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Fiction Writer E. Lily Yu To Be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series on April 16
Read more: Fiction Writer E. Lily Yu To Be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series on April 16When E. Lily Yu’s first novel, On Fragile Waves, appeared in 2021, it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, and Foreword Reviews. In the New York Times Book Review, author Amal El-Mohtar called it “devastating and perfect.” With compassion and flashes of humor, it takes us deeply…
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Guest Post: “From the Wilds of Washington State” Guide and Poet Benno Alexander
Read more: Guest Post: “From the Wilds of Washington State” Guide and Poet Benno AlexanderWell-known in literary and exploration circles at the turn of the 20th century, Benno Alexander was a prolific writer of poetry and prose in both English and German. He was also a legendary guide to the far north. What remains of him in the historical record reveals an accomplished and…
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Conversation Advocate Monica Guzman to be Featured Author in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series on March 13
Read more: Conversation Advocate Monica Guzman to be Featured Author in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series on March 13As the author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times and host of the podcast A Braver Way, Mónica Guzmán is exactly the kind of voice we need right now in our country and world. She’s a fierce advocate…
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Three Questions and a Quote: Omni-Author and Editor Kevin Sampsell
Read more: Three Questions and a Quote: Omni-Author and Editor Kevin SampsellIt’s hard to imagine anyone who embodies the term “literary man” more than Portland author and habitué Kevin Sampsell. Not in the old stuffy sense, but in a 21st century do-it-all, do-it-your-way, live-to-write-and-champion-books sense. When the history of Portland as a literary city is written, he will play a central…
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Children’s Author Julie Kim to be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series on February 13
Read more: Children’s Author Julie Kim to be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series on February 13Author and illustrator Julie Kim’s children’s books have been widely praised for their “pitch-perfect” dialogue and “jaw-dropping” artwork. By infusing her work with Korean folktales, she celebrates the rich cultural heritage shared by the thousands of Korean Americans living in the Pacific Northwest.
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Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation series, Latest Posts, NW Landscape, NW People & Writers, Three Questions and a Quote
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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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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