Timberline Review Fall Showcase

Willamette Writers invites you to join us for our Fall Showcase, celebrating the launch of our 2026 issue of the Timberline Review. Join us online to hear from our featured readers on November 19 at 7 PM Pacific Time. They will share their Timberline Review pieces, as well as their new work. Featured readers include Marianne Xenos, David J.S. Pickering, Teresa H. Janssen, Melissent Zumwalt, Corey S. Pressman, and Amy Miller.
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About our Readers

Marianne Xenos is an artist and writer living in western Massachusetts. After focusing on visual art for decades, Marianne published her first speculative fiction story just before her sixty-fifth birthday. Her publications include Orion's Belt, MetaStellar, The Orange & Bee, and the anthologies Winding Paths and Claw Machine. In 2022 she was a first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest, and this year was the runner up in the Kay Snow award for fiction. Recently, Marianne attended the Lambda Literary Retreat and received the Hachette's Writer Over 50 Scholarship.

David J.S. Pickering is a native Oregonian poet, having grown up and lived much of his life in the working-class culture of the North Oregon Coast. In 2020, his first poetry collection, Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland, was selected for the Airlie Prize. His poetry is published in a variety of journals including Tar River Poetry, Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith, Rockvale Review, Timberline Review, Mantis, and Reed Magazine. David lives with his husband in Portland where, even as you read this, he has likely had too much coffee.

Teresa H. Janssen’s prose has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including ZYZZYVA, L.A. Review, Catamaran, and Under the Sun. Her debut novel, The Ways of Water (2023) won the Southwest Book Award and the Eric Hoffer Award for historical fiction. “Crossing the Sound”, published in this year’s Timberline Review, is part of a short story collection in which boat crossings become a catalysts for change. A career educator, she studied linguistics at the University of Washington and writes in Port Townsend, WA. She can be found online at teresahjanssen.com.

Melissent Zumwalt is an artist and administrator who lives in Portland, Oregon. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Arkana, Harpur Palate, Hippocampus, Mud Season Review, Variant Literature and elsewhere. A Best of the Net finalist and Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been supported by the Fishtrap Writers Conference. Read more at: melissentzumwalt.com

Corey S. Pressman is a writer, visual artist, and teacher living in Portland, Oregon, whose work explores the intersection of imagination and well-being. His poems, stories, and nonfiction have appeared in The Timberline Review, Orion, Gastronomica, Anthropology and Humanism, and Santa Clara Review. He also leads workshops at Esalen Institute and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. His debut poetry collection, A Thousand Flames, was published by Verdant Publishing in November 2026.

Amy Miller lives in Ashland, Oregon. Her book Astronauts, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, won the Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Trouble with New England Girls won the Louis Award from Concrete Wolf. Her writing has appeared Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Terrain, and ZYZZYVA. She works as a communications editor for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

About Our Events

Willamette Writers meetings are free and open to all writers. Middle and high school writers are encouraged to join Young Willamette Writers. Attendees are welcome to make a donation to help support the cost of events. If you feel sick, please stay home and join us online.

We look forward to seeing you there!