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Saturday, October 8
 

11:00am

How to Win Over Agents & Editors

Find out what agents are looking for, what editors and publishers hope to see in new writing and how each discovers prospective clients.

Speakers

Betsy Amster

Victoria Blake

David Forrer

Mandy Hubbard

Mandy Hubbard also writes as Amanda Grace, and is the author of PRADA & PREJUDICE; YOU WISH, BUT I LOVE HIM; and RIPPLE. She is a literary agent for D4EO Literary, where she represents authors of middle grade and teen fiction. Hubbard currently lives happily ever after with her husband and young daughter in Tacoma, Washington.

Rhonda Hughes


Saturday October 8, 2011 11:00am - 12:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Conversation

12:00pm

Julia Glass & Diana Abu-Jaber
Speakers

Diana Abu-Jaber

BIRDS OF PARADISE author Diana Abu-Jaber has also published, most recently, ORIGIN and THE LANGUAGE OF BAKLAVA. She was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won the American Book Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award and other prizes. Her writing appears in Good Housekeeping, Ms., Salon, Vogue, Gourmet, the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She is frequently featured on National Public Radio. She divides her time between Coral Gables...
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Julia Glass

Julia Glass is the author of THREE JUNES, which won the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction; THE WHOLE WORLD OVER; and I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE, winner of the 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her short fiction has won several prizes, and her personal essays have been widely anthologized. She lives in Massachusetts with...
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Saturday October 8, 2011 12:00pm - 1:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading

1:00pm

Jennifer Egan
An interview with Greg Netzer, the Executive Director of Wordstock.
Speakers

Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is the author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, THE KEEP, LOOK AT ME, THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS and the story collection EMERALD CITY. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine. In 2011, she won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She...
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Greg Netzer

Executive Director at Wordstock: Portland's Literary Festival

Saturday October 8, 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading, Conversation, Interview

2:00pm

Michael Ondaatje
An interview with Andrew Proctor, the Executive Director of Literary Arts.
Speakers

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, including The English Patient. His new novel is The Cat's Table.

Andrew Proctor


Saturday October 8, 2011 2:00pm - 3:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading, Conversation, Interview

3:00pm

Barry Lopez with John Freeman
Speakers

John Freeman

John Freeman is editor of GRANTA, the quarterly magazine of the best new writing from around the world. His criticism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, THE TYRANNY OF E-MAIL, was published in 2009.

Barry Lopez

To read Barry Lopez is to commune with a deep thinker. His writings have frequently been compared to those of Henry David Thoreau, as he brings a depth of erudition to the text by immersing himself in his surroundings, deftly integrating his environmental and humanitarian concerns. In his nonfiction, he often examines the relationship between human culture and physical landscape. In his fiction, he frequently addresses issues of intimacy, ethics, and identity. Barry Lopez is best known as the...
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Saturday October 8, 2011 3:00pm - 4:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Interview, Conversation

4:00pm

Isabel Wilkerson
Speakers

Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times. The award made her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. She won the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration. She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman...
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Saturday October 8, 2011 4:00pm - 5:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading

5:00pm

Eduardo Halfon & Sergio Troncoso
Speakers

Eduardo Halfon

Eduardo Halfon, currently a Guggenheim Fellow, was born in 1971 in Guatemala City. He moved to the US with his family in 1981, went to school in Florida, and then studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University. Later, back in Guatemala, he was a literature professor for eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Although bilingual, Halfon chooses to write in Spanish. He has published ten books of fiction, and in 2007 was named one of the 39 best young Latin American...
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Sergio Troncoso

Sergio Troncoso is the author of two new books. FROM THIS WICKED PATCH OF DUST is a novel about the Martinez family, who begins life in a shantytown on the US-Mexico border, and struggles to stay together despite cultural clashes, different religions, and contemporary politics. His story collection, CROSSING BORDERS: PERSONAL ESSAYS, bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America with sacrifice, commitment, and honesty. Troncoso also...
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Saturday October 8, 2011 5:00pm - 6:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading
 
Sunday, October 9
 

11:00am

When Was Your First Time?

Three authors, all with different journeys, discuss their views on writing the work that was published.

Speakers

Mary Bisbee-Beek

Mary Bisbee-Beek has been a book publicist and marketing consultant for the better part of 25 years, both as a staff person and as an independent consultant. Presently she is living in Portland and working with authors and publishers from around the world. She prefers to focus on but is not limited to literary fiction, poetry, and cerebral yet readable books!

Ellen Meeropol

Ellen Meeropol’s work explores characters at the intersection of political turmoil, ethical dilemma, and family life. Publishers Weekly gave her debut novel, HOUSE ARREST a starred review, calling it “thoughtful and tightly composed, unflinching in taking on challenging subjects and deliberating uneasy ethical conundrums.” A literary late bloomer, Meeropol left her pediatric nurse practitioner career to write and work in an independent bookstore. She holds an MFA from the Stonecoast...
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Jason Skipper

Jason Skipper is the author of the novel HUSTLE. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Hotel Amerika and Mid-American Review. He has received awards and recognition from Zoetrope: All Story, Glimmer Train, and Crab Orchard Review, with grants from the Vermont Studio Center and Artist Trust of Washington. He studied at Miami of Ohio and received his PhD from Western Michigan University, where he was fiction editor of Third Coast. He teaches creative writing and literature...
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Scott Sparling

Scott Sparling lives outside Portland with his wife and son. His first novel is WIRE TO WIRE, a story of train-hopping, glue-sniffing and love in Northern Michigan in the late 1970s. WIRE TO WIRE was published by Tin House Books in June 2011. It was called “well crafted and thrilling” by Publishers Weekly and “Smart, thrilling and darkly funny” by The Oregonian. Sparling’s short story WALKING was a winner in the 2006 Wordstock fiction contest.

Sunday October 9, 2011 11:00am - 12:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Conversation

12:00pm

Attic Institute Showcase
Speakers

Matthew Dickman

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review/ Copper Canyon Press, 2008). The recipient of The Honickman First Book Prize, The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College, and the 2009 Oregon Book Award from Literary Arts of Oregon. His poems have appeared in Tin House Magazine, McSweeny’s, Ploughshares, The Believer, BOMB online, and The New Yorker among others. W.W. Norton & Co. will...
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Merridawn Duckler

I’ve published fiction in Carolina Quarterly, Georgia State Review, Main Street Rag, Isotope, Green Mountains Review, Night Train and others. I am an NEA awardee with work performed at Red Cat at Disney Hall and reviews in the LA Times and the New York Times. I was most recently in the Manhattan Shakespeare Projects New Playwright Festival. My nonfiction has been nominated for a Pushcart and I was a nonfiction runner-up at Writers@Work. My fellowships include Yaddo, Centrum, Squaw Valley...
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Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the forthcoming memoir WILD and the novel TORCH, a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of the year by writers from the Pacific Northwest. Strayed’s personal essays have appeared in more than a dozen magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Allure, Self, Brain, Child, The Rumpus, and The Sun. She’s won a Pushcart Prize and her essays have twice been...
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Wendy Willis

Wendy Willis is a Portland poet, mother and non-profit director. Her work appears in a variety of national and regional publications.

Sunday October 9, 2011 12:00pm - 1:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading, Poetry

1:00pm

Larry Levin & Ceiridwen Terrill
Speakers

Larry Levin

Larry Levin, a native and resident of Philadelphia, has been married to Jennifer Berke Levin since 1982. Their sons, Noah and Dan, were born in 1980. OOGY is Levin’s first book.

Ceiridwen Terrill

Ceiridwen Terrill is a writer and adventurer, and loves to tell stories about humans and animals sharing home ground. She writes about people she admires who do important work on behalf of wildlife, trying to make a way for animals despite shrinking and fragmented habitats. She explores her own human foibles through memoir and science as she figures out how to live on the urban-wild border of Portland, Oregon’s 5,000-acre Forest Park. Terrill teaches environmental journalism at...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading

2:00pm

Anne Enright
Speakers

Anne Enright

Anne Enright is a critically acclaimed, internationally best-selling Irish author. Enright’s writing explores themes such as family relationships, love and sex and Ireland’s difficult past and modern zeitgeist. She has published essays, short stories, a nonfiction book and four novels, including THE GATHERING, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and was named the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year. The novel leapt onto US best seller lists and has sold more than 600,000 copies in...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 2:00pm - 3:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading

3:00pm

Charles Yu & Vanessa Veselka
Speakers

Vanessa Veselka

Vanessa Veselka has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, a student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother. ZAZEN is her first novel.

Charles Yu

Writer Charles Yu received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection, Third Class Superhero. His first novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, was named one of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2010, was included in the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010, and was one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editors' Picks for 2010. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michelle, and their two children.

Sunday October 9, 2011 3:00pm - 4:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Reading

5:00pm

Writer As American Citizen

Do American writers have a responsibility to weigh in on the looming moral issues of the
day? Hear three authors who have navigated this route.

Speakers

Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of ten books, three of which (crazily) he published himself. His work has been included in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories. His newest book is a collection of stories called GOD BLESS AMERICA. It is very patriotic, in its own heartbroken way.

David Biespiel

David Biespiel is the author of a half dozen books including EVERY WRITER HAS A THOUSAND FACES and THE BOOK OF MEN AND WOMEN, recipient of the Oregon Book Award and named Best Poetry of the Year by the Poetry Foundation. Biespiel is the founder of the Attic Institute, the unique literary studio in Portland that hosts workshops, programs, and individual consults for nearly a thousand writers each year.

David Marin

David Marin (pronounced “marine”) is half Puerto Rican, half Irish, and all American. A media company executive by profession, he lives in California, has traveled to eleven countries, and has visited thirty-six of our fifty states. He has skydived in Arizona, water-skied on the Caribbean, and rescued olive ridley sea turtles in Costa Rica. By far the greatest adventure of his life is fatherhood.

Daniel Woodrell

Daniel Woodrell has been called one of the best-kept secrets in American literature and has a large following in Europe, where he was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Award in 2000 and 2003. He is the author of eight books including TOMATO RED, which won the 1999 PEN Center USA award for fiction, WOE TO LIVE ON, which was adapted into a movie by Ang Lee, and WINTER’S BONE, recently adapted into an Oscar-nominated film of the same name. Five of Daniel Woodrell‘s eight published novels...
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Sunday October 9, 2011 5:00pm - 6:00pm
National Endowment for the Arts Stage (Oregon Convention Center)
  National Endowment for the Arts Stage, Conversation
 

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