Current/Upcoming Events
2013
Winner of the Goldenberg Award in Fiction, judged by Jane Smiley, for “The No-Tell Hotel,” forthcoming in the Bellevue Literary Review,” Spring 2013. http://blr.med.nyu.edu/submissions/BLRPrizes/contestwinners
http://news.wwu.edu/go/doc/1538/1686851/
Article in Poets & Writers Magazine: “View from the Bluff: The Port Townsend Writers Conference.” March/April issue. http://www.pw.org/magazine
Presenter at the Associated Writing Programs Conference, March 10, 2013, “Warriors Remember: Approaches to Narrative Memoir for Veterans.”
2012
Winner of the Red Hen Press Story Award for “Fuck! You Till Next Christmas,” published in The Los Angeles Review, Fall 2012. http://redhen.org/awards-2/rhpssa/
Reading at Village Books for the launch of the new literary journal, Conversations Across Borders with Jenifer Browne Lawrence, Satantani Dasgupta, Jordan Hartt and Jeremy Voigt, Saturday, April 28th at 4:00 p.m. http://www.conversationsacrossborders.org/
Presenter/Workshop Leader, the Chuckanut Writers Conference 2012, Friday, June 22nd and Saturday, June 23rd, Bellingham, WA. http://www.chuckanutwritersconference.com/
Presenter/Workshop Leader, the Port Townsend Writers Conference, Friday July 30th and Saturday, July 21st, Fort Worden State Park, WA. http://centrum.org/writing/writers-conference.html
Past Events
2011
Workshop at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Conference “How To Set Up An Author Blog Tour,” Saturday, August 6th at 10:00 a.m.
http://www.pnwa.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=362
Article in Poets & Writers Magazine: “Conferences in the Pacific Northwest.”
March/April issue.
http://www.pw.org/content/
2010
Judge, Crab Creek Review Fiction Contest.
2009
Get Lit! Festival Reading with Martha Silano, April 18, 2009
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Get Lit! Panel, “Writers Don’t Just Write, They Submit” with Ken Letko, Charles Baxter, and Martha Silano, April 18, 2009
Get Lit! Panel, “Women Writing Fiction” with Jane Smiley, Laurie Notaro, and Midge Raymond.
Spokane, WA, April 17, 2009
2008
Creative Writing Sampler at Western Washington University with Suzanne Paola, Brenda Miller, Bruce Beasley, Carol Guess, Oliver De La Paz, Nancy Pagh, Carlos Martinez, and Sara Stamey
Bellingham, WA, May 22, 2008
Article in Poets & Writers Magazine: “Rising in the West: Washington’s Get Lit!, the Montana Festival of the Book, and Oregon’s Wordstock.” March/April 2008.
http://www.pw.org/content/rising_west
2007
Wordstock: Portland’s Annual Festival of the Book
Portland, OR, November 8-11
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Montana Festival of the Book
Missoula, MT, September 13-15
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“The Write Question,” Montana Public Radio, September 13
Interview with Cherie Newman
Third Place Books
Lake Forest Park, WA, July 23
Chuckanut Radio Hour
Broadcast on KMRE 102.3, Bellingham, July 21
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Elliott Bay Book Company
Seattle, WA 98104, July 13
Jack Straw Writers Program Reading Series
Jack Straw Productions
Seattle, WA, May 17
2005
Article in Poets & Writers Magazine: “Northwest Passages: Six Indie Publishers Find Their Way,” September/October 2005
http://www.pw.org/content/northwest_passages_six_indie_publishers_find_their_way