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Lewis & Clark Revisited: The First Americans to “Write the Northwest”
Read more: Lewis & Clark Revisited: The First Americans to “Write the Northwest”The first Americans generally credited with “writing the Northwest” were Captain Meriwether Lewis and 2nd Lieutenant William Clark, who reached the Pacific Ocean on this date 216 years ago. The journals covering their approximately-two-and-a-half-year journey, written by them and four of the three dozen men in their Corps of Discovery,…
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Spotlight on NW Publishers: Featuring Voices from Home
Read more: Spotlight on NW Publishers: Featuring Voices from Home(You can purchase most of the books below through the Writing the Northwest portal at Bookshop.org.) The Pacific Northwest has a large number of quality publishers—some larger, some smaller, some known across the country, some known only to a few thankful readers. One thing almost all of them have in…
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Visions of NW Writing: Nature, Stereotypes, and the White Default
Read more: Visions of NW Writing: Nature, Stereotypes, and the White DefaultIf you Google “writing the Northwest,” one link that pops up is a 2004 tongue-in-cheek piece from The Stranger called “How to Write a Great Northwest Novel.” Among the elements author Ryan Boudinot suggests be included are several that are nature-centric: salmon, weather, and trees. While the others—like strong-willed women,…
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What Does It Mean to “Write the Northwest” Today?
Read more: What Does It Mean to “Write the Northwest” Today?Exactly 75 years ago—on Halloween weekend in 1946—a group of authors, journalists and academics gathered for three days at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, for the first and only Writers’ Conference on the Northwest. The conference organizers’ stated aim was not to hold a traditional writers’ conference, in which young…
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