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Willamette Writers 40th Annual Conference: Kay Snow Awards

Willamette Writers is one of the largest organizations on the west coast, with widespread opportunities for beginning and advanced writers to progress and improve on their writing skills in a variety critique groups, workshops, seminars, newsletters, and conferences. So as the 40th Annual Willamette Writers Conference approached, I had many reservations about attending my first… Continue reading Willamette Writers 40th Annual Conference: Kay Snow Awards

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Rejection

As always, amber light spilled through the cracked door and I slid inside his office, stealth as a feline, gun heavy and hard in my hands.“Janet,” he said, looking up from a mound of manuscripts I knew would be in the trash by morning, along with an empty box of Chinese food, and all the… Continue reading Rejection