Award-winning authors Chuck Palahniuk and Ursula K. Le Guin will be sharing their publishing experiences at the Oolicon: Write to Publish open house event, May 23, 2010, at Portland State University. Write to Publish is Ooligan Press's annual conference on the art of getting published. Also appearing are Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler, an Eisner winner and New Yorker contributor, Oregon Book Award-winning children's author Deborah Hopkinson, and National Book Award-winning YA fiction author Virginia Euwer Wolff.
Workshops for writers and industry professionals May 22nd and Open House mixer on the 23rd, $215 for full conference. Discounted writer's price of $130 for both, $32 per workshop. Tickets at Portland State University box office, 503-725-3307.