Ellen Waterston's collection, Between Desert Seasons, has won the prestigious 2009 WILLA Award for Poetry from Women Writing the West. Waterson, director of The Nature of Words and the Writing Ranch, will be honored at the University of California, Los Angeles on September 12, 2009, during the Women Writing the West's 15th annual conference. Read the entire release here.
Ellen Waterston is the recipient of a 2009 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artists Fellowship to complete her collection of nature and personal essays titled "Where The Crooked River Rises."
Ellen has also been awarded the 2009 Island Institute Writing Residency in Sitka, Alaska for the month of April, 2009.
Ellen Waterston was awarded a $3,000 Individual Artists Fellowship Grant by the Oregon Arts Commission. These grants recognize the achievements of Oregon artists and the contributions they make to the cultural health of the state. Read the news release.
Elllen Waterston one of featured writers "Citadel of Spirit", just out from Nestucca Press. It is an anthology of essays commemorating Oregon's Sesquicentennial.
Ellen Waterston’s collection of poetry "Between Desert Seasons" was released by Wordcraft of Oregon Publishers in December 2008. To order your copy or to schedule readings, e-mail or call 541.480.3933. Read and see it online.
Waterston wins the 2008 Oregon Quarterly Essay Contest. Read her winning essay, part of her upcoming essay collection titled Where The Crooked River Rises, (link coming soon).
BrainstormNW Magazine Features Interview with Waterston
To read the interview go to their site.
Waterston Awarded Honorary Degree
Following her address to the Oregon State University/Cascades Campus 2007 graduating class, Ellen Waterston was named an Honorary Distinguished Professor of Humane Letters for her accomplishments as an author and poet and her promotion of the literary arts through The Nature of Words and The Writing Ranch. Read her speech here.
Waterston Awarded the 2007 Obsidian Prize in Poetry
For her poem Painted Shut, Ellen Waterston was selected as the winner of the national 2007 Obsidian Prize in Poetry awarded by High Desert Journal. Read Painted Shut here.
Deer Drink the Moon - Poems of Oregon
Ellen Waterston is one of the poets featured in Deer Drink the Moon, Poems of Oregon. Deer Drink the Moon is a masterpiece of poetry about the state of Oregon, published in 2007 by Ooligan Press in Portland, Oregon. To order, contact your local bookstore or Ooligan Press, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751.
AVAILABLE 2009
Where the Crooked River Rises, A Collection of Essays on the High Desert
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