Sponsors of our Autumn and Summer Workship Break Scholarships, as well as the Break Residency. The Alano Club of Portland has been a leading source of recovery support in our community for over 60 years. In addition to over 100 weekly mutual aid support meetings, the Alano Club offers other recovery resources, like weekly recovery yoga and mindful meditation classes, monthly seminars on topics like brain chemistry and addiction and relationships and recovery, and regular workshops on topics ranging from recovery advocacy to mindful-based relapse prevention. The Alano Club also hosts large-scale sober social events, like our Recovery Art Walk, Recovery Talent Show and holiday community dinners.  

Bishop & Wilde is a queer-owned bookstore located on the ground level of the McCormack Writing Center in Portland, Oregon. Lovingly owned, operated, and curated by Melissa L. Amstutz.

Sponsors of the Oregon Summer Workshop CS Prize for Indigenous Women and Non-Binary Writers

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is a major English-language literary award celebrating creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in the United States and Canada.

The official reading series of the MWC Residency Program. Constellation is a once-monthly, multi-genre literary reading series, featuring 3 scheduled readers per event. We intend to create a warm, inclusive community space for those who love the written word, build a long-running Portland institution that centers unrepresented writers, and provide a regular opportunity to connect with each other around literature. Each reading will be anchored by Portland-based writers, though we will host visiting writers. We are committed to justice and inclusion and will prioritize BIPOC writers and writers with identities underrepresented in institutional spaces. Constellation is organized by Jessica Johnson and Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka, two Portland writers and community organizers who met while teaching at Portland Community College.