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Programs designed to feed and nourish the Central Oregon writing community

Upcoming Events

  • Jul 8
    Quiet Writing Time

    9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Meeting Room 2 (Meyer)

    Bring personal work, read a book, or answer emails. Come when you can, leave when you want.

    Free, open network WiFi available.

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

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  • Jul 8
    "Voice: Who's Telling Your Story?" with Meg Fancher

    5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Community Room (Brooks)

    You can attend this program in person or take part online. To take part online, click "Register." 

    Whether a story has a first-person narrator, an invisible one, an attached third, or detached objectivism, everything on the page is mediated through voice. Voice constitutes the idiosyncratic language of a story, which affects how all other techniques appear to us and tells us what kind of story the story it’s telling is going to be. We’ll explore how a distinct voice can construct reader expectations for characterization and the emotional parameters of a story itself.

    Presenter Bio: 

    Meg Fancher is a PhD candidate in English at Georgia State University, where she has taught for four years. She obtained her MFA at Oregon State and her BA at Hollins. Her criticism and archival research has been published by the Digital Library of Georgia45th Parallel, and American Book Review. She is currently writing a crime novel.

    Central Oregon Writers Guild's mission is to provide Central Oregon area writers a forum for mutual support and education through meetings, annual events and workshops. Our goal is to advance growth and success for individual writers of all genres and skill levels. Founded in 2002, the Guild is a non-profit organization, run entirely by volunteers.

    Guild meetings take place on a monthly basis, where we feature guest speakers, panels, member readers and small group interaction, with topics of interest to writers at all skill levels. Meetings are free and open to the public.

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

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  • Jul 12
    Defiant Moments

    3:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Community 2

    LGBTQ+ individuals have historically confronted numerous forms of oppression and discrimination. A recently published anthology, Defiant Moments, celebrates their resilience. During the presentation contributors to the anthology will share excerpts from their transformative stories of self-discovery, acceptance, and defiance. This event will include discussions with the authors and a book signing, fostering dialogue that strengthens community bonds. 

    Our Bold Voices amplifies the voices of underrepresented communities through storytelling and collaboration. By focusing on sharing authentic stories and partnering with different organizations, they are creating a space for diverse perspectives to be heard and valued and ultimately fostering a stronger sense of community.

    Questions? Contact lizg@deschuteslibrary.org  

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  • Jul 13
    Defiant Moments

    11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Community Room (Brooks)

    LGBTQ+ individuals have historically confronted numerous forms of oppression and discrimination. A recently published anthology, Defiant Moments, celebrates their resilience. During the presentation contributors to the anthology will share excerpts from their transformative stories of self-discovery, acceptance, and defiance. This event will include discussions with the authors and a book signing, fostering dialogue that strengthens community bonds.

    Our Bold Voices amplifies the voices of underrepresented communities through storytelling and collaboration. By focusing on sharing authentic stories and partnering with different organizations, they are creating a space for diverse perspectives to be heard and valued and ultimately fostering a stronger sense of community.

    Questions? Contact lizg@deschuteslibrary.org 

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  • Jul 14
    Art Above Everything: Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest

    6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Community Room (Brooks)

    What drives artists to place creativity at the core of their existence? Is it a compulsion, a calling, or a stab at immortality? In her new memoir Art Above Everything, Stephanie Elizondo Griest weaves the sacrifices she has personally made for her books into the narratives of scores of other women she has interviewed around the world, from a classical dancer in India to a playwright in Rwanda. Griest reveals how a cancer diagnosis at age 43 radically shifted her own perspective. Join us for a multi-media presentation about global women artists followed by a frank discussion of the joys and torments of the creative life. 

    About the Author:

    Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from the Texas/Mexico borderlands. Her six books include Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough; All the Agents and Saints; and Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, VQR, The Believer, BBC, Orion, and Oxford American. Her work has been supported by the Lannan Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Princeton University, and the Institute for Arts and Humanities, and she has won a Margolis Award, an International Latino Book Award, a PEN Southwest Book Award, and two Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism prizes. Currently Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Elizondo Griest has performed in capacities ranging from a Moth storyteller to a literary ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Wanderlust has led her to 50 countries and 49 states. Her hardest journey was to Planet Cancer in 2017, but she’s officially in remission now. She recently endowed Testimonios Fronterizos, a research grant for student journalists from the borderlands enrolled at her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism.

    Questions? Contact lizg@deschuteslibrary.org 

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  • Jul 15
    Quiet Writing Time

    9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Meeting Room 2 (Meyer)

    Bring personal work, read a book, or answer emails. Come when you can, leave when you want.

    Free, open network WiFi available.

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

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  • Jul 17
    Third Thursday Spoken Word Night

    6:00 PM – 8:00 PM |

    Step up to the mic for a spoken word night the third Thursday of the month. All writers and readers and word-lovers invited to attend and read.

    Readers are invited to arrive early to sign up. Readers have seven minutes at the mic.

    Food and drink are available for purchase at The Wayfarer Club

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

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  • Jul 22
    Quiet Writing Time

    9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Meeting Room 2 (Meyer)

    Bring personal work, read a book, or answer emails. Come when you can, leave when you want.

    Free, open network WiFi available.

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

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  • Jul 29
    Quiet Writing Time

    9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Meeting Room 2 (Meyer)

    Bring personal work, read a book, or answer emails. Come when you can, leave when you want.

    Free, open network WiFi available.

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

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  • Aug 5
    Quiet Writing Time

    9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Meeting Room 2 (Meyer)

    Bring personal work, read a book, or answer emails. Come when you can, leave when you want.

    Free, open network WiFi available.

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

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  • Aug 6
    Author Karen Spears Zacharias

    6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Community 2

    Part travel journal, part memoir, part story about a friendship, The Devil's Pulpit is a collection that seamlessly weaves together prose and poetry. Rooted by a mutual longing for information about family history, poet E.J. Wade and prose writer Karen Spears Zacharias traveled together, on the heels of a global pandemic, to study abroad in Scotland. 

    These two Appalachian women, one black, one white, abandoned hearth, home, and spouses, shrugging in dubious wonderment to live and study abroad together in a university flat along Scotland's River Ayr. Poet E.J. Wade and author Karen Spears Zacharias roamed from the depths of Finnich Glen to the outcroppings of Dunure Castle. Sometimes wishing they'd been raised by Buddhist Monks instead of by chain-smoking Appalachian mothers, these two University of the West of Scotland grad students embraced the wandering spirits of their matriarchal ancestors and left no ScotRail ticket unused. In Glasgow's Sloans Ballroom they danced a cèilidh. Hiking past windsurfers and golfers, they went in search of fairies and unearthed magical moments. They snuzzled Highland coos in Stranraer and stood gap-mouthed before the Falkirk Kelpies. Somewhere along Scotland's northernmost tip to its southernmost brigs, they forged a friendship that defies generations of racial animosity.

    Books will be available for sale.

    Questions? Contact lizg@deschuteslibrary.org 

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  • Aug 12
    Quiet Writing Time

    9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Meeting Room 2 (Meyer)

    Bring personal work, read a book, or answer emails. Come when you can, leave when you want.

    Free, open network WiFi available.

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

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  • Aug 12
    "Finish That Draft" with Grace Bialecki

    5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Community Room (Brooks)

    You can attend this program in person or take part online. To take part online, click "Register." 

    This course is designed for writers of all genres who are great at starting projects and…less great at finishing them. By working with a combination of prompts and writing activities, we’ll explore different avenues of getting a piece to completion. Attendees are invited to bring a work-in-progress and will leave with a clear writing plan to finish that draft.

    Presenter Bio: 

    Grace Bialecki is a writer, workshop facilitator, and meditation teacher who helps people be present in their lives and with their art. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Millions, Catapult and Epiphany Magazine. Grace is the co-founder of the storytelling series, Thirst, and the author of the novel, Purple Gold.

    Central Oregon Writers Guild's mission is to provide Central Oregon area writers a forum for mutual support and education through meetings, annual events and workshops. Our goal is to advance growth and success for individual writers of all genres and skill levels. Founded in 2002, the Guild is a non-profit organization, run entirely by volunteers.

    Guild meetings take place on a monthly basis, where we feature guest speakers, panels, member readers and small group interaction, with topics of interest to writers at all skill levels. Meetings are free and open to the public.

    Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us

     Add to Calendar  |   Find Downtown Bend Library

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