Terroir Creative Writing Festival bringing Oregon writers together

In Arts Alive TV show Part One the organizers of the Terroir Creative Writing Festival Barbara Drake and Emily Chadwick and guest Debra Voorhess talked with Arts Alive TV show host Lynda Phillippi about the Festival.

The Terroir Creative Writing Festival  will be all day on Saturday April 14th at the McMinnville Community Center. The registration form is available at the Festival Website.  There is a per-registration discount through March 23.

Barbar Drake

Terroir (terr whah) refers to the site- and region-specific characteristics of a wine. Climate, soil and landscape define the wine grapes’ character and helps give the wine its distinctive identity.

Like the vines that line the hillsides of Yamhill County, our words take on the qualities of place, growing rich in the soils of life experiences.

The Terroir Creative Writing Festival brings Oregon writers together for a day of celebrating this special place, as well as the joys of  writing and books.  There will be workshops and speakers on fiction, poetry, writing creative non-fiction, memoir and more.

This is the third year for the Festival, which is sponsored by the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County  funding from the Yamhill County Cultural Coalition.