NEWS BRIEFS: Evenings with authors start Tuesday in PT … and other items

PORT TOWNSEND — Goddard College’s Port Townsend campus and Master of Fine Arts in

Creative Writing program will host a pair of readings and receptions with award-winning authors Lidia Yuknavich and Drew Dillhunt.

Yuknavich will present Tuesday and Dillhunt will present Wednesday — with both events starting at 7 p.m. — at Fort Worden, Building 204, 200 Battery Way.

Yuknavitch is the author of the national bestselling novel “The Small Backs of Children” and recipient of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.

She received her doctorate in literature from the University of Oregon and founded the Corporeal Writing workshop series.

Dillhunt is the author of “Leaf is All,” winner of the 2015 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Poetry Series.

He lives in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, where he serves as the associate editor of Hummingbird Press.

For more information, contact Goddard’s Port Townsend office at ptoffice@goddard.edu or 360-344-4100.

Conservation meal

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson Land Trust’s annual conservation breakfast fundraiser will take place Thursday, Feb. 23.

The free breakfast is open to the public and will occur from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St.

The menu will include coffee, tea, egg croissant sandwiches and fruit.

Seating is limited, so staff advises those interested to make reservations by Thursday.

For more information and reservations, visit saveland.org or contact the land trust at 360-379-9501 or info@saveland.org.

Shelter meeting

PORT ANGELES — The Shelter Providers Network of Clallam County will meet to discuss street outreach’s impact on homelessness and the community Wednesday at 10 a.m.

The group will meet in Room 160 of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.

Sign-in begins at 9:45 a.m., and the meeting will adjourn at 11:30 a.m.

The agenda will cover legislative issues and the recent Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day in Olympia, preliminary impressions from the annual Point In Time count of homeless people, as well as news of other services, housing and funding developments.

For more information, phone Network Coordinator Martha Ireland at 360-452-7224, ext. 307, or email shelterprovidersnetwork@gmail.com.

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