(OWP) Annual Renewal Day for K-12 Teachers

The 2012 Renewal Day is FULL. Thank you for your interest - we hope to see you next year! 

In the middle of February, when the skies are gray, the days are short, and the rain is hard, we want you to retreat, to remember the joy of writing. We invite you to take a day for yourself. Forget the spa. Forget the wine. The real gift is time from your hectic life to write. Sure, you will be able to take what you learn back to your classroom, but this is a day to be a writer.

Our guest for this year’s retreat is Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. Heidi, who won the Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change bestowed by Barbara Kingsolver, will lead us in a fiction-writing workshop. A few of Heidi Durrow’s recent awards and honors include:

• Award, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar, 2009
• Winner, Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change, 2008
• Pushcart Prize Nomination, The Literary Review for “He Runs,” 2007
• Winner, Roth Endowment Award, 2007
• Emerging Artist Grant, Fractured Atlas, 2006
• Finalist, Reynolds Price Fiction Contest, 2006
• Djerassi Artist Program Residency, 2005
• Fellowship in Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2004
• Winner, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, 2004
• Award, Jerome Foundation Award for Emerging Writers, 2004

Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012

Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (coffee & tea at 8:30 a.m.)

Location: McMenamin’s Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland

Presenters: Linda Christensen, M.Ed., OWP Director, and Heidi W. Durrow, writer, journalist, and graduate of Jefferson High School/Class of 1987.

Fee: $20 by Februrary 8, $25 after or at the door. Fee includes morning beverage and lunch. 

Note: If you are scheduled to teach on February 16, please remember to make your substitute request in advance. OWP does not pay for subs.

Questions? Contact Pam Hooten, OWP Program Assistant: 503-768-6132 or phooten@lclark.edu.