Community college seeks
magazine submissions
ASTORIA — Clatsop Community
College is seeking community submis-
sions of original work for the 52nd edi-
tion of Rain Magazine.
Due to COVID-19 constraints, Rain
52’s theme section will continue to focus
on the idea of “healing,” after having to
suspend publication last spring.
Contributors are encouraged to
explore the subject however they inter-
pret it. General submissions of art, fi c-
tion, poetry and nonfi ction will be also
considered.
Those interested in submitting work
are asked to submit no more than three
items total, including poems, photo-
graphs, high-quality (at least 300 dpi)
digital images of original artwork and
prose less than 5,000 words in length.
Rain Magazine is produced annu-
ally by the Writing 270: Literary Pub-
lications class at Clatsop Community
College, which includes instruction in
editing techniques and Adobe InDesign,
the industry standard for book design.
The class will meet on Tuesdays and
Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. during winter
quarter at the Star of the Sea, the pub-
Cultural Coalition grants nearly
$12,000 to North Coast projects
lic is encouraged
to register for the
class and join the
staff .
Email work to
rainmagazine@
clatsopcc.edu.
Include your full The cover of the
51st edition of Rain
name and con-
tact information Magazine.
along with genres
and titles of sub-
missions in the subject line of your email
message. Submissions without proper
contact information will not be consid-
ered. Email submissions are greatly pre-
ferred. RTF or Docx is the preferred
format for written work. TIFF or JPG
fi les (at least 300 dpi) are preferred for
artwork.
You can also mail submissions to Rain
Magazine, Clatsop Community Col-
lege, 1651 Lexington Ave., Astoria, OR.,
97103.
For more information on the read-
ing or call for submissions, contact fac-
ulty advisor Ryan Hume at rhume@clat-
sopcc.edu.
ASTORIA — The Clatsop County Cul-
tural Coalition will distribute a total of
$11,950 in grants to 10 local organizations
for projects and events scheduled to take
place across the county during the 2022 cal-
endar year.
A list of this year’s recipients, the
amounts rewarded and their intended use:
• Friends of Suomi Hall, $2,000: Suomi
Summer School
• Sunset Empire Recreation Founda-
tion, $2,000: Sound booth for the Sunset
Recreation Center
• Astoria Scandinavian Midsummer
Festival Association, $1,400: Traditional
dance workshops
• Coaster Theatre, $1,250: Dimmer cir-
cuits for the playhouse
• Partners for the PAC, $1,200: Char-
lene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts
sign renovation
• Tenor Guitar Foundation, $1,100:
Video production of annual gathering in
2022
• Astoria Visual Arts, $750: Creation of
an Astoria art guide
• Hanthorn Cannery Foundation, $750:
The winners of the Clatsop County Cultural
Coalition Awards were recognized at a
ceremony Dec. 7 in Cannon Beach.
Fire sprinkler and warning system
• North Coast Chorale, $750: “Diver-
sity Through Music” production
• Ten Fifteen Productions, $750:
Increased publicity at The Ten Fifteen The-
ater in Astoria
The events and infrastructure projects
will take place between Jan. 1, 2022, and
Dec. 31, 2022. The vision of the Clatsop
County Cultural Coalition is to “support,
promote, preserve and protect diverse cul-
tural programs that defi ne who we are as a
community, support our connectedness to
others and strengthen our sense of place in
the world around us.”
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