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OREGON BOOK AWARD AUTHOR TOUR: WILLY VLAUTIN

June 13, 2025, 4:00-5:30 workshop, with reading at 6:00 p.m.
525 Anderson Ave Coos Bay, OR 97420

On June 13, Coos Bay Public Library, in partnership with Literary Arts, will host a Writing Workshop With Willy Vlautin from 4:00pm-5:30pm and an Author Reading at 6:00pm.

Join us to get started on your own novel and/or come back later to hear Willy read from The Horse, a 2025 Oregon Book Award finalist.

Both events are free and will be held in the library’s Myrtlewood Room.

Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin is the author of five novels: The Motel Life, which was made into a film starring Dakota Fanning, Emile Hersh, and Stephen Dorff; Northline, Lean on Pete, which won two Oregon Book Awards and was made into an A24 film starring Chloe Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, and Charlie Plummer; The Free, which won the Oregon Book Awards Reader’s Choice Award; and Don’t Skip Out on Me, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and an ALA Notable Book. Vlautin lives outside of Portland, Oregon and is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. His new book is The Horse.

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