Events
REPEATED EVENTS:
The Ambassador Writing Seminars:
Begun in 2017, these 6-, 8-, or 10-session series of writing seminars in poetry or the personal essay are held weekly for 3 hours per session and took place in Andrea's home until March 2020, when COVID forced the seminar to take place via Zoom. The seminars focus on craft concepts or techniques and are limited to eight participants per series. If you are interested in being on the email list of notification of future series, please contact Andrea. Also check the calendar below for present and future offerings.
Mentorships and Critiques:
Since 1993, Andrea has worked with writers individually through specially designed mentorships that focus on a writer's particular needs and for the duration most suitable to him or her. Meetings take place via Zoom, or, if the writer lives in Portland, Oregon, in-person at Andrea's home (well, since March 2020, only via Zoom). She also critiques individual poems, essays, and collections. For more information, email Andrea.
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 2024
Saturdays, September 7 - October 26 (9:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time)
This 8-week series of the Ambassador Writing Seminars—Beyond the Essentials—is an intensive in poetry to be held via Zoom. Like the other seminars led by Andrea, this is a deep exploration and discussion of concepts and techniques, and it focuses not only on the masterful poems of others, but also on participants' own poems-in-progress. The seminar is limited to those who have either completed the Poetry Essentials seminar with Andrea or who have a committed poetry writing practice. Required Text: When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women, edited by Andrea Hollander (Autumn House Press, 2009). Limit: 8 participants. Cost: $960. Contact Andrea here to register or for more information. [NOTE: As of August 16, 2024, there is only one space left.]
Wednesdays, September 11, 2024 - June 11, 2025 (9:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time)
The Wednesday Seminar, a master class in poetry, meets twice each month via Zoom and is presently in its fifth consecutive year. Limited to 8 writers. Registrants must have taken Beyond the Essentials or have been otherwise approved by Andrea. Cost: $1,900 for twenty 3-hour sessions. WAIT LIST ONLY.
Sunday, Septembeer 22 (3 - 4 p.m.)
Powell's City of Books, 1005 Burnside Street, Portland, Oregon, presents a launch reading of The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence (Wisdom, 2024), edited by John Brehm, and featuring him and Justin Rigamonti, Paulann Petersen, Maggie Chula, and Andrea Hollander, who have poems featured in the anthology. The reading is free.
OCTOBER 2024
Sunday, October 13 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Time)
Rattlecast presents an interview of Andrea by Tim Green, host and editor of Rattle, the literary journal, on its YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/zqYPJIxmIjo. If you missed this interview, you can watch it now on YouTube by clicking here.
NOVEMBER 2024
Saturdays, November 2 - 30 (9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time)
Reading Marie Howe is a 5-week study group and not a writing class. Led by Andrea Hollander via Zoom. Limited to 16 participants. Cost: $75, scholarships available. To register, send an email to soapstonewriting@gmail.com, and once you receive a reply saying there is room in the group, Soapstone will ask for payment through Zelle, or, if you prefer, a check made out to Soapstone, 622 SE 29th Avenue, Portland, OR 97214. WAIT LIST ONLY.
Sunday, November 24 (10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
ChatterPDX presents a classical music concert and a short reading by Andrea Hollander at 851 SW 6th Avenue, Portland, Oregon. Cost: $20 Adults, Students and those under 30: $10. Children 13 and under: $5. For more information and/or to purchase tickets click here.