WordstockProgram2010.. - Mountain Writers Series

Transcription

events
Saturday, October 9
& Sunday, October 10
The Wordstock Book Fair
@ the Oregon Convention Center
777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd.
10am – 6pm
Friday, October 1
PNCA & Wordstock present
The International Writers Project
@ PNCA Main Campus Building
Swigert Commons
1241 NW Johnson St.
6:30pm
Monday, October 4
Profile Theater presents
Chesapeake: The Playwright Performs
Play reading and Q&A
with Lee Blessing
@ Reed College Mainstage Theatre
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
7:30pm
Tuesday, October 5
Multnomah County Library and
Wordstock present
Young Adult Reading Showcase
@ Central Library
810 SE 10th Ave.
6pm
Tuesday, October 5
Powell’s and Oregon Public
Broadcasting present
Michele Norris
@ McMenamins Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
7pm
Wednesday, October 6
Oregon Humanities presents
Seeding a Sense of Place: Science,
Stories and Smart Forest Policy
@ Hoyt Arboretum
400 SW Fairview Blvd.
6pm
Wednesday, October 6
Multnomah County Library and
Wordstock present
Nonfiction Reading Showcase
@ Central Library
810 SE 10th Ave.
6pm
Thursday, October 7
Oregon Historical Society and Oregon
Encyclopedia present
History Pub!
@ McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave.
7pm
Thursday, October 7
Wordstock presents
Mortified!
8pm
Friday, October 8
Powell’s presents
Steven Johnson
7pm
Saturday, October 9
IPRC presents
The 5th Annual Text Ball:
“Text Appeal”
@ p:ear Gallery
338 NW 6th Ave.
7pm
Saturday, October 9
Live Wire presents
The 6th Live Wire!
Wordstock Extravaganza
@ the Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.
8pm
wordstock 2010
what happened?
05 welcome
08 authors
18 conversations
34 wordstock for writers
38 wordstock for teachers
39 festival map
40 saturday schedule
42 sunday schedule
44 exhibitor list
45 exhibit hall map
46 sponsors
Wordstock is Portland’s book and literary festival. Unless
otherwise noted, the events listed in this guide take place
at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd., in
Portland. Admission to the festival’s book fair is $7 for one
day, $10 for both days. Children 13 and under are free.
Visit wordstockfestival.com for final details on all Wordstock authors and events.
wordstock 2010
executive director: Greg Netzer
director of development & marketing: Nancy Ellis
operations manager: Eden Bainter
author coordinators: Eden Bainter, Sara Gundell, Mead
Hunter, Mary Margaret Maitland
children's area coordinators: Autumn Linde,
Sarah Mussio
exhibit coordinator: Gail Zuro
emcee & presentations coordinator: Gail Zuro
events manager: April Severson
festival program coordinators: Abbey Gaterud,
Kenny Hanour, Katie Shaw
marketing coordinators: Spencer Cushing, Tatiana
DeFigueiredo, Ayla Gilbert, Karla Starr
stage & schedule coordinators: Melony Beaird
volunteer coordinators: Bradi Grebien-Samkow,
Megan Wellman, Dehlia McCobb
workshop coordinators: Emily Patrice Cable, Aaron
Furmanek, Lisa Voltolina
wordstock board of directors
Kevin Blada (Treasurer), Delap LLP
Alice Cuprill-Comas, Ater Wynne LLP
Gregory Dufault (Chair), Wells Fargo Advisors
Kerry McClenahan, McBru Communications
Regina Perata (President), Restoring Power
Chris Price, Regence
Josh Simko (Secretary), Nike
Wordstock
810 SE Belmont St., Studio 5
Portland, Oregon 97214
ph: 503.549.7887 I fx: 503.549.7869
wordstockfestival.com
wordstock 2010 | 5
wouldn’t you like to know…
In the past, as we’ve promoted the Wordstock Festival to readers and writers
like you, we’ve asked you to believe in the power of words, or to read purely,
or to read in greater quantities and with more diversity than ever before. But
this year, as we began to think of the three areas we’ll focus on at the 2010
festival—short fiction, humor and especially history—we found ourselves
thinking more and more about where our desire to read came from. In the
end, that motivation kept coming down to one simple, two-word question:
What happened?
That’s all we want to know, isn’t it? It’s why we turn the page, why we hang on
every word an actor speaks, what we want to know as a co-worker recounts
the weekend around the water cooler on Monday morning. We want to know
what happened. It’s why we read and, for many of us, why we write.
So this year we’ve filled our program with writers who answer that question in really interesting ways. This happens quickly in the history, short fiction and humor we’re featuring this year, of course, but really, it will happen
during every reading, conversation and workshop because we have a great
lineup. Thumb through this program quickly and you’ll see what I mean. It’s
packed with phenomenal talent from around the world. We hope you enjoy it.
By “we,” of course, I mean all the people listed on the page to the left, and
all the people represented by the logos that grace the back cover of this
program: our volunteers and sponsors. Simply put, Wordstock would not
exist without their passion and dedication. I can’t thank them enough for
their tireless work and hope you’ll thank them, too, when you see them at
the festival’s many events.
Greg Netzer
Executive Director
6 | wordstock 2010
the wordstock book club:
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Maile Meloy
Powell’s Books Stage, Saturday, 2pm
Rising star Maile Meloy’s latest collection, Both
Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (one of The New
York Times’s “10 Best Books of 2009”), both
expands and deepens the terrain she explored
in her previous books—stories of opposites in
collision. As described by the Los Angeles Times,
“Meloy’s richest territory is the fork in the road at
right and wrong, the moment when a person’s
moral compass wavers.” Already the recipient
of awards from The Paris Review and the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, among others, this is a writer coming into her own as a chronicler of
America’s maladies and triumphs. Her stories possess “a scope and maturity that at their most rigorous attain the grandeur of prophecy,” proclaims
Slate magazine.
Jonathan Lethem
© Mara Faye Lethem
If ever there was an author who resisted easy classification, it’s Jonathan Lethem. Throughout a boundary-crossing career that includes speculative fiction,
crime fiction and autobiography—sometimes all
within the same book—his avowed interest in “the
taxonomy of genre” has garnered him a reputation
as one of the headiest novelists writing in English
today. His latest novel, Chronic City, is no exception. As The New York Times sees it, “This exuberant novel set in a drugaddled, alternate-reality Manhattan is at its heart a traditional story of moral
and intellectual development.” A recipient of the coveted MacArthur Grant,
Lethem is also a prolific essayist and short story writer.
wordstock 2010 | 7
opening night!
a special wordstock edition of
Mortified!
At Wordstock, we’re always looking for new ways to promote
stories—the stories we read, the stories we hear, the stories
we tell about our loved ones and ourselves. And in the spirit of
hearing stories about ourselves, we’re bringing you a special,
one-of-a-kind event featuring the national sensation Mortified.
Mortified stars everyday people reading aloud their most embarrassing, pathetic and private teenage diary entries, poems, love
letters, lyrics and locker notes...in front of total strangers. Witness
“personal redemption through public humiliation” in a refreshing show that is equal parts comedic, cathartic and voyeuristic.
Join us for an evening of sharing—that is, sharing some of the
most hilarious moments you’ll ever hear. On a stage, anyway.
Thursday, October 7 at 8pm
McMenamins Bagdad Theater
$18, tickets available at wordstockfestival.com
8 | wordstock 2010
authors
Stage abbreviations:
C
P
T
O
M
WK
WS
MW1
MW2
Columbia Sportswear Stage
Powell’s Books Stage
Target Children’s Stage
The Oregon Education Assoc. Stage
McMenamins Stage
Wieden+Kennedy Stage
Wordstock Community Stage
Mountain Writers Stage 1
Tim Barnes, Portland Community College teacher,
wrote Definitions for a Lost Language and edits
the Friends of William Stafford Newsletter. (Poetry)
MW2: Sun, 2pm
Mac Barnett writes the Brixton Brothers mysteries and picture books, including Guess
Again! and Oh No: Or How My Science Project
Destroyed the World. (Children’s) T: Sat, 2pm;
T: Sat, 5pm
Howard Aaron received an MFA from the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop. He teaches creative writ- Dale E. Basye, recovering journalist and advering courses at Washington State University, tising copywriter, has written three books in
Vancouver. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 3pm
the Circles of Heck series: Heck, Rapacia, and
Blimpo. (Children’s) T: Sat, 2pm
Duane Ackerson has published several hundred poems, as well as fiction, prose, poetry and Bonny Becker is the author of a number of
criticism, in various magazines and anthologies. award-winning picture books and middle-grade
(Poetry) MW2: Sat, 4pm
novels. She lives in Seattle. (Children’s) T: Sun,
12pm
Carl Adamshick won the 2010 Walt Whitman
Award. His book Curses and Wishes will be pub- Aimee Bender’s most recent book is The
lished by LSU Press. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 2pm
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. She loves
visiting Portland. (Fiction) C: Sat, 12pm; P: Sat,
John Addiego has published two novels, 1pm
The Islands of Divine Music and Tears of the
Mountain. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon. (Fiction) David Biespiel wrote Every Writer Has a
Thousand Faces and The Book of Men and
WK: Sat, 12pm
Women and founded The Attic: A Haven for
Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Letters Writers. (Moderator) P: Sun, 11am; M: Sun, 3pm
from the Emily Dickinson Room, Small Knots and
Geography. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 3pm
Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of several
collections and novels, including The Big Bang
Steve Almond is the author of eight books, Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica. (Fiction) WS:
most recently Rock & Roll Will Save Your Life. Sat, 1pm
(Nonfiction) C: Sat, 3pm; M: Sun, 2pm
Matt Bors is a nationally syndicated editorial
Joëlle Anthony, author of Restoring Harmony, cartoonist and graphic novelist living in Portland.
currently lives in beautiful British Columbia, (Nonfiction) M: Sat, 11am; WK: Sat, 3pm
where she writes young adult fiction. (YA) T:
Sun, 4pm
Tom Bremer’s most recent book of poetry is Just
Once (2001). (Poetry) MW1: Sun, 12pm
Judith Arcana’s most recent book is 4th Period
English, a poetry chapbook in the voices of var- Wendy Burden is a confirmed New Yorker who,
ious characters. (Poetry) MW2: Sat, 4pm
to her constant surprise, lives in Portland. Her
wordstock 2010 | 9
book provides the reason. (Nonfiction) O: Sat, 2pm;
WK: Sun, 1pm
Suzanne Burns will read from The Widow, prose poems
about an army wife whose husband goes missing in
Iraq. (Fiction) MW2: Sat, 2pm
Gabrielle Burton is the author of the novel Impatient
with Desire (The Lost Journal of Tamsen Donner) and
the memoir Searching for Tamsen Donner. (Fiction) O:
Sun, 12pm; O: Sun, 3pm
Bo Caldwell wrote the national bestseller The
Distant Land of My Father. She’s been published in
Ploughshares, Story and Epoch. (Fiction) WK: Sat, 12pm
Eliza Canty-Jones is editor of the Oregon Historical
Quarterly, a scholarly public-history journal published by
the Oregon Historical Society. (Moderator) WS: Sun, 3pm
Bill Carter has written two books: Fools Rush In and
Red Summer. He also directed Miss Sarajevo, an awardwinning documentary. (Nonfiction) O: Sat, 5pm
Cecil Castellucci’s two newest books are a young
adult novel, Rose Sees Red, and her first picture book,
Grandma’s Gloves. (YA) T: Sun, 4pm
Greg Chaimov lives in Milwaukie, Oregon. His first
full-length collection of poetry, Everything is Water,
is forthcoming from Press 22. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 2pm
Lan Samantha Chang’s books are All Is Forgotten,
Nothing Is Lost; Inheritance; and Hunger. She is a 2008
Guggenheim Fellow. (Fiction) P: Sat, 1pm; M: Sat, 4pm
Emily Chenoweth is the author of the novel Hello
Goodbye. She publishes commercial and young adult
fiction pseudonymously. (Fiction) WK: Sat, 1pm; C: Sun,
11am
Margaret Chula has published six poetry collections.
Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Kyoto
Journal, Poet Lore, America’s Review and Runes. (Poetry)
WS: Sat, 2pm
Kelly Clarke is the Arts & Culture editor at Willamette
Week. She writes about food, dance, books and all
International
Writers Project
This is the second year that
PNCA & Wordstock will host
six writers through the International Writing Program,
which, since its founding in
1967 at the University of
Iowa, has brought together
more than 1,000 rising and
established literary stars
from 120 countries to develop a community of writing to enhance international
understanding. The writers’
week at PNCA includes both
immersion in the campus
curriculum along with collaborative public programming.
The experience provides
writers from around the world
with a sense of American innovation and openness, and
it exposes US readers, writers and artists to international perspectives on the
art and process of writing.
Friday, October 1 at 6:30pm
PNCA Main Campus Building,
Swigert Commons
1241 NW Johnson St. Free and open to the public
10 | wordstock 2010
Two Special Powell’s Books Events
Michele Norris
© Stephen Voss
presented by Powell’s Books and OPB
Tuesday, October 5 at 7pm
With her new memoir, The Grace of Silence, Michele
Norris, host of National Public Radio’s All Things
Considered, set out to write a book about “the
hidden conversation on race”—and in doing so
unearthed painful family secrets. Extraordinary for
Norris’s candor in examining her own complex racial
legacy, The Grace of Silence observes the evolving attitudes toward race
in America.
Tickets are $24.95 and include admission and a copy of The Grace of Silence
that will be distributed at the event.
Steven Johnson
© Nina Subin
Friday, October 8 at 7pm
Wired contributing editor Steven Johnson takes on—
in exhilarating style—the question: Where do good
ideas come from? With his book Where Good Ideas
Come From, Johnson pairs the insight of his best-selling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the erudition of
The Ghost Map to address a universal question: What
sparks the flash of brilliance? Answering in his culturally omnivorous style, incorporating his fluency in fields from neurobiology
to popular culture, Johnson provides the story of how we generate the ideas
that push our careers, lives, society, and culture forward.
Tickets are $26.95 and include admission and a copy of Where Good Ideas
Come From that will be distributed at the event.
Both events will be held at McMenamins Bagdad Theater at 3702 SE
Hawthorne Blvd. in Portland. Tickets available at Ticketmaster, McMenamins
Crystal Ballroom box office, and the Bagdad Theater.
wordstock 2010 | 11
sorts of trashy, trashy cultural detritus. stories. He is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow.
(Moderator) M: Sat, 1pm
(Fiction) C: Sat, 12pm; C: Sat, 2pm
Nancy Coffelt is an artist and awardwinning writer. Her debut novel is Listen,
published by WestSide Books. (YA) T:
Sun, 3pm
Kim Dower’s first poetry book, Air
Kissing on Mars, is described by novelist Lisa See as “charming, compelling,
accessible, profound.” (Poetry) MW2: Sat,
3pm; M: Sun, 12pm
Arianne Cohen, 6'3", is a contributing
editor at Woman’s Day. Her book The Sex Brian Doyle edits Portland Magazine at
Diaries Project comes out in January. University of Portland and has authored
(Nonfiction) WS: Sun, 2pm
ten books, most recently the novel Mink
River. (Fiction) 0: Sat, 3pm; WK: Sat, 4pm
Robin Cody is the author of Ricochet
River and Another Way the River Has. Monica Drake’s debut novel, Clown Girl,
(Fiction) WK: Sat, 4pm; MW1: Sun, 1pm is published by Hawthorne Books. (Panel)
WS: Sat, 3pm
Larry Colton is a writer, teacher and the
founder of Wordstock. (Nonfiction) C: Sat, Tim DuRoche is a writer/artist/cul1pm; P: Sun, 3pm
tural advocate and currently Director of
Programs for the World Affairs Council of
Joey Comeau writes the comic A Softer Oregon. (Moderator) M: Sat, 11am
World (with photographer Emily Horne).
He’s author of One Bloody Thing After Heidi Durrow is the author of The
Another. (Fiction) WK: Sun, 11am; C: Sun, Girl Who Fell From the Sky, chosen by
4pm
Barbara Kingsolver for the Bellwether
Prize. (Fiction) C: Sun, 11am; M: Sun, 3pm
Thea Cooper is the co-author of
Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Timothy Egan wrote a riveting account
Discovery of Insulin and the Making of of the biggest wildfire in American hisa Medical Miracle. She is a writer, edi- tory on its 100th anniversary. (Nonfiction)
tor, playwright and teacher. (Nonfiction) P: Sun, 12pm
WK: Sun, 2pm
Stephen Elliott is the author of The
Liz Crain, author of Food Lover’s Guide to Adderall Diaries and founding editor of
Portland, is a writer and editor based in The Rumpus.net. (Fiction) WK: Sat, 11am;
Portland, Oregon. (Nonfiction) M: Sat, 1pm C: Sat, 4pm
Candace Dempsey is the award-winning Italian-American author of Murder in
Italy, about convicted murderer Amanda
Knox. (Nonfiction) WK: Sun, 12pm
Carson Ellis, Portlander, is the illustrator
of The Mysterious Benedict Society, The
Composer Is Dead, and, most recently,
Dillweed’s Revenge. (Children’s) T: Sun,
12pm
Susan Denning is a poet and the director
of programs at Literary Arts. (Moderator) Andrew Jay Epstein lives in Los
WK: Sat, 4pm
Angeles. Andrew Jacobson lives four
traffic lights away. The Familiars is their
Anthony Doerr is the author, most first book. (YA) M: Sat, 3pm; T: Sat, 4pm
recently, of Memory Wall, a collection of
12 | wordstock 2010
the 6th Live Wire!
wordstock extravaganza
It’s time again for the brilliant wit, bright stars and big laughs
of this year’s Wordstock edition of Live Wire! It’s a radio variety
show recorded in front of a live audience and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), and it includes original sketch
comedy, live music and conversation with some of the fantastic
authors joining us at Wordstock. This year’s show will feature
comic and The Aristrocrats director Paul Provenza; essayist, humorist, and This American Life regular David Rakoff; indie rock
icon Kristin Hersh; novelist Jonathan Lethem; and more. This
show is always one of the highlights of the festival, and this one
is going to be fantastic!
Saturday, October 9 at 8pm
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.
Tickets: $25 for general admission and $35 for reserved seating,
available at livewireradio.org.
wordstock 2010 | 13
Kristin Hersh
Saturday, 3pm
Best known as the lead singer/songwriter
for the cult rock bands Throwing Muses
and 50 Foot Wave, Kristin Hersh’s intimate songs explore “rage, aggression,
and mental chaos.” Her new memoir, Rat
Girl, recalls a foundational year in the life of
an indie rock icon who would go on to have a remarkably successful music
career and help lead the movement for artists’ equity as co-founder of the
Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders (CASH). Of Rat Girl, Mary Gaitskill
remarks: “It is…awestruck—by music, feeling, perception, wild animals,
mystery, dreams…. It is an original beauty.”
David Rakoff
© Paul Roosin
David Rakoff is an essayist, journalist, and
actor. Known for his humorous, sometimes
autobiographical, and keenly observant stories, Rakoff loves words. His latest work, Half
Empty, is a collection of essays on mankind’s
foibles. Rakoff is a regular contributor to Public
Radio International’s This American Life. He
adapted the screenplay for and starred in
Joachim Back’s film The New Tenants, which
won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Live
Action Short.
14 | wordstock 2010
Chesapeake:
The Playwright
Performs
Play reading and Q&A
with Lee Blessing
Profile Theatre and Reed College present renowned playwright Lee Blessing reading
his one-man show Chesapeake. This “brilliantly offkilter fantasy” (Newsday) is
about a performance artist
at war with a southern senator and Lucky, the senator’s
Chesapeake Bay retriever.
Chesapeake is a hilarious
commentary about subsidies for controversial art and
corruption in the US political
system. Blessing has been a
force in American theater for
over thirty years. His plays
have been produced across
the country and have been
nominated for Tony Awards
and the Pulitzer Prize. Profile Theatre showcases one
playwright each season, connecting the work of the author to what’s seen on stage.
For more information on this
event and Profile Theatre’s
2010-11 season, visit profiletheatre.org.
Monday, October 4 at 7:30pm
Reed College Mainstage Theatre
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Tickets: $35, available
at profiletheatre.org or
503.242.0080
Harriet Fasenfest talks about “householding”—the
growing and stowing of food as an act of environmental stewardship and economic justice. (Nonfiction)
O: Sun, 4pm
David Filer lives in Portland with his wife, Marlene
Anderson, creator of the AIDS prevention program, The
Imani Project. (Poetry) MW2: Sat, 5pm
Becca Fitzpatrick is the New York Times best-selling author of Hush, Hush and Crescendo. (Fiction/YA)
T: Sun, 1pm; C: Sun, 4pm
Heather Vogel Frederick’s Pies & Prejudice is the latest in her Mother-Daughter Book Club series. Babyberry
Pie is her first picture book. (Fiction/YA) T: Sat, 3pm
Wayne Garcia is the weeknight anchor for KPTV,
Channel 12. (Moderator) M: Sun, 11am
Martha Gies wrote a portrait of graveyard-shift workers called Up All Night, along with many published stories and essays. (Nonfiction) MW2: Sun, 4pm
Michele Glazer’s new book is On Tact, & the Made Up
World. She teaches in and directs PSU’s MFA Creative
Writing program. (Poetry) MW2: Sat, 2pm
Myla Goldberg is the author of the best-selling Bee
Season. Her new novel is called The False Friend.
(Fiction) C: Sun, 3pm
Charles Goodrich’s books include Going to Seed:
Dispatches from the Garden, Insects of South Corvallis,
and The Practice of Home. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 4pm
Leanne Grabel is a writer, a performance artist, cofounder of Cafe Lena and a language arts teacher in a
treatment center. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 12pm
James Grabill writes poetry and nonfiction. He lives
in Portland, Oregon, and teaches writing, literature and
sustainability. (Poetry) MW1: Sun, 12pm
Niall Griffiths, born in Liverpool and resident of midWales, has written six novels, three nonfiction collections, and travel pieces and reviews. (Fiction) O:
Sat, 11am
wordstock 2010 | 15
Peter Griffiths, born in Wales, lives in Myrlin A. Hermes, author of The Lunatic,
Denver. His novel, Tongue Tied, is about the Lover, and the Poet and Careful What
what it means to be Welsh. (Fiction)
You Wish For, lives in Portland. (Fiction)
WS: Sat, 1pm
Tom Grimes, the author of Mentor: A
Memoir, directs the MFA Program in Kristin Hersh is a songwriter and guitarCreative Writing at Texas State University. ist who founded and plays in two bands.
(Nonfiction) O: Sat, 1pm; 0: Sat, 3pm
Her memoir, Rat Girl, was published last
year. (Nonfiction) C: Sat, 3pm
Sara Gundell is a Wordstock author
coordinator and a webmaster for the YA Nina Hess is the author of A Practical
lit fan site NovelNovice.Com. (Moderator) Guide to Monsters, a New York Times
C: Sun, 4pm
bestseller. (Children’s) T: Sun, 11am
Cindy Williams Gutiérrez performs
poems of place about encounters
with strangers. Publications include
Borderlands, Calyx, Harvard’s JFSR,
Portland Review, ZYZZYVA. (Poetry) MW2:
Sun, 11am
Charles Heying, author of Brew to Bikes:
Portland’s Artisan Economy, is associate
professor of urban studies and planning
at Portland State University. (Nonfiction)
M: Sat, 1pm
Tad Hills lives in Brooklyn with his wife,
Courtenay Hameister is a freelance two kids and dog named Rocket who
writer and the host and head writer of can’t read...yet. (Children’s) T: Sat, 1pm
Live Wire! Radio. (Moderator) M: Sun, 2pm
Kerry Cohen Hoffman is the author of
Diane Hammond, author of critically Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity, Easy,
acclaimed novels Seeing Stars, Hannah’s The Good Girl and It’s Not You, It’s Me. (YA)
Dream, Homesick Creek, and Going to T: Sat, 3pm
Bend, lives in Bend, Oregon. (Fiction) WS:
Sat, 11am
Matthew Holm, Portland native, is
the co-creator of the award-winning
Graham Hancock is known for best- Babymouse series of graphic novels
selling investigations of historical mys- from Random House Children’s Books.
teries. His first novel is the fantasy- (Children’s) T: Sat, 1pm
adventure epic Entangled. (Fiction) C:
Sun, 5pm
Karen Holmberg’s poems from her finished manuscript, “Axis Mundi,” have
Lesley Hazleton, aka The Accidental appeared in Southern Poetry Review,
Theologist, works at the volatile inter- Quarterly West, West Branch and
section of religion and politics, narrative Subtropics. (Poetry) MW1: Sun, 2pm
history and current events. (Nonfiction)
C: Sat, 11am
Jeff Houghtaling is an author/artist/pug
owner living in Portland, Oregon. Jeff
April Henry is the New York Times best- researches design, color and applicaselling author of mysteries and thrill- tion through artistic pursuits. (Children’s)
ers for adults and teens, including Girl, T: Sat, 11am
Stolen. (Fiction) T: Sun, 3pm
16 | wordstock 2010
Lan Samantha Chang
© Miranda Meyer
Lan Samantha Chang is the very definition of “fast
out of the gate.” Her earliest short stories (later
collected in Hunger) were published in such celebrated publications as The Atlantic Monthly and
New House. Her second book, Inheritance, received
worldwide exposure, was a Book-of-the-Month Club
selection, and won the PEN Beyond Margins Award
for the Novel from the PEN American Center. Since
then, Chang has received numerous awards for her
elegant, spare prose, and in 2006 she became the director of the prestigious
Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Chang brings her latest book to Wordstock—All Is
Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost—a profoundly elegiac story of three poets whose
paths to artistic and personal fulfillment take divergent routes.
Aimee Bender
To read the surreal fiction of Aimee Bender
is to find yourself worried for the fates of
potato children, royal swans, finger-sized
men in cages and in her most recent novel, a
young girl who can taste the emotions of her
food. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake,
Bender’s fourth book, came out in June and
was an Indiespensable pick for Powell’s. Her
short fiction has been published in Granta,
GQ, McSweeney’s, Tin House, The Paris
Review and more, as well as heard on Selected Shorts and This American
Life. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches creative writing at USC.
wordstock 2010 | 17
Trevor J. Houser’s stories have appeared in Story
Quarterly, ZYZZYVA and Pindeldyboyz, among others.
He lives in San Francisco. (Fiction) M: Sat, 4pm
Amanda Howells is the author of the young adult
novel The Summer of Skinny Dipping. (Fiction/YA) WK:
Sat, 1pm; T: Sun, 2pm
Christopher Howell’s most recent book, Dreamless
and Possible: Poems New and Selected, was published
in 2010. (Poetry) MW2: Sat, 3pm
Rhonda Hughes is an editor and publisher at
Hawthorne Books. (Panel) M: Sun, 4pm
Tim Hunt, in Fault Lines, writes poems where the rocks
and thistle are not yet digital. Hunt is a fourth-generation Californian. (Poetry) MW2: Sat, 12pm
Scott Jacobson is an Emmy-winning writer and founding member of comedy writing group The Pleasure
Syndicate. (Nonfiction) P: Sun, 4pm
Dave Jarecki is a 2010 Fishtrap Fellow, facilitates writing workshops and features interviews with poets and
writers on DaveJarecki.com. (Poetry) MW1: Sun, 3pm
Jessica Francis Kane is the author of the story collection Bending Heaven and novel The Report, just
published by Graywolf Press. (Fiction) O: Sun, 12pm;
O: Sun, 3pm
Karen Karbo is the author of The Gospel According to
Coco Chanel, plus a bunch of other books. (Nonfiction)
M: Sun, 3pm; M: Sun, 12pm
Jesse Katz is author of The Opposite Field, a memoir of fathers and sons, good love and failed love and
baseball. (Nonfiction) C: Sun, 2pm
Marianne Keddington-Lang is an acquiring editor at
University of Washington Press and managing editor
of the Oregon Encyclopedia. (Nonfiction) WS: Sun, 3pm
Chris Keil, a novelist living in Wales but travelling
widely, is interested in memory, desire, loss and imagination. (Fiction) O: Sat, 11am
A Special Wordstock
Conversation Project:
Seeding a
Sense of Place:
Science, Stories
and Smart
Forest Policy
Join Oregon Humanities and
Gail Wells for a special Wordstock event on Wednesday,
October 6. Wells, an awardwinning writer and editor
specializing in history and
natural-resource science, will
lead a conversation about
the meanings we build into
places individually and collectively through storytelling
and public policy. Oregon
Humanities connects Oregonians to ideas that change
lives and transform communities. For more information about our program and
publications, please visit
oregonhumanities.org
Wednesday, October 6 at 6pm
Hoyt Arboretum,
Bill deWeese Classroom
4000 SW Fairview Blvd.
Free and open to the public
18 | wordstock 2010
conversations
A listing of all the places at Wordstock where writers will convene to discuss topics in contemporary literature.
Stage abbreviations:
C
P
T
O
M
WK
WS
MW1
MW2
The Oregon Education Assoc. Stage
McMenamins Stage
Wieden+Kennedy Stage
Wordstock Community Stage
From the Front Lines
Matt Bors, Tatjana Soli, Kilong Ung (moderated by Tim DuRoche) M: Sat, 11am
Wartime stories must successfully explain the
chaos of war—shifting landscapes, conflicting
viewpoints and historical facts—without eclipsing their main character’s personal journey.
Writing Good History
Larry Lipan, Marianne Keddington-Lang, Bill
Lang (moderated by Eliza Canty-Jones) WS:
Sun, 3pm
History is no longer written only by the winners,
making stories of the past more compelling and
complex than ever before. What succeeds, and
what doesn’t?
Three writers discuss the challenges involved
with getting that laugh-out-loud moment in print.
Why Write Short?
Anthony Doerr, David Vann, Aimee Bender
(moderated by Meg Storey) C: Sat, 12pm
Pop culture says that you’re not really a writer
till you’ve published a novel, but many writers
find themselves drawn to short fiction’s artistic
challenge and intensity.
The State of the Story
Trevor Houser, Maile Meloy, Mary Rechner,
Lan Samantha Chang (moderated by Joel
Lovell) M: Sat, 4pm
Four contemporary writers at various stages of
their careers talk about the popularity and importance of the short story in the literary culture.
Capturing the Regional Voice
Robin Cody, Matt Love, Benjamin Percy, Brian
Doyle (moderated by Susan Denning) WK:
Sat, 4pm
Sometimes a town, a river or a mood emerges as
a major character in a narrative. Four Northwest
writers discuss how they express our region.
Imagining the Past
Joseph Skibell, Gabrielle Burton, Jessica
Francis Kane (moderated by Myrlin A.
Hermes O: Sun, 12pm
Authors use larger-than-life historical events—the
Donner Party, Freud and a WWII subway explosion—to weave together fact and fiction and tell
an entirely new story.
First Book, First Person
Wendy Burden, Sarahlee Lawrence, Gemma
Whelan (moderated by Andrew Proctor) WK:
Sun, 1pm
A revealing look at the process of writing a first
novel and the trusted first person narrator each
of these debut novelists found to bring their story
to life.
Cracking Up Is Hard To Do
Steve Almond, Jess Walter (moderated by
Courtenay Hameister) M: Sun, 2pm
Writing humor takes work. As a writer, humor
rests exclusively on the power of your words.
YA Gets Real
Patrick Ness, L.K. Madigan, Conrad
Wesselhoeft (moderated by Lisa
Schroeder) M: Sat, 12pm
Forget about vampires and boy wizards. Hear
wordstock 2010 | 19
from three young adult authors who tackle seri- Status Update
ous, real-life subject matters and how they relate Matt Stewart, Kaleb Nation, Cheryl Strayed
(moderated by Liz Prato) WK: Sun, 4pm
to teens.
What are the advantages and pitfalls when
Creature Feature
authors use social media to self-promote? Most
Becca Fitzpatrick, Rick Yancey, Joey Comeau no longer wrestle over whether they should use
(moderated by Sara Gundell) C: Sun, 4pm
these tools, but which tools are best.
The supernatural is huge these days. We’ll talk
to three authors about why the supernatural Writer, Editor & Agent: How a Book is Made
is so popular and how they make their stories Larry Colton, Richard Pine, Sydny Miner C:
Sat, 3pm
believable.
An author, his agent and his editor discuss the
Literary Lives
long road from writing to selling to publishing.
Monica Drake, Viva Las Vegas, Willy Vlautin
Receive a behind-the-scenes look at the process
(moderated by Kevin Sampsell) WS: Sat,
and all that is involved before you read a book.
3pm
Portland is a largely under-the-radar spot to build What Works for Me
a literary career—and that’s why these three Karen Karbo, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Heidi W.
Durrow (moderated by David Biespiel) M: Sun,
authors choose to call Stumptown home.
3pm
The Rules of Writing Nonfiction Creatively
Three authors discuss their daily routines, techCraig Welch, Douglas Perry, Ander Monson
niques and superstitions for getting the words
(moderated by Wayne Garcia) M: Sun, 11am on the page.
This genre is currently defined by its lack of
established conventions. While it uses literary Selling the Movie Rights
elements and embellished style instead of just Phil Margolin, Jon Raymond, Adam Jay
reporting facts, where is the line between cre- Epstein, Andrew Jacobson M: Sat, 3pm
ative nonfiction and fiction?
The ins and outs of selling your book to
Hollywood. Authors discuss this exciting and
Modern Memoir
sometimes frustrating negotiation.
Glenn Rockowitz, Tom Grimes (moderated by
Robin Romm) O: Sat, 12pm
The Ghosts with the Most
Memoir is one of the most popular genres of Amanda Howells, Emily Chenoweth, Vanessa
writing today. How does an author decide that Veselka (moderated by Pema Teeter) WK: Sat,
his or her personal story is better than fiction— 1pm
and how do authors craft their story in a way that The secret’s out: ghostwriting can be lucrative,
rings true with their readers?
fun and even tone creative muscle. Hear how
three successful ghostwriters traded bylines for
Brave New World
profit while continuing to write their own books.
Lauren Kessler, Rhonda Hughes, Kevin
Smokler (moderated by Richard Meeker) M: Writing for Children
Sun, 4pm
Mark Williams, Mac Barnett, Renee
Technology is impacting all aspects of publish- Watson T: Sat, 5pm
ing—the way books are published, distributed, Kids are picky about everything—their food, their
sold and read. An author, a publisher and an clothes and their books. Three children’s authors
entrepreneur discuss how technology affects will discuss what it takes to write a book that
publishing and literature.
kids will love.
20 | wordstock 2010
conversations continued
The Long Story
Joel Lovell, Randy Gragg C: Sun, 1pm
Welsh Identity in Literature: From Dylan
In long-form narrative journalism, the writer’s
Thomas to Doctor Who
talent and the reporter’s skill combine to create
Niall Griffiths, Chris Keil, Harrison Solow,
a unique work of narrative art. It’s a vibrant part
Peter Griffiths (moderated by Ceri Shaw) O: of American journalism, particularly in national
Sat, 11am
magazines. What is its future?
What is Anglo-Welsh literature and why should
anyone care? How Wales strives to reinvent Food & Craft
its cultural identity with every new generation. Liz Crain, Charles Heying (moderated by
Kelly Clarke) M: Sat, 1pm
The Future of Reading
Growing numbers of Portlanders make specialty
Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Schaub, Matthew foods and crafts from scratch and make them
Stadler (moderated by David Biespiel) P:
works of art. Learn about these lively artisan
Sun, 11am
communities by authors of two recent works
Is reading on the decline? Many think so. on the subject.
Writers, booksellers, librarians and reviewers all
have a stake in the evolving culture of reading, Vern Rutsala: The Poet and His Work
however no one has more to gain or lose than (moderated by Peter Sears) MW1: Sat, 5pm
readers. A National Book Critics Circle panel. A conversation by regional poets, hosted by
Peter Sears, will follow Rutsala’s reading.
Writers in the Schools
(introduced by Mary Rechner) O: Sun,
The Bear Deluxe Speaks
11am
Jim Lynch, Jon Raymond C: Sun, 12pm
Writers in the Schools (WITS) is a program of In celebration of the Doug Fir Fiction Award,
Literary Arts that cultivates young writers and Orlo welcomes Jim Lynch (2010 judge) and
supports Oregon authors through semester- Jon Raymond (2009 judge), who will read curlong writing residencies in the Portland public rent work and discuss “place-based writing.”
high schools.
Writing in Communities
Steve Lieber, Stephen Elliot (moderated by
Jeffrey Selin) WK: Sat, 11am
Members of The Grotto, San Francisco’s
famous writers’ community, and Periscope, a
Portland comic artist community, discuss their
shared experience of creation, procrastination
and collaboration that counters the typical loneliness of writing.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know
about Book Promotion But Were Afraid
to Ask
Karen Karbo, Kim Dower M: Sun, 12pm
It takes more than talent and a great book to
gain an audience these days, but what does it
take? A writer and publicist/poet discuss the
steps, stumbling blocks, downfalls, and successes to making a book a hit.
wordstock 2010 | 21
Karl Marlantes
© Devin Boswell
Saturday, 12pm
Karl Marlantes began his novel about a terrified 21-year-old soldier in Vietnam not
long after leaving the military and finished
it the year he turned 32. Now he’s 65. What
happened in the intervening 33 years?
Marlantes, a Yale graduate and Rhodes
Scholar who was awarded the Navy Cross,
the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation
Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and
ten air medals for his service in Vietnam, kept rewriting and revising, and
the final result—Matterhorn—is an exceptional first novel. Don’t miss this
riveting story that The Washington Post claims “reads like adventure and
yet…makes even the toughest war stories seem a little pale by comparison.”
Mona Simpson
© Gaspar Triangle
Saturday, 5pm
Mona Simpson tackles the difficult subjects of dysfunctional family relationships
with powerful, simple and often beautifully
poetic prose. A former editor of The Paris
Review, Simpson wrote her first novel,
Anywhere But Here (a modern motherdaughter classic), at the age of 29, which
won her literary acclaim and a wide following. The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, and
Off Keck Road followed. The long-awaited My Hollywood—classic Simpson,
this time from the perspective of the mother—is her first novel in ten years.
22 | wordstock 2010
Lauren Kessler, narrative nonfiction writer, is author
of six books including My Teenage Werewolf, Dancing
with Rose and Stubborn Twig. (Nonfiction) C: Sun, 2pm;
M: Sun, 4pm
History Pub!
From the 40-year struggle
to gain the right to vote to
the campaign for ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment, Oregon’s political and civic landscape
has been shaped by women.
On October 7, historian Kimberly Jensen, political scientist Melody Rose and activist
and former Oregon legislator and both county and city
commissioner Gretchen Kafoury will tell the stories of the
political challenges Oregon
women faced and the victories they won at a special
edition of History Pub. Each
month, the Oregon Historical
Society, Holy Names Heritage Center and Oregon Encyclopedia organize history
talks at McMenamins Kennedy School in Northeast
Portland, Cornelius Pass
Roadhouse in Hillsboro and
Edgefield in Troutdale. Join
us for beer and history!
Thursday, October 7 at 7pm
McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave.
Free and open to the public
Ger Killeen’s books of poetry include A Stone That
Will Leap Over the Waves and Signs Following. (Poetry)
MW2: Sat, 12pm
Barbara LaMorticella co-hosts KBOO’s Talking Earth.
She participates in Portland poetry from a perch in a fir
outside the city. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 11am
Bill Lang, history professor at Portland State University,
is author of six Northwest history books, including Two
Centuries of Lewis and Clark. (Nonfiction) WS: Sun, 3pm
Sarahlee Lawrence, after traveling and earning an MS
in environmental science and writing, returned to her
ranch in hometown Terrabonne, Oregon. (Nonfiction)
WK: Sun, 1pm; O: Sun, 4pm
Ursula K. Le Guin has published 21 novels and received
accolades including the National Book Award. She lives
in Portland, Oregon. (Panel) P: Sun, 11am
Jonathan Lethem is the author of Chronic City and
Motherless Brooklyn. (Fiction) P: Sat, 3pm
Todd Levin was a writer for The Tonight Show with
Conan O’Brien, and we all know how that turned out.
P: Sun, 4pm
Steve Lieber is an award-winning comic book artist
and co-founder of Periscope Studio in Portland, Oregon.
(Panel) WK: Sat, 11am
Lawrence Lipin is professor of history at Pacific
University and an overly satisfied resident of Portland’s
Sellwood neighborhood. (Nonfiction) WS: Sun, 3pm
Jack Lorts, author of The Meeting-Place of Words, has
published widely, if infrequently, in magazines. He’s
also mayor of Fossil, Oregon. (Poetry) MW2: Sat, 1pm
Matt Love, author of Gimme Refuge: The Education
of a Caretaker, won the Stewart H. Holbrook Award in
2009. (Nonfiction) M: Sat, 2pm; WK: Sat, 4pm
wordstock 2010 | 23
Joel Lovell has been editor at The New forthcoming from Airlie Press in October
York Times, Harper’s and GQ. He teaches 2010. (Poetry) MW1: Sun, 11am
in the University of Pittsburgh MFA program. (Nonfiction) M: Sat, 4pm; C: Sun, 1pm Richard Meeker is publisher of Portland’s
award-winning newsweekly Willamette
Jim Lynch has written two novels, Border Week and author of Newspaperman: SI
Songs and The Highest Tide, which won Newhouse and the Business of News.
the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award. (Moderator) M: Sun, 4pm
C: Sun, 12pm
Maile Meloy has written four books,
Annabel Lyon’s The Golden Mean is an most recently the story collection Both
award winner and bestseller. She lives in Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. (Fiction)
British Columbia with her husband and P: Sat, 2pm; M: Sat, 4pm
children. (Fiction) WK: Sat, 2pm
Jane Mendle is the author of Kissing
L.K. Madigan is the author of The in Technicolor, Better off Famous?, and
Mermaid’s Mirror and Flash Burnout, win- My Ultimate Sister Disaster. (Fiction/YA)
ner of the 2010 Morris YA Debut Award. T: Sat, 4pm
(Fiction/YA) M: Sat, 12pm; T: Sun, 1pm
Paul Merchant is the William Stafford
Karl Marlantes, graduate of Yale Archivist. He was a finalist for the 2007
University and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Oregon Book Award in Poetry. (Poetry)
University, served as a US Marine in MW1: Sat, 12pm
Vietnam. (Fiction) P: Sat, 12pm
Nathan Meyer is a working writer,
Phillip Margolin is the New York Times 40-year-old father of four, unabashed
best-selling author of Supreme Justice fanboy of reading in all its forms.
and fourteen other legal thrillers and a (Children’s) T: Sun, 11am
former criminal defense attorney. (Fiction)
M: Sat, 3pm; WK: Sat, 5pm
Sydny Miner is Vice President, Executive
Editor of Crown Archetype. She edited No
Guy Maynard is a writer and editor liv- Ordinary Joes by Larry Colton. (Panel)
ing in Eugene, Oregon. The Risk of Being C: Sat, 1pm
Ridiculous is his first novel. (Fiction) M:
Sun, 1pm
Gary Miranda, a Northwest native, has
published four collections of poetry and a
Win McCormack is currently the editor translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino
in chief of Tin House magazine. He has Elegies. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 3pm
written for publications including The
Nation. (Nonfiction) M: Sat, 5pm
Ander Monson is the author of five
books, most recently The Available
Adrienne McDonnell has taught at the World and Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir.
University of California, Berkeley. The (Nonfiction) C: Sat, 4pm; M: Sun, 11am
Doctor and the Diva is her first novel.
(Fiction) WK: Sun, 2pm
Judith H. Montgomery is the author
of Passion (Oregon Book Award for
Carter McKenzie teaches, edits and pub- Poetry, 2000), Red Jess, and Pulse &
lishes poetry. Her book Out of Refusal is Constellation. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 1pm
24 | wordstock 2010
and Activity Area
The Target Children’s Stage and Activity Area at Wordstock invites
kids to celebrate reading and writing through engaging activities
that encourage all levels of readers to develop and explore the
writer’s craft. In addition to hosting readings by children’s authors
and illustrators, kids can cozy up with a book in our Story Corner, write a great tale of adventure at the Young Author’s Writing
Table or participate in a wide variety of other activities including
bookmaking, word games, puzzles and much more!
In addition, we have special events featured all weekend:
Cosmic Monkey Comic Workshops (Sat/Sun): Come check out these comics workshops for kids, led by Christina “Blue” Crow and Katy Ellis O’Brien!
Blue and Katy have been offering a series of workshops for kids at Cosmic
Monkey Comics and are excited to share their passion for helping kids create
at Wordstock this year! Essential materials are provided, but bringing additional materials (such as a sketchbook or collage materials) is encouraged.
Mother-Daughter Book Club (Sat): Cindy Hudson is the author of Book by
Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs (Seal
Press, October 2009). She will be here to share her expertise on how mothers can get started with their own mother-daughter book club, including
advice and activities on who to invite, where to meet, how to run the meeting and how to choose the books.
Dave Hall (Sat): Come take a rollicking ramble down the hootenanny highway
with David Hall, Portland’s favorite family musician! Described as “Woody
Guthrie meets Raffi on sugar,” David writes, records and performs a variety
of original folk songs to entertain and educate children and parents alike.
Read to the Dogs (Sun): Help your child gain skills and confidence by reading to a relaxed, non-judgmental, furry friend! Delta Society Pet Partners
teams, sponsored by DoveLewis, will be available for your child to experience the joy of reading in a supportive environment.
wordstock 2010 | 25
Becca Fitzpatrick
© Ali Eisenson
Target Children’s Stage, Sunday, 1pm
One might say Becca Fitzpatrick was born to tell stories. Despite a detour in college (she got her degree in
health), Fitzpatrick has gone from making up plotlines
late at night with her older sister to penning the New
York Times best-selling young adult novel Hush, Hush.
Released at the peak of the supernatural romance
buzz in YA, Hush, Hush—the story of a human who
falls in love with a fallen angel—was met with huge
success. In fact, one might say that fallen angels are the new vampires.
Readers’ desires for more from the characters in Hush, Hush helped fuel
its sequel, Crescendo, and if the shocking ending is any indication, a third
book is likely on the way, as well.
Patrick Ness
© Debbie Smyth
Columbia Sportswear Stage, Saturday, 5pm
After conquering audiences in his adoptive home in
England, American-born author Patrick Ness is about
to take the world by storm. With a huge following
overseas, his audience of readers in the US is quickly
growing and will only continue after the release of
Monsters of Men, the final book in his best-selling
Chaos Walking trilogy. A dystopian thriller in the classic sense, the series has drawn widespread comparisons to Suzanne Collins’s best-selling Hunger Games
trilogy and has been called “one of the outstanding literary achievements”
of this century by London’s The Guardian. Anyone who reads Ness’s Chaos
Walking series will quickly agree that it is soon to become a modern literary masterpiece.
26 | wordstock 2010
Susan Morris is a fantasy book writer and editor based
in Washington. Her other loves are coffee, acrobatics
and debate. (Children’s) T: Sun, 11am
The 5th Annual
Text Ball
The Text Ball is Portland’s
celebration of all things text,
where attendees are encouraged to come dressed with
text-influenced evening attire. This year’s theme is “Text
Appeal,” so expect some creative and sexy costumes.
Along with live music, dancing and text-based refreshments, attendees can enjoy
word games, giant crossword
puzzles and “Speech-e-oke,”
as well as a costume parade
with literary prizes for best
outfits. Wordstock attendees can purchase discounted
tickets for $8. Otherwise, tickets are $12 in advance and
$15 at the door. To buy tickets or view photos from last
year’s ball, visit iprc.org. Costumes are encouraged but not
required. All proceeds benefit the IPRC’s mission to facilitate creative expression,
identity and community by
providing access to self-publishing tools and resources.
Saturday October 9, 7–11pm
at p:ear Gallery
338 NW 6th Ave.
Tickets: $8–$15,
available at iprc.org
Sponsored by Portland Wine
Storage
John Morrison’s Heaven of the Moment won the 2006
Gorsline Poetry prize and was finalist for the 2008
Oregon Book Award. (Poetry) MW1: Sun, 3pm
MrsP.com is an award-winning interactive digital storybook website for children starring TV actress Kathy
Kinney. (Children’s) T: Sun, 12pm
Joanne B. Mulcahy, author of Remedios: The Healing
Life of Eva Castellanoz, has published essays in numerous journals and anthologies. (Nonfiction) WS: Sun, 12pm
Kaleb Nation is the author of the Bran Hambric series
and lives in southern California. (Fiction/YA) WK: Sun,
4pm; T: Sun, 5pm
Patrick Ness is the author of the multi-award-winning
Chaos Walking trilogy. Raised in Puyallup, Washington,
he currently lives in England. (Fiction/YA) M: Sat, 12pm;
C: Sat, 5pm
Lars Nordström works as a translator and author, and
farms wine grapes in Beavercreek, Oregon. (Prose)
MW1: Sat, 1pm
Joseph O’Neill’s works include Netherland, which won
the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, This Is the Life and
The Breezes. (Fiction) P: Sun, 2pm
Benjamin Percy was raised in central Oregon. He
writes for Esquire, and his most recent novel is The
Wilding. (Fiction) C: Sat, 2pm
Douglas Perry is an award-winning writer. His latest
book is The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the
Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago. (Nonfiction) M:
Sun, 11am; W: Sun, 12pm
Paulann Petersen’s latest collection of poems is The
Voluptuary from Lost Horse Press. She is Oregon’s sixth
Poet Laureate. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 11am
Richard Pine, founding partner of InkWell Management,
has been responsible for nurturing the careers of a
number of best-selling authors. (Panel) C: Sat, 1pm
wordstock 2010 | 27
Andrew Proctor is the executive director Threshold, won the 2009 Crab Orchard
of Literary Arts. (Moderator) WK: Sun, 1pm Series Open Competition and was published in April 2010. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 4pm
Robert Michael Pyle, Burroughs
Medalist and Guggenheim Fellow, writes Richard Robbins grew up in Southern
essay, poetry and fiction along Gray’s California and Montana. His new book of
River, deep in southwest Washington. poems is Other Americas, published by
(Nonfiction) O: Sun, 5pm
Blueroad Press. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 5pm
Julia Quinn is the #1 New York Times Glenn Rockowitz is a writer, comebest-selling author of twenty historical dian and four-time cancer survivor. His
romance novels. (Fiction) M: Sun, 5pm
memoir Rodeo in Joliet is his first book.
(Nonfiction) O: Sat, 12pm; WK: Sun, 11am
David Rakoff is the author of, most
recently, the book Half Empty. He lives John G. Rodwan, Jr., is the author of
in New York City. (Nonfiction) P: Sat, 4pm Fighters & Writers, a collection of essays.
He lives in Portland, Oregon. (Nonfiction)
Joanna Smith Rakoff’s best-selling M: Sat, 2pm
novel, A Fortunate Age, won the 2010
Goldberg Prize for Emerging Fiction. Jason Roeder is a staff writer for The
(Fiction) O: Sat, 4pm
Onion. He has also been published in
The New Yorker, Salon, McSweeney’s
Ted Rall, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy and elsewhere. P: Sun, 4pm
Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize
finalist, is a political cartoonist, opinion Larry Rohter, author of Brazil on the
columnist, graphic novelist and war cor- Rise, spent 14 years in Brazil reporting
respondent. (Nonfiction) WK: Sat, 3pm
for The New York Times and Newsweek.
(Nonfiction) C: Sat, 11am
Jarold Ramsey’s four poetry books
and most of his prose are grounded in Robin Romm is the author of two books,
the Oregon range country east of the The Mother Garden (short stories), and
Cascades. (Poetry) MW1: Sun, 5pm
The Mercy Papers (memoir). (Nonfiction)
P: Sat, 11am; O: Sat, 12pm
Jon Raymond is the author of The HalfLife, a novel, and Livability, a collection Vern Rutsala’s twelve poetry collections
of stories. (Fiction) M: Sat, 3pm; C: Sun, include A Moment’s Equation, a National
12pm
Book Award finalist, and How We Spent
Our Time. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 5pm
Mary Rechner is a fiction writer who
lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Scott Sadil lives with his family in Hood
(Fiction) O: Sat, 1pm; M: Sat, 4pm
River, Oregon, where he writes, teaches
and navigates a fishing life. (Fiction) WS:
Susan Rich’s three collections of poems Sun, 11am
include The Alchemist’s Kitchen. Her
work appears in Poetry International Kevin Sampsell is an influential figure
and The Southern Review. (Poetry) MW1: in small press publishing and the author
Sat, 3pm
of the memoir A Common Pornography.
(Nonfiction) P: Sat, 11am; WS: Sat, 3pm
Jennifer Richter’s first poetry collection,
28 | wordstock 2010
Michael Schaub is the managing editor Moon and The English Disease. (Fiction)
of Bookslut.com and a book reviewer for O: Sun, 12pm; O: Sun, 1pm
NPR. (Panel) P: Sun, 11am
Floyd Skloot has won three Pushcart
Penelope Scambly Schott’s Crow Prizes, two PNBA Book Awards, two
Mercies won the first Sarah Lantz prize Oregon Book Awards and a PEN USA
from Calyx Press. Schott received a 2008 Literary Award. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 2pm
Oregon Book Award for Poetry. (Poetry)
MW2: Sun, 4pm
Sledgehammer Writing Contest: Listen
to this year’s word-crafting champions
Matt Schumacher’s second book, The read the stories that won the latest
Fire Diaries, and first book, Spilling the 36-hour challenge. Don’t miss the prizeMoon, were published by Wordcraft of package unveiling! (Group) WS: Sat, 12pm
Oregon. (Poetry) MW2: Sat, 11am
Barry Smith is a retired college professor
Jeffrey Selin is a writer and the founder living in Iowa. He just published his first
of the Writers’ Dojo. (Moderator) WK: Sat, novel, Only Milo. (Fiction) WS: Sun, 11am
11am
Kevin Smokler is co-founder and CEO
David Shannon is the internationally of BookTour.com, which provided affordacclaimed creator of more than 20 picture able tools for authors promoting books.
books, including No, David!, a Caldecott He lives in San Francisco. (Panel) M: Sun,
Honor Book. (Children’s) T: Sat, 12pm
4pm
Heather Sharfeddin is the author of
four novels: Mineral Spirits, Windless
Summer, Sweetwater Burning and the
upcoming Damaged Goods. (Fiction) O:
Sun, 1pm
Ceri Shaw, graduate of University
College Cardiff, South Wales, former
teacher and Welsh ex-pat, resides in
Portland, Oregon. (Moderator) O: Sat,
11am
Mary E. Soden has lived in Oregon since
the 1960s. She lives in Mosier, where
she writes and watches the river. (Prose)
MW2: Sun, 1pm
Tatjana Soli’s debut novel is The Lotus
Eaters. Her short stories are cited in BAAS
and nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
(Fiction) M: Sat, 11am; WK: Sat, 2pm
Harrison Solow is a Pushcart Prize–winning author, university professor and writer
Scot Siegel, urban planner and author in residence. Her newest book is Felicity &
of three poetry books, is known for his Barbara Pym. (Fiction) O: Sat, 11am
innovative lyricism and engaging reading style. (Poetry) MW2: Sat, 5pm
Ana Maria Spagna, of Stehekin,
Washington, is the author of Test Ride
Mona Simpson is author of Anywhere on the Sunnyland Bus and Now Go Home.
But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, (Nonfiction) M: Sat, 5pm
Off Keck Road and My Hollywood. (Fiction)
P: Sat, 5pm
Brie Spangler is an author-illustrator
from Portland, Oregon. When not drawJoseph Skibell is the author of the nov- ing pictures or writing words, she avoids
els A Curable Romantic, A Blessing on the direct sunlight. (Children’s) T: Sat, 1pm
wordstock 2010 | 29
Wordstock at the Library
Join Wordstock and the Multnomah County
Library for two free festival “sneak-peek” events
at the Central Library.
Young Adult Reading Showcase
Tuesday, October 5 | 6pm | Central Library | 810 SW 10th Ave.
Three of Portland’s most popular young adult authors will read
from their newest books.
• Heather Vogel Frederick, Pies & Prejudice
• Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping
• Nancy Coffelt, Listen
Nonfiction Reading Showcase
Wednesday, October 6 | 6pm | Central Library | 810 SW 10th Ave.
Join Wordstock founder Larry Colton and friends for new
nonfiction readings by Portland’s finest writers of the craft.
• Larry Colton, No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True
Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life
• Wendy Burden, Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir
• Kevin Sampsell, A Common Pornography: A Memoir
30 | wordstock 2010
Kim Stafford is founding director of the
Northwest Writing Institute and author
of a dozen books of poetry and prose.
(Poetry) MW2: Sun, 5pm
Kilong Ung is a Cambodian genocide
survivor, Reed College alumnus, author,
founder of Golden Leaf Education
Foundation and much more. (Nonfiction)
M: Sat, 11am; WS: Sat, 2pm
Matt Stewart’s first novel, The French
Revolution, has been called “wildly
imaginative” and “brilliant.” It originally
debuted on Twitter. (Fiction) M: Sun, 1pm;
WK: Sun, 4pm
David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide won
seven awards, is translated into nine languages, and is a New Yorker Book Club
book. (Fiction) C: Sat, 12pm; O: Sat, 1pm
Loretta Stinson, recipient of an Oregon
Literary Fellowship in 2008. Her first
novel, Little Green, was published by
Hawthorne Books. (Fiction) O: Sat, 4pm
Jodi Varon is author of Drawing to an
Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent
Father, translator, teacher and editor.
(Prose) MW1: Sat, 1pm
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the novel Viva Las Vegas is a stripper, author,
Torch and the forthcoming memoir Wild. actor, breast cancer survivor and Williams
(Panel) WK: Sun, 4pm
College graduate. She is beloved,
dynamic, insightful. (Nonfiction) WS: Sat,
Anita Sullivan has tuned pianos, 3pm; WS: Sun, 2pm
arranged literary events, gardened
and written poems and essays in the Vanessa Veselka, Portlander, has been
Willamette Valley since 1981. (Poetry) published in Bust, Bitch, Yeti Magazine
MW1: Sun, 11am
and Tin House. Zazen, her first novel, is
forthcoming. (Fiction) WK: Sat, 1pm
Ron Talney has published five poetry
books, most recently A Secret Weeping Willy Vlautin, born and raised in Reno,
of Stones from Plain View Press. (Poetry) Nevada, has published three novels, The
MW1: Sat, 2pm
Motel Life, Northline, and Lean on Pete.
(Fiction) WS: Sat, 3pm; WK: Sun, 3pm
Pema Teeter is a story coach, editor,
copywriter, blogger, playwright, imagi- Voicecatcher is a nonprofit women’s
narium. (Moderator) WK: Sat, 1pm
collective that provides the local writing
community with publishing opportuniTIME OUT™: The Mother of all Comedy ties, writing scholarships and editorial
Shows is a fresh entertainment alterna- guidance. (Group) WS: Sun, 1pm
tive for moms to perform intelligent comedy. (Group) WK: Sun, 5pm
Jess Walter has been a National Book
Award finalist, an Edgar Allan Poe
Karen Braucher (K.B.) Tobin is the Award winner and America’s worst catauthor of Poetic License To Kill, a humor- tle rancher. (Fiction) P: Sun, 1pm; M: Sun,
ous murder mystery set in Portland, 2pm
Oregon. (Fiction/YA) MW2: Sun, 12pm
Renée Watson, author, teaches creative
Zoe Trope published her high school writing in New York and facilitates crememoir, Please Don’t Kill the Freshman, ative arts workshops with children who
when she was 17 years old. (Prose) MW1: have experienced trauma. (Children’s) T:
Sun, 5pm
Sat, 11am; T: Sat, 5pm
wordstock 2010 | 31
Paul Provenza
Powell’s Books Stage, Sunday, 5pm
Paul Provenza spent decades as an actor and
stand-up comic, with stints on TV shows like
Northern Exposure and West Wing. But with
his turn as producer and director of the nowclassic The Aristocrats, Provenza discovered
he was quite good at interviewing other comics. He started doing so in green rooms at festivals around the world, and this
year Showtime began airing The Green Room, a series in which Provenza
interviews the likes of Martin Mull, Sandra Bernhard and Eddie Izzard. In his
new book—Satiristas: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs and Vulgarians—
Provenza interviews some of the best satirists to critique American culture, like
Margaret Cho, Stephen Colbert, Lewis Black, Lily Tomlin and George Carlin.
Jess Walter
Spokane’s Jess Walter is that rare writer whose
work seems so effortless that it’s hard to imagine how it can be so funny. At least that’s the
case with his latest novel, The Financial Lives
of the Poets, in which the main character, having gambled his family’s livelihood on a ridiculous website that dispenses financial advice in
blank verse, decides the way out of his massive debt is to deal pot to his middle-aged
friends. Hilarity ensues, but that’s not to say
that hilarity is Walter’s only talent: His noir novel, Citizen Vince, won the
2005 Edgar Award, and his post-9/11 satire, The Zero, was a finalist for the
National Book Award.
32 | wordstock 2010
Joseph O’Neill
© Lisa Ackerman
The Irish-born writer Joseph O’Neill, who was
raised in Mozambique, South Africa, Turkey, Iran
and Holland, and now makes his home in New
York City, is perhaps more attuned to the subtleties of cultural identity than the rest of us. These
sensibilities are on brilliant display in Netherland,
his PEN/Faulkner Award–winning novel of expatriates in America in the shadow of 9/11. He now
trains that sensibility on his own forebears in
Blood-Dark Track, a family history that centers on
his grandfathers—one an Irish farmer and member of the IRA, the other a Turkish hotelier jailed by the British on suspicion
of being a spy. The result is a compelling exploration of politics, ethnicity
and family.
Ted Rall
© Ted Rall
Wieden+Kennedy Stage, Saturday, 3pm
Ted Rall, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
for outstanding coverage of the problems of the
disadvantaged, is a well-known political cartoonist, opinion columnist, award-wining graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent. Called
“the most controversial cartoonist in America,”
Rall is fearless and keeps the public informed
and aware of difficult issues that effect their lives.
Publishers Weekly states, “Rall is known first and
foremost for his political cartoons, but, man, he knows how to tell a story,
too.” His 2010 book, Anti-American Manifesto, arguably his most radical
book published in decades, argues that it is up to us—not those prepared
to fill the power vacuum from a collapsing US for their own benefit—to effect
change, opening our minds to the possibility of creating a radically different
form of government and economic infrastructure. He is currently reporting
from Afghanistan.
wordstock 2010 | 33
Kary Wayson’s poems have appeared in Crazyhorse,
Poetry Northwest, The Nation, The Best American Poetry
and the Pushcart Prize anthology. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 11am
Robert Weaver taught poetry writing at Oregon State
University for a number of years and found travel shaped
his poetry. (Poetry) MW2: Sun, 1pm
Craig Welch is the author of the nonfiction detective story Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the
Hunt for Nature’s Bounty. (Nonfiction) M: Sun, 11am;
WS: Sun, 12pm
Conrad Wesselhoeft is the author of Adios, Nirvana. He
lives with his three children and poodle in west Seattle.
(Fiction/YA) M: Sat, 12pm; T: Sun, 2pm
Gemma Whelan is an award-winning director, screenwriter and educator. Fiona: Stolen Child is her first novel.
(Fiction) WK: Sun, 1pm; O: Sun, 2pm
David Wiesner is the Caldecott medal–winning author
of Tuesday, The Three Pigs and Flotsam. He lives near
Philadelphia. (Children’s) T: Sat, 12pm
Crystal Williams is a poet and a native of Detroit,
Michigan. (Poetry) MW1: Sun, 1pm
Mark London Williams writes YA fiction and is a contributor to the anthology Our White House: Looking
In, Looking Out. (Children’s) T: Sat, 11am; T: Sat, 5pm
Laura Winter’s love for improvised music informs
her use of language and performance. Her work is
widely published, translated and set to music. (Poetry)
MW1: Sun, 4pm
Patty Wixon’s chapbook, Airing the Sheets, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She’s a researcher in
the William Stafford Archives. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 12pm
Elizabeth Woody (Navajo/Warm Springs/Wasco/
Yakama) has published poetry, short fiction and essays;
she is also a visual artist. (Poetry) MW1: Sat, 12pm
Comics at the
Crossroads
In recent years comics have
moved from the cultural
fringes into the artistic and
literary mainstream. Here
in the Pacific Northwest, a
growing community of comic
artists, including more than
half a dozen major comic
publishing houses and many
smaller ones, are making a
major impact on the genre.
The exhibition Comics at
the Crossroads: Art of the
Graphic Novel examines this
vibrant and evolving art form
with a focus on 40 Northwest
artists who are established
stars and emerging lights in
the comic art universe.
See a selection of the pieces
from Comics at the Crossroads in the Stumptown
Comics Garden at the Wordstock Book Fair.
On view now through
November 15, 2010
at Maryhill Museum of Art
35 Maryhill Museum Drive
Goldendale, WA 98620
www.maryhillmuseum.org
Rick Yancey is the author of the award-winning The
Monstrumologist Series. (Fiction/YA) C: Sun, 4pm; T:
Sun, 5pm
For more Wordstock information, including extended author bios, photos and the
most current schedule, go to wordstockfestival.com.
34 | wordstock 2010
wordstock for writers
Wordstock for Writers is a series of workshops on the
craft of writing that will take place during the book festival
on Saturday, October 9, and Sunday, October 10, at the
Oregon Convention Center. Writers of all levels of experience and all genres will have the opportunity to work with
some of the finest writers in the country.
All Wordstock for Writers workshops will be in Oregon
Convention Center rooms B117–B119, just outside the
main exhibit hall.
COST: $35 for the first workshop, $60 for two, and $20 each additional. Register
for workshops and see times and locations at wordstockfestival.com.
saturday workshops
Point of View: You, Me
& Everyone We Know
The Writing Life: A Serious Pursuit of
Liz Prato
Self-Definition
In this information-packed talk we’ll examine
Harrison Solow
contemporary examples of the ways POV
In this seminar, we will address writing works in fiction and nonfiction, opening up
under a variety of conditions, about a new worlds that will transform your writing.
variety of subjects, under the guise of 10:30–11:45am, Room B119
ourselves and alter egos, in company
and in isolation.
15 Techniques: The Secrets to Better
9–10:15am, Room B118
Protagonists
Janice Hussein
Write Yourself into Fiction
She’ll show you 15 techniques of
Heidi Durrow
characterization, so that your readers
The old adage says “write what you empathize with your protagonist and
know,” but it can be tricky to build a fiction continue to turn the pages of your novel.
structure on real life experiences and 12–1:15pm, Room B118
emotions. How do you fictionalize life?
9–10:15am, Room B119
Meaningful Repetition: Tropes in
Fiction and Nonfiction
Starting a Series: What You Need to
Ben Percy
Know Before You Sit Down to Write
Consider the orange. In The Godfather,
April Henry
every time one appears, bad things
Come learn her secrets for setting up a happen. In this workshop, we’ll examine
series that will continue to work three, five tropes as the building blocks of plot,
or even eleven books down the line.
character and thematic development.
10:30–11:45am, Room B118
12–1:15pm, Room B119
wordstock 2010 | 35
Writing from Experience
Stephen Elliott
We’ll talk about the meaning of honesty,
who owns your story and the difference
between being honest and letting the truth
get in the way of the story.
1:30–2:45pm, Room B118
seriously and relies on solid facts.
4:30–5:45pm, Room B119
sunday workshops
Crafting a Writing Life
Lauren Kessler
This workshop will help you get serious
about your writing life, from figuring out a
daily schedule to keeping self-sabotage
at bay.
9–10:15am, Room B118
How to Pitch a Magazine Story
Joel Lovell
This course covers how to send story
queries to magazine editors, including
considering the magazine’s audience,
framing and presenting your idea and more. Every Word Matters! Making
1:30–2:45pm, Room B119
Sentences that Scream
Matt Stewart
Where Stories Converge
In this workshop, you’ll learn the strategies
Ana Maria Spagna
and techniques to turbocharge your
We’ll explore the advantages of sentences so they’ll leap off the page.
telling multiple stories to create 9–10:15am, Room B119
unexpected connections, both actual
and metaphorical, that add depth and Funny Is the New Deep
resonance to your work.
Steve Almond
3–4:15pm, Room B118
Writing funny doesn’t mean sacrificing
depth. We’ll look at the work of Simon
Jumping Tracks: Character and
Rich, Ian Frazier, George Saunders and
Authority in the Narrative Voice
others to show how you can be funny and
Vanessa Veselka
break hearts while doing it.
Authentic character voice goes well 10:30–11:45am, Room B118
beyond dialogue and descriptive flair; it
lies in how characters order their thoughts Creative Nonfiction: The Literature
and what they think of next.
of Fact
3–4:15pm, Room B119
Jesse Katz
Participants will be invited to employ the
Writing Naked: Memoir Writing for the
techniques of the finest fiction—character,
Brave
plot, setting, dialogue, suspense—while
Kerry Cohen Hoffman
adhering to rigorous standards of truth
Get to the exposed, gritty truth in your and observation.
stories and get feedback to help to isolate 10:30–11:45am, Room B119
strengths and areas to improve.
4:30–5:45pm, Room B118
Omigod! I Just Self-Published! (Is That
Allowed?)
Fair but Biased: Fact-Based Opinion
Steve Almond
Writing in the Age of Blogs
In this session, we’ll discuss the risks
Ted Rall
and opportunities afforded by the printWriters have the opportunity to rise to the on-demand revolution and what it means
top of their field—by presenting their points to build a readership from the bottom up.
of view in a way that takes opponents 12–1:15pm, Room B118
36 | wordstock 2010
wordstock for writers cont.
Words Alive! Jumping from Page to
Stage like A Pro
The Poet’s Palate
VoiceCatcher
Willa Schneberg
Want to present your work during a literary
We will feed our poetic appetites and event? Join us to learn how to prepare and
awaken our palates on the page. We’ll use practice so that your performance delights
poems by major contemporary poets to every audience!
create new poems good enough to eat.
4:30–5:45pm, Room B118
12–1:15pm, Room B119
The Actor’s Studio Method of Character
Fund Your Project: Grant Writing for
Development: Knowing Your Characters
the Literary Artist
Inside-Out
Gigi Rosenberg
Joanna Smith Rakoff
Literary artists learn to write compelling We’ll look at an approach to character
and lively grant applications to fund their development informed by Method acting,
writing projects. Discover how to research in which the writer strives to get to know her
funding, decode application questions characters as deeply and fully as possible.
and let the grant-writing process focus 4:30–5:45pm, Room B119
career goals.
1:30–2:45pm, Room B118
Please note that times listed below are
subject to change. Go to wordstockfes-
Writing Dialogue in the Novel
tival.com for the most current schedule
Chris Keil
and room assignments.
This workshop contains lecture,
discussion, examples and participation
in writing—all focused on technical
characteristics of dialogue in order
to intensify mood, express emotional
connections and more.
1:30–2:45pm, Room B119
From Blog to Book Deal
Candace Dempsey
In this workshop, learn how to create a
blog that will get you noticed, secure a
literary agent and choose the book deal
that’s right for you.
3–4:15pm, Room B118
Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Texts, but Were Afraid to
Ask: or Five Keys to Textual Healing
Joseph Skibell
This workshop will cover definition of
dramatic action, working in scenes,
consistent point of view, starting near the
end and plot vs. narrative.
3–4:15pm, Room B119
wordstock 2010 | 37
Larry Colton
Professional baseball player. High school teacher.
Weekly columnist. Pulitzer nominee. (And, of course,
founder of Wordstock.) Portland’s Larry Colton has
already lived his share of lives, but as spectacular
as they have been, none compare to those of the
four soldiers he chronicles in No Ordinary Joes: The
Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War
and Love and Life. In his first book since Counting
Coup in 2000, Colton shares the remarkable history
of four men changed forever by their time together
in the extreme circumstance of war. As devastating as it is heartening, No
Ordinary Joes cements Colton’s stature as a master of character study and
a born storyteller. Colton will be interviewed by Dr. Jack Ramsay, a WWII veteran and former coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, along with Tim McCoy,
the last surviving soldier Colton writes about in his book
Timothy Egan
© Sophie Egan
A winner of both the National Book Award (for his
book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time) and
a Pulitzer Prize (during his time as a reporter), as
well as a columnist for The New York Times and
a regular contributor to the BBC, Timothy Egan is
one of the most productive and celebrated writers
in the US. His newest book, The Big Burn: Teddy
Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, trains
his eye for narrative history on one of the formative
events of the Pacific Northwest. Don’t miss this chance to hear from one of
the most astute chroniclers of contemporary America.
38 | wordstock 2010
wordstock for teachers
presents: Classroom Publishing
Erick Gordon
Classroom publishing involves more than printing a book.
It allows students to use their individual talents to create
something that can actually support their community. In this
one-day conference, educators and publishing experts from
around the country will show how publishing is within reach
for students of all grade and skill levels. These workshops
will showcase hands-on lessons to make reading and writing exciting for everyone.
Teachers will have the opportunity to work with publishing, education and
artistic professionals who use their chosen mediums—comics, poetry, photography and art—to create one-of-a-kind publishing experiences for students. The instructors will discuss strategies to encourage students to write
with purpose and for an audience. The keynote speaker will be Erick Gordon,
nationally recognized classroom-publishing expert and founder of the Student
Press Initiative at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Friday, October 8 (Oregon Statewide In-Service Day)
8am–4pm
The Ambridge Event Center
1333 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Portland, OR 97232
Cost: $225, which includes a copy of Classroom Publishing: A Practical Guide
for Teachers, lunch and more. Eight seat hours; one-credit option available
through University of Oregon. Space is limited. For more information or to
register, go to wordstockfestival.com.
Wordstock for Teachers is a professional development program designed to
help K–8 teachers improve their writing instruction and their students’ writing achievement. Since 1997 it has helped over 1,700 teachers throughout
Oregon and southwest Washington. Wordstock for Teachers is sponsored
by the Oregon Education Association.
wordstock 2010 | 39
wordstock book festival map
The Wordstock Exhibit Hall holds all exhibitors and three stages:
Target Children’s Stage (T)
Powell’s Books Stage (P)
Columbia Sportswear Stage (C)
Six stages are located in meeting rooms located just outside the Exhibit Hall:
C123 — McMenamins Stage (M)
C124 — Wieden + Kennedy Stage (WK)
C120–C121 — Oregon Education Association Stage (O)
C122 — Wordstock Community Stage (WS)
C126 — Mountain Writers Stage 1 (MW1)
C125 — Mountain Writers Stage 2 (MW2)
Wordstock for Writers workshops will be held in meeting rooms B117–B119,
located outside the Exhibit Hall.
wordstock
exhibit hall
B119
B118
B117
C120
C121
C122
C126
C123
C125
C124
40 | wordstock 2010
wordstock saturday schedule
Columbia
Sportswear Stage
(C)
Powell’s Books
Stage (P)
Target Children’s
Stage (T)
OEA Stage (O)
Kevin Sampsell &
Robin Romm
Jeff Houghtaling,
Renee Watson &
Mark Williams
Welsh Identity in
Literature
Niall Griffiths, Chris
Keil, Harrison Solow,
Peter Griffiths
Mod. Ceri Shaw
Modern Memoir
Glenn Rockowitz,
Tom Grimes
Mod. Robin Romm
11:00
Lesley Hazelton &
Larry Rohter
12:00
Why Write Short?
Anthony Doerr,
David Vann,
Aimee Bender
Mod. Meg Story
Karl Marlantes
David Wiesner &
David Shannon
1:00
Writer, Editor &
Agent
Larry Colton,
Sydny Miner,
Richard Pine
Aimee Bender &
Lan Samantha
Chang
Tad Hills, Matt Holm
& Brie Spangler
David Vann &
Mary Rechner
2:00
Anthony Doerr &
Benjamin Percy
Maile Meloy
Dale E. Basye &
Mac Barnett
Wendy Burden
3:00
Steve Almond &
Kristin Hersh
Jonathan Lethem
Kerry Cohen
Hoffman &
Heather Vogel
Frederick
Tom Grimes &
Brian Doyle
4:00
Stephen Elliott &
Ander Monson
David Rakoff
5:00
Patrick Ness
Mona Simpson
Jane Mendle, Adam
Joanna Smith Rakoff
Jay Epstein &
& Loretta Stinson
Andrew Jacobson
Writing for Children
Mac Barnett, Renee
Watson, Mark
Williams
Mod. Dana Plautz
Bill Carter
* Items in red denote a panel or conversation. See page 18 for complete listings.
** All times and stages subject to change. Please visit wordstockfestival.com for complete and up-to-date
information.
wordstock 2010 | 41
McMenamins
Stage (M)
Wieden+Kennedy Wordstock Stage Mountain Writers Mountain Writers
Stage (WK)
(WS)
Stage 1 (MW1)
Stage 2 (MW2)
From the
Writing in
Front Lines
Communities
Matt Bors, Tatjana
Steve Lieber,
Soli, Kilong Ung
Stephen Elloit
Mod. Tim
Mod. Jeffrey Selin
DuRoche
Diane Hammond
Paulann Petersen
Kary Wayson &
Matt Schumacher
Sledgehammer
Patty Wixon &
Paul Merchant
Ger Killeen &
Tim Hunt
The Ghosts with
Food & Craft
the Most
Myrlin A. Hermes
Liz Crain, Charles Amanda Howells,
& Lucy Jane
Heying
Emily Chenoweth,
Bledsoe
Mod. Kelly Clarke Vanessa Veselka
Mod. Pema Teeter
Jodi Varon &
Lars Nordström
Roger Weaver &
Jack Lorts
Matt Love & John
G. Rodwan, Jr.
YA Gets Real
Patrick Ness, L.K.
Madigan, Conrad
Wesselhoeft, Mod.
Anne Osterlund
Selling the
Movie Rights
Phillip Margolin,
Jon Raymond,
Adam Jay Epstein,
Andrew Jacobson
John Addiego &
Bo Caldwell
Tatjana Soli &
Annabel Lyon
Margaret Chula &
Kilong Ung
Floyd Skloot &
Greg Chaimov
Suzanne Burns &
Michele Glazer
Matt Bors
& Ted Rall
Literary Lives
Monica Drake,
Viva Las Vegas,
Willy Vlautin
Mod. Kevin
Sampsell
Susan Rich & Kelli
Russell Agodon
Kim Dower &
Christopher
Howell
The Attic Writers
Workshop:
A Showcase
Charles Goodrich
& Jennifer Richter
Judith Arcana &
Duane Ackerson
Vern Rutsala
Scott Siegel &
David Filer
State of Story
Regional Voices
Trevor Houser,
Robin Cody, Matt
Mary Rechner,
Love, Benjamin
Maile Meloy, Lan Percy, Brian Doyle
Samantha Chang
Mod. Susan
Mod. Joel Lovell
Denning
Win McCormack
& Ana Maria
Spagna
Phillip Margolin
42 | wordstock 2010
wordstock sunday schedule
Columbia
Sportswear Stage
(C)
Powell’s Books
Stage (P)
Target Children’s
Stage (T)
OEA Stage (O)
11:00
Emily Chenoweth &
Heidi Durrow
The Future of
Reading
Ursula K. Le Guin,
Michael Schaub,
Matthew Stadler
Mod. David Biespiel
Nina Hess,
Susan Morris &
Nathan Meyer
Writers in the
Schools
12:00
Orlo/Bear Deluxe’s
Doug Fir Fiction
Award Jon
Raymond &
Jim Lynch
Timothy Egan
Bonny Becker,
Carson Ellis &
Mrs. P
Imagining the Past
Joseph Skibell,
Gabrielle Burton,
Jessica Francis Kane
Mod. Barbara
Mahony
1:00
The Long Story
Joel Lovell &
Randy Gragg
Jess Walter
L.K. Madigan &
Becca Fitzpatrick
Joseph Skibell &
Heather Sharfeddin
2:00
Lauren Kessler &
Jesse Katz
Joseph O’Neill
Conrad Wesselhoeft
& Amanda Howells
Gemma Whelan &
Kathleen Wakefield
3:00
Myla Goldberg
Larry Colton
(with Dr. Jack
Ramsay and Tim
McCoy)
Nancy Coffelt
& April Henry
Gabrielle Burton
& Jessica Francis
Kane
4:00
Creature Feature
Becca Fitzpatrick,
Rick Yancey, Joey
Comeau
Mod. Sara Gundell
Scott Jacobson,
Jason Roeder &
Todd Levin
Joelle Anthony &
Cecil Castellucci
Saralee Lawrence &
Harriet Fasenfest
5:00
Graham Hancock
Paul Provenza
Kaleb Nation &
Rick Yancey
Robert Michael Pyle
* Items in red denote a panel or conversation. See page 18 for complete listings.
** All times and stages subject to change. Please visit wordstockfestival.com for complete and up-to-date
information.
wordstock 2010 | 43
McMenamins
Stage (M)
Wieden+Kennedy Wordstock Stage Mountain Writers Mountain Writers
Stage (WK)
(WS)
Stage 1 (MW1)
Stage 2 (MW2)
Writing Nonfiction
Creatively
Glenn Rockowitz
Craig Welch,
& Joey Comeau
Douglas Perry,
Ander Monson
Scott Sadil &
Barry Smith
Carter McKenzie
& Anita Sullivan
Barbara
LaMorticella &
Cindy Williams
Gutierrez
Joanne Mulcahy
& Craig Welch
Tom Bremer &
Jim Grabill
K.B. Tobin &
Leanne Grabel
Voicecatcher
Crystal Williams &
Robin Cody
Judith
Montgomery &
Mary Soden
Arianne Cohen &
Viva Las Vegas
Ron Talney &
Karen Holmberg
Carl Adamschick
& Tim Barnes
Dave Jarecki &
John Morrison
Gary Miranda &
Howard Aaron
Mod. Wayne Garcia
Book Promotion
Karen Karbo &
Kim Dower
Candace
Dempsey &
Douglas Perry
First Book,
First Person
Matt Stewart &
Guy Maynard
Cracking Up Is
Hard To Do
Jess Walter,
Steve Almond
Mod. Courtenay
Hameister
What Works for Me
Karen Karbo,
Joanna Smith
Rakoff, Heidi W.
Durrow
Wendy Burden,
Sarahlee Lawrence,
Gemma Whelan
Mod. Andrew
Proctor
Thea Cooper
& Adrienne
McDonnell
Writing Good
History
Willy Vlautin
& Jim Lynch
Mod. David Biespiel
Larry Lipan,
Marianne
Keddington-Lang,
Bill Lang, Mod.
Eliza Canty-Jones
Brave New World
Lauren Kessler,
Rhonda Hughes,
Kevin Smokler
Mod. Richard
Meeker
Status Update
Matt Stewart,
Kaleb Nation,
Cheryl Strayed
Mod. Liz Prato
Laura Winter &
Elizabeth Woody
Martha Gies
& Penelope
Scambly Smith
Julia Quinn
Time Out!
Jarold Ramsey &
Zoe Trope
Kim Stafford &
Richard Robbins
44 | wordstock 2010
wordstock exhibitor list
Booth #
Booth Name
419
Airlie Press
Booth #
Booth Name
Booth #
Booth Name
721
Ibex Studios: Adventures
in Creative Writing
612
ALL Publications & The
Mighty Pen, LLC
402
Pacific University Master
of Fine Arts in Writing
904
Allport Editions
1002
Independent Publishing
and Resource Center
602
Pathfinder Books
Pathos Literary Magazine
318
Indigo Editing &
Publications
205
620
Ameri Cymru - Anglo
Welsh Literature
105
Piel Canela Peru
Ink & Paper Group
805
604
Anvil Press
Portland Public Schools
Inkwater Press
618
712
Artifacts/Book Darts
Portland Review
406
ithaka collage cards
417
204
Association of Personal
Historians
Portland Writers
718
James Boyle
406
405
The Attic: A Haven for
Writers
The Present Press
707
Jezebel Press
623
Profile Theatre
806
626
Propeller Books
Bare Bones Press
Just An Ordinary Little
Dog
621
413
Barefoot Books
1007
Literary Arts
614
PSU’s MFA Program &
the English Department
1013
Bath Fitter
621
Lumenhorse Press
321
RainTown Press
307
Black Heron Press
800
Mac Pac
905
Reading Local
305
Book-Buddy
726
Madrone Press LLC
309
Rose Alley Press
724
C-SPAN
ST 422
Maryhill Museum of Art
415
616
C3 Publications
716
Calyx, Inc.
701
Marylhurst University
English Literature &
Writing Department
Sitka Center for Art and
Ecology
207
Soaring Sparrow Press
909
The Children’s Book Bank
108
The Starving Writer
624
McKenzie Books
1005
Chin Music Press
808
T.J. Blossom
705
Mt. Writers Series
717
Copper Canyon Press
908
Target
ST 324
Cosmic Monkey Comics
713
319
418
Council of Literary
Magazines & Presses
Multnomah County
Library Title Wave Used
Bookstore
Time Out Comedy presents: Words By Your
Mama
613
Navillus Press
409
Tin House
719
Crab Creek Review
317
The New York Times
320
Unshelved
ST 425
Dark Horse Comics
1009
907
Veronica Lane Books
806
Echoes of Avalon
Northwest Association of
Book Publishers
802
Vintage Journals
804
Edgar Font’s Adventure
Series
417
VoiceCatcher
1006
703
Washington State
University Press
901
West Coast Vinyl
421
304
807
OEA
617
Ooligan Press
Exterminating Angel
Press
606
Oregon Cultural Heritage
Commission
1011
Film Action Oregon
1012
Oregon Cultural Trust
404
Fishtrap Inc.
303
Oregon Historical Society
308
Whirlwind Publishing (&
Speaking Services)
313
Franklin Beedle &
Associates
403
Oregon Humanities
615
Whispers from the Ashes
608
Oregon Library
Association
600
Willamette Week
Willamette Writers
1010
Oregon Poetry
Association
720
301
Wordstock
709
Oregon State University
Press
404
Write Around Portland
1004
Write Bloody Publishing
725
Writers Block Ltd.
109
Writers’ Dojo
Note:
ST=Stumptown Comics
Garden
408
Friends of the Multnomah
County Library
306
Goddard College
316
Golden Leaf
1003
Gorham Printing, shortrun book printer
312
Oregon Writers Colony
801
The Grove Review
416
Orlo
209
Happy Hour Guidebooks
401
p:ear
407
Hawthorne Books
wordstock 2010 | 45
wordstock exhibit hall
100
102
104
106
108
105
107
109
204
206
208
205
207
209
304
306
308
312
314
316
318
320
Columbia
Sportswear
Stage
1000
1001
Beer
Garden
Concessions
Free Books
322
324
326
Stumptown Comics Garden
1100
301
303
305
307
309
313
315
317
319
321
323
325
327
1101
400
402
404
406
408
412
414
416
418
420
422
424
426
1102
1103
401
403
405
407
409
413
415
417
419
421
425
427
500
Powell’s
Stage
1002
1003
500
1004
1005
600
602
604
606
608
612
614
616
618
620
1007
601
603
605
607
609
613
615
617
619
621
1008
700
702
704
706
708
712
714
716
718
720
624
626
623
625
627
1105
722
724
726
1106
1006
1104
1107
1009
701
703
705
707
709
1010
800
802
804
806
808
1012
801
803
805
807
809
1013
900
902
904
906
908
901
903
905
907
909
713
715
717
719
721
725
727
729
1011
1014
1015
Target
Children’s
Corner
Target
Children’s
Stage
Stop by Willamette Week’s
lounge in celebration of
WordStock 2010
wweek.com
WE
FICTION
GRAMMAR
KNOWLEDGE
PAGE TURNERS
AUTHORS
PROTAGONISTS
CREATIVITY
BOOKS
The OREGON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION is proud to
partner with WORDSTOCK in pursuit of lifelong learning.
WES
works!
FAST • FRIENDLY • COMFORTABLE
Why drive? Ride WES.
WES Commuter Rail gives you time to read.
•ComfortableseatsandwirelessInternet
onboard
•Lessstressfromnothavingtodeal
withtraffic
•EasyconnectionswithTriMetbusand
MAX,andSMARTbuses,forservice
throughouttheregion
•ConnectionswithCherriotsandSMART
forservicetoandfromSalem
Plan your trip at trimet.org
EAT
SMART
BUY
LOCAL
NEW SEASONS MARKET
The friendliest store in town.
Watch for our tenth location opening in October!
41st and SE Hawthorne • www.newseasonsmarket.com
Mountain Writers Series is one of the nation’s longest run-
ning literary series. In cooperation with a network of literary
presenters throughout the Pacific Northwest, Mountain
Writers Series works to bring writers to all communities
in the region.
Since 2005, Mountain Writers has sponsored Wordstock Festival
for the Book by scheduling and hosting literary readings on two
stages during the weekend events. MWS hosts not only the primary
poetry stages, but also features fiction and nonfiction readings. During the history of Wordstock, Mountain Writers has presented over
200 of the finest writers on its stage
http://www.mountainwriters.org
[email protected]
Mountain Writers Series
2804 SE 27th Avenue, #2
Portland OR 97202
© 2008 Target Stores. The Bullseye Design, Target and the 5% Bullseye Design are trademarks of Target Brands, Inc. All rights reserved. 697454
D
O
G
O
O
D
E
R
When you shop at Target, we contribute 5% of our income to support education, the arts,
and social services. Since 1946, we have supported our communities in small and large
ways, from helping local nonprofits to providing disaster relief. Today that 5% adds up to over
$3 million a week. Doing good is easy when doing good is automatic. DO 5% GOOD.
TA R G E T. C O M / C O M M U N I T Y
Wordstock is a nonprofit literary arts and education organization that
celebrates and supports writing in the classroom and in the community.
Our mission is to use the power of writing to effect positive change
in people’s lives.
Founded in 1997 as Community of Writers by author Larry Colton, Wordstock’s
programs include:
Wordstock for Teachers, a professional development program for K–12 teachers that seeks to improve student writing performance by training and supporting teachers of writing.
Wordstock for Kids, our creative writing instruction program for K–8 students
that works in the tri-county public schools. Wordstock is proud to be the literary arts provider for the Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Right Brain Initiative
to reintegrate arts education into public elementary schools.
Wordstock for Communities, our series of workshops on the craft of writing for
practicing writers and community members.
Wordstock’s Books-to-Film Festival, an annual weekend screening of movies
adapted from literary works.
Wordstock’s Red Chair Reading Series, a traveling series of spontaneous readings by writers, local celebrities and enthusiastic novice readers for impromptu
audiences, such as gatherings of middle school students.
Wordstock Festival, our annual book and literary festival in Portland, by far the
largest such event in the Northwest, known nationwide simply as Wordstock. We
believe this showcase of contemporary writers’ accomplishments is one of the
most compelling examples of writing’s power that we can provide.
Thank you!
None of Wordstock’s programs would happen without your support.
A core group of about 30 volunteers, listed by name with the Wordstock board and staff on
page 4, is responsible for booking authors, coordinating volunteers, designing promotional
materials, announcing the festival to the community, scheduling workshops and much more.
Over 200 volunteers work the Book Fair each year, escorting authors, answering questions
and running the show, really.
Please join us in thanking the best volunteers in the Northwest and our generous sponsors
and community partners for helping Wordstock celebrate writing in our classrooms and in
our community all year long. Thank you!
Columbia Sportswear
Ooligan Press
Profile Theatre
CoolerEmail
Oregon Arts Commission
and the National
Endowment for the Arts
ReadRollShow
Oregon Education
Association
Right Brain Initiative
IPRC
Literary Arts
Live Wire!
MacPac
McCormick & Schmick’s
McMenamins
Mortified Portland
Mountain Writers Series
Multnomah County
Library
New Seasons Market
Oregon Historical Society
Oregon Humanities
Orlo/The Bear Deluxe
PNCA
Portland Art Museum
Portland Monthly
Powell’s Books
Regional Arts & Culture
Council
Target
The Ace Hotel
The Attic
TriMet
Wieden + Kennedy
Willamette Week
Work for Art
Write Around Portland
To find out about sponsorship opportunities or to donate in-kind goods or services, please
contact Wordstock’s Director of Development & Marketing at [email protected].
To support Wordstock’s mission and celebrate the release of Wordstock founder Larry
Colton’s new book No Ordinary Joes, attend Wordstock’s Literary Feast and Book
Release Party, Friday October 8, 2010, 6–9pm. Visit www.wordstockfestival.com for details.
Become a Charter Member of Wordstock
That’s right! Wordstock will kick off our new member benefits program at this year’s
festival. Now you can show your support for Wordstock all year round!
Help us promote the power of writing to effect positive change in people’s lives.
Visit the Wordstock table at the Book Fair, October 9–10, 2010, to find out about special
benefits for charter members.

WordstockProgram2010.. - Mountain Writers Series

Transcription

Similar documents

prizes - Windy City Striders

Hotel Latemar - Italieonline

March 2 Success Brochure

WIN! Giveaways - Gander Mountain

When you first switch your Vantage X221 TS CI on this is the screen

JUNE Tue 16 Young Musicians Platform Thu 18

candypants boat party

www.march2success.com

our faculty hiring brochure

1 MB - Sanctuary Forest