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JANUARY 13–19, 2022
MIXED MEDIUM
THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
Cameron Scott featured at First Draft Writers’ Series
Go! staff
FIRST DRAFT
WRITERS’ SERIES
P
ENDLETON — Cameron
Scott will headline the next
session of First Draft Writers’
Series, a monthly event orga-
nized by the Pendleton Center
for the Arts.
The Thursday, Jan. 20, event
begins at 7 p.m. online through
Zoom. Sign up at pendletonarts.
org/first-draft/ to receive a link.
The First Draft Writers’ Series
brings authors and poets of note
to the Pendleton stage to share
new work. This will be Scott’s
second time as a featured author
at First Draft, having shared the
stage with fellow writer Rich
Wandschneider in 2016. His
reading will be followed by a short
discussion with the audience and
an open mic, where anyone may
read their own writing samples
(3-5 minutes per person).
Scott is the author of four
poetry collections: “Watershed,”
“The Snake River Poems,” “The
Book of Cold Mountain” and
“The Book of Ocho.” His work
has appeared in countless fly-
fishing magazines and numerous
Thursday, Jan. 20
7 p.m.
Virtual — request a Zoom
link at www.pendletonarts.
org/first-draft/
the community, the region and
beyond.”
Notices about upcoming
featured readers are accompa-
nied by a question or theme the
audience and open mic readers
are asked to consider. Themes
will be inspired by the featured
writers’ work.
OPEN MIC
Terry Donnelly/Contributed image
Cameron Scott, the author of four poetry collections, is the featured writer for the First Draft Writers’ Series on
Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. The session, held online via Zoom, begins at 7 p.m.
poetry publications. He is cur-
rently a contributor to the blog
The Oregon Way.
A graduate of Whitman
College in Walla Walla, Scott
received a master of fine arts
in poetry from the University
of Arizona in 2004. While there,
he co-taught a creative writ-
ing workshop for Voices 110
Degrees, a writing program for
at-risk youth in Tucson.
Hitting the road in search of
teaching opportunities and trout,
he worked for two years in Crest-
ed Butte, Colorado, as a fly-fish-
ing guide at Dragonfly Anglers
before guiding for Taylor Creek
Fly Shops in Basalt, Colorado, for
more than a decade. The past
few summers he has been guid-
ing on the Grande Ronde River
for The Minam Store.
According the PCA website,
the First Draft Writers’ Series
is “focused on encouraging
discussion around issues within
The audience is welcome to
participate in the open mic ses-
sion of the First Draft gathering.
Anyone — professional, emerging
literary artist or amateur — can
sign up to share an original piece
of writing (3-5 minutes per per-
son). Up to 10 people can sign up
each month to share their work
after the featured author and a
quick Q&A. Send a note in the
Zoom chat that you’d like to read.