The Central Oregon Writers Guild announces its 2011 Literary Harvest which will take place Friday, October 14 at the Comfort Suites Inn, 2243 SW Yew, Redmond, 6:30–8:30pm. This annual event features readings by the top ten winners of the Literary Harvest writing contest. Open to Central Oregon residents Guild members, the contest deadline for entries…

New Category Includes Writers Ages 25 & Greater The Nature of Words’ (NOW) judges have spoken! Their chosen winners of the 2011 Rising Star Creative Writing Competition include emerging writers from Oregon Washington in three age categories four genres: poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction nature essay. For the first time in the competition’s seven years, writers…

The Deschutes Public Library has organized a month long series of programs in September about South America.  The diversity of culture, wildlife, natural beauty adventure of South America is captivating.   This continent is home to the world’s biggest rainforest largest waterfall, the Amazon River, the highest mountain range outside of Asia, beaches, wide deserts icy…

Submissions are now being accepted for the Central Oregon Writers Guild’s annual Literary Harvest Writing Contest. The contest is open to Guild members Central Oregon writers who reside in Deschutes, Jefferson Crook counties. Genres include fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, humor, poetry excerpts from st -alone book chapters. Entry fee is $10 for members, $15 for non-members….

Ginger Dehlinger of Bend recently signed her first novel, Brute Heart, at the Bend Costco store. Set in eastern Oregon, Brute Heart is the story of a young woman with an abusive, alcoholic father who manages to work her way through college veterinary school at Oregon State University. Not long after l ing her first…

Jane Kirkpatrick is known for her novels filled with rich, historical facts, centered around real-life women’s lives. In The Daughter’s Walk (WaterBrook, April 5, 2011) she takes readers on a journey they’ll not soon forget. The Daughter’s Walk is based on the 1896 true story of Norwegian American Helga Estby who accepted a challenge from…

Prineville author Rick Steber has released his newest non fiction book, Caught in the Crosshairs. True to form Steber delivers a story full of intrigue, deception of justice gone terribly wrong. On the last day of summer in 1994, while a young cowboy, Phil Brooks, was riding in the hills of Eastern Oregon, he was…