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Manzanita Writers’ Series
offers new online workshop
MANZANITA — Is one of
your New Year’s resolu-
tions to write more? To
write weekly? Looking for
a “surge” to your writing?
Looking to improve the
craft and frequency of your
writing? Join the new online
writing workshop “MWS
Surge,” the newest offering
from HoffOnline.
If you’ve ever wanted to
be part of a regular writing
workshop group but can’t
seem to make time or fit
other people’s schedules into
your own, or would simply
prefer to write at home but
with feedback, here’s your
chance!
Starting Tuesday, Jan. 16,
the Manzanita Writers’ Se-
ries will offer a new online
workshop group.
“MWS Surge: Forward
Momentum for Your Writ-
ing” will include up to eight
writers, and will be led by
authors Jennie Shortridge
and Megan Kruse. Each
author will cover four weeks
of the eight-week sessions.
There will be one break for
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Kids’ poetry contest entries due Jan. 31
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PORT, Wash. — The
Westport Maritime Muse-
um is sponsoring a Kids’
poetry contest with the theme
“Winter on Our Coast.” The
deadline for submissions is
Wednesday, Jan. 31.
Submit a brief poem with
your name, age, address and
email or phone to:
Poetry Contest, Westport
Maritime Museum
PO Box 1074, Westport,
WA, 98595
Or submit your poem to
operations@westportmariti-
memuseum.com.
Nine cash prizes will be
awarded for the first- ($25),
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each category: elementary
school, middle school and
high school.
In addition, all winners
will receive two free guest
passes to the museum or
lighthouse. The winning
poems will be published
in the museum’s newslet-
ter, “The Foghorn.”
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COURTESY MEGAN KRUSE
Author Megan Kruse
the week of Feb. 12.
Every week, the writ-
ing of two students will be
reviewed with both teacher
and students providing
feedback. Each student will
submit two works of writing,
five to 15 double-spaced
pages each, over the eight
weeks.
The key to workshop
groups, especially with a
writing teacher involved, is
that each student learns not
only from the critiques of
their own work, but from the
workshopping of everyone’s
work. In fact, most people
would say that you actually
learn more from workshop-
ping others because it is
easier to see what works and
what doesn’t in a piece of
writing you are not personal-
ly invested in.
Whether you are working
on a novel, short stories,
memoir or essay, this
critique group will support
your writing.
The fee for the eight
weeks is $179 and can be
paid online at hoffmanblog.
org. Remember: Registra-
tions will max out at eight
students, so register soon!
The Manzanita Writers’
Series is a program of the
Hoffman Center for the Arts.
More information is avail-
able at hoffmanblog.org, or
contact Kathie Hightower
COURTESY JENNIE SHORTRIDGE
Author Jennie Shortridge
at kathiejhightower@gmail.
com.
Shortridge and Kruse
Our two teachers have
been featured readers at the
Manzanita Writers’ Series
and were part of our first
Writer’s Retreat in 2017.
Shortridge is the author
of five novels, including
“Love Water Memory”
and “When She Flew,” and
numerous magazine articles
and essays. Her novels have
been translated into foreign
languages, optioned for film
and television, and selected
as Indie Next and Library
Journal’s Editors’ Picks.
Kruse’s work has
appeared widely in jour-
nals and anthologies, and
her debut novel, “Call Me
Home,” was released from
Hawthorne Books, with an
introduction by Elizabeth
Gilbert. She teaches fiction
at Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity’s low-residency MFA
program, Hugo House and
Gotham Writers Workshop.
She was the recipient of
a 2016 Pacific Northwest
Book Award and one of the
National Book Foundation’s
“5 Under 35” for 2015.