A rising tide lifts all boats, but for 13 writers who will participate in the Writers Read Celebration at the Cannon Beach Library on March 7, a rising tide is the theme flowing through their stories and poems. The Celebration will begin at 7 p.m.; admission is free. People can attend in person or watch the livestream on Facebook. From shipwrecks to wrack lines, come hear stories about flowers floating from Ukraine, a buried body, time spent at Haystack Rock, a nod to political currents, and more – as we celebrate writing, reading, and the Rising Tide!

This is the seventh year that the library’s NW Authors Series Committee asked writers from everywhere to submit works on a specific theme. Writers could submit up to three entries in any format limited to 600 words per entry.

Of the 85 entries, the committee, after a blind reading, selected 15 pieces to be read by 13 writers.

Those invited to read this year were:

John Ciminello, Naselle, WA, poem: King Tides at Cape Disappointment

Deanna Duplechain, Seaside, OR, short story: Seeing Saturday

Christie Ellis, flash fiction: All at Sea

Kristi Lund, Nehalem, OR, poem: Heeding the Tide

Mimi Maduro, haiku, Three Haiku

Colleen Medlock, Portland/Seaside, OR, flash fictions: Shifting Tides and A Light in a Storm

Russell Myers, Vancouver, WA, flash fiction: The Body

Jennifer Nightingale, Astoria, OR, poems: She Knows the Tide is Rising and Gifts from the Wrack Line

Grace Page, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, poem: An Evening Walk to Haystack

Robert Michael Pyle, Gray’s River, WA, poem: All Boats Rise

Florence Sage, Astoria, OR, poem: But Never Mind

Phyllis Thompson, poem: The Tides

Evan Morgan Williams, Portland, OR, flash fiction: The Great Black Shape

The NW Authors Series Committee sponsors monthly author presentations and other events at the Cannon Beach Library. A recording of last year’s Writers Read Celebration is available here.