **meetings. Sign Up! Any high school or middle-grade writers are welcome to join us. Sign up for our email list at: http://eepurl.com/hRubBf. A registration link will be sent to our email list before our next meeting.

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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Looking at Experiences with the Energy Body by Bill Johnson

Understand how the energy body is a reflection of thought patterns.

Learn how to perceive living on an 11 week cycle of the body’s energy flow, from creative highs to a low end where the body feels out of sorts.

Experience how patterns of thought collapse and powerfully project specific types of thoughts into the conscious mind.

Experience subconscious thoughts rising into the conscious mind.

Learn how some forms of depression are restrictions in the energy flow.

Experience how to connect to ideas in the larger universe of energy.

Experience the band of energy that runs around the crown of the head, the halo seen in paintings of Christian saints.

Bill Johnson's journal captures what he learned about his energy body from a year of doing bellows breathing 3-4 hours a day.

FREE on Smashwords at

https://smashwords.com/books/1124821

#prana #yoga #meditation #apana #spirituality #mindfulness #healing #halo

Saturday, November 25, 2023

The Ghost Doctor, by Nancy Hill

When the No No lads come to spend the summer with their spinster aunts, the ghost doctor who roams their mansion could not be happier. She has waited decades for a chance to be near children again, and soon the three are inseparable. However, their fun comes to an abrupt halt when the aunts hire humorless Governess Sternly to tend to the mischievous No No lads. But the ghost doctor and the No No lads hold fast to their friendship, which could spell tragedy to everyone involved.

#Amazon #kindle #booklover #yabooks #fantasy

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Doctor-Nancy-Hill-ebook/dp/B00B2MQ96E?/

Sunday, November 19, 2023

A delightful Christmas story that begins when an old woman gives a special fruitcake to her friend. The friend, in turn, gives it to someone else. For twelve days the fruitcake exchanges hands, improving the life of everyone who receives it. Charming, heartwarming, and magical. #Xmas #Christmas #holidays #giftgiving

https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Days-Fruitcake-Nancy-Hill-ebook/dp/B00AGIVZNW/

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

A Publishing Primer for Anxious Authors by Laura Stanfill

Laura Stanfill has always worried about her authors’ worries, as the publisher of Forest Avenue Press. But in 2022, when her debut novel came out with Lanternfish Press, she had to navigate those fears and bumps in the road as the creator of original work, not just as a champion of someone else’s project. She’ll talk about common misperceptions about the publishing industry and anxiety-inducing situations as a way to breathe, laugh and shake off the things we can’t control as authors. Bring your questions and concerns to this interactive conversation.

Laura Stanfill is the publisher of Forest Avenue Press and the author of Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary (Lanternfish), Powell’s best book of 2022. She has won two Oregon Literary Fellowships for publishing and was awarded the inaugural Independent Book Publishers Association scholarship to the Yale Publishing Course. She believes in building a literary community at the local level as a way to subvert the scarcity model of publishing.

Join us to kick off 2023 with Laura Stanfill on January 3rd @ 7:00 pm at Willamette Writers Headquarters at 1336 NW Flanders St, Portland OR. Laura is the author of Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary and was a keynote speaker for the WW convention this past summer.

This will be a hybrid meeting, in person and on Zoom. We welcome you to join us by following the instructions below and using this link to register for the event.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9712005385?pwd=Y2YwRTRqSUs1T3F0NkJ6cno0S0hjZz09

Meeting ID: 971 200 5385
Passcode: 1965

About your chapter meetings
Willamette Writers meetings are open to all writers, 18 and up. Guests are welcome to make a donation to help support the cost of the meeting (we believe in paying our speakers for their time and skills). This meeting is run by volunteers. We look forward to seeing you there!

Young writers are encouraged to join our **Young Willamette Writers **meetings. Sign Up! Any high school or middle-grade writers are welcome to join us.

Sign up for our email list at: http://eepurl.com/hRubBf A registration link will be sent to our email list before our next meeting.

MASKING: Willamette Writers continues to require mask-wearing at our in-person, indoor meetings. If you are unable to mask, we invite you to join us at one of our online Chapter Meetings.

Here is a link to our policies.

### Zoom Details

If this is a hybrid meeting, in person and on line, you have to be logged into your own personal Zoom account to attend this meeting (to create a FREE account, go to Zoom.us).

Once you are logged in to your own personal zoom account, register for the meeting with the link provided above.

On the day of the meeting, log into your Zoom account and then click the link zoom sent you in your email when you registered with the link above. If you are logged into your personal zoom account, you can also click the link above and register again if you need to. If you have not done this before, we encourage you to try logging in a half hour before the meeting begins. We had to change our meeting access because of a few inappropriate guests, but we want to continue to keep our meetings open to the public.

To learn more about the Portland chapter of Willamette Writers, visit https://willamettewriters.org/event/portland-a-publishing-primer-for-anxious-authors-by-laura-stanfill/

To learn more about Willamette Writers chapters in Salem, Hillsboro, Corvalis, Eugene, Newport, and Medford, visit http://www.willamettewriters.org

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Playwright Kwik Jones on Writing, Staging, and Getting Plays Produced

Playwright Kwik Jones will speak to the Portland Chapter of Willamette Writers about his process of writing, staging, and getting his work performed and produced. The meeting is Tuesday, June 7th, at 7-8:30 pm via Zoom.

Kwik has been writing, directing, and producing plays for twenty-eight years. Developing plays such as: A Strange Seed, Forgotten Soul, Voices, Black Like me, Jupiter is Stormy, Spotlight, The Code, Puzzle Dream, Conversations, Organ, L.U.S.T, Both Sides of the Fence, Sweet Mother Jones, Memphis Bound, Water Boyz and many more.

Awards and honors are such: The Portland Civic Theater Guilds New Play Award, for his play Cat Napper. A finalist for the Downtown Urban Arts Festival in New York City for his plays Memphis Bound and Water Boyz which was also selected as a finalist for the PNMC New Play Readers Series Festival. He was named a semifinalist for the Lanford Wilson Festival for the play The Closet Pigeon. Recently his play A Strange Seed was chosen as one of the six finalists in The Portland Civic Theater Guilds New Play Award and just recently became a semifinalist at the 2022 National Playwrighting Conference.

Currently he is working on a new play, We Act, which he has been commissioned to write for the upcoming book (ed. Jose Casas and Tiffany Trent) Every Great Dream: Visioning African American Theater for Young Audiences, which will be published by Dramatic Publishing. Also currently commissioned by The Robey Theater in Los Angeles, California for another new work Man’s Favor Devil’s Plan. Along with being 1 out of 16 playwrights commission to write a BIPOC Superhero plays that will be published on Dramatic Publishing.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0odeGupjMjG9117CttZFpQwsJ4vw-KuA2o

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.