Willamette Writers

09/04/2026

Welcome back, writers! Whether you're looking for connections, accountability, or ways to grow in your writing craft or career, we invite you to check out our calendar and jump right in!

09/04/2026

Write-ins are back! Join us online from 9-11AM and see what other writers are working on this September. We'll do two forty-five minute writing sprints with fifteen minute breaks for snacks, coffee top-ups, and chatting! Find the link in the calendar in the bio.

09/03/2026

We love hearing what writers in our community are working on! Aronne Barnes shared, "I am working on a series of short (less than 600 ish) word narratives of historical fiction based on people that I’ve researched who were buried in Lone Fir Cemetery around 1880."

09/03/2026

“I don’t think most people walk into a bookstore looking for specific publishers...They do look for authors," says Jane Friedman (.friedman) on the role of publishers.

Photo credit: Pearl Griffin

09/03/2026

Welcome back! It's a brand new programming year here at Willamette Writers, and we can't wait to write with you. What have you been working on this summer?

09/03/2026

Michael Fowles hopes that readers of his piece "View from the Pub," "might revel in the brooding sensation of life in the shadow of brooding Scottish mountains." Order your copy of the new Timberline Review to check it out:

The Timberline Review is an educational program run by Willamette Writers, designed to help writers learn about the publishing process firsthand. Writers and volunteers participate in every stage of production, from reviewing submissions and editing stories to formatting work and supporting sales a...

09/03/2026

Feeling energized by the summer sun and ready to carry that into your fall writing? Finally finding time for writing after a busy summer? Either way, you've found The Write Place! Join us online at noon for a productivity and goal setting session and let's make a game plan for September! Link in the calendar in the bio.

09/02/2026

Open mic nights are for screenwriters too! Have you got a new script you'd like to share with our screenwriting community? We'd love to hear it! Join us online next Wednesday to share and to hear what other screenwriters are writing!

09/02/2026

"No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over."-- poet and journalist Eugene Field, born September 2, 1850.

Have you ever read a book and then found your feelings about it changed with some distance from the experience of first reading it?

09/02/2026

“Stop waiting for someone to sign off on the story that you’ve made. You can become the expert in the thing that you’ve made. When you walk into a room, you have to hold yourself with that level of sovereignty.” --Brian W. Parker

Pictured left to right: Suzy Vitello (Suzy Vitello Books), Eric Witchey, and Brian W. Parker (Brian W. Parker). Photo credit: Max Cyphers