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Keynote: Casey Parks, award-winning journalist and author of Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery, opens the conference at 10:00am.

Location: Most workshops will be held in-person in the Roger Rook building on the Clackamas Community College Oregon City campus. The keynote address and select workshops will be available to attend virtually via Zoom.

Address: 19600 Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, OR 97045, United States

Workshops: After the keynote address, participants can choose between five morning sessions and five afternoon sessions covering topics including poetry, mystery fiction, science fiction, graphic novels, playwriting, and composition.

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Saturday, May 18 • 11:00am - 12:15pm
VIRTUAL: How Description Builds Story

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What does descriptive writing do? There’s an idea that description is "only" for painting a picture in the reader’s mind. But what does that picture look like? What is its atmosphere and mood? In this workshop, We will look at examples of atmospheric, descriptive writing and identify the ways that description can be a propulsive force in a story, carrying many messages about the text. This talk will celebrate descriptive writing, and show how our choices can drive plot in a work of fiction far more than the simple mechanics of "He said this; they did that."
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Lydia Kiesling

Editor, The Millions
Lydia Kiesling is a novelist and culture writer. Her first novel, The Golden State, was a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree and a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her second novel, Mobility, a national bestseller, was named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, Time, and NPR, among others, and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her essays and nonfiction have been published in outlets including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker online, and The Cut... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2024 11:00am - 12:15pm PDT
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