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2011

December 2011 Newsletter

  • Featured writer Warren Gaston
  • Free reading and book release - Dec 16
  • Give Guide videos
  • Willamette Week Give Guide
  • Pasta-Making Demo & Dinner at Lincoln - Jan 11

November 2011 Newsletter

  • Give!Guide videos
  • Workshops at HOTLIPS Pizza
  • Save the date for our free reading - Dec 16

October 2011 Newsletter

  • XY&Z - buy your tickets today
  • Featured writer Glenn Pyle
  • Are you going to Wordstock?
  • Dinner at Lincoln Restaurant Oct 20

September 2011 Newsletter

  • Featured writer Robin Robbeson
  • XY&Z is Nov 5
  • Pumpkin poetry
  • Your last chance for Prompt this year
  • Dinner at Lincoln Restaurant Oct 20

August 2011 Newsletter

  • Featured writer Howard Robinson finds belonging
  • Summer reading and anthology release party
  • Have extra journals? We need 'em!
  • Get your Groupon

 

July 2011 Newsletter

  • Featured writer Maggie Oesting: "I'm a published writer!"
  • Honor your favorite people
  • Still spaces in Sunday Prompt
  • Writing + coffee + pastries = a great morning

 

June 2011 Newsletter

  • 2010 Annual report
  • Featured writer Glen Ham "amazed" by creative writing
  • Spring anthology out now in bookstores
  • Two Prompt workshops this summer

 

April 2011 Newsletter

  • Featured writer inspired, inspiring
  • Dinner at Bernie's - April 21
  • Saturday WRITE! - April 30
  • Prompt workshop at Powell's Books

 

March 2011 Newsletter

  • First ever bilingual featured writer/ escritora destacada Iveth Montiel
  • Object Stories event at Portland Art Museum - March 12
  • Join us at ¿Por Que No? Taqueria - March 23
  • Facilitator training applications due

 

February 2011 Newsletter

  • Be our Valentine (+ get a totebag!)
  • Featured writer Edna-Alice White on YouTube
  • Staff changes - good luck, Sara & welcome, Devin
  • She started it (& how to make your birthday even better)

2010

December 2010 Newsletter

  • Anthology introductions by Phyllis Brown & Willamette Week Publisher Richard H. Meeker
  • Featured Writer Barbara Walker
  • Free reading & anthology release party - Dec 17
  • Make your holiday giving go further
  • Anthologies & t-shirts make thoughtful gifts

November 2010 Newsletter

  • Willamette Week Give!Guide
  • Featured Writer Brandon Scarth
  • Free reading & anthology release party - Dec 17
  • Congrats & thanks

September 2010 Newsletter

  • XY&Z - Buy your tickets today
  • Featured Writer Janet Liu
  • 'Never Strangers' benefit concert

August 2010 Newsletter

  • Anthology release & community reading - Aug 27
  • Anthology introductions by Ben Moorad & David Bragdon
  • XY&Z - Oct 2
  • Featured writers Daphna Kohn & Kelly Tadlock

July 2010 Newsletter

  • Look great in a new Write Around Portland t-shirt
  • Featured writer Ginny Foster
  • Broadside exhibit at Powell's
  • Summer reading Aug 27
  • Save the date - XY&Z Oct 2

June 2010 Newsletter

  • Portland Beavers baseball game - June 24
  • Featured writer Michael Westrich
  • Summer writing workshops
  • 'To Pay My Way With Stories' documentary screening

May 2010 Newsletter

  • May 26 spring reading
  • 5 Days of Writing
  • Paulann Petersen's introduction to our spring anthology
  • Featured writer Joseph Jacobus
  • 2009 Annual Report

April 2010 Newsletter

  • Calling all readers, typists and writing enthusiasts
  • Featured writer Benita Alioth
  • Prompt writing workshop
  • Become a monthly donor & get a tote bag
  • Sign up to GoodSearch

 

 

 

"One can't help but grow in this setting. Healing and nurturing are a part of each session, and I walk a little taller when I leave the workshop."

                          

                           Wilma Alcock, Write Around Portland Participant