Authors to discuss new works

Published 9:00 am Wednesday, June 16, 2021

ASTORIA — Authors Deborah Williams and Sarah Buckmaster, who were selected to participate in the North Coast Writer’s Residency, will participate in an author reading and reception at 6 p.m. on Saturday and Aug. 18 at Astoria Visual Arts, 1000 Duane Street.

The residency was developed by the Astoria Writer’s Guild and Astoria Visual Arts. The program offers established and emerging writers an opportunity to work on writing projects. Participants stay at the Spotted Goat Cottage on the Long Beach Peninsula, which features views of Willapa Bay, Long Island and the Willapa Hills.

Williams will work on a project titled “Hot and Strange: Reinventions of Self and School in the Middle East,” which follows her experience moving to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Buckmaster plans to complete her first novel during the residency.