memoir your September

September is Whatcom Memoir Writing Month (WhaMemWriMo) and for the fourth year, Chuckanut Writers and Village Books will offer a series of four memoir workshops. The goal for each writer is 1,666 words a day — 50,000 words (a book’s worth) for the month.

The workshops, taught on successive Thursdays by Cami Ostman, Laura Kalpakian, Nancy Canyon, and Jennifer Wilhoit, can be taken individually or as a series ($25 each or all four for $89). See the full description and registration links on the Village Books WhaMemWriMo page.

last minute in Bellingham

Prize-winning author of sixteen novels, Laura Kalpakian will be the guest speaker for the Whatcom Writers and Publishers May dinner meeting, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Her topic: How to give a reading. The event, at Nicki’s Bella Marina, is free, but seating is limited and RSVPs are required. Find details on the WWP website.

If you can’t make it, you can see what Billy Collins has to say about “How to Read a Poem Out Loud” on the Library of Congress website.

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