Oregon Author Talks: LIVE Recording Event!
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🎙️ A quarterly evening with Oregon writers—live, in person, and deeply worth your Sunday.
❄️ WINTER: EMMETT WHEATFALL Award-winning poet and author of As Clean as a Bone, First Among Beautiful Stars, and Our Scarlet Blue Wounds.
📚 Four times a year, Wordcrafters invites an Oregon writer into our space for an afternoon of real conversation: about their book, their process, their journey, and the stubborn, beautiful work of making something true on the page.
🔥 These aren’t readings where you sit quietly and then shuffle out. They’re intimate, live author talks with Q&A—the kind of evening where you leave feeling more lit up about writing than when you walked in. Bring your questions.
🧡 Hosted by writer/performer Jorah LaFleur.
🗓️ 2026–2027 SEASON: DATES & AUTHORS
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UPCOMING
Sunday, December 13, 2026—Emmett Wheatfall
Sunday, March 14, 2027—Karelia Stetz-Waters
Sunday, June 13, 2027—Erica Berry
PAST
Sunday, September 13, 2026—Makiia Lucier
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‣ 4:00–6:00 pm
‣ Wordcrafters Studio436 Charnelton St. Ste 100, Eugene
‣ Tickets $15.00
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❄️ Meet our winter Oregon Author Talks guest: EMMETT WHEATFALL
Emmett Wheatfall is an American poet, Oregon Poet Laureate nominee and recipient of the prestigious Oregon Poetry Association Patricia Ruth Banta Award. His poetry has been published in several books, collections, anthologies, and one of them, As Clean as a Bone, was a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist and a da Vinci Eye award finalist. Emmett has keynoted two Oregon Poetry Association's Conferences. In 2020, Corban University produced a 9-part series documentary that highlights Emmett’s early life and poetry. He is a recording artist of spoken poetry to jazz, blues, and gospel music. Emmett Wheatfall is one of Oregon’s premier emerging national and international poets.
https://emmettwheatfall-poet.blogspot.com/
https://e-posit.blogspot.com
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🧡 Meet our host for the evening: JORAH LAFLEUR
For over a decade, Jorah LaFleur ran the Eugene Poetry Slam—one of the region's most beloved literary institutions—building a genuine gift for holding space for writers in front of a live audience. She's hosted her own artist interview show, and Eugene Weekly readers recently voted her "Best Poet."
On Sunday, September 13, Jorah brings that same warmth and curiosity to the stage as she interviews YA author Makiia Lucier for our first Oregon Author Talk of the season. Expect real conversation, real questions, and the kind of ease that comes from someone who's spent years listening to writers talk about their work.
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This event is sponsored in part by the Oregon Cultural Trust.
❄️ WINTER: EMMETT WHEATFALL Award-winning poet and author of As Clean as a Bone, First Among Beautiful Stars, and Our Scarlet Blue Wounds.
📚 Four times a year, Wordcrafters invites an Oregon writer into our space for an afternoon of real conversation: about their book, their process, their journey, and the stubborn, beautiful work of making something true on the page.
🔥 These aren’t readings where you sit quietly and then shuffle out. They’re intimate, live author talks with Q&A—the kind of evening where you leave feeling more lit up about writing than when you walked in. Bring your questions.
🧡 Hosted by writer/performer Jorah LaFleur.
🗓️ 2026–2027 SEASON: DATES & AUTHORS
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UPCOMING
Sunday, December 13, 2026—Emmett Wheatfall
Sunday, March 14, 2027—Karelia Stetz-Waters
Sunday, June 13, 2027—Erica Berry
PAST
Sunday, September 13, 2026—Makiia Lucier
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‣ 4:00–6:00 pm
‣ Wordcrafters Studio436 Charnelton St. Ste 100, Eugene
‣ Tickets $15.00
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❄️ Meet our winter Oregon Author Talks guest: EMMETT WHEATFALL
Emmett Wheatfall is an American poet, Oregon Poet Laureate nominee and recipient of the prestigious Oregon Poetry Association Patricia Ruth Banta Award. His poetry has been published in several books, collections, anthologies, and one of them, As Clean as a Bone, was a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist and a da Vinci Eye award finalist. Emmett has keynoted two Oregon Poetry Association's Conferences. In 2020, Corban University produced a 9-part series documentary that highlights Emmett’s early life and poetry. He is a recording artist of spoken poetry to jazz, blues, and gospel music. Emmett Wheatfall is one of Oregon’s premier emerging national and international poets.
https://emmettwheatfall-poet.blogspot.com/
https://e-posit.blogspot.com
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🧡 Meet our host for the evening: JORAH LAFLEUR
For over a decade, Jorah LaFleur ran the Eugene Poetry Slam—one of the region's most beloved literary institutions—building a genuine gift for holding space for writers in front of a live audience. She's hosted her own artist interview show, and Eugene Weekly readers recently voted her "Best Poet."
On Sunday, September 13, Jorah brings that same warmth and curiosity to the stage as she interviews YA author Makiia Lucier for our first Oregon Author Talk of the season. Expect real conversation, real questions, and the kind of ease that comes from someone who's spent years listening to writers talk about their work.
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This event is sponsored in part by the Oregon Cultural Trust.
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436 Charnelton Street, Suite 100, Eugene, OR, United States, Oregon 97401
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