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Compose Creative Writing Conference 2019

Clackamas Community College 19600 Molalla Ave, Oregon City

Clackamas Community College’s annual creative writing conference – Compose – features a full day of workshops from local authors and publishers. This year, we are offering workshops in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, and more!! Schedule for the Day: 8:45am-9:15am / Registration 9:30am-10:30am / Welcome Address 10:45am-12:15pm / Workshops 12:30pm-1:30pm / Lunch 1:45pm-3:15pm / Workshops 3:30pm-5:00pm / Workshops Our Creatives confirmed so far (with more to be added soon): Kate Gray Kate Ristau Tabitha Blankenbiller Stephanie Lenox Dennis Stovall Brett Warnock Trista Cornelius & Robin Vada Melissa Duclos Apricot Irving Courtenay Hameister Jessica Wadleigh Wendy Willis

$25

Intro to Screenprinting

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

Join us to learn about silkscreen printing! Learn how to create stencils, prep and process screens while gaining knowledge about tools, tips, and tricks for the photo emulsion process. You’ll have the chance to acquire best practices for setting up your print station, printing and registration while gaining practice with the medium. Our studio area uses only water-based silkscreen inks and is a primarily a non-toxic studio environment. *Screen printing is also called silkscreen or serigraphy *Completion of this course grants Studio Members access to the Screen Printing studio to print during open studio hours. Non-members and Basic Members receive one trial month of Studio Membership after the completion of the workshop. Purchasing a personal screen is not required Screen Printing Resources:  RC SCREEN SHOP &…

$125 – $225

Diary Comics with Liz Yerby

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland

In this two hour workshop attendants will make a four panel diary comic of their own, which will be assembled into a zine distributed to each attendee after the event! We’ll start off by looking at a wide variety of diary comics and then talk the basics of how to construct an effective comic. Then we will help each other explore mediums and ideas to create their own four panel masterpiece. At the end of the class we will scan our pieces, and a zine with the classes participants will be sent out a few days after the class is done! hopefully you’ll leave inspired and try your hand at creating daily diary comics for weeks or months a time. They’re like cool hand drawn…

$25