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Seattle Times Runs Article on the New Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series
Read more: Seattle Times Runs Article on the New Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation SeriesThe Seattle Times ran an article online this morning about the new Writers-in-Conversation series I’ll be hosting at the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds…
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Three Questions and a Quote: Novelist Sharma Shields
Read more: Three Questions and a Quote: Novelist Sharma ShieldsSharma Shields flashed onto the Northwest literary scene in 2012 with Favorite Monster, an award-winning collection of sharp, funny, and sometimes poignant tales about monsters of all kinds. Three years later, her debut novel, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, established her as a writer to watch. Although a Sasquatch named Mr.…
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Coming August 8!
Read more: Coming August 8!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
Read more: Debuting a New DesignDebuting 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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A View from the Edge–Portland Author Mark Pomeroy’s New Novel: THE TIGERS OF LENTS
Read more: A View from the Edge–Portland Author Mark Pomeroy’s New Novel: THE TIGERS OF LENTSFew authors render the lives of emotionally vulnerable people with such skill and compassion.
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Airlie Press Presents a Mosaic of Pacific Northwest Perspectives in Poetry
Read more: Airlie Press Presents a Mosaic of Pacific Northwest Perspectives in PoetryAirlie offers a rich mosaic of the Northwest’s land and people.
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Was Tacoma an Inspiration for Dashiell Hammett’s Noir World?
Read more: Was Tacoma an Inspiration for Dashiell Hammett’s Noir World?Within a year of leaving Tacoma, Hammett had published the first of the noir stories.
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Three Questions and A Quote: Novelist and Nonfiction Writer Mitchell S. Jackson
Read more: Three Questions and A Quote: Novelist and Nonfiction Writer Mitchell S. JacksonMitchell 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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Book Review: We Had Our Reasons: Poems by Ricardo Ruiz
Read more: Book Review: We Had Our Reasons: Poems by Ricardo RuizI 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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