The Pen and the Key: 50th Anniversary Anthology of Pacific Northwest Writers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965570258 ISBN 13: 9780965570251

Publisher: 74th Street Productions, 2005

Synopsis

A new anthology from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) includes a foreword by best-selling true crime writer, Ann Rule, and previously unpublished short stories, nonfiction and poetry by 23 acclaimed Northwest writers. Contributing authors include Kathleen Alcalá, Peter Bacho, Marvin Bell, Terry Brooks, Stella Cameron, Meg Chittenden, Robert Ferrigno, Elizabeth George, Phyllis Hollenbeck, J.A. Jance, Kay Kenyon, Bharti Kirchner, Craig Lesley, Mark Lindquist, Don McQuinn, Fred Melton, Jim Molnar, Marjorie Reynolds, Daniel Sconce, Anna Sheehan, Indu Sundaresan, Stephen Walker and Shawn Wong.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Selected by Pacific Northwest Writers Association Foreword by Ann Rule . Edited by Nigel Loring Fifty years ago, Lucille McDonald and Zola Helen Ross, founders of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, envisioned an organization that facilitated publishing of then unrecognized talented Northwest writers. Because of their vision over twenty thousand writers have been introduced to the publishing industry through the annual summer conference, the literary contest, and other organizational opportunities. Countless hours of volunteer time have been expended to achieve this remarkable goal. This anthology of work by many of the acclaimed writers who have supported PNWA, and several emerging writers who have benefited from that support, celebrates these fifty years.

About the Author:

ABOUT THE WRITERS Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a short story collection, Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist (Calyx), and three novels set in 19th Century Mexico: Spirits of the Ordinary, The Flower in the Skull, and Treasures in Heaven. Her work has been favorably reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, and has received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the Governor's Writers Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction, and the Washington State Book Award. She is a co-founder of and contributing editor to The Raven Chronicles, a magazine of multicultural art, literature and the spoken word, and has been a writer in residence at Seattle University, Richard Hugo House, and most recently a visiting lecturer at the University of New Mexico. A play based on her novel, Spirits of the Ordinary, was produced in 2003 by the Miracle Theatre of Portland, Oregon. She recently completed a collection of essays called The Skeleton in the Closet. A long-standing member of Los Norteños, a group of Latino writers in Western Washington, Kathleen has published fiction and nonfiction in numerous magazines, and has provided the introduction to two anthologies — Cracking the Earth (Calyx, 2001), and Fantasmas – Supernatural Stories by Mexican American Writers (Bilingual Review Press, 2001). Kathleen is a graduate of Stanford University with a B.A. in Human Language, and the University of Washington with an M.A. in English. She lives on Bainbridge Island with her husband and son. Peter Bacho, a Tacoma-based author, is the Distinguished Northwest Writer in Residence at Seattle University (Winter 2005). He is the author of five books. His awards include an American Book Award for his novel, CEBU, The Murray Morgan Prize, and a Washington Governor's Writers Award for his collection of short stories, Dark Blue Suit. His newest novel, Entrys will be published next year by the University of Hawaii Press. Marvin Bell delivered the PNWA 2000 Conference keynote in Tacoma. His seventeen books of poems and essays include Rampant (2004) from Copper Canyon Press and Poems for a Midsummer Night's Dream (74th Street Productions). He recently retired from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop after forty years on its faculty. His Arts and Humanities poem included here was written while serving as Iowa's first poet Laureate. He and his wife Dorothy live half the year in Port Townsend, Washington. Terry Brooks was born in Sterling, Illinois, in 1944. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University. A writer since the age of ten, he published his first novel, The Sword of Shannara, in 1977. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller List, where it remained for over five months. He has written twenty-one novels, two movie adaptations, and a memoir on his writing life. He has sold over twenty million copies of his books and is published worldwide. He lives with his wife Judine in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. Stella Cameron is the New York Times/USA Today/Washington Post/Booklist best selling, award-winner author of sixty historical and contemporary novels and novellas. She has won the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense and the Romantic Times best Romantic Suspense of the Year Award. She has been a RITA finalist, and is the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Achievement Award for distinguished professional achievement enhancing the stature of the Northwest literary community. Stella and her husband live in Seattle, Washington. They are the parents of three children. Meg Chittenden, has published over a hundred short stories and articles, and 35 books in various genres, in the 34 years this nationally acclaimed author has been writing. These include three books for child

About this edition

• Publisher: 74th Street Productions
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0965570258
• ISBN 13: 9780965570251
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Nigel Loring