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NEWS
I will be
presenting a paper titled
“The
New-Old Pioneer Spirit: Mid-Century Nerve and Know-How in
Pacific Northwest Women Memoirists” at the
Western Literature Association's 43rd
Annual Conference, Boulder, CO, Oct. 1-4, 2008.
"God's Judgment," a novel excerpt,
appears in the debut issue of
The Writer's Workshop Review,
an online journal published by Nicholas O'Connell, founder and
director of
The Writer's Workshop.
I will be teaching a workshop on
historical fiction writing, titled "Writing from History," at
the
Port Townsend Writing Conference,
Port Townsend, WA, July 17-19, 2008. As a contest judge, I will also
be participating in the award ceremony for the
Langum Prize in Historical Fiction,
which will be held at the conference. This year's prize will go
to Kurt Anderson for his novel Heyday, set in the
mid-nineteenth century.
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PETER DONAHUE writes fiction and nonfiction. He is the
author of the novel
Madison House (Hawthorne Books, 2005),
winner of the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction, and the short
story collection
The Cornelius Arms (Missing Spoke Press,
2000). His second novel, Only When I Dance With You, is
currently nearing completion. All three works
are set in Seattle during different periods
of that city’s short yet dramatic history.
Peter is also co-editor, with John Trombold, of
Reading Seattle: The City in Prose (2004)
and
Reading Portland: The City in Prose (2007),
both published by the University of Washington Press. The anthologies
celebrate the literary legacy of these two dynamic Northwest
cities with special emphasis on their cultural diversity. In
addition, Peter writes the
Retrospective Review column on vintage
Northwest literature that appears in each issue of Columbia:
The Magazine of Northwest History, published by the
Washington State Historical Society. He has also published many
short stories and critical articles on American literature in
literary journals
and
scholarly periodicals.
A graduate of the University of Washington, Virginia Tech, and
Oklahoma State University, Peter is an associate professor of
English at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, where he
teaches creative writing and journalism and organizes the BACHE
Visiting Writers Series and the annual WRITING TODAY Writers
Conference. As a writing teacher, Peter strives to offer
student-writers every opportunity to pursue their passion for
writing within a challenging and supportive environment.
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