Readings can be your own creation or something you find. Bring love-themed or Oregon-themed poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, music, etc.

or…

participate in the February Creative Writing Challenge (see previous post)!

Monday, Feb. 13, 2012  |  12-1:30 P.M.  |  The Literary Arts Center (RR220) at CCC

For more info, contact Ryan Davis at ryand@clackamas.edu or 503-594-3258

As part of a living literary experiment, we want to see how different authors approach a specific writing prompt!

Guidelines:

• Write a short short story or essay, a brief piece of creative nonfiction, a poem, or a song
• Include the words yearn / cherish / fancy
• Include the objects map / mix tape, mix CD, or playlist / moon / turquoise
• Center the writing around Valentine’s Day, Love, or Oregon
• Alter number, tense, and/or grammatical function for any/all words and objects as you please

Bring your writing to share at the Valentine’s Day / Oregon’s Birthday Reading

Monday, February 13, 2012  |  12-1:30 P.M.  |  Literary Arts Center (RR 220)

For more information, please contact Ryan Davis at ryand@clackamas.edu or 503-594-3258

See an example of a poem that answers the challenge after the jump!

Still

Stillness in this moment

The hourglass of routine

As we look up into the turquoise face of the moon

Under which we can only yearn

In the car where we’ve made memories

Our homemade maps and mixed tapes lay

With the fancy of our forgotten phases

I cherish you

And the stars face us from above

As the lights of the city face us from below

In the stillness I draw a breath

The whole city draws a breath

As we realize how far the city has come

To be able to imitate the sky at night

Like a reflection, you and me

Like a reflection, the lights and the stars,

Like a battle, the endless mirror

As we lie in between

Still

Abby Johnson, CCC Writer Laureate

Position Description

The Writer Laureate will be chosen fall term 2011, and will be in office winter and spring terms 2012. The Writer Laureate’s duties will be to:

• write creatively for on-campus readings, Clackamas County events, Clackamas Literary Review, and graduation
• present/read his or her creative writing at English Department, campus, Board of Education, and other meetings
• assist with coordination and execution of on-campus readings, such as the Gratitude, William Stafford, Valentine’s Day/Oregon’s Birthday, and May Day readings
• assist with and be a member of the Writers Club
• assist with Clackamas Literary Review
• assist with the Writing Conference spring term
• assist with promotion of English and Creative Writing courses, events, and opportunities, in person, on paper, and electronically

Overall, the Writer Laureate will be a representative of not only the English Department and CCC, but of the literary arts—the creative power of words and the positive impact they have.

Position Benefits

The Writer Laureate will receive:

• up to an 8-credit per term tuition waiver for winter and spring terms 2012
• access to creative office space
• references from English faculty
• professional writing and public relations experience
• recognition for his or her creative writing practice

Application Process

The position is open to all current CCC students, and interested applicants do not have to currently be enrolled in Creative Writing or English classes.  Interested students must be in good academic standing, be responsible and enthusiastic, and be willing to retain the position for both winter and spring terms 2012.

To apply, interested students must submit:

• full name, phone number, email address, and student ID number
• one letter of recommendation from any CCC instructor they have taken a course from
• a one-page, single-spaced letter describing their interest in creative writing and literature, how they envision carrying out the internship, and their own creative ideas they wish to pursue as Writer Laureate
• 10-15 pages of creative writing—poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction (or any combination thereof)

The application deadline is December 1, 2011, at noon.

Please email complete applications to Trista Cornelius (tristac@clackamas.edu), include all application materials in one document as a Microsoft Word, Open Office, or PDF attachment, and include the words “Writer Laureate Application” in the subject line of your email.

Good luck!

Hear Scott McCloud in CCC’s Neimeyer Center on Friday evening, Oct. 15, and afterward, stay late, rise early, write your story. From 6pm to 6pm, we’ll write, video, animate, produce stories. Don’t miss it.

The event is free. No need to pre-register. Just be there.

In the workshop you’ll be led to write and then produce your story by a team of leaders. If you choose video, you’ll work with Sue Mach, CCC screenwriter, and Robb Crocker from FunnelBox productions. For comics, you’ll work with Trevor Dodge, CCC comics & lit instructor, and Diana Shute from Dark Horse Comics. For poetry/storytelling, you’ll work with Kate Gray, CCC poetry instructor, Thomas Wasson, CCC animation instructor, and Michael D’Allesandro from the Independent Publishing Resource Center.

For more information about attending or helping, please contact Kate Gray at kateg@clackamas.edu or 503-594-3260, or Trevor Dodge at trevord@clackamas.edu.

Learn how important your food choices really are.

Friday, April 23

Noon-1pm

Fireside Lounge

From 1-2pm, watch The Meatrix and The Real Cost of Food:

two short, witty, animated films revealing what you don’t know about what’s on your plate.

FREE of course.  Bring curiosity and questions.  All are welcome.

If you’d like to know more, email Trista Cornelius at:  tristac@clackamas.edu

The CD or floppy must have the student ID number written on it, as well as the title(s) and category of the entry/entries. No names on or in the CD/floppy!!
Participants should identify their hard copy by writing their student ID number only on each page. Please one-and-a-half space all fiction and nonfiction (12 pages maximum; 3000 words). Include a cover page listing your name, student ID number, phone number & address, category of entry (poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, screenplay) and title of the submitted piece. The cover page is the only thing that should have your name on it.

Cash prizes awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category as well as publication in the Writers Club book. Please read instructions carefully.

Please join us for “Food for Thought,” a discussion about food, identity, and the novel Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber. (It’s okay if you haven’t read it!)

Hear some stories (and maybe share your own) on Wednesday, February 10 from 6 – 8pm at Carnegie Center, 606 John Adams St, Oregon City with the Oregon City Library and the CCC English Department.

After getting some tasty Lebanese food, settle in to hear students from HUM 170 share their insights about how food reflects and shapes who they are, then join in conversation with our panel of food enthusiasts and experts: Kim Carlson, a journalist and the creator of Culinate.com; Anne-Louise Sterry, creator of the kitchen character ‘Aunt Lena’; and Dr. Diane Vines, nursing instructor at University of Portland and food expert.

Please invite friends, colleagues, and students who might be interested. For more info, call Kate at 503-594-3260 or email kateg@clackamas.edu

Trevor writes, “To say the experience was one of the highlights of both my teaching career and my personal journey through this life as an unapologetic geek would be an egregious understatement. As would be to describe Dave as nothing less than tremendously gracious, whipcrackingly smart and devastatingly beautiful. (Yes, I did say beautiful, and if you listen to the conversation…well…just listen to the conversation.)”

 Take more classes from Trevor, like Comics and Lit (ENG216) this Winter. You never know who might turn up in your class!

Trista Cornelius & Jim Grabill

Two published writers, two CCC instructors

Reading their latest

Free

RR220

Tuesday, Nov. 3^rd, noon

For more info, contact Kate Gray, English dept. 503-657-6958, ext. 2371, orkateg@clackamas.edu