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Jan

15

2014

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Debut Authors: Submit to the
Debut-litzer Prize

Late Night Library, the non-profit behind those great podcasts,  is now accepting submissions for the 2014 Debut-litzer Prizes in the categories of fiction and poetry. Here are the details from the website: Winners will receive a cash award of $1,000 and a featured appearance on Late Night Conversation. Literary judges will discuss winning books on …

Nov

13

2013

11

remarks

Fancy a Trip to the Park?

You know a book is something else when it requires an engineer. Bend publisher and author Don Compton and Bend illustrator and designer Dave Ember teamed up with award-winning paper engineer Bruce Foster to create America’s National Parks: A Pop-Up Book. The book is currently featured on the cover of the Holiday Books catalog, a …

Nov

11

2013

$29 a Night Inspiration

This announcement comes from a Richmond Fontaine newsletter sent to fans last week. The band, recently inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, has been lead by Scappoose, Oregon author Willy Vlautin for the past 20 years.  “In case you haven’t heard, Willy’s first novel, The Motel Life, has been adapted to the big screen. …

Aug

29

2013

Sledgehammer Contest: Readers’ Choice Poll

Have you heard of the Sledgehammer 36-Hour Writing Contest? This year, 39 stories were submitted based on the writing prompts and scavenger hunt organized to “support writing as a team activity, foster love for the beautiful city of Portland and its small businesses as well as larger-scale writing communities, and thrive through cooperative creativity among …

Jun

13

2012

2

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Announcing Five Winners
and Another Chance to Score a Book!

Congrats to the winners of our re-launch giveaways. Village Books denizen Al Clay won the stack of 14 World Book Night paperbacks. Kristen Becker, of Portland, won five titles from Hawthorne Books. Christi Crutchfield, of Portland, won Calyx Books’ package: an Ursula K. Le Guin broadside; a three-issue subscription to CALYX Journal and a copy of …

Mar

21

2012

6

remarks

‘One Rainy Night in 1970’ — Matt Love Talks About ‘Sometimes a Great Movie’

In his forthcoming book, Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel, Oregon Coast author/publisher Matt Love blends reportage, memoir, oral history and film criticism, along with 125 photographs from the filming of Sometimes a Great Notion. In this essay, Love tells us about two tavern scenes that …

Oct

18

2011

13

remarks

Mohr Free Stuff!

Our Face Out today is for an intriguing new novel by San Francisco author Josh Mohr (excerpt here). Jonathan Evison calls Mohr the “bard of the underbelly,” and, true to these wastrel-ly ways, he did get kicked out of an event at a recent buy flagyl online bookshow in Portland, though it wasn't his fault …

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