The Inaugural Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Evening, featuring Spokane novelist and short story writer Sharma Shields, author of The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac.
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Debuting a New Design! After several days of learning, attempting, and making mistakes, I’m finally ready to debut the Writing the Northwest site’s new design. I hope you like it! Some of its key features are: + The three latest posts are available on the home page; + You can…
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Few authors render the lives of emotionally vulnerable people with such skill and compassion.
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Airlie offers a rich mosaic of the Northwest’s land and people.
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Within a year of leaving Tacoma, Hammett had published the first of the noir stories.
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Mitchell S. Jackson has become a force in U. S. literature and journalism, as well as an outspoken advocate for, and critic of, his hometown of Portland, Oregon. His evocations of Portland’s Black community life, in both fiction and nonfiction, have garnered national attention and numerous awards. In recent years,…
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I never know where or how I’m going to come across good writing about the Pacific Northwest. A couple of weeks ago, for example, I was walking through the book fair at the Associated Writers and Writing Programs conference in Seattle when I found myself in conversation with a young…
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Recently, I came across a fascinating but little-known book that should be read by anyone interested in race relations, theater, or Red Scare accusations in the Pacific Northwest. Titled Fists Upon a Star: A Memoir of Love, Theatre, and Escape from McCarthyism, it tells the story of Florence B. James…
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Adam Hochschild is not known for writing light books, nor is he known for writing about the Pacific Northwest. His best-known book is probably King Leopold’s Ghost (1998), an unrelenting exploration of the brutality, exploitation and outright slavery Belgian overlords used to extract rubber from what was then called the…
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