FREE! 2nd Annual Spring Writing Festival

New writing by the Hawthorne Fellows

Read new pieces: Jim Newman. Kristen Rainey. Chip Kosboth. D. M. Nowell. Paul Rogers. 

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The next deadline to apply to the Hawthorne Fellows is March 25

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Read past issues of The Boulevard, the publication of the Hawthorne Fellows.

Meet Jennifer Lauck who will lead the next group of Hawthorne Fellows beginning in April.

The Art of Design: Gardening, Woodworking, and Writing Poetry

January 24, 6-7:30pm at the Northwest Woodworking Studio (1002 SE 8th)

Engage your own creative side. Participate in an intimate panel discussion with three notable Portlanders.

Sean Hogan, owner of Cistus Nursery on Sauvies Island, Portland, and a world renown garden designer, lecturer, and author.

Gary Rogowski, Director of The Northwest Woodworking Studio, A School for Woodworkers. Gary is a well known woodworking designer, author, and lecturer.

David Biespiel, President of the Attic Institute, author of the Oregon Book Award winning collection of poems, The Book of Men and Women, and the inspiring book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces.

Join these three Portlanders as they each discuss their process, the triumphs and pitfalls, and the value of failure in the creative process. It is sure to be a lively evening of discussion. Come be inspired.

For more information: nws@spiritone.com

The Attic Institute is pleased to announce that New York Times Bestselling novelist Whitney Otto, Oregon Book Award winning novelist and Sundance Film Festival screenwriter Jon Raymond, and First Unitarian Church of Portland Minister Emerita Reverend Dr. Marilyn Sewell have been appointed adjunct fellows beginning January 2013.

"These are three amazing writers, speakers, and teachers here in Portland, and we're delighted to have them join our roster of exceptional literary teachers and to work with Portland's emerging writer in fiction, film, and spiritual writing," notes David Biespiel, president of the Attic Institute. "Any writer who wants to advance and learn would do well to take course or more with these three outstanding writers."

Otto, Raymond, and Sewell join a dynamic, national faculty of teaching fellows at the Attic Institute that includes David Biespiel, Cheryl Strayed, Karen Karbo, Paulann Petersen, Jennifer Lauck, Matthew Dickman, Wendy Willis, Merridawn Duckler, Elizabeth Rusch, Vanessa Veselka, Peter Zuckerman, and others, including critics Jeff Baker, Barry Johnson, and Shawn Levy.

The publication of the Hawthorne Fellows

New prose by:

Paul Rogers, Kristen Forbes, Jim Newman, and Chip Kosboth

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Applications to the next clas of Hawthorne Fellows are due March 25, 2013