The Oregon Coast chapter of Willamette Writers offers Writers-on-Writing workshops the first Tuesday of each month, 7-8:30 p.m. in the McEntee Room of the Newport Public Library, 35 NW Nye St. Admission is free. The Writers-on-Writing series is sponsored by the Newport Public Library and the Sylvia Beach Hotel. For information, contact Dorothy Blackcrow Mack at dmack@netportnet.com or kellykittel@gmail.com.

The Sylvia Beach Hotel is a popular destination on the Oregon Coast. Rooms are decorated to celebrate particular authors like Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, and many others. Guests are encouraged to meet and share stories at dinner and breakfast. For reservation information, call 888-795-8422.

2010 Speakers Schedule

The next Willamette Writers Coast Branch meeting on March 2 features Ariel Gore with a Nonfiction Workshop, 7-8:30 p.m. Admission is free. Public welcome.

Ariel is a journalist, novelist, and nonfiction author. She is the founding editor and publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on Hip Mama, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers' movement.

Her lyrical memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, which recounts Gore's teenage travels, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She is a graduate of Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Gore has a daughter, Maia Swift, born February 7, 1990, and a son, Maximilian Perez, born August 26, 2007. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.[1]

April 6 Jessica Lamb, Poetry Workshop

May 4 Liz Prato, Fiction Workshop

June 1 Melissa Hart, Nonfiction Workshop

July 6 Colleen Tennant, Poetry Workshop

August 3 Conference Prep, Open Mike - Dorothy Mack, host

September 7 TBA, Poetry

October 5 Dale Basye, YA Fiction Workshop

November 2 Patrick DeWitt, Fiction Workshop

December 7 TBA, Nonfiction