Atheneum Alums Read at Rose City Book Pub | Dec 8 1pm | Free

You're invited to a free reading and panel discussion of Atheneum alums on Dec 8 2024, 1pm, at the Rose City Book Pub in NE Portland.

Meet emerging writers. Expand your literary community. Hear new work and join a discussion of taking writing from scratch to publication.

Readers:

Sharon Dursi Martin

Noah Zimmerman

Celeste Hamilton Dennis

Heidi Beierle

Details:

Sunday December 8 | 1pm

Rose City Book Pub, 1329 NE Fremont

Free and open to the public

Sharon Dursi Martin (Atheneum 2023) is a creative nonfiction writer who lives a double life as the founder and principal of a recovery high school in Portland, OR. Dursi Martin earned her BA in Creative Writing from Bryn Mawr College with a double major in Fine Arts. After years of addiction, houselessness, some pretty epic oil paintings, and a master’s degree in Teaching, she returned to the land of the living and to the process of writing. She is at work on an unconventional memoir tentatively titled Shelled (The World's Longest Suicide Note).

Noah Zimmerman (Atheneum 2025) is writing a novel. He has fiction forthcoming in the Buckman Journal.

Celeste Hamilton Dennis (Atheneum 2010) is a solutions journalist, essayist, and fiction writer. She loves writing about mouthy women and is working on a short story collection based in her hometown of Levittown, New York. She is a mom of two girls, and in almost every story you can find traces of her own mouthy mother, Jazz.

Heidi Beierle (Atheneum 2018) is an author, slow traveler and artist based in Bellingham, Washington. Her debut memoir, Heidi Across America – One Woman’s Journey on a Bicycle Through the Heartland, published with HCI Books in 2024. Her other written work has appeared in High Desert Journal, VoiceCatcher Journal and Journal of America’s Byways. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee for her short essay, “Carnage.” In addition to encasing gifts in paper and tape, she makes personalized collage art postcards and won an award for the cowgirl outfit she crafted from trash bags and duct tape for the Worst Day of the Year Ride.

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