Arts Alliance of Yamhill County
nourishing the creative spirit in everyone
Jim Donaldson - yamhilljim.com
The Arts Alliance is proud to present the third annual Terroir Creative Writing Festival, a full day of workshops, readings and book signings, on Saturday, April 14, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the McMinnville Community Center, 600 NE Evans Street in McMinnville.
Presenting authors include Chelsea Cain, Willy Vlautin, Matt Love, Charles Goodrich, Leanne Grabel, Evelyn Hess and Molly Johnson, plus several local authors. Marilyn Worrix will also present her popular book-making workshop again. Attendees are invited to read some of their own writing during the open mic period at the end of the day.
Register early for a discount and the opportunity to order a boxed lunch. The pre-registration deadline is March 23. Attendees who do not pre-register are encouraged to bring a sack lunch.
Fees are $35 by March 23 ($50 after) for adults, and $25 by March 23 ($35 after) for students and adults 65 and over. The optional box lunch is $9 (only available with pre-orders).
To see the full schedule and download the registration form, click here. Additional updates will be made on the Festival website: terroircreativewritingfestival.com.
The event is sponsored by The Arts Alliance of Yamhill County, with additional funding provided by the Yamhill County Cultural Coalition.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Paper Gardens Literary contest. Click here for the application form.
The Arts Alliance of Yamhill County invites submissions to the 2012 Paper Gardens Literary Contest. Open to all residents of Yamhill County ages 6 and up, Paper Gardens is a wonderful creative-writing outlet for the community. The postmark deadline for contest entries is February 15.
Corvallis poet and essayist Charles Goodrich will be the guest judge this year. Goodrich is the director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University. His newest collection of work may be found in his book “Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden.” (Silverfish Review Press, 2010). Clemens Starck, OSU carpenter-poet, said of the 52 condensed and poetic writings, “The musings of a latter-day Zen gardener. Sly, quirky, candid, unique—each one informed by keen observation and a wry humor. Sometimes startling. Always engaging. Nothing like them anywhere.”
Goodrich had a career as a professional gardener for 25 years, working in gardens that ranged from convents to courthouses, before receiving his MFA from OSU. “A garden isn’t the cosmos, just one of its dreams,” writes Goodrich in his piece called “Erosion.” Goodrich is also the author of another volume of poems, “Insects of South Corvallis” (Cloudbank Books, 2003) and a collection of essays about nature, parenting and building a home called “The Practice of Home” (Lyons Press, 2004). A number of his poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on his National Public Radio program, The Writers Almanac. Goodrich’s work has also appeared in Orion, The Sun, Open Spaces, Willow Springs, ZyZZyva, Best Essays Northwest and many other magazines.
Paper Gardens features two main categories for submission, poetry and prose, and encompasses three age groups: children (ages six to 12), youths (ages 13 to 18) and adults (19 and above). The prose category includes subcategories of short story and memoir, and is limited to one submission per person. Poetry has four subcategories: traditional, free verse and haiku, and returning for a second year, poetry-of-place.
The poetry-of-place subcategory is specifically intended for poems written about or inspired by places in Yamhill County. As Paper Gardens is a literary contest for residents of Yamhill County, work inspired by our local surroundings is a natural fit for the competition.
Writers may submit up to three poems total. More than one submission per subcategory is allowed. The entry fee for adults is five dollars. Children and youth submissions are free of charge.
The judge will select three winners in each category, and the winning poems will be published in the 2012 Paper Gardens chapbook. The winning authors will receive a free chapbook and certificate of recognition, and will be invited to read their work at an awards ceremony in the spring.
The Studio Tour will take place in October.
It is a self-guided tour of artists’ studios all over the county.
For details:
http://www.artharveststudiotour.org