Upcoming Events and appearances
May 12, 2026 High Desert Museum High Desert Project Bend, Oregon
May 28, 2026 Columbia River Correctional Institution Writing Workshop, Portland, Oregon
May 28, 2026 Caldera’s Portland Spirit Drawing Room Portland, Oregon
June 3, 2026 In conversation with renown British author and naturalist Robert Macfarlane, Paulina Springs Books, Sisters, Oregon
June 23-28, 2026 Fishtrap Writing and the West Summer Fishtrap Keynote and workshop, Enterprise, Oregon.
July 17, 2026 Poetry in Place, Clatskanie Cultural Center, Clatskanie, Oregon.
July 18, 2026 100th anniversary of the Astoria Column, Astoria, Oregon.
July 30 – August 2, 2026 Sixth Annual Lost in Place Nature Writing Intensive.
August 14-16, 2026 US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze and Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston in readings and Workshops in the occasion of the dedication of the new Central Library, Bend, Oregon.
August 14 – 16, 2026 Naturally Northwest, an exhibition of broadsides by Northwest printmakers and poets, Central Library, Bend, Oregon
August 22, 2026 In A Landscape, Drake Park, Bend, Oregon Ellen Waterston reading accompanied by classical pianist Hunter Noack www.inalandscape.org
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
October 28, 2026 Ellen Waterston in a reading with novelist Claudia Hinz, author of Safekeeping, Broadway Books, Portland, Oregon
November 10, 2026 Water Put into Words, High Desert Project Writing Workshop, High Desert Museum, Bend Oregon
November 19, 2026 Reading and Conversation, Mirabella, Portland, Oregon