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Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival to relaunch A one-day celebration at the Portland Art Museum on Saturday, November 7, 2015
2014/2015 Literary Arts snapshot ENGAGE READERS
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The Archive Project broadcasts original author lectures on OPB radio every Wednesday at 9:00 p.m., online at literary-arts.org/ archives, and on iTunes.
By Amanda Bullock, Festival & Events Manager
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Portland is a truly amazing city. I’m new here and still in awe: I arrived at PDX in January to start work relaunching the Wordstock Festival. Wordstock is a beloved event in search of a new life, and Literary Arts is the perfect home for the book festival. Our mission is to support writers, engage readers, and inspire the next generation with great literature. Wordstock is a chance to do all of these things in one day, in one place, creating one grand moment for Portland, for writers, and for readers. Wordstock’s subtitle of “Portland’s Book Festival” i s d e l i b e r a te and significant. Wordstock will celebrate Portland and will be an event that could only happen here, in Portland, in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest. It will be a national stage deeply rooted in this very particular place. Wordstock will bring in authors from across the country and around the world who represent a variety of genres and diverse viewpoints. We will also feature local writers—including cookbook authors and food writers, children’s book authors and illustrators, novelists and
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In addition to Writers in the Schools residencies, we also facilitated college essay mentoring sessions and poetry workshops for Portland’s youth. memoirists—celebrating their new books, leading panel discussions, teaching workshops, and more. We will also feature great food and drink (always important here), including an outdoor (tented! It’s Portland in November!) beer garden accompanied by favorite local food trucks and carts. And, naturally, it wouldn’t be a Portland party without great music: we are delighted to be partnering with OPB to present live music throughout the festival. We have a wonderful venue partner in the Portland Art Museum, which has been enthusiastic and supportive of the book festival from the very beginning. Continued on page 4
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Words from the Director As our state continues to grow and become more prominent on the national stage, the goal of Literary Arts is to help Oregon remain a hospitable place for readers and writers. This is why we presented over 100 free events, offered $15 ticket prices to our events, and raised over $1.3 million to support Oregon’s writers and publishers. This is also why our programming can be heard on the radio and experienced in libraries and classrooms throughout the state.
supporter or a new participant, your involvement helps Literary Arts engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature. With all my best,
This newsletter captures these exciting moments we’ve shared over the past year and also highlights programming we are honored to offer in the upcoming year. Whether you are a longtime
Andrew Proctor, Executive Director andrew@literary-arts.org
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2014/2015 Literary Arts snapshot ENGAGE READERS
40 Writers Hired
115 Free Events
We hired 27 writers through our Writers in the Schools program and 13 writers to teach workshops around Oregon.
Poetry readings, book release parties, experimental writing workshops, and more were held at our community space in downtown Portland.
87 Partners As our programming expands, we are honored to partner with new institutions such as The Nation and local organizations such as the Portland Art Museum.
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17 Writing Workshops This year, we nearly doubled our workshop offerings. These classes take place at our community center in downtown Portland and are taught by local and visiting authors.
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112 College-Bound Students Through our College Essay Mentoring Project, we trained 89 volunteer mentors to assist 112 students with their college and scholarship application essays.
23 Schools Served Through our Writers in the Schools residency program and our Students to the Schnitz initiative, Literary Arts served a record number of schools this year.
Our 2014/2015 Writer in Residence, Ruth Ozeki, poses with Grant High School faculty after visiting six classrooms during her weeklong visit in Portland.
Supporting Literary Arts This year, Literary Arts has experienced tremendous growth in all of our programming. Make a gift today and help us support Oregon’s literary community by: • Bringing the world’s most celebrated writers and thinkers to Oregon. • Supporting, promoting, and celebrating local writers and publishers. • Inspiring public high school students to write, edit, publish, and perform their work.
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Pledge your support at literary-arts.org/donate. If you would like to pledge your support through gifts of securities, bequests, life insurance, IRAs, retirement funds, etc., please contact our Director of Development, Lydah DeBin, at 503-227-2583 x106.
Investing in Oregon’s creative future Literary Arts creates a permanent endowment for the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships Program Over three decades ago, Brian Booth set out to create a support system that would allow Oregonians to participate in the national literary conversation without having to leave the state. In 1984, he helped create the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program to support local writers and publishers. Since its inception, this program has awarded over $750,000 in financial support and recognition to hundreds of authors, including Cheryl Strayed, Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry Lopez, Ken Kesey, Gina Ochsner, and Molly Gloss. To honor Booth’s vision and to celebrate our 30th anniversary, Literary Arts is building a $2 million endowment to provide permanent funding for the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program. Through gifts ranging from a few dollars to $223,000, we have raised over $1.3 million. Every dollar helps Literary Arts continue to offer support for generations of writers to come.
“Having directed an arts nonprofit for almost a decade, I’m keenly aware of the extraordinary effort it takes to raise $2 million to support an initiative like the Brian Booth Writers’ Fund. It’s an impressive achievement—worthy of everyone’s ongoing support— that significantly increases the oxygen flow to Oregon’s writers and the broader literary community.Fellowship funds are a critical lifeline, providing some needed courage and ventilation as I continue mining material for two new book projects. I’m equally grateful to be a 2015 Oregon Book Award winner—yet another of Literary Arts’ generous gifts to our community.” —Justin Hocking, Oregon Book Award winner for The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld and 2015 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient
“As I write this, it’s nearly noon on the Oregon Coast. I’m sitting at a large table set in front of a west-facing window, surrounded by books, notebooks, pencils, poems. For the first time in over two years, I am spending the entire day with my work. Four or five years ago, this wouldn’t have seemed like much. But today, amidst the unanticipated cacophony/chaos that life suddenly becomes when children make their bold entry into our lives, finding the stretch of a day to dedicate to writing is a rare and precious thing.”
Announcing a new Oregon Literary Fellowship! In 2016, Literary Arts will offer a Fellowship for Writers of Color. This new grant is intended to help writers of color in Oregon initiate, develop, or complete a literary project in poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama, or young readers literature.
Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships Application Deadlines: Apply for an Oregon Literary Fellowship by Friday, June 26, 2015. Literary Arts will grant $3,000 each to 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients. Apply for the Oregon Book Awards by August 28, 2015. Books written by Oregon writers with an original publication date between August 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015 are eligible. Full guidelines are available at www.literary-arts.org. For more information, contact Susan Denning at susan@ literary-arts.org.
—Ashley Toliver, 2015 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient
Thanks to the early success of the Brian Booth Writers’ Fund, Literary Arts gave $59,000 in financial support and recognition to award winners and fellowship recipients during the Oregon Book Awards Ceremony on April 13, 2015. 3
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The relaunch of Wordstock will host a variety of exhibitors, including booksellers, publishers, literary magazines, authors, and nonprofit organizations focused on literacy.
Wordstock will be a book festival, celebrating the power of the written word and inspiring readers of all ages. A primary goal of the festival is to create an event that will appeal to all types of readers, from those of us who might read one book a year to those of us who read a book a day. The festival will have something for readers of biography, picture books, debut story collections, comic books, cookbooks, the latest YA dystopia, and more.
Literary Arts is planning to host over 50 authors during the one-day festival.
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Powell’s Books, a supporter of Literary Arts for the past 30 years, will be the lead bookseller throughout the event.
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A book festival should elevate literature, reading, writers, and the written word. A festival is a moment of celebration, where there are many things happening simultaneously—ideally so many amazing moments it will be hard to choose and you’ll wish for Hermione’s time-turner or a clone. You might get a chance to see your cultural heroes, and hopefully you’ll discover new voices. This year’s Wordstock will feature four stages of author interviews, panel discussions, children’s story
time events, and more, plus pop-up events throughout the museum. The book fair will feature a ballroom full of vendors selling books and book-related products or representing literary organizations; you will be able to pick up an exciting chapbook from a local independent poetry press, learn more about creative writing programs at national universities, grab a new tote bag to hold all those books, sign up for a writing class here in Portland, and more.
Filled with historic and contemporary art, the Portland Art Museum offers a beautiful setting to celebrate books and authors.
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Ticket prices at Wordstock will align with the Portland Art Museum’s practice of granting free admission to all who are 17 and younger.
I am so excited for the opportunity to give Portland the festival you want and deserve with the reimagined, reinvigorated, relaunched Wordstock this fall. There’s still a lot of work to do as we approach November, but we have the outstanding support to create a book festival worthy of Portland and everything that makes this city so amazing. n
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Apply to be an exhibitor
Wordstock has always been supported by a strong community of volunteers. Literary Arts welcomes those who have helped in the past and those who are interested in assisting the relaunch to play a role in Wordstock 2015. Please visit literary-arts.org/ wordstock to sign up.
Wordstock offers exhibitors the opportunity to reach thousands of book lovers ready to buy their products or learn about their services. Registration ends on August 1, 2015. Please visit literary-arts.org/wordstock for more information.
Submit your book The 2015 relaunch of Wordstock will feature a diverse group of contemporary authors in conversations, panels, and presentations. If you are interested in submitting your published work, visit literary-arts.org/wordstock to review the submission guidelines.
To get involved, contact us by email at wordstock@literary-arts.org or by phone at 503-227-2583.
Celebrating a decade of Delve Readers Seminars “Delve into literary classics” was the tagline for the Delve Readers Seminar program when it launched in 2005, with Moby-Dick and Remembrance of Things Past as its first two seminars. Now on the heels of its tenth season, seminar topics include contemporary literature, nonfiction, novels, essays, poetry, plays, and more.
Liter Delve engages over 200 readers annually to provide unique access to literature. In the 2014/2015 season, 16 participants were given the chance to meet with Ursula K. Le Guin in a Science Fiction seminar, and during the “Mitchell S. Jackson: The Residue Years” seminar, guide Michael McGregor led a Q&A session with participants and the author over Skype.
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The power of poetry and why we need Verselandia! By Turiya Autry, Author of Roots, Reality & Rhyme
4 Public youth slam poetry workshops and open mics This winter, Literary Arts hosted workshops and open mics led by experienced performance poets. These youth workshops were designed to inspire Portland-area high school students to share their original work at poetry slams and readings. After the grand slam, host Autry posed with the 2015 Verselandia! finalists.
The first time I ever read a poem on stage occurred in the fourth grade, for an all-school assembly. One by one we clambered on stage with cardboard props and crafted costume accessories, sharing our generally brief pieces saturated with our overabundant desire to rhyme using limited vocabulary. We were brilliant and petrified. I followed my interests and that eventually led me to a poetry slam. The first year I competed for a spot on Portland’s Poetry Slam team, I lost; but I didn’t quit. I ended up representing Portland at three National Poetry Slam competitions and even held the title of Portland’s Grand Slam Champion. Through networking in the poetry slam scene, I hosted artists from all over and toured the country as well. Throughout this creative expansion of my own voice, I worked with youth as a teaching artist. Helping young people access spaces and methods for creative expression is life changing and affirming. I do this art and this work because I’ve seen 6
the power of the word and the impact of a young person taking the stage and sharing their ideas, in my own life and in countless others. I’ve also seen the magic that comes from receiving support and affirmation. Seeing students have access to school-wide slams and Verselandia! is a dream realized. This is what comes to my mind when I think about the question, “What is a poetry slam?” It’s more than the format and rules and a concept by a guy in Chicago named Marc Smith; it’s a vehicle to showcase original work. Poetry slam is a format that helps artists fine-tune their craft and hone their skills. No props, no costumes, no musical accompaniment—it’s just the person, their words, the mic, and three minutes. Pure and organic. Whether we score it and have a timekeeper or not, the ancient origins of storytelling insist we continue the art form through a variety of means. And the youth continue to share stories everyone needs to hear. As they carry on a vital tradition, let’s celebrate their talents and let them know that yes, they are worthy of the titles “artist” and “writer,” and their stories matter. n
21 Students performed at the Verselandia! citywide youth slam Individual poetry slams were held at 11 public high schools leading up to the Verselandia! grand slam. Winners from each school competed at the culminating event at the Newmark Theatre on April 20, 2015.
1 Grand champion Gwen Frost of Cleveland High School was crowned winner of the Verselandia! 2015 Grand Slam. She competed against 20 other students in front of a live audience and a panel of judges.
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Poetry in Motion In partnership with TriMet and the Poetry Society of America, Literary
Arts helped bring Poetry in Motion back to Portland. This program aims to make commuting more literary by bringing poems to bus shelters, benches, and buses. This year’s Poetry in Motion lineup features poems from three Writers in the Schools students and nine Oregon Book Award winners.
See one at your stop? Take a photo and tag us using the hashtag #LitArts30 on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
This World Ngoc Le, Madison High School
I believe in the minty toothpaste, the cool splash of water that makes me wake up every morning, yellow leaves, noisy cars, bright paper. I believe in old shoes, school bells, and pencils. Sour fruit, the smell of freshly washed clothes, tiny ants that carry big pieces of cake. Dust, heavy tears, the laughter of a child. The warmth of my mother which makes me realize that this world is not some 2-D image I watch on TV. The bus that missed me, the rushing footsteps, the feeling that the whole world passes me, leaves me without a clue, and makes me wonder if I should join this busy world or stay in my own.
Literary Arts Executive Director Andrew Proctor with the high school students whose poems were selected for the launch of Poetry in Motion in September 2014.
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