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		<title>200 years? it seems like just yesterday&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday Charles Dickens and Christine White! That’s right.  February is full of reasons to celebrate. You know who Charles Dickens is,  but do you know Wordstock’s newest board member?  Meet Christine White, who happens to share February 7 with Mr. Dickens. Wordstock: Why do you give Wordstock your time and money? Chris: Because I firmly believe in the power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Button Contest Winner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿Where do the little red dots of literary love come from? Who thinks up and writes the lovely little nuggets of book wisdom and word nerdry? For the first time ever, those dots of brainy flair were created by none other than Art Spark participants. The one found to be the most supreme bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year, word-lovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for giving us so much to celebrate! We finished an action-packed 2011 by breaking our 2010 Willamette Week Give!Guide record. You helped us raise $4,440.50 to provide writing instruction to teachers, students, parents, and writers throughout 2012. Thank you! The Meyer Memorial Trust joined you in your support with a grant “to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beaumont Residency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What do Beaumont Middle School, the month of September, and Wordstock have in common? A: Author Mark Pomeroy! In September, Mark Pomeroy became a finalist in the Wordstock Short Story competition, earning a coveted place in The Wordstock Ten Anthology, and Kirsten Parrott, a Beaumont teacher who participated in Wordstock&#8217;s Teacher as Writer program, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give!Guide giveaways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve notified the lucky winner of our first giveaway &#8212; a signed copy of Wildwood by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis &#8212; but if it wasn&#8217;t you, don&#8217;t despair. There&#8217;ll be other giveaways in the weeks to come, and anyone who donates by the deadline will be entered to win. So what&#8217;s the next giveaway? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>silly rabbit, wordstock is for teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lucky teachers, you don’t have to wait a whole year to get your next dose of Wordstock workshops. Our latest Wordstock for Teachers workshop gets underway in just a few short weeks. While most of you know Wordstock for its once a year book festival, teachers know that Wordstock carries on its important work year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wow.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve wiped the sweat off our brow and boxed up our festival supplies. We’ve had a moment to take a breath and reflect on this year’s festival, and all we can say is “Wow.” We are amazed at how many people came out to the convention center over the course of the weekend, more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Across the Border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by: George Estreich Author of The Shape of the Eye, George Estreich appears at the Wordstock Festival on Sunday, October 9 at 5pm on the Wieden+Kennedy Stage and will be leading the workshop Imagination and Diagnosis: A Workshop on Writing and Medicine on Sunday, October 9 at 1:30pm. About ten years ago, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to &#8220;A Tiger in the Kitchen&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Author of A Tiger in the Kitchen, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan appears at the Wordstock Festival on Saturday, October 8 at 4pm on the Oregon Cultural Trust Stage, is part of the conversation Read My Lips: Telling Stories Through Food on Saturday, October 8 at 3pm on the Oregon Cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthplace of the Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by: Diana Abu-Jaber Author of Birds of Paradise, Diana Abu-Jaber appears at the Wordstock Festival on Saturday, October 8 at noon on the National Endowments for the Arts Stage and part of the conversation Read My Lips: Telling Stories Through Food on Saturday, October 8 at 3pm on the Oregon Cultural Trust Stage. [...]]]></description>
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