Clackamas Community College to host free creative writing event April 08 2021
Calling all writers and lovers of the written word.
Explore the practices and professions of creative writing and publishing at Clackamas Community College s annual Compose Creative Writing Conference on Saturday, May 15.
This year s event will once again be virtual and free to the public.
Join poet and essayist Wendy Willis as she delivers the keynote address. Her book of essays, These Are Strange Times, My Dear, was published in 2019. Her second book of poems, A Long Late Pledge, won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was released in 2017.
Her first book of poems, Blood Sisters of the Republic, was published in 2012. Her last two books were finalists for the Oregon Book Award. Willis is a faculty member in poetry and creative nonfiction at the Attic Institute in Portland, and she is also the executive director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and the founder and dire
THE bed-time story that Dudley single mum Wendy Willis made up for her son has come alive – in the shape of a beautifully illustrated children’s book. It’s now the bedtime reading for Wendy’s grandson and it also serves as reinforcing Wendy’s message in life – never give up. For the book, The Porter Family, finally realizes the dream that Wendy refused to give up on over 30 years. Wendy made up her tale of the Porter family when son Mark was two years old. It’s a tale of family and the mother’s refusal to give up on her dream of playing a musical instrument like everyone else in the family – Dad, son and daughter.