How to Leave a Place

How to Leave a Place: 26 Short memoirs by Portland Writers is out now-- featuring new writing by Ann Rogers-Williams, Linda Fielder, Geraldo Valerio, Ariel Gore, Helena Carlson, Adrian Shirk, Rachael Duke, Amanda Risser, Maria Fabulosa, Krystee Sidwell, Kelli Grinich, Mira Shah, Lainie Keslin Ettinger, Amy Lee, Margaret McConnell, Fontaine Roberson, Jessica Byers, Mary Jane kelly, Linda Hefferman, Lori Maliszewski, Rachel Indigo Cerise Baum, Hope C. Hitchcock, Emily A. Phillips, Jean Braden, Lani Jo Leigh, and Frances Kiva.

It's a collaborative project by my memoir workshop students & it's super-cool.

From the intro:

WE ARE A COMMUNITY of writers who gather at The Attic on Hawthorne Boulevard in Portland, Oregon. We are doctors, waitresses, housewives, and punks. We grew up in San Francisco, Dublin, Quito. We're third generation Northwesterners, or we've only just arrived. We complain about the rain, but we don't seem to mind it that much. We drink a lot of coffee and beer. We make zines, collages, music, sugar cookies. We've been telling stories, in one way or another, for as long as we can remember. Collectively, we are brilliant. We follow the sentence to the end, always wondering what will come next. We write, rewrite, edit, and occasionally just start over. We bank on chance, and skate on by. We drink wine to gain courage; smoke with satisfaction when the story's been read. We are a community of writers who gather at the Attic on Hawthorne Boulevard in Portland, Oregon...