The next featured author in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation series will be Skagit Valley poet, farmer, and memoirist Jessica Gigot. Gigot will chat with host Michael N. McGregor about her writings and her life on January 9.
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At 11 months old, Putsata Reang escaped the brutal civil war in Cambodia that brought Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to power in the 1970s. Fleeing with 300 other refugees on a boat designed for a crew of 30, her mother cradled Putsata’s thin and listless body, refusing the…
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Northwest novelists David James Duncan and Sonora Jha make compelling fiction out of difficult contemporary issues, with the power to touch and move readers.
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Putsata Reang’s debut memoir, Ma and Me, tells the story not only of her family’s harrowing flight from their ravaged homeland but also her childhood in small-town Oregon. There, she endured the struggles of being an immigrant in a land often hostile to immigrants and coming out as gay in…
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Salish Novelist Debra Magpie Earling talks about her relationship to the Pacific Northwest and the writing by herself and others that explores and celebrates it.
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The fly fisherman who lives in the woods or spends all his free time at the river is such a staple of Northwest writing, it’s almost a cliché. But in his immensely readable and often touching second novel, award-winning short-story writer Scott Nadelson, turns the image on its head.
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I just read a beautiful and touching short story about a woman solo-sailing in Northwest waters. Written by talented NW author Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, you can read it for free this month at The Sun.
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