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Clackamas student Dean Wright in the Cougie mascot costume and Diana Muresan, the ASG President, connect with
a WOU student on the stairs o f the Capitol building after the rally.
According to the Oregon
Student Association, students are
asking for $510 million for com
munity colleges, $850 for uni
versities and $15 million for the
Oregon Opportunity Grant. The
OOG is the state’s only source of
need-based financial aid. Many
students also have loan debt add
ing up, such as Travis Van Hom,
a political student at Western
Oregon University.
“The main purpose for today
was to get more funding for the
Oregon Opportunity Grant for stu
dents. Also spread awareness that
the fact that every single person
that is here has over $10,000 in
debt,” said Van Hom.
He predicts he will be $25,000
in debt by the time is he done.
Another WOU student, sopho
more Diego Navarro, suspects he
will be in debt $40 thousand by
the time he is done with college.
“We are just letting our repre
sentatives know that we see our
tuitions going up and that is some
W riters of the Future:
Clackam as author w ins aw ard
Brittany Horne
News Editor
Student and newly appointed
author Marilyli Guttridge recent
ly won the Writers of the Future
annual contest. Her short story,
“The Ghost Wife of Arlington,”
was illustrated by an artist from
and then published with other
works. Three writers and three
illustrators are chosen each quar
ter of the year, with cash prizes
from $500 to $1,000. The annu
al grand prize award is $5,000
per group. Guttridge currently
lives in Estacada and attends
Clackamas for her associate’s
degree. She agreed to answer
some questions about her writing
contest winning experience:
The Clackamas Print: Marilyn,
can you explain how the contest
works?
Marilyn Guttridge: So, in the
writing portion of the contest,
we submit a short story. There’s
four quarters and they pick three
stories each quarter so there’s
twelve overall. And there’s an
illustrative portion of the contest
as well and they submit some of
their artwork I think, I don’t know
exactly how it works because I
haven’t done it but the winning
illustrators get paired with one of
the writers and they’ll do illustra
tions for the winning story that
the writer submitted.
TCP: Did you hear about the
contest on campus?
MG: I had heard about it at my
high school that I went to. There
was a flyer for it in this drawer
o f scholarship applications that
ii
So my first draft is
usually page
vomit and then my
second draft is
much better. ”
Marilyn Guttridge
Author, award winner
we had. And I didn’t really know
what I was getting into when I
sent my short story to them.
TCP: How was the awards pre
sentation?
MG: Generally there’s some
music, that’s how they’ll open,
with like a song. And then they’ll
have some guest speakers who
are like, they had a guy from
NASA this year. It was a science
fiction and a fantasy contest but
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sci-fi. And then after that they
start going in to the awards for
the writers and the illustrators.
And I was up first, which was
a little terrifying. And we go up
and we get our trophy, give a
little speech, you know, try to
keep it short and sweet. And then
you leave the stage, so it wasn’t
too bad. Other than the fact that,
you know, public speaking is ter
rifying.
TCP: Is it something that you
want to keep doing? Pursue
writing in this genre or another
genre?
MG: I would, yeah. I’ve always
kind of known that I wanted to
do writing but this kind of gave
me that push that I can actually
do it.
TCP: Do you get a publisher
now or have people been calling
you because they want you to
write for them?
MG: Not really, I mean because
this is my first publication, but
this will be kind of like a good
thing to mention in like a pitch
letter if I go to sell future short
stories. But it’s kind of a start
ing point, I don’t really have a
publisher because I don’t have a
reputation yet because I’m a new
name as a writer.
TCP: How do you write? Do you
have a specific routine that you
do? Turn on music, on the week
ends, do you set time every day?
MG: I kind of write whenever
I have free time. I don’t really
have a schedule. Yeah, generally
I’m listening to music as back
ground noise. I don’t really do a
lot of plotting beforehand. Like
I’ll have a starting point and end
point but I won’t plan a whole lot
in between that. So my first draft
is usually page-vomit and then
my second draft is much better.
TCP: Did you get some experi
ence with an editor and someone
wanting changes? Did they go
through that process or do they
publish as is?
thing that we are against. It is
showing them that we are pushing
them to make changes and they
see us advocating for what we
need, so that’s good,” Navarro
said.
“Not that long ago, the state
paid for two thirds of our tuition
now that’s flipped and we pay the
two thirds, that’s on our backs. I
think the main accomplishment
was to show students that infor
mation and also show legislators
that was their doing and it is their
responsibility to reverse that once
again,” said Van Hom.
After the main rally, Muresan
lobbied for a public service reform;
Schools Not Prisons, a reform
that is trying to change how non
violent crimes are sentenced to
lower the cost of The Oregon
Department of Corrections and be
invested into higher education.
“We were talking about how
it’s a self fulfilling prophecy:
about how you put more money
into the jails they will fill the beds.
So they should be giving us more
money,” Muresan said.
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MG: They did a little bit. When
my story took second place they
sent me back a PDF with some
suggested things to change and
they were all improvements.
TCP: Were you happy with the
feedback?
MG: Mhmm. Yeah, it was defi
nitely good feedback.
TCP: Do you feel like maybe
your writing skills and your skills
in publishing have been built on
since all this?
MG: Yeah definitely, especial
ly with the workshop that we
went through in talking about
technique and various things in
establishing setting. I remember
that because setting’s kind o f my
weak point sometimes.
TCP: What is your story about?
MG: Okay well my story is set
in a city that is ruled by death,
essentially. My protagonist is a
woman who serves as sort of an
ambassador between the world
of the living and the world of
the dead. And she has an intense
relationship with death himself,
but it sort of this - neither of them
can forget that someday she’ll
die too, because she’s mortal.
TCP: Do you do other genres of
writing or do you kind of stick to
sci-fi writing?
MG: Well its sci-fi fantasy. I
tend to be more in the fantasy
realm and various sub genres of
that. But I have done a few other
things. But mostly fantasy.
TCP: What are you majoring in
here at CCC?
M G: I’m kind of just mov
ing towards a transfer degree,
an Associative o f Arts trans
fer degree, but I ’m thinking of
moving on to OSU and studying
forestry after that.
TCP: So have you taken classes
that have contributed towards
your writing interest?
MG: A little bit, not as much
because I’m in Writing 121 right
now.
TCP: You’ve had a piece of your
writing published already, and
you’re in Writing 121 right now,
so thats kind of impressive.
MG: Yeah, placement testing
had me in Writing 95 and that
was not a good match up at all
because three weeks in I realized
I really didn’t want to be there.
TCP: Do you have anything else
you’d like to say about this?
MG: It was a really great expe
rience. I got to meet lots of
great authors who were all very
encouraging and gave great
insights.
TCP: Do you have friends and
family who have been excited
through this with you, who are
supportive?
MG: Oh yeah, my family is
rather large and they’ve been all
very excited for me.
Marilyn Guttridge’s accom
plishment is a reminder that
CCC students can make a dif
ference and find success. There
are opportunities like this out
there for anyone. All you have
to do is put in a little effort and
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