Fields End

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Field s End is a writers community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, not far from Seattle across Puget Sound. Field s End debuted in Fall 2002, offering classes taught by award-winning authors Kathleen Alcala, David Guterson, and Priscilla Long. Since then, Field s End has not only has continued offering top-quality writing classes, but it also offers a variety of programs and events. Free programs open to all include the monthly Writers Roundtable series, now in it s third year. Field s End also organized both a half-day workshop and an authors panel at Northwest Bookfest 2003, further defining itself as a regional presence serving literary writers. In September 2003, a lecture by award-winning scholar and author Dr. Charles Johnson initiated what will be an ongoing lecture series. Since then, Field s End has offered lectures by Michigan poet Diane Wakoski, Massachussetts neurologist and author Dr. Alice Weaver Flaherty, Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times author Tim Egan, authors Andrew Ward and Ivan Doig, and most recently, author Dorothy Allison. The name Field s End derives from the title poem of Theodore Roethke s posthumously published The Far Field, winner of a National Book Award in 1965. Roethke, a poet of enormous influence and stature, spent much of his life in the Pacific Northwest. He died on Bainbridge Island in 1963. For more information about Roethke, click here...

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