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Submission Deadline: Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Studio | Sep 26 – Dec 19

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland

The Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Studio is based on the idea that inspiration, accountability, and community are essential to every writer’s growth. The CNF Studio meets weekly for multi-month sessions, and its curriculum is designed to help you deepen your writing through a keener understanding of both literary craft and your own voice. The CNF Studio is open to applications from all writers, and members often return for multiple sessions. This creates the Studio’s special experience: a consistent, deep, and supportive study of your writing in the company of other writers. Each weekly session includes a close-reading and discussion of a selected work of creative nonfiction, a roundtable reading of take-home prompts, and in-depth critique of several works-in-progress. Over the course of their time in the CNF Studio,…

$582 – $604

Portland — Weird. Wonderful. Bizarre.

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

Many of the images in Donald R. Nelson’s Portland – Weird. Wonderful. Bizarre.: The Changing City (Don Nelson) illustrate the weirdness of both Portland’s past and present. Over the years, progress and ingenuity have brought about transformations in Portland. Some good, others that make one wonder, What were they thinking? Nelson’s new book is for those who want to learn and discover the Rose City as it was and what it has become – in a weird, wonderful, and bizarre way.

Free

Randall Munroe

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

How To (Riverhead) is the world’s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from Randall Munroe, the brilliant mind behind xkcd, the wildly popular webcomic. For any task you might want to do, there’s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach, full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. As he did in What If?, the bestselling author and cartoonist invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible.

Free