Our 2023 Revision
At Write Around Portland, we LOVE getting started.
We love putting our pens to paper and keeping them moving. But sometimes, a rewrite can be equally enriching.
That’s why, in 2023, we’re launching a revamped set of newsletters!
Ringing in Spring
Our spring season of writing is underway.
Designing from the heart
Bryan Zentz’s speedy artwork and in-kind donation make our publishing program possible
Welcome, new facilitators!
We’re celebrating these friendly (and COVID-safe!) faces who accomplished a BIG milestone with us. They are newly minted volunteer Write Around facilitators, who completed 27 hours of training last month!
A new literary voice In Portland
We’re cheering for Lora Lafayette, a writer from one of our very first workshops! Lora’s memoir, Possums Run Amok: A True Tale Told Slant was published to great acclaim and is now nominated for an Oregon Book Award!
Launching our Spring Workshops
We are thrilled to share our agency partners for Spring 2023!
Announcing Our New Executive Director…
We are so happy to share that Chris McDonald has accepted the role as Write Around Portland’s new Executive Director.
We’re hiring our next Executive Director
As you may have heard, we are currently searching for our next Executive Director! This is a rare opportunity to work with a warm and well-established nonprofit of 23 years that brings their values of respect, writing, and community into every action.
Exciting Staff Updates!
Change is in the air. We are excited to welcome two new positions to help us achieve our mission of respect, writing, and community even more profoundly.
Resource Share: A Year In, We’re Inspired to…
At the start of 2021, Write Around Portland added this resource and advocacy section as a new part of our monthly e-newsletter. You can revisit all of the posts, resources, and prompts from 2021 in this post!