Mountain Writers Series

06/29/2025

Mountain Writers workshop coming up!

04/24/2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

While we’re still basking in the joyful success of “The Grace of Oregon Rain,” Shakespeare’s birthday seems the right time to begin to gather poems by Oregon authors for a new anthology, “Just Imagine: Oregon Horizons” (Turnstone Books of Oregon, LLC).

Our state landscape is gloriously diverse, and who we are as Oregonians who “landed here” grounded in a long-vision, of the vast Pacific, of the Eden at the end of the Oregon Trail, of volcanic peaks, of high desert open spaces, of rollicking streams and misty waterfalls. How does this landscape shape us? What visions do you have of our geography and its significance to our past, present, future? How do we live with such horizons?

How do our horizons call to us, speak to us, as “land of the golden west” and “land of the setting sun”? How do they help us make meaning?

Poems in all forms are welcome, but no longer than two facing pages in a 7 x 10 volume (about 72 lines), unless knock-your-socks-off-spectacular. We could decide that together. The volume is open to original illustrations that can be effectively reproduced in black and white. These should be more than 300 dpi.

I am also soliciting submissions for an appropriate cover design.

Please submit up to 3 poems and 2 illustrations in an email attachment to [email protected], subject line HORIZONS. At this same time, go ahead and include a short biographical statement for the back pages of the volume.

Let’s make a deadline of June 18, 2025, my birthday (easy to remember), and we can aim for a fall publication and some public readings, which are the best part.

Feel free to distribute this call to other poets.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again,

Alexandra (Sandy) Mason
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Sandra K. Mason, Ph.D.

http://alexandramasonbooks.com

http://sites.google.com/view/sandramason

I was born and raised in Salem, Oregon, and became a Shakespearean and professor of English and writing at Eastern Oregon University, where I also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and where I was recipient of the Woman of Vision and Courage Award. Prior to this I was a

01/07/2025

09/22/2024

This coming Sunday !!! September 22nd !!!
The marvelous John Brehm will launch a new anthology
at the flagship Powell's on Burnside, starting at 3 pm.
Please join us there !!!

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07/31/2024

Be Broken to Be Whole: New and Selected Poems
by Tom Crawford
Empty Bowl Press

Book Launch
Saturday, August 3
6:00 pm / doors open at 5:30 pm
please note early start time!

Passages Bookshop
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665

Free admission; no late entry

“Tom Crawford is a poet who has labored long in the vineyard, yet remained somehow a well-kept secret within American poetry. Thankfully, his gifts of audacity, of acute detail, natural astonishment and of enacted wonder save his place for a ‘now’ in our current attentions.” — Tess Gallagher, author of Is, Is Not

“Tom Crawford’s translucent poetry shimmers with gratitude for life that only someone who has come through deep sorrow can feel, and approaches the uncanny wisdom of the twice-born. He is one of my favorite poets.” — Edward Field, author of After the Fall: Poems Old and New

“Tom’s is a poetry that arms the right to exist, and the existence, and the beauty of the existence, of things too essential and simple to sell.” — David James Duncan, author of the novels The River Why, The Brothers K, and Sun House

Tom Crawford was a birder, a contemplative, an activist, and an enthusiast whose writing—infused with Eastern thought and a sense of mysticism—explores the natural world and our complex connection to it. His previous collections of poems include "Lauds," which won the Oregon Book Award, "The Temple on Monday," recipient of the Foreword Book of the Year, and "The Names of Birds," star-reviewed on BookList. He received the Pushcart Prize, the Hazel Hall Award for Poetry, Hubbub awards, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He lectured and taught at colleges and universities throughout the western United States, for a year in the People’s Republic of China, and for six years at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea. He died in May 2018 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

$20.00 ISBN 979-8-98837-017-8. Order now

02/04/2020

Workshops & Events - Winter & Spring 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/f4b73ae7cb80/judith-barrington-xochitl-julisa-bermejo-reading-1884393

03/27/2019

AWP 2019 - Mountain Writers Series Tributes & Panels -

Thursday, March 28, 11 AM - 10 PM, Tributes & Readings at Hotel Rose, 50 SW Morrison, Portland, in conjunction with AWP 2019

11/28/2018

It's Giving Tuesday - Please Show Your Support -

In March 2019, Mountain Writers Series will host an off-site event, free and open to the public, during the annual AWP Conference in Portland Oregon. This event will celebrate 45 years of programming and serving the literary community in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

09/21/2018

Fall 2018 Workshops & Events -

Fiction & Poetry Workshops. Plus Music & Poetry in Cannon Beach to celebrate a new book of poems by Clemens Starck.