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ONE PAGE Wednesday: November
November 6, 2019 @ 6:00 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 Natalie Serber. November’s featured readers are Emilly Prado, Sallie Tisdale and Don Waters.
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 Natalie 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
Sallie Tisdale is the author of nine books, most recently Advice for Future Corpses. Her other books include Talk Dirty to Me, Stepping Westward, and Women of the Way. Her collection of essays, Violation, was published in 2015 by Hawthorne Books. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and Tricycle, among other journals.
Don Waters is the author of the memoir These Boys and Their Fathers, a novel, Sunland, and two short story collections, The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain and Desert Gothic, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. A frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, he’s written for the New York Times Book Review, Outside, and Slate, among other publications. Waters is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at Lewis & Clark College. He lives in Portland, with his partner, the writer Robin Romm, and their daughters.