Centered in the town of Dayville, Oregon we are surrounded by both natural and human history, which inspires us to reach for new heights in both our writing and living skills; thanks in part to the natural beauty of the land and people around us.

Dave was born in Colorado and going down hill ever since. He has worked for various federal agencies (i.e. U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service) in various natural resource management assignments all across western USA from 1970 to 1990 and he was an environmental engineering consultant, Father Nature Consulting, from 1990 to present. In 1994, he attained a B.S. Degree from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon in "Technical Journalism" to help make sense of all environmental enlightenments, engineering and controversy that I have been involved with for decades. Currently, his writing passion is going into a new book documenting pirates and Spanish Galleons along the Oregon Coast from 1565 to 1815 A.D.

PACIFIC COAST PIRATES & SPANISH GALLEONS
By Dave Sandersfeld
ISBN 978-1-4243-2441-5

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We had a great time with great food at the

3rd Annual Writers Forum
presented Wednesday, November 10 by the
Juniper Arts Council & Oregon Cultural Trust
in cooperation with
John Day United Methodist Church.

Jodi Varon Author of
Drawing to an Inside Straight:
The Legacy of an Absent Father
gave us some inspiring writing tips and exercises during the workshop along with a very dramatic reading from her upcoming historical fiction novel derived from actual accounts taken from local area residents about living and working with Doc Hay of John Days historic Kam Wah Chung and Co.

David Axelrod Author of
Departing By a Broken Gate
then gave us delightful reading of several of his poems, which were all quite invocative of the lives, personalities and various experience and/or perceptions he has encountered through life.

We'd like to give a special thanks to all that participated.
Especially the organizers of
Juniper Arts Council &
Oregon Cultural Trust

Call for Entries to the

2011 Rising Star Creative Writing Competition

New Age 25+ Category Added!

The Nature of Words (NOW) is accepting entries for the 2011 Rising Star Creative Writing Competition. A new category for writers age 25 and over has been added to open the competition to more emerging writers.
The competition, now in its sixth year, welcomes entries in fiction, literary non-fiction, nature essay and poetry.

Winners of the competition are honored at the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition Awards Ceremony, the opening event of The Nature of Words' annual literary festival. The 2011 Awards event will occur on Wednesday, November 2.
The Awards showcase winners, including reading of their winning entries, presentation of trophies, remarks by the competition judges, and a reception following the ceremony.

Submission guidelines are listed below.

For more information about the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition and The Nature of Words,
visit www.thenatureofwords.org,
email programs@thenatureofwords.org
or call 541.647.2233.

About The Nature of Words
The mission of The Nature of Words (NOW) is to foster an appreciation of the literary arts and humanities in the High Desert region of the Northwest through community interaction with acclaimed authors, and through creative writing programs for students and adults. Programs include an annual November literary festival featuring acclaimed authors in readings, workshops, lectures and a dinner; Words Without Walls, providing creative writing workshops in schools and alternative programs; the Storefront Project in NOW's literary arts center, offering drop-in creative writing classes for middle and high school students at no charge, Weekend of Words for young writers, Make-A-Book parties for all ages, and field trips for classrooms and educational organizations. For more information,
visit www.thenatureofwords.org,
email programs@thenatureofwords.org
or call 541.647.2233

In Bend, visit NOW's literary arts center at
224 NW Oregon Avenue.

FIRST PLACE: A trip to the Writer's Digest Conference in New York City, $500 cash, publication in Writer's Digest, and a copy of the 2011 Poet's Market. Enter the only Writer's Digest competition exclusively for poets. Whatever your style—rhyming, free verse, haiku or something else- as long as your poems are 32 lines or fewer, we want them all! DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2010

THREE MORE DECEMBER CONTESTS

The Baltimore Review Fiction Contest December 1st deadline.
this short story contest offers $500 and publication to the winner, in addition to 2nd and 3rd prizes.

Five Points James Dickey Prize for Poetry also comes with a deadline of December 1.
This contest is searching for the best single poem. The winner receives $1,000 and publication in an issue of Five Points.

L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest December 31st dealine.
There are quarterly prizes of $1,000; $750; and $500-with a grand prize for the year of $5,000 for Science fiction short story writers.

Name

Interest

Location

Kelly Cooper

Horses, History and Humanity

Dayville

Eloise Boren

Interest ???

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Georgia Osborn

Interest ???

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Cheryl Hoefler

Interest ???

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Tom Skeins

Interest ???

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Pam Edwards

Song writing, playing guitar, traditional archery, kayaking mountain lakes and calm rivers, and spending time with my family?

Dayville

Lacy Stonerod

Interest ???

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Debbie Sandersfeld

Interest ???

Dayville

Dave Sandersfeld

Geology, Natural history

Dayville

Brian Sanderfeld

All things Art, Human psychology, things that make me think or feel

Dayville

Kelly Cooper published Windfall a woman's journal for several years in northern California. Her poetry has appeared in Portfolio North, Byline Magazine, The Lance, Shasta College Literary Magazine, and other publications. Her first Woman's Fiction Novel will be released in 2011, as well as a collection of poetry.

I am a born and raised Oregonian with a love for the outdoors. I enjoy song writing and playing guitar and performing those songs with my husband Kin.I also recite Robert Service Poetry. I have a passion for traditional archery , kayaking mountain lakes and calm rivers , and spending time with my family. I own a seasonal business in Dayville and am a jeweler by trade. We are at this time enjoying our RV life style and find our travels very inspiring for song writing.

Dave was born in Colorado and going down hill ever since. He has worked for various federal agencies (i.e. U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service) in various natural resource management assignments all across western USA from 1970 to 1990 and he was an environmental engineering consultant, Father Nature Consulting, from 1990 to present. In 1994, he attained a B.S. Degree from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon in "Technical Journalism" to help make sense of all environmental enlightenments, engineering and controversy that I have been involved with for decades. Currently, his writing passion is going into a new book documenting pirates and Spanish Galleons along the Oregon Coast from 1565 to 1815 A.D.

PACIFIC COAST PIRATES & SPANISH GALLEONS
By Dave Sandersfeld
ISBN 978-1-4243-2441-5

I am a painter, a poet, a photographer and an occasional PC support tech, who really doesn't have a penchant for the letter p. It just seems to work here. I've spent most my life working in various technical fields including anything from process photography to computer programming, but I am now looking forward to focusing on the arts including creative writing and Web Design. I also have two completed novels under my belt though they are not officially published yet, and I am working on a third. The first chapter of Grean Man is included here for your perusal.

Finished Novels:

Grean Man
The story of a rather mundane modern man who is pulled into the land of dreams, and gets the chance to meet the "Godness" of old Celtic myths again - simply because She now has a very important mission for him to perform, which of course he must first be trained for.
Sample Chapter

Incredula
The tale of a Time Lord who has yet to discover where we all go when we die, though he has existed through out all millenniums of time. Thanks to his own ability to manipulate it. So he sorta enlist the Buddha's help and is now in hot pursuit of this place too whilst happily meeting the spirit of our souls over and over again, even though our present sense of selfs have forgotten who and what we are.

Work in progress:

Chi-tah-wah
Greedy modern man have done it to the world again, digging up something so ancient and sacred in their pursuit of gold that it has unleashed a force that even their own military can't really deal with. Fortunately, there are still some old spiritual leaders left around, and we follow two groups of them as they set out to face the original dreamer of the darkest parts of life.

I also designed this web page so Email Me Here if you like.