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ONE PAGE Wednesday: December
December 4, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeWriters, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh work. Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented Portland writers.Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired!
November’s One Page Wednesday is hosted by Emilly Prado. December’s featured readers are Jewels and Ramiza Koya.
The reading begins at 7:00. Doors open around 6:30 p.m.
Potential readers can sign up to read and after the list is full, they can add their name to the fishbowl and Emilly will draw as many additional names to read as we have time for before 8:30 p.m.
One Page = one page, one side, typed double-spaced, 12 point font ( a standard manuscript page).
Emilly Prado is a writer, award-winning journalist, and consultant living in Portland, Oregon. Her work appears in more than two dozen publications, including Marie Claire, NPR, Eater, the Oregonian, Bitch Media and more. She is the author of youth nonfiction title, Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019). When not writing, she makes zines, travels as much as possible, and DJs as Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. See more work at www.emillyprado.com or via social media @emillygprado
Jewels uses “she/her” pronouns and has called the Pacific Northwest home since 2005, following a long soul search and a short 3-day bus ride from Atlanta, Georgia. Born in New York, she grew up thinking she could save the world through Social Work, then decided the world was better saved through food, music and words. She wants to tell the stories of those who have been silenced or shut out from dominant or popular culture. Jewels has read her work at Unchaste, Booklover’s Burlesque, Loop, and other events in the Portland metro, and is looking forward to publishing her work-in-progress, and getting those other stories out of her head.
Ramiza Koya has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Columbia Review, Lumina, Washington Square Review, and Mutha Magazine. She has been a fellow at both MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Her father was born in Fiji, her mother in Texas, and she was born in California. She currently works as Director of Youth Programs at Literary Arts.