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The Writing Center
The Portland State University Writing Center is a lovely venue in which trained professional consultants and staff provide nonjudgmental, collaborative support to students, faculty, and community members in all stages of the writing process.
The services offered by the Writing Center are free and open to the public: you may bring in any writing project?academic or nonacademic, personal or professional.
The Writing Center is located on the Portland State campus on the first floor of Cramer Hall
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Mar 31, 2008The Portland Writer
This just crossed my radar - a blog with lots of good information for writers, courtesy of the Writing Center at Portland State University (my alma mater).
Check it out...
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I: Once read Swann's Way. Or a lot of it. Or maybe I just got past the part where he dips the madeline in the tea.You: At some point read Quixote. Or most of the first book. Or maybe just past the part with the windmills.
Want to get together and talk about literature?
Make me feel safe.
From our friends at Writers in the Schools:Stop by the Gerding Theater at the Armory this Thursday at 7:00 p.m. to celebrate the latest Writers in the Schools anthology.
Students are joined by guest readers including Chelsea Cain. Live music by Why I Must Be Careful and refreshments courtesy of Trader Joe's and Hot Lips.
Free and open to the public!
From Literary Arts:2008 Oregon Literary Fellowships Announced
Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Oregon Literary Fellowships. Out-of-state judges selected 12 writers and two publishers to receive grants of $2,500 each. A eception in February 2009 will honor this year's recipients.
Since 1987, Literary Arts has honored more than 500 writers and publishers and has distributed more than $530,000 in grants and awards. With the support of the newly established Oregon Writer's Endowment, we were able give a total of $35,000 in Oregon literary Fellowships this year?more than we've ever given before.
POETRY
Daneen Bergland of Portland
Matthew Dickman of Portland
Sophie Zaffina of Portland, The C Hamilton Bailey Fellowship
FICTION
Serena Crawford of Portland, The Walt Morey Fellowship
Mary Salisbury of Jacksonville
Jennifer Springsteen of Portland, Friends of the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship
Loretta Stinson of Portland
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+ A Rice Cooker (which we have absolutely no use for)
+ Complete Series of Fraggle Rock (which we have many, many uses for, but which we hastily returned nonetheless because, really, are we seriously going to watch 96 episodes of Fraggle Rock?)
+ American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
+ Soap
+ How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman
+ Complete DVD set of The Life of Birds
+ Diamond Anniversary Scrabble Set
+ A Sweater (a gift that had no real effort put in whatsoever knowing full well that we'll return it anyhow)
+ Lift tickets to Jackson Hole, one day after an avalanche closed most of the mountain
+ A Christmas ornament in the likeness of our cat
+ A Harold Bloom Book (doesn't matter which one because we are going to return that Eli's long winded work as soon as we find the receipt)
+ Magic Gloves
+ Elf...
