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Three Questions and a Quote: Poet, Memoirist & Farmer Jessica Gigot
Read more: Three Questions and a Quote: Poet, Memoirist & Farmer Jessica GigotAlthough she didn’t grow up on a farm or in the Pacific Northwest, it seems Jessica Gigot was destined from an early age to own “a little bit of land” in Washington’s Skagit Valley and craft beautiful poems out of her deep and loving relationship with the natural world.
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ELITA: An Engrossing First Novel Brings Nordic Noir to the Pacific Northwest
Read more: ELITA: An Engrossing First Novel Brings Nordic Noir to the Pacific NorthwestKirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s engrossing and beautifully written new novel, Elita, opens in 1951 with the discovery of a seemingly wild girl on the rugged outskirts of a prison island in Puget Sound.
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Poet & Memoirist Jessica Gigot To Be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series January 9
Read more: Poet & Memoirist Jessica Gigot To Be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series January 9The 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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Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation series, Exhibits & Events, Latest Posts, NW People & Writers, Three Questions and a Quote
Three Questions and a Quote: Memoirist and Journalist Putsata Reang
Read more: Three Questions and a Quote: Memoirist and Journalist Putsata ReangAt 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 Weave Compelling Fiction Out of Hot-Button Issues
Read more: Northwest Novelists David James Duncan and Sonora Jha Weave Compelling Fiction Out of Hot-Button IssuesNorthwest 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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Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series To Feature Memoirist PUTSATA REANG on November 14
Read more: Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series To Feature Memoirist PUTSATA REANG on November 14Putsata 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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What Are the Best 21st Century Books about the Pacific Northwest?
Read more: What Are the Best 21st Century Books about the Pacific Northwest?Best book lists are always subjective and somewhat suspect. Consider the New York Times’ recent list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” for example. As Spokane author Sharma Shields points out in her great recent post on the subject of book lists, the NYT’s list has NO…
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Neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern To Appear October 10 in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series
Read more: Neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern To Appear October 10 in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation SeriesNeuroscientist and celebrated climate change author Clayton Page Aldern to appear in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation series, 6 p.m., Thursday, October 10.
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Three Questions and a Quote: Salish Novelist Debra Magpie Earling
Read more: Three Questions and a Quote: Salish Novelist Debra Magpie EarlingSalish 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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