Rising Star Creative Writing Competition Awards
Honoring Emerging Young Writers of Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry
November 5, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Central Oregon Community College Library
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Location of the Rising Star Awards on the COCC Campus
Come to the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition Awards and help us recognize the winners of this year's competition for high school- and college-age writers. Winning entries will be selected from submissions throughout the Northwest states of Oregon, Idaho and Washington.
The Central Oregon Community College Library will provide a fitting setting for award presentations by the judge for each category and readings by the 2008 winners. A chapbook (anthology) of the winning entries will be available for purchase to commemorate the occasion. The event starts at 7:00 p.m. and is free to the public. A reception will follow the awards presentation.
Winners receive a cash prize, certificate of recognition, scholarship to a guest author workshop in their winning genre, publication of their winning entries in a chapbook and a trophy provided by Rising Star Stellar Home Furnishings. Each Honorable Mention recipient will receive The Nature of Words tote and journal, chapbook, and a certificate of recognition.
You will also have an opportunity to meet this year's judges - all accomplished writers in their own right - and purchase their books. The 2008 judges are:
 Neil Browne,
Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University-Cascades,
will judge the literary nonfiction entries. Brown teaches American
literature and culture, as well as classes on the personal essay.
Browne’s research focuses on the intersections of aesthetic and
environmental thought in American literature and philosophy, with a
special interest in pragmatism, particularly the thought of John Dewey.
He is the author of The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century, which investigates environmental nonfiction writing.
 Tracy Daugherty,
Rising Star fiction judge, is the author of four novels, a book of
essays, and three short story collections, the latest of which is Late in the Standoff. His work has been recognized with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Hiding Man,
his biography of the short story writer Donald Barthelme, will be
published next year by St. Martin's Press. He is Distinguished
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University.
 George Venn
will judge Rising Star poetry entries. Poet, writer, literary
historian, editor, linguist, and educator, Venn is an eclectic,
complex, and distinguished figure in western American literature. His
distinguished literary practice is best affirmed by Marking The Magic Circle,
a collection of fiction, poetry, essays, translations, and photographs.
In 2005, this book was selected by the Oregon Cultural Heritage
Commission as one of the 100 best Oregon books in the two centuries.
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