Northwest Voices
Brings successful writers to Lower Columbia College and the Longview Public Library to discuss their craft and read from their work. The public is invited to these free workshops and readings.

Coming Up

Fall 2008

• October 21, 2008
  Sci-Fi Writer Greg Bear
  Writer's Workshop: Where you get ideas, and how to know when one is ready to become a story
  Bear is a Seattle-based award-winning writer of science-fiction and fantasy books, including: City at the End of Time, 2008; Darwin's Radio, 2000; Moving Mars, 1994
  • Time: 2 - 3:30 pm
  • Location: Admissions Center #143
    Followed by a reading at the Longview Public Library beginning at 7 p.m.
• November 12, 2008
  Suzanne Martinson
  Reading from her book The Fallingwater Cookbook due out in October of this year. Suzanne is a former food editor and writer for the Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is a two-time winner of both the James Beard and Bert Greene Awards for food journalism.
  • Time: 7:00 pm
  • Location: Longview Public Library

Winter 2009

• January 27, 2009
  William Stafford Poetry Celebration featured poet Kathleen Flenniken 
  Writer's Workshop: Dear Reader - Writing Letter Poems
  From William Stafford and Marvin Bell to Natasha Trethewey, contemporary poets have turned the familiar touchstones and intimate flavor of the letter into art. We will read a few varieties of epistolary poems, discuss the form's charms and hazards, then try one of our own!
  • Time: 3 - 4:30 pm
  • Location: Admissions Center #143
    Followed by a public reading and open mic at the Longview Public Library beginning at 6:30 pm. Please bring a favorite poem to read. Cake will be served. 
• March 3, 2009
  Portland Fiction Writer Molly Gloss
  here as part of the Cowlitz Reads! Events.
  • Time: 3 - 4:30 pm
  • Location: Admission Center #143
    Followed by a reading at the Longview Public Library beginning at 7:00 pm.