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Saturday, August 8
 

8:00am PDT

Wakeup Willamette!
Before the day's workshops gear up, come to the Big Room, grab a cup of joe, and mingle. "Wakeup" is our own morning-show, complete with news (well, housekeeping announcements), weather (not really) and some light entertainment to start your day with a spring in your step. Wakeup, Willamette! 

Moderators
avatar for Stefan Feuerherdt

Stefan Feuerherdt

Conference Chair, Willamette Writers Conference
Stefan Feuerherdt has been the Conference Chair since 2009.  He's a freelance commercial writer, screenwriter, and an attorney whose practice focuses on working with writers, filmmakers, and other creative professionals to bring their art to the marketplace. Acting and photography... Read More →

Saturday August 8, 2015 8:00am - 8:25am PDT
Lloyd Ballroom

7:00pm PDT

Conference "Write-In"
Looking to get some writing done?  Drop in for an informal writing session with your conference mates.  Work out trouble spots with other writers or our facilitators on hand, or just bask in the collective creativity, and pound out that next chapter/scene.  

Moderators
avatar for Gigi Rosenberg

Gigi Rosenberg

author and artist coach. Her writing has been published by Seal Press, Poets & Writers, Parenting and Writer’s Digest. She's performed her monologues at On the Boards in Seattle, been a guest commentator on Oregon Public Radio and wrote The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing (Watson-Guptill... Read More →

Saturday August 8, 2015 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Ross Island/Morrison

9:00pm PDT

Open Mic Nite
Up for some late-night fun?  Bring your original slam poetry, song, flash-fiction story, or comedy routine (and your friends to cheer you on) to our first-ever Open Mic Nite!  Cash prizes (and bragging rights) to the winners- but this event is all in the spirit of fun!  Don't like microphones?  No worries!  "Rent-a-Voice" actor talent will be available to step in and do it for you!  

Moderators
avatar for Debby Dodds

Debby Dodds

Author, journalist, actor and comedienne Debby Dodds received her BFA from NYU in Drama and her MFA from Antioch University in Creative Writing. Debby has a story in the NY Times best-selling anthology, My Little Red Book published by Twelve Press in 2009. She’s been published in... Read More →

Saturday August 8, 2015 9:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Multnomah Grille
 
Sunday, August 9
 

8:00am PDT

Wakeup, Willamette!
Start your day with some caffeine, information and entertainment. Willamette WakeUp offers the
morning conference news and announcements followed by short entertaining speaker
presentations. Learn a little — just enough to wake up that sleepy brain.

Moderators
avatar for Stefan Feuerherdt

Stefan Feuerherdt

Conference Chair, Willamette Writers Conference
Stefan Feuerherdt has been the Conference Chair since 2009.  He's a freelance commercial writer, screenwriter, and an attorney whose practice focuses on working with writers, filmmakers, and other creative professionals to bring their art to the marketplace. Acting and photography... Read More →

Faculty
avatar for Matthew Bernstein

Matthew Bernstein

Matthew Bernstein is a writer, musician, a staff writer to the Oregon Music News- and a 2015 high school graduate.  


Sunday August 9, 2015 8:00am - 8:25am PDT
Lloyd Ballroom

1:30pm PDT

Editors' First Page "Gong Show"

Do you wonder what goes through editors' minds as they read new material? 
Do you ponder how to avoid being tossed into the dreaded "slush pile"?  

Meet out our newest experiment:   In the vein of TV's classic "Gong Show," this fun
game-show-styled session turns YOU into a competitor and puts your opening page
to the test!

Be prepared with 5 printed copies of your project's first page. 

Our moderator will dramatically read your anonymous masterpiece aloud to our panel
of publishing editors.  When our panelists are no longer riveted, they
will indicate (LOUDLY) that their interest has begun to wane.  

After each entry is presented, our panel will offer their experienced insights for the benefit of everyone in attendance – all in good fun, of course.  

Prizes for best “First Pages” and entertainment and learning for all!  


Moderators
avatar for Orion Bradshaw

Orion Bradshaw

Actor, Educator
Orion is an actor and educator originally from from Ashland, Oregon.  An accomplished stage actor, he spent three seasons as a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and has starred with Portland's Artists' Reperatory Theater, Milagro, as well as Post5 Theatre, which he co-founded... Read More →

Buyers
avatar for Emily Murdock Baker

Emily Murdock Baker

Emily Murdock Baker is an Associate Editor at Penguin Books, where she edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction, and produces enhanced e-books. She also coordinates media tie-ins for Penguin. Her past titles include Paul French’s New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award-winner... Read More →
avatar for Claire Gerus

Claire Gerus

Owner, Claire Gerus Literary Agency
Claire Gerus has been Editor-in-Chief of two publishing houses, worked for seven major publishers, including Harlequin, Rodale, Random House, Doubleday, John Wiley, Kensington, and Adams Media, written articles for U.S. and Canadian magazines and newspapers, and taught corporate communications... Read More →
avatar for Kaitlin Ketchum

Kaitlin Ketchum

Kaitlin Ketchum is an editor at Ten Speed Press, part of the Crown Publishing Group that’s based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She primarily acquires and edits on art-driven gift/pop culture books such as Ella Frances Sanders’s New York Times-bestselling "Lost in Translation... Read More →
avatar for Lucia Macro

Lucia Macro

Vice-President, Executive Editor for William Morrow/Avon Books
Lucia Macro is a Vice-President, Executive Editor for William Morrow/Avon Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers. She made her mark editing the best in romantic fiction as well as smart, commercial women’s fiction. Recently, she has also edited including the New York Times... Read More →
avatar for Peter Senftleben

Peter Senftleben

Peter Senftleben is an associate editor at Kensington Books, where he is building his own varied and distinguished list.  He joined Kensington in 2006 after sharpening his editorial skills and red pencil while working at literary agencies.  A graduate of Tulane University with a... Read More →


Sunday August 9, 2015 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Mount Hood
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3:00pm PDT

Keynote Sendoff - Letting Go to Write Your Story
We reconvene in The Big Room for one last toast, and closing remarks.  

Faculty
avatar for Sheila Hamilton

Sheila Hamilton

Five-time Emmy-winner Sheila Hamilton began her career in documentary film before producing and reporting two-decades of television investigative news for such television stations as Portland’s KATU and Salt Lake City’s KTVX. She has been a weekly political columnist for the Portland... Read More →


Sunday August 9, 2015 3:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Lloyd Ballroom
 
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