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■LITERARY ARTS
Local freelance writers recognized
by Max E. Beninga
3 $.6
Five Eugene area free-lance writers
have been selected as finalists by the
Pacific Northwest Writers conference.
“This conference,” said Gaines
Smith, local writing teacher, free
lance writer and seminar conductor,
“is one of the largest in the nation.
This year editors from Harper and
Row, The Ladies Home Journal, Avon
Books and Seventeen, among others,
will be at the conference.
“This gathering of writers from all
over the northwest and Canada for
workshops, seminars, and to listen to
speakers from prestigious magazines
provides an opportunity to meet
editors, authors and other writers,” he
further explained.
A unique aspect of the conference
is the writers competition. This year
over 850 writers submitted material
for adjudication. “A number of final
ists are selected in the categories of
adult short story, nonfiction book,
juvenile short story, juvenile book and
poetry,” Smith explained.
Of the 14 writers from Oregon, the
only local writers slated for recogni
tion are all members of Smith’s
writing seminar. Lisa Cohn, Milt
Cunningham, Maureen Jeske, Bever
ly Thomas and Smith could win in
dividual prizes of $100, $150 or $250,
should the judges choose their work
as the best in a category.
“The fact that five people from the
same seminar group were selected for •
the finals has caught the attention of
the conference organizers,” Smith
said. “They have invited us to bring
up our book, Popular Fiction by
Oregon Authors. This is a book I
edited and in which Cunningham and
Jeske and I have stories. They nor
mally don’t allow writers to display
their material, except for the paid
writers or editors who come to the
conference as presenters,” Smith
explained.
“The conference is great and real
ly motivating for people just starting
out,” said Maureen Jeske. “You can
ask editors and other writers questions
and have the chance to mix and
mingle with them. These are the peo
ple you aspire to be peers with some
day and they are right there. I went
last year and it was really helpful to
me and I had planned on going back
this year. Now that I am a finalist in
the humor category, I can hardly wait
until I get there and see the postings
and see if I am a prize winner,” Jeske
stated.
1 normally cuVuidsC APIS
writers to take my beginning and then
intermediate writing classes given
through Lane Community College,”
Smith said. “Then about 10 years ago
some of the students encouraged me
to start having seminars in my home.
These seminars have become support
groups for those of us who love
writing and want mutual help and
support. Currently about 45 of us
meet each Monday or Wednesday
evening at the Atrium Building in
downtown Eugene,” Smith stated.
“I am not interested in whether the
writing is good or not,” said Smith,
“for eventually it gets better. I am in
terested in breaking through the iner
tia that so many writers face and to
help them get started and to mail off
their pieces. Most of the seminar
members write as an avocation and
Gaines Smith.
for five of us to get recognition by the
Northwest Writers Conference is real
ly inspiring,” he stated.
Smith has published about 100
short stories and articles in mostly
local or regional magazines as well as
a few pieces in national magazines
like Small World and Advertising Age.
Currently he is working on a novel
and only has time for an occasional
magazine item.
Information about the conference or
writing classes can be obtained by
calling Smith at 683-2125. Enrollment
in the LCC classes is done through
the usual college enrollment proce
dures.
Announcing the
1987 Lane Literary Awards
Lane Literary Awards, sponsored by
ild. Lane Regional Arts Council and
The First Annual
Lane Literary Guild, Lane Regional Arts Council and
What's Happening, is now accepting previously unpub
lished short fiction and poetry from writers residing in
Lane County.
Works by selected writers will be included in Pacifica, a
special literary supplement, to be published in the
September 17 issue of What's Happening.
The two award winners in each category will be invited
to read as part of Lane Literary Guild's Eugene Celebra
tion Reading, at the Hult Center on September 27.
Each award winner will also receive $50.
Jurors for the Awards will be the featured guest readers
at the Eugene Celebration Reading. They are poet Judy
Grahn and science fiction writer John Varley.
• Writers must reside in Lane County, Oregon.
• Writers may submit either poetry or fiction, but not
both.
• All submissions must be typed: fiction (double-spaced)
not to exceed 1500 words; poetry not to exceed 5
poems or 300 lines.
• Two copies of each work are required, without the
author's name on them.
• One separate cover sheet should list the writer's name,
address, and title of each work submitted.
• Work samples will not be returned.
• A $3 reader's fee for each writer must accompany the
submission. Make checks payable to Lane Literary
Guild.
• Entries should be mailed to: Lane Literary Awards,
Lane Regional Arts Council, 411 High St., Eugene OR
97401.
• Deadline for receipt of entries: 4 pm, July 9, 1987.
• Entrants will be notified by mail of the jurors' decision
by August 15.
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