School for the Blind’s career day features Write Around Portland
Our single workshops are fully customizable for your organization’s needs
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Our single workshops are fully customizable for your organization’s needs
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Our workshops are built around a model of freewriting – but what does that mean? At Write Around Portland, we host creative writing workshops that are unique from most other approaches. Through decades of experience and facilitating thousands of writing workshops, we know that the heart of the model depends on freewriting and being in
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what makes a write around portland reading so special? Some wander in alone. Some cluster in groups, their nervousness showing in the way they giggle and cling to each other’s arms. The soft, inner illumination of someone’s face as they thumb through a book, first at the table of contents to find their pen name
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Find Write around portland anthologies on the shelves of your favorite bookstores For two decades, Write Around Portland has teamed up with some of the best Portland bookstores to diversify Oregon’s literary arts. Our free creative writing workshops bring in Portland writers from all walks of life – many of whom have never written in
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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!
Bryan Zentz’s speedy artwork and in-kind donation make our publishing program possible
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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!
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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!
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We are so happy to share that Chris McDonald has accepted the role as Write Around Portland’s new Executive Director.
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