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Memory and Truth: How to Classify Nonfiction Titles

By Rachel Palmer

December 3, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Memory and Truth: How to Classify Nonfiction Titles

If that’s the case, why does nonfiction allow something as unreliable as memories? The idea is that the writer is truly recounting the memory, not whether or not it actually occurred. The experience is born out of the memory of the event. A memoir is a recounting of memory. It has to be a truthful recounting of only what’s remembered and what is researched.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Craft, creative-nonfiction, Essay, Facts, Immersion, Literary Nonfiction, memoir, memory, nonfiction, Personal Essay, research, Truth, writing

Interview with Allison Green, Author of “The Ghosts Who Travel With Me”

By Ryan W. Brewer rwbrwr

February 13, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Interview with Allison Green, Author of “The Ghosts Who Travel With Me”

As we move along with The Ghosts Who Travel with Me, it’s a perfect time to get to know our author, Allison Green. In addition to teaching writing in Seattle, Allison wrote the novel Half-Moon Scar, and her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in publications such as ZYZZYVA and Calyx. Allison and I spoke […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: Allison Green, creative-nonfiction, interview, memoir, Ooligan, The Ghosts Who Travel With Me, Writing process

26th Annual Oregon Book Awards

By Ooligan Press

April 19, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Kacie Peterson On the book front, there has been exciting news for some of Portland, Oregon’s best writers! The Oregon Book Awards were held this week on the night of Monday, April 8. The awards are a program held annually by Literary Arts, and this year marked their twenty-sixth anniversary. Many of Oregon’s finest […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Allen Say, award-winning books, Blue Thread, California, Cheryl Strayed, Crazy Enough, creative-nonfiction, Drawing From Memory, Gerding Theatre, Kent Hartman, Literary Arts, Oregon Book Awards, Portland, Readers Choice Award, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, Simon and Garfunkel, Storm Large, The Beach Boys, The Ninth Day, The Wrecking Crew, Washington, Wild, YA Literature

Meet Our Non-Fiction Contest Winners!

By Ooligan Press

February 19, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

We’re eager to introduce the three winners of our Write What You Know Non-fiction Contest. Our first prize winner gets a one-on-one pitch session with Betsy Amster of the Betsy Amster Literary Agency and our second prize winner gets a one-hour editorial consultation with Indigo Editing. Please congratulate them at Write to Publish this Saturday. Third […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Betsy Amster Literary Agency, cafemama.com, creative-nonfiction, Indigo Editing, Kansas State University, Kase Johnstun, Lynn Larssen, non-fiction contest, Ooligan at large, Oregon, Sarah Gilbert, Southern California, The Good Men Project, Write to Publish

Lidia Yuknavitch at the 2013 Write to Publish

By Ooligan Press

February 4, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Lidia Yuknavitch will be speaking at this year’s Write to Publish conference (W2P), Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Native American Student and Community Center. Most readers know Yuknavitch from her 2011 memoir, The Chronology of Water, published locally by Hawthorne Books. She is also the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase—what she describes as […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: creative-nonfiction, Dora, Hawthorne Books, Lidia Yuknavitch, memoir, ooligan press, The Chronology of Water, The Ninth Day, w2p, Write to Publish, YA

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