Local Resources

Literary Arts
A statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of language as a means to express, explore and experience the world in which we live.

Mountain Writers Series
MWS features authors of regional, national, and international reputation in a variety of events including readings, lectures, workshops, and master classes presented in diverse venues and formats throughout the region.

Ooligan Press
Ooligan Press is a small, general trade publishing house that serves as the laboratory for the publishing program in the Master's in Writing at Portland State University.

Oregon Poetry—The National Poetry League

Oregon State Poetry Association

Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA)
An organization dedicated to helping writers in the northwest connect to other writers, publishers, agents, and editors across the country.

Willamette Writers
The largest writers' organization in Oregon and one of the largest writers' organizations in the United States. It is a non-profit, tax-exempt Oregon corporation led by volunteers.

Writers on the Edge, Inc.
The organization is committed to foster not only the artistic development of individual writers, but to cultivate a writing community as well.  Writers on the Edge continues to sponsor the literary arts at the Nye Beach Writers Series.

Useful Links

Bruce Dobler's Creative Nonfiction Compendium (With Reading List and Notes)

Center for Autobiographic Studies
This site includes definitions and examples of types of autobiographical writing.

Forwriters.com
This site includes links to forums, workshops, conventions, and a variety of reference information. 

Lulu
A self-publishing site for writers.

Poets House
Poets House is a literary center and poetry archive—a collection and meeting place that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry.

Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.

The Poynter Institute
The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.

Web del Sol
WDS is a collaboration of volunteer editors, writers, poets, artists, and staff whose goal is to explore, promote, and present various forms of literary and artistic work.

Writing.com
This is an online community for writers and readers of all interests and skill levels.

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