October 22nd Meeting
Join us for our October meeting at Jalapeno's
with Rena Priest
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Ask Me Anything
This evening, I am an open book. Questions about craft? Creative blocks? Publishing? Rejection? Editing? The MFA? Residencies? Applying for fellowships? Submitting work? This ain’t my first rodeo. Ask away and I’ll do my best to give you a satisfactory answer. I will bring books in case you would like me to read and answer questions about my work. Feel free to bring your work too. I will be happy to look over specific passages that may be giving you trouble. We’ll even do a couple writing exercises, so bring your notebooks.
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Rena Priest is an enrolled citizen of the Lhaq’temish [Lummi] Nation. She holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is currently working toward an M.A. in Theatre at UBC. Priest is the author of four books and editor of two anthologies. Her work has been recognized with numerous honors, including an American Book Award, an Allied Arts Foundation Professional Poets Award, and a Keepers of the Fire Award. She has also received prestigious fellowships from Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po) and the Academy of American Poets. As a National Geographic Explorer (2018-2021), she followed her curiosity into new realms of storytelling. She has toured nationally with an all-indigenous ensemble, and in a historic appointment, Priest was named Washington State’s sixth Poet Laureate, becoming the first Indigenous person to hold the position. In this role, she championed poetry as a vital art form throughout the state.
We have a new location for meetings this year, except in November, when there is a conflict. We will announce that location separately. Jalapeno's at Barkleys has graciously waived the room fee for their banquet room for us. We will need you to RSVP to ensure they have the correct number of staff.
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New to WWP
Welcome, Pacific Northwest Writers!
We meet every fourth Wednesday from September to June in scenic Bellingham, WA. Supper starts at 5:30, and the speaker starts at 6:30-7.
Dues are 25 dollars a year or 40 for two years. We use the dues to pay for our speakers to come from around the region, and for an occasional table at local writer events. Our dues year runs from September to June, like our meetings, but will roll over if you pay late in the cycle. If you want to try us out first, feel free. Speakers in the past have included WA Poet Laureate Rena Priest, author Robert Dugoni, and agent Donald Maass, covering topics such as social media, self-publishing, memoirs, mixed media, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It is our goal to offer something for everyone, no matter your place in the writing journey-- just starting or long-published. Old school or new. If you have an idea for a speaker or topic, let us know, but if it has been covered recently it might not be picked up.
Pay your dues
25 for 1 year
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40 for 2 years
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40 for couples
To pay online, please provide name and email address on the form so we can keep track of you.
We have a paypal account if you would prefer to pay on line. You can also pay by check; just drop it off with the treasurer at a meeting.
