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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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