Books After Hours @ Cloud & Leaf Bookstore
Books After Hours is Cloud & Leaf’s Saturday pop-up event series. 5-8pm, join us for wine and snacks, casual browsing, new favorite authors.
Saturday, 5/3, it’s Bookstore Scavenger Hunt Bingo! (How is it both a scavenger hunt AND bingo? Show up and find out!)
Saturday, 5/10: Book signing with Oregon’s previous Poet Laureate, Anis Mojgani!
Saturday, 5/31: Reading & signing with Jessica Poundstone, author MUSEUM OF DOGS, the dog-lover’s guide to art history.
Books After Hours @ Cloud & Leaf Bookstore
Books After Hours is Cloud & Leaf’s Saturday pop-up event series. 5-8pm, join us for wine and snacks, casual browsing, new favorite authors.
Saturday, 5/3, it’s Bookstore Scavenger Hunt Bingo! (How is it both a scavenger hunt AND bingo? Show up and find out!)
Saturday, 5/10: Book signing with Oregon’s previous Poet Laureate, Anis Mojgani!
Saturday, 5/31: Reading & signing with Jessica Poundstone, author MUSEUM OF DOGS, the dog-lover’s guide to art history.
Rockaway Writers Rendezvous
Third annual writers’ conference with presenters and workshops, focused on a wide variety of genres. Pre conference writing contest with winners published in anthology. Local high school student contest winners receive money prizes. Open mics.
Rockaway Writers Rendezvous
Third annual writers’ conference with presenters and workshops, focused on a wide variety of genres. Pre conference writing contest with winners published in anthology. Local high school student contest winners receive money prizes. Open mics.
Rockaway Writers Rendezvous
Third annual writers’ conference with presenters and workshops, focused on a wide variety of genres. Pre conference writing contest with winners published in anthology. Local high school student contest winners receive money prizes. Open mics.
New York Times columnist, author and two time Pulitzer prize winner, Nicholas Kristof will be delivering this year’s Keynote! Dozens of interactive workshops from local and regional writing professionals, screenwriting poetry, self publishing and much more.
April 25, 26, 27 Ticket price is $25
Friday April 25th, Open Mic Performance at Tie Breaker, doors open at 6 p.m.
Saturday April 26th Keynote & workshops at Rockaway Community Church Event Space from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Please note that we will not have the final schedule for all workshops until about two weeks prior to the event. There will be two large workshop spaces running concurrently, we are doing our best to schedule them logically. We also may be using the Lion’s Club for a third space depending on demand. Bottom line is you will get a very big event for just $25! Open Mic Performance at Tie Breaker doors open at 6:00 pm
Sunday April 27th, Awards Breakfast and Networking at the Lion’s Club doors open at 9:00 am event ends at noon.
Rockaway Writers Rendezvous
Third annual writers’ conference with presenters and workshops, focused on a wide variety of genres. Pre conference writing contest with winners published in anthology. Local high school student contest winners receive money prizes. Open mics.
New York Times columnist, author and two time Pulitzer prize winner, Nicholas Kristof will be delivering this year’s Keynote! Dozens of interactive workshops from local and regional writing professionals, screenwriting poetry, self publishing and much more.
April 25, 26, 27 Ticket price is $25
Friday April 25th, Open Mic Performance at Tie Breaker, doors open at 6 p.m.
Saturday April 26th Keynote & workshops at Rockaway Community Church Event Space from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Please note that we will not have the final schedule for all workshops until about two weeks prior to the event. There will be two large workshop spaces running concurrently, we are doing our best to schedule them logically. We also may be using the Lion’s Club for a third space depending on demand. Bottom line is you will get a very big event for just $25! Open Mic Performance at Tie Breaker doors open at 6:00 pm
Sunday April 27th, Awards Breakfast and Networking at the Lion’s Club doors open at 9:00 am event ends at noon.
Rockaway Writers Rendezvous
Third annual writers’ conference with presenters and workshops, focused on a wide variety of genres. Pre conference writing contest with winners published in anthology. Local high school student contest winners receive money prizes. Open mics.
New York Times columnist, author and two time Pulitzer prize winner, Nicholas Kristof will be delivering this year’s Keynote! Dozens of interactive workshops from local and regional writing professionals, screenwriting poetry, self publishing and much more.
April 25, 26, 27 Ticket price is $25
Friday April 25th, Open Mic Performance at Tie Breaker, doors open at 6 p.m.
Saturday April 26th Keynote & workshops at Rockaway Community Church Event Space from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Please note that we will not have the final schedule for all workshops until about two weeks prior to the event. There will be two large workshop spaces running concurrently, we are doing our best to schedule them logically. We also may be using the Lion’s Club for a third space depending on demand. Bottom line is you will get a very big event for just $25! Open Mic Performance at Tie Breaker doors open at 6:00 pm
Sunday April 27th, Awards Breakfast and Networking at the Lion’s Club doors open at 9:00 am event ends at noon.
Rockaway Writers Rendezvous
Third annual writers’ conference with presenters and workshops, focused on a wide variety of genres. Pre conference writing contest with winners published in anthology. Local high school student contest winners receive money prizes. Open mics.
New York Times columnist, author and two time Pulitzer prize winner, Nicholas Kristof will be delivering this year’s Keynote! Dozens of interactive workshops from local and regional writing professionals, screenwriting poetry, self publishing and much more.
April 25, 26, 27 Ticket price is $25
Friday April 25th, Open Mic Performance at Tie Breaker, doors open at 6 p.m.
Saturday April 26th Keynote & workshops at Rockaway Community Church Event Space from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Please note that we will not have the final schedule for all workshops until about two weeks prior to the event. There will be two large workshop spaces running concurrently, we are doing our best to schedule them logically. We also may be using the Lion’s Club for a third space depending on demand. Bottom line is you will get a very big event for just $25! Open Mic Performance at Tie Breaker doors open at 6:00 pm
Sunday April 27th, Awards Breakfast and Networking at the Lion’s Club doors open at 9:00 am event ends at noon.
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Virtual Resident Talk
Participate in a discussion with Sitka Center’s current resident artists on their recent work April 15th 4 pm
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Doors open at 5:30pm
Reading at 6:00pm, followed by a book signing
Nestucca K-8 school, Cloverdale, Oregon
Sitka is bringing US Poet Laureate ADA LIMÓN to the Oregon Coast. Join us for an intimate evening of poetry and inspiration with one of the most celebrated poets of our time. Hear Ada Limón read from her acclaimed works and share insights on the power of language and the natural world. This in-person event will take place at Nestucca K8 in Cloverdale, Oregon. Get ready for an unforgettable experience.
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also the author of two children’s books: In Praise of Mystery, with illustrations by Peter Sís; and And, Too, The Fox, released in 2025. In October of 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and she was named a TIME magazine woman of the year in 2024. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that was engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft that was launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. She will serve as Poet Laureate until the spring of 2025.