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DECEMBER 8�15, 2021
MIXED MEDIUM
First Draft Writers’ Series
meets in person on Dec. 16
Featuring
poet Brittney
Corrigan
Go! staff
P
ENDLETON — The First
Draft Writers’ Series will
hold its fi rst in-person event of
the year on Thursday, Dec. 16,
starting at 7 p.m. at the Pendle-
ton Center for the Arts, 214 N.
Main St.
Brittney Corrigan is the eve-
ning’s featured writer. Corrigan’s
current projects are an explora-
tion of and commentary on what
is being called the Anthropo-
cene age (viewed as the period
during which human activity has
been the dominant infl uence on
climate and the environment).
Corrigan will read from new
work at First Draft Writers’
Series. The event is free to the
public and masks are required.
Brittney Corrigan will read from her new work at the First Draft Writers’ Series
on Thursday, Dec. 16, at the Pendleton Center for the Arts.
Although she was raised in
Colorado, Corrigan has called
Portland her home since 1990.
She holds a degree from Reed
College, where she works or-
ganizing faculty and academic
special events. Corrigan also
serves as an editor at Airlie Press,
a nonprofi t publisher run by writ-
ers and dedicated to cultivating
and sustaining fi ne contempo-
rary poetry and promoting Pacifi c
Northwest poets. She is also the
poetry editor for the online jour-
nal Hyperlexia: poetry and prose
about the autism spectrum.
Corrigan’s poems and stories
have appeared in numerous jour-
nals and anthologies, and she
is the author of the collection
“Navigation” and the chapbook
“40 Weeks.” Her poems have
appeared widely in journals
and anthologies. Her chapbook
“Breaking” is a collection of
poems that respond to current
events in the news.
Her newest collection is
“Daughters,” a series of persona
poems in the voices of daugh-
ters of various characters from
folklore, mythology and popular
culture. She is the recipient of
residencies at Soapstone: A Writ-
ing Retreat for Women, Mineral
School and PLAYA.
Corrigan is currently working
on a full-length poetry manu-
script and a collection of short
stories that examine the impact
of human beings on our planet
and the species with whom we
share it.
More information about her
work can be found at www.
BrittneyCorrigan.com. To learn
more about the First Draft Writ-
ers’ Series, visit www.Pendleton-
Arts.org.
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