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

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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!

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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

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