Upcoming Events and appearances
September 10, 2026. Water Put into Words, High Desert Project Writing Workshop, High Desert Museum, Bend Oregon
September 17, 2026. Waterston Desert Writing Prize Awards Ceremony with a special presentation by former US Poet Laureate Jo Harjo, High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon
September 19, 2026. Dinner and reading with Oregon Artswatch, Sunriver, Oregon.
October 28, 2026. Ellen Waterston in a reading with novelist Claudia Hinz, author of Safekeeping, Broadway Books, Portland, Oregon
November 5-7, 2026. “Writing Around Harney County,” workshops and presentation hosted by Harney County Library and Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
November 18, 2026. Workshop and presentation hosted by Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City, Oregon.
November 19, 2026. Reading and Conversation, Mirabella, Portland, Oregon
November 20, 2026. Tributary Retreat Field Trip and Workshop hosted by Tributary Hotel, McMinnville, Oregon
December 3, 2026. Poetry reading with poet Jeff Fearnside, hosted by PRAx, Corvallis, Oregon.
December 4, 2026. Film critic Jared Rasic and Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston in readings and repartee, a reception and fundraiser for The Source Weekly’s Lay It Out Foundation, Unitarian Universalist Church
January 25 – 30, 2027. Western Poets Laureate in readings at the 42nd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada
February 13 – 21, 2027. Sixteenth Annual Writing Down the Baja, Todos Santos, BCS Mexico