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07/15/2024

Hi Friends, I'm excited to see Sidney Morrison tonight July 15 @ 7pm (PT) / Powell's Books, Inc. talking about his book and the man, Frederick Douglass. I would love to see you there. This has been my passion project for the last two years and I want to celebrate with you.

07/12/2024

Hello Portland! Interested in the preeminent abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, a man Nikole Hannah-Jones calls, “one of the founders of American Democracy?” Sidney Morrison will be at Powell’s City of Books on Monday, July 15 @ 7pm discussing his historical novel, Frederick Douglass, which he spent decades researching. Library Journal said, “Morrison grapples with Douglass in all his complexities... that will both educate and spark discussions.” Please join me Monday to spark a discussion! historicalfiction

07/03/2024

Check out the Monitor’s 10 best books of June, including Frederick Douglass, by Sidney Morrison.
"Frederick Douglass roars from the pages of this meticulous novel, thanks to the voices of his steadfast wife, Anna, and their children, plus confidants, paramours, and even enslavers. A complex man emerges. Proud and persistent, fickle and flawed, he’s inseparable from the era’s tumult and hard-fought triumphs." Grateful to be included in such good company.

06/26/2024

Hello San Diego! Sidney Morrison will be discussing Frederick Douglass at The Book Catapult, 3010-B Juniper Street
San Diego, CA 92104-5437 tomorrow. Sidney spent decades researching Douglass and has many compelling stories. Please stop by and say hello!

06/25/2024

Well, this made my day!

Founded in 2023, Nevermind will produce Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology Of Water, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir and with Imogen Poots attached to star.

Multi-year deal makes Fremantle the primary home for Nevermind projects.

06/24/2024

Big thank you to Foreword for including Sidney Morrison's Frederick Douglass in their Book of the Day Roundup!

"Frederick Douglass is a sprawling biographical novel about a complex man with a singular objective: to achieve full racial equality for all Americans." EILEEN GONZALEZ

06/19/2024

Please allow me to introduce Diamond Michael Scott, host of Black Books + Black Minds and Great Books, Great Voices, “a weekly podcast where we Aim To Ignite a New World of Community, Connection and Conversation One Book at a Time.” In this particular episode Diamond talks with Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel. Link in bio.

06/18/2024

Happy Pub Day to Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel! A big thank you to all who worked on this project: Diane Chonette, designer; Scott Parker, copyeditor/proofreader; Steve Scholl, agent & event manager; and , distributor extraordinaire. Big thanks to my Indie Booksellers who brainstormed and spent time with me, especially my locals, , , and . fiction

06/18/2024

If you’re in the area, the book launch for Sidney Morrison’s Frederick Douglass: A Novel tonight at Vroman’s. Please stop by and say hello!

05/31/2024

What a wonderful surprise to walk into my neighborhood Indie Broadway Books and discover Frederick Douglass: A Novel, by Sidney Morrison on display!

05/09/2024

The manifestation of two years worth of work brings me to tears of joy. Frederick Douglass: A Novel, by Sidney Morrison (6/18/24) is in the house! My first hard cover gorgeously designed by Diane Chonette.

04/29/2024

Curious to learn more about Frederick Douglass? Sidney Morrison will soon begin his book tour (6/18/24). Gospel choir, videos, pictures, all will be presented. Here’s a preliminary list with many dates to be announced.

04/24/2024

Thank you to Booklist for the starred review! We are especially looking forward to getting this title on shelves.

04/03/2024

Congratulations, Kristen Jokinen, author of Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina! 🎉🎊 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist.

02/03/2024

Thank you for including ‘s Oregon Book Award Winning Wedlocked! Posted • Next time you visit Up Up, be on the lookout for gold dots on the spine of books. Every gold dot means that the writer of that books is from Oregon or lives in Oregon ✨

02/02/2024

I have been working on Frederick Douglass: A Novel, by Sidney Morrison (pub: Juneteenth) for the last two years and didn’t know about his contribution to the Red Cross.

During Black History Month, we are honoring Black men and women whose contributions helped the American Red Cross become the organization that it is today!

Meet Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a prominent abolitionist, orator and author who met Red Cross founder Clara Barton shortly after the end of the Civil War.
Frederick and Clara developed a friendship, and Clara discussed establishing a Red Cross Association in the United States with him.

The famed abolitionist offered advice and support to Clara in her efforts to gain American acceptance as a member nation of the global Red Cross network. Frederick in his capacity as Register of Deeds for the District of Columbia, signed the original Articles of Incorporation for the Red Cross when they were submitted to the municipal authorities. The articles legally documented the creation of the American Red Cross.

Thank you, Frederick Douglass, for your contributions in helping found our organization.

01/30/2024

Another rewarding winter institute memory, this time with multi-talented memoirist Jenny Forrester to launch Narrow River, Wide Sky.

01/26/2024

As the 2024 Winter Institute approaches I have fond memories of Winter Institute ten years ago where we launched the illustrious Tom Spanbauer’s novel, I Loved You More.

01/24/2024

Posted • We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2024 ! Congratulate these incredible writers who fill our state and beyond with amazing literature, and join us at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8 (lit-arts.org/oba24) to find out the winners:

📚Fiction
Patrick deWitt, The Librarianist,
, Is That All There Is?,
, Mobility,
, Bratwurst Haven, hon, The Light on Farallon Island, Lake Union Publishing

📚Poetry
, Dream of Xibalba,
Jessica E. Johnson, Metabolics,
, CHORUS,
Sara Quinn Rivara, Little Beast,
, Terror, Terrible, Terrific,

📚General Nonfiction
Jessica Applegate and Paul Koberstein, Canopy of Titans,
Steven C. Beda, Strong Winds & Widow Makers,
, Under the Henfluence,
, Goodbye, Eastern Europe,
, Where We Call Home,

📚Creative Nonfiction
, Wolfish,
, Windfall,
, Good for a Girl,
, Floppy,
, The Distance From Slaughter County,

📚Children’s
Valerie Coulman, Dragons on the Inside (And Other Big Feelings),
, Too Early,
Linda Meanus, My Name is Lamoosh,
, All By Myself,
, Cut!,

📚Middle Grade & YA
, No Matter the Distance, Quill Tree Books
, The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura, Quill Tree Books
, Where Echoes Die,
, Girl Forgotten, parry, A Horse Named Sky,

📚Graphic Lit
& ​​, Incredible Doom: Vol. 2,
, Wonder Woman

01/19/2024

Thank you! Posted • New Section Alert!
Books That Fit In Your Pocket AND…Best of Portland featuring and and more!

01/17/2024

I need cleats to leave my home. Solid ice, Baby!

01/17/2024

Posted • ✨ATTENTION FICTION WRITERS!✨ The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15!

Lauren Groff will select one winning manuscript for publication by Sarabande Books. In celebration of Sarabande’s 30th anniversary, we are also pleased to offer an increased prize in the amount of $3,000, as well as a standard royalty contract.

Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

Lauren Groff () is a three-time National Book Award () finalist and The New York Times–bestselling () author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize (), the ABA () Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award ). Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker ), The Atlantic (), and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

01/17/2024

Posted • 🚴🏽‍♀️ Thank you (Ellee) for your thoughtful interview and article in Magazine 🚴

Advice for long-term bike travel (or life in general) with a partner from K.G. + Ville:

• Communicate! Don’t stuff down irritations and annoyances. Let off steam little by little; don’t bottle things up so you explode and act irrationally. Is easier to get through hard moments - like when you’re hungry and camping in a mud pit while it rains - if you don’t have emotional baggage.

• If you’re frustrated, practice gratitude while pedaling. Lost one thing you’re grateful for each mile; it’s tough to be angry when focusing on what you have and not what you’re lacking.

Read more in Adventure Cycling Magazine November/December Issue. 📰 Story by Ellee Thalheimer

01/17/2024

Thirteen years ago and one of my most vivid memories. Truly an editing joy. Grateful for . High tech editing: contemplating the pagination of The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch.

01/15/2024

Posted • Happy birthday to Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr.! We celebrate the man today—his work, his life, his sacrifice(s)—but lest we forget, his WIFE, the Civil Rights activist, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, was the person who kept his legacy alive, who established the King Memorial in Atlanta, and who is primarily responsible through her years-long work in securing a national celebration of Dr. King’s birthday. This is why I love this picture of the two of them. Remember that legacies don’t come about through magic. Somebody works to keep them alive. So the next time you hear a young Black person say “I am not my ancestors” or “I’m tired of hearing about slavery and Jim Crow” in a derisive way—or the next time you hear somebody say “women should submit; it’s in the Bible”—remind them of that submissive women don’t change history. Mrs. Scott King knew that if we Black folks don’t keep the history going, there won’t be any information to share. ♥️🖤💚

01/15/2024

Posted • ✨ Calling all essayists!✨ The inaugural Sarabande Prize in the Essay is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15!

Alexander Chee will select one winning manuscript for publication by Sarabande Books. In celebration of Sarabande’s 30th anniversary, we are also pleased to offer an increased prize in the amount of $3,000, as well as a standard royalty contract.

Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

Alexander Chee () is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, all from Mariner Books. A contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewanee Review, and the 2016 and 2019 Best American Essays. He was guest-editor for The Best American Essays of 2022.

He is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a NEA Fellowship, an MCCA Fellowship, the Randy Shilts Prize in gay nonfiction, the Paul Engle Prize, the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Leidig House, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak.

He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.

01/14/2024

It’s 19 degrees outside and Rock can’t get closer to the fire. He’s been camped here all day. I’ve taken him to his favorite bush in the front yard twice and he refuses to lift a leg, he just stares at me like must be mad.

01/11/2024

Yes! Go Kristen! I would love nothing more than to see The Chronology of Water by as a movie. Posted • Kristen Stewart has spent five years fruitlessly trying to drum up financing for what she hopes will be her feature directing debut, “The Chronology of Water,” based on the stream-of-consciousness memoir by bisexual author Lidia Yuknavitch.⁠
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“I won’t make a-f**king-nother movie until I make this movie,” she declares. Then she sits back and breaks into nervous laughter. “Can’t wait for my agents to read that.”⁠
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Read the story at the link in our bio.⁠
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