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Wordstock Festival 2012

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Wordstock Book Fair
tickets: 7 dollars
ages 0-13: free {comp ticket required}
book fair tickets get you into every book fair thing except:
Wordstock for Writers Workshops
workshop tickets get you same-day book fair admission and can be purchased within workshop listings below.
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	East Burn
5:45pm 6:00pm 6:15pm 6:30pm 6:45pm 7:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 7:45pm 8:00pm 8:15pm	Wordstock Trivia Night with Shanrock's Triviology
	East Burn

	Hawthorne Burgerville
3:45pm 4:00pm 4:15pm 4:30pm 4:45pm 5:00pm 5:15pm 5:30pm 5:45pm 6:00pm 6:15pm 6:30pm 6:45pm 7:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 7:45pm 8:00pm 8:15pm	Burgers and Books Benefit
	Hawthorne Burgerville

	Disjecta
6:45pm 7:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 7:45pm 8:00pm 8:15pm 8:30pm 8:45pm 9:00pm 9:15pm 9:30pm 9:45pm 10:00pm 10:15pm 10:30pm 10:45pm 11:00pm 11:15pm	Seventh Annual Text Ball
	Disjecta

	East Burn
5:45pm 6:00pm 6:15pm 6:30pm 6:45pm 7:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 7:45pm 8:00pm 8:15pm	Wordstock Trivia Night with Shanrock's Triviology
	East Burn

	Central Library, US Bank Room
5:45pm 6:00pm 6:15pm 6:30pm 6:45pm 7:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 7:45pm 8:00pm 8:15pm	Wordstock at the Library
	Central Library, US Bank Room

	Holocene
7:45pm 8:00pm 8:15pm 8:30pm 8:45pm 9:00pm 9:15pm 9:30pm 9:45pm 10:00pm 10:15pm	Tin House Fall Issue Release Party
	Holocene

	McMenamins Bagdad Theater
6:15pm 6:30pm 6:45pm 7:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 7:45pm 8:00pm 8:15pm 8:30pm 8:45pm 9:00pm 9:15pm	Festival Opener: Poets Slam Wordstock
	McMenamins Bagdad Theater

	Aladdin Theater	Attic Institute Poetry Stage	Comcast Stage	Exhibit Hall D, next to the Drinkery	Faceout Studio Stage	KinderCare Children's Stage	Little Word children's stage & discovery place	McMenamins Stage	Minuteman Press Team Writer's Workshop Stage A	Minuteman Press Team Writer's Workshop Stage B	Missed Connections Booth	National Endowment for the Arts Stage	Oregon Cultural Trust Stage	Trimet YA Stage	Work for Art Stage
8:45am 9:00am 9:15am 9:30am 9:45am 10:00am 10:15am 10:30am 10:45am 11:00am 11:15am 11:30am 11:45am 12:00pm 12:15pm 12:30pm 12:45pm 1:00pm 1:15pm 1:30pm 1:45pm 2:00pm 2:15pm 2:30pm 2:45pm 3:00pm 3:15pm 3:30pm 3:45pm 4:00pm 4:15pm 4:30pm 4:45pm 5:00pm 5:15pm 5:30pm 5:45pm 6:00pm 6:15pm 6:30pm 6:45pm 7:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 7:45pm 8:00pm 8:15pm 8:30pm 8:45pm 9:00pm 9:15pm 9:30pm 9:45pm 10:00pm 10:15pm	The 8th Live Wire! Wordstock Extravaganza	John Brehm & Stephanie Lenox … Crystal Williams & David Axelrod Floyd Skloot & Greg Chaimov Bruce Beasley & Suzanne Paola Andrew Feld & Jodie Marion Ed Skoog & Scot Siegel	The End of the World As We Know It Bettye Lavette & Storm Large Peter Heller Kurt Andersen Life in the Spotlight: Celebrity Memoir Erin Morgenstern with Stephanie Snyder Storm Large & Duff Brenna	Open Write	There's Nothing Like Your First Randy Fertel All in the Family Lidia Yuknavitch & Jon Raymond Out on the Page What Sex Does to a Story The Mystery Box Show	Brenda Peterson & Ruth A. Musgrave Jon Klassen & Mac Barnett Salina Yoon & Renee Watson Picture This Ami Margolin Rome and Phillip Margolin & Kim Baker Katherine Schlick Noe & Karen Cushman History for Young Readers	Klutz Activity Table Charlotte Rodenberg Puppet Show &… The Art of the Picture Book with Addie Boswell	Peter Zuckerman Whitney Otto Maria Semple & Lisa Zeidner Living in a Fantasy World Pauls Toutonghi & Kim Barnes The Allure of the Lives of Others: Writing about the Famous and Not-s… Kim Fay & Donna Miscolta	What's So Funny? Using Humor in YA and Children's Books No More Heaving Bosoms: Writing and Publishing Modern Erotica and Romance Novels Crafting a Killer First Page Nonfiction Writing: Not Just the Facts Ma'am Right from the Start: Turning Up the Heat in Your Short Story's Opening Keep Talking: Discovering and Revealing Character through Dialogue	Researching and Writing the Lives of Women Writing Memorable Characters- for Young Writers Inviting Little Red Riding Hood, the Oracle and the Coat of Many Colors into our Poems Triage: A Better Way to Revise Your Writing Environment Book Publicity: The Lowdown for Authors	Missed Connections: The Story Con… Missed Connections: The Story Con…	Tell Me a Story Gregory Martin & Kambri Crews New Nature Writing: Rick Borsten, Beth Baker, and David Oates Jeffrey Hannan & James Kunen Getting the Word Out: Self-Marketing Truth in Storytelling The Side-Kick: Creating Secondary Characters	Extreme Book Makeover: Digital Press Kimberly Jensen & Jewel Lansing and Fred Leeson Brendan Hay Jack Hart Amanda Coplin & John Rember Alexis Smith & Carter Sickels Yuvi Zalkow & Anonymous	April Henry & Jeanne Ryan Kevin Emerson & Lissa Price The "Adult" in "Young Adult" Katie Kacvinsky & Lisa Burstein Steve Brezenoff & Inara Scott Tonya Hurley & Lish McBride Keeping it Real	Putting Words in the Mouth of God Sara Levine James Bernard Frost & Hanna Neuschwander Joyce Hinnefeld & Lois Leveen Art of the Book Ray Rhamey Inara Scott
	Aladdin Theater	Attic Institute Poetry Stage	Comcast Stage	Exhibit Hall D, next to the Drinkery	Faceout Studio Stage	KinderCare Children's Stage	Little Word children's stage & discovery place	McMenamins Stage	Minuteman Press Team Writer's Workshop Stage A	Minuteman Press Team Writer's Workshop Stage B	Missed Connections Booth	National Endowment for the Arts Stage	Oregon Cultural Trust Stage	Trimet YA Stage	Work for Art Stage

	Attic Institute Poetry Stage	Comcast Stage	Exhibit Hall D, next to the Drinkery	Faceout Studio Stage	KinderCare Children's Stage	Little Word children's stage & discovery place	McMenamins Stage	Minuteman Press Team Writer's Workshop Stage A	Minuteman Press Team Writer's Workshop Stage B	Missed Connections Booth	National Endowment for the Arts Stage	Oregon Cultural Trust Stage	Trimet YA Stage	Work for Art Stage
8:45am 9:00am 9:15am 9:30am 9:45am 10:00am 10:15am 10:30am 10:45am 11:00am 11:15am 11:30am 11:45am 12:00pm 12:15pm 12:30pm 12:45pm 1:00pm 1:15pm 1:30pm 1:45pm 2:00pm 2:15pm 2:30pm 2:45pm 3:00pm 3:15pm 3:30pm 3:45pm 4:00pm 4:15pm 4:30pm 4:45pm 5:00pm 5:15pm 5:30pm 5:45pm 6:00pm 6:15pm	Kathleen Flenniken & Paulann Petersen Poetry Northwest Andrea Hollander Budy & Lisa M. Steinman Jim Shugrue & John Morrison Poets from The Atheneum at the Attic Institute Wendy Willis & John Daniel	Marcos Villatoro & Christopher Baughman Local Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists Jess Walter Chelsea Cain I Write the Songs: Musician as Songwriter Phillip Margolin Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis	Open Write	Jerry McGill & Joe Bianco Book to Screen Gregory Spatz The Heart of the Matter The Art of the Ending One Big Happy Queer Family S. Brian Willson	Erin O'Connell & Robert Rubinstein & Susan Kerner Tad Hills & John Skewes Matthew Holm & Keith Baker John Stephens & Christopher Healy Trent Reedy & Rebecca Stead Dr. Cuthbert Soup Fractured Fairy Tales Middle Grade: Fantasy vs. Reality	Klutz Activity Table Charlotte Rodenberg Puppet Show &… The Art of the Picture Book with Addie Boswell Read to the Dogs	Twisting the Tale Karen Karbo (Almost) Doomsday Journalism Daniel H. Wilson & Alex Adams Doug Fine & David Wolman Jeff Jensen Debra Dean	Breaking into Mystery Mailbox Full of Money: Find & Flex Your Most Prosperous Writing Ideas … Breaking the Conventions of a Memoir: the Art of Speculation The Anti-Hero's Journey: Basic Story Structure for the Unconventional Author Occupy the Book: Indie Authors- Cancelled Top 10 Success Strategies for Writing More and Selling More	Your Foot in the Door Tell it Out Loud! Performance for Writers Mining for Gold: How to Dig Deep and Hit the Mother Lode- Cancelled Art is Nothing Without Form Starting a Series: What you need to know before you sit down to write Can Writing be Taught? What to do to make the most of your college/MFA/conference creat…	Missed Connections: The Story Con… Missed Connections: The Story Con…	Lindy West, Christopher Frizzelle, and Bethany Jean Clement Live Theater in the Internet Age 2nd Story: Megan Stielstra, Deb R. Lewis and CP Chang Diane Farr & Sam Moses Electric Voyeurism The Beer Chicks & Mark Baumgarten Shanna Germain & Arianne Cohen	Lance Weller & Bruce Holbert Brian Doyle & Colin Dickey Natalie Serber & Catherine Brady Cathi Hanauer & Anakana Schofield Sledgehammer Chloe Caldwell & Kevin Sampsell Christopher Lord	Joëlle Anthony & Stephanie Guerra Teen Thrillers Jackson Pearce & Tamara Ireland Stone Kristen-Paige Madonia & Erica Lorraine Scheidt Martha Brockenbrough David Levithan New Trends in Teen Paranormal	Nicole Louise Reid & Sharma Shields Evan P. Schneider & Martha Grover Author as Blogger Storytelling for Children Dean Adams & General Merrill A. McPeak Tin House Kristy Athens
	Attic Institute Poetry Stage	Comcast Stage	Exhibit Hall D, next to the Drinkery	Faceout Studio Stage	KinderCare Children's Stage	Little Word children's stage & discovery place	McMenamins Stage	Minuteman Press Team Writer's Workshop Stage A	Minuteman Press Team Writer's Workshop Stage B	Missed Connections Booth	National Endowment for the Arts Stage	Oregon Cultural Trust Stage	Trimet YA Stage	Work for Art Stage

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