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The Sou’wester has just your type
COURTESY SOU’WESTER LODGE
Heather Douglas
List, list,
O list!
SEAVIEW, WASH. — The Sou’wester
Lodge hosts “Poetry Through List Mak-
ing,” a workshop with Astoria writer and
teacher Heather Douglas, 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17.
Intimidated by the poetry-writing pro-
cess? Author Ray Bradbury was known to
use the technique of list-making to create
his stories because it allowed him to “turn
off” the internal editor and unlock pure
creativity.
In this course, we will create 10 po-
ems. You will also leave the class with a
custom-made workbook to continue your
poetry journey at home.
Douglas believes in the transforma-
tive power of poetry. She is an educator,
illustrator, writer and a recent recipient of
the Astoria Visual Arts Writer in Resi-
dence. She is a self-published author of
two illustrated coloring books, a book of
poetry and a frequent contributor to Coast
Weekend.
The workshop cost is $30, plus a $5
material fee (for the take-home work-
book) paid directly to the instructor.
Bring a writing utensil and sack lunch
or snack. Hot tea and coffee will be
provided.
This workshop is geared toward
adults; a maximum of 20 students will be
allowed. RSVP via souwesterfrontdesk@
gmail.com or 360-642-2542. The Lodge
is located at 3728 J Place, Seaview.
SEAVIEW, WASH. — Melissa Favara, a
teacher of writing and literature at Clark
College, will lead a workshop called
“Type/Writing: Experiments in Creative
Nonfiction & Zinecraft” at the Sou’wester
Lodge 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18.
This workshop will consist of focused
writing time working with short memoir
and creative nonfiction prompts, producing
small pieces that can be
expanded on later.
Participants will
be provided with their
own vintage manu-
al typewriter to use.
There will be feedback
sessions, and materi-
als and guidance for
creating one-of-a-kind
zines of participants’
favorite pieces from
the session.
Favara writes non-
fiction, creative non-
COURTESY SOU’WEST- fiction and poetry. She
ER LODGE collects typewriters
Melissa Favara
and curates the 1,000
Words reading series.
Her work has appeared
in Street Roots, McSweeney’s Internet
Tendency and elsewhere.
The workshop cost is $30, plus a $5
material fee paid directly to the instructor.
Bring a pen, notebook and sack lunch
or snack. Hot tea and coffee will be pro-
vided.
Tweens, teens and adults are welcome
to participate; 10 student max. RSVP via
souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-
642-2542. The Lodge is located at 3728 J
Place, Seaview.
COURTESY SOU’WESTER LODGE
Dare to be unchaste
COURTESY SOU’WESTER LODGE
Jenny Forrester
SEAVIEW, WASH. — The Unchaste Read-
ers Series presents “Unchaste at The
Sou’wester,” hosted by Jenny Forrester
8 to 10 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19.
The “Unchaste Readers” are women
ages 14 to 71 who have read at the Un-
chaste Readers Series since April 2012.
“Unchaste” is about creating a commu-
nity, promoting writing that takes risks,
that shows the raw, vulnerable, ecstatic,
complicated lives of women, gender
non-binary and gender-noncomforming
— nearly everyone except cis-men.
Forrester has been published in
a number of print and online publi-
cations, including Seattle’s City Arts
Magazine, Nailed Magazine, Hip
Mama, The Literary Kitchen, Indiana
Review and Columbia Journal. Her
work is included in the Listen to Your
Mother anthology published by Put-
nam. Her debut memoir was published
last year by Portland’s Hawthorne
Books.
The Sou’wester Lodge is located at
3728 J Place, Seaview, Washington.