AN INTIMATE LITERARY GATHERING ON A ONE-OF-A-KIND ISLAND - APRIL 13 TO 15, 2018 Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning and critically-acclaimed authors ...

ORCAS                   ISLAND      LIT   FEST

AN INTIMATE
LITERARY
GATHERING ON A
ONE-OF-A-KIND
ISLAND
APRIL 13 TO 15, 2018
Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning
and critically-acclaimed authors,
poets and workshops.

FEATURED WRITERS +

ARTISTS

Gilbert King, Pulitzer winner
Author of "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland
Boys, and the Dawn of a New America" - "The Execution of Willie
Francis"

Adam Johnson, Pulitzer winner
Author of "The Orphan Master's Son" - "Parasites Like Us" -
"Emporium"

Jami Attenberg, NY Times Bestseller
Author of "The Kept Man" - "The Melting Season" - "The Middlesteins"
"Saint Mazie" - "All Grown Up"

Robin Sloan, NY Times Bestseller
Author of "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookshop" - "Sourdough,"
named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, Amazon, Barnes &
Noble and more

 Victor La Valle, Award-winning author
Author of "The Ecstatic" - "Big Machine" - "The Devil in Silver" -
"The Changeling"

Miranda Otto, Award-winning actress
"The Thin Red Line" - "What Lies Beneath"- "The Lord of the Ring" -
"Homeland" - "24"

Urban Waite, "Best book of the year"-Esquire
Author of "The Terror of Living" - "The Carrion Birds" - +Sometimes
the Wolf" - "Far Cry Absolution"

Kim Fu, Award-winning author & poet
Author of "For Today I Am a Boy" - "The Lost Girls of Camp
Forevermore"

Kevin Clark, Award-winning poet
Poet of "In the Evening of No Warning" - "Self-Portrait with
Expletives" - "The Mind's Eye"

Willy Vlautin, Award-winning author
Author of "The Motel Life" - "Northline" - "Lean on Pete" - "The Free"
"Don’t Skip Out on Me"

Please check the oilf.org website for the full & updated list

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

& PLANNERS

Jule Treneer, OILF President and Treasurer, is a writer and financial
advisor who splits his time between Orcas Island & Paris, France. As a
writer and poet, his work has appeared in N+1 magazine, The Rumpus,
Triple Canopy, The New York Sun, Snorkel and Funny or Die. As
Western Europe correspondent for the Faster Times, he wrote a
weekly column that ranged from politics and economics reporting to
lifestyle and culture pieces on books, film and sports. He is Chief Risk
Officer at Madrona Partners, a family office specializing in long-
biased global macro equity investing. He brings all his passion and
energy to bear in overseeing OILF. Prick him and he bleeds Lit Fest.

Scott Hutchins, OILF Vice President and Secretary, is a former Truman
Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University.
His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Catamaran, Five Chapters,
The Owls, The Rumpus, The New York Times, San Francisco Magazine
and Esquire, and has been set to improvisational jazz. He is the
recipient of two major Hopwood awards and the Andrea Beauchamp
prize in short fiction. In 2006 and 2010, he was an artist-in-residence at
the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. His novel A Working Theory of
Love was a San Francisco Chronicle and Salon Best Book of 2012 and
has been translated into nine languages.

Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of Revolutions We'd Hoped We'd
Outgrown and Diary of the One Swelling Sea which was awarded the
2014 Silver Award in Poetry from Nautilus Book Awards. Jill is also the
author of the nonfiction chapbook Borderlines and the founding
director of the nonprofit, Artsmith, providing artist residencies, a
reading series, workshops, and other educational events. She earned
her MFA in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University and her PhD
in English at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln where she served as
the Louise Van Sickle Fellow in Poetry. Jill is dedicated to protecting
the beauty and riches of our planet for future generations. And eating
good food. These endeavors are not mutually exclusive.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

+ PLANNERS, CONT'D

Samuel W. Gailey is our OILF Board Director leading festival
programming. He is also the critically-acclaimed author of Deep
Winter (Penguin|Blue Rider Press), a novel described by The New
York Times as being "Beautifully written..." and by Esquire as
“Enthralling and suspenseful.” Deep Winter has been optioned by film
producer Kim Zubick (The Zookeeper's Wife) and Oscar-nominated
director Paula Van Der Oest. His work on the Lenny Dykstra Memoir,
House Of Nails, earned a spot on the NY Times Bestseller list for
three consecutive weeks in 2016. Read about Sam's upcoming
novels at SamuelWGailey.com

Ayn Gailey' is our OILF Director responsible for the website and
branding. Her memoirish book Pornology (Running Press U.S.|Random
House U.K.) has been published in multiple languages and is slated to
be adapted into film in 2018. Ayn earned a masters from Harvard, an
MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, and has written for magazines, such
as Elle, Cosmo, and Documentary. She is also known as a book
whisperer, helping other writers see their dreams come true. Her most
recent editing and ghostwriting projects with Penguin & Harper Collins,
have led to authors earning national praise as well as spots on the NY
Times Bestseller list. She is co-founder of NovelLab.co and blogs at
www.ayngailey.com

Iris Graville is a writer, book artist and Quaker from Lopez Island who
believes everyone has a story to tell. She is leading the Board's efforts
to highlight regional artists. Iris’s book, Hands at Work, is a collection
of dramatic black and white portraits along with beautiful companion
profiles that tell the stories of people who work with their hands. It
was awarded a Nautilus Book Award. She holds an MFA in writing
from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts and is the publisher of
SHARK REEF Literary Magazine. In 2016 she collaborated on
BOUNTY: Lopez Island Farmers, Food, and Community. Her memoir,
Hiking Naked—A Quaker Woman’s Search for Balance, was recently
released.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

+ PLANNERS, CONT'D

Theresa Harris is leading the non-fiction/memoir outreach for OILF.
She has been an entrepreneur and a teacher and is now a writer in
the throes of completing her first memoir, an intimate reflection on
her childhood traumas and a moving study on the existential idea
that although we are biologically wired to protect our children at all
times, that task is impossible. She is a member of the National
Association of Memoir Writers and the Pacific Northwest Writers
Association. She founded Thrive Art School and Thrive Art Online.
and her articles on creativity have been published in ParentMap,
Seattle’s Child, and Red Tricycle, among others. She moved to Orcas
Island with her family in 2016 and does her best writing in the tree
house that she and her husband built for their two wild boys.

Shannon Borg is a poet, wine writer, marketing coordinator for the
San Juan islands Visitors Bureau, and the OILF Board of Director in
helping with outreach and social media. She has a PhD in Poetry and
literature from the University of Houston, and an MFA in poetry from
the University of Washington. She has published three books: Chefs
on the Farm: Recipes and Inspiration from the Quillisascut School of
the Domestic Arts; The Green Vine: A Guide to West Coast Organic,
Biodynamic and Sustainable Wines, and Corset, a book of poems. Her
articles on wine, food and travel have been published in Seattle,
Washington Tasting Room, Wine Press Northwest, NW Palate, and
other magazines. Her poems have been published in The Paris
Review, London Review of Books, and Poetry Northwest.

OUR MISSION

The mission of the Orcas Island Literary Fest (OILF) is to bring
together people who love to read books with the authors who love
to write them. Historically, the written word has been one of, if not
the most potent, art forms practiced by mankind. At the very least,
books have educated or entertained readers for centuries. Books
also have the power to inspire, provoke, heal, and transform. Our
aim is to share written works that accomplish all of those feats. The
Orcas Island Literary Festival will focus on welcoming a diverse
group of emerging new voices, critically-acclaimed and award-
winning writers, poets and literary figures from around the world to
Orcas Island for a weekend of celebrating the literary arts.

We hope you'll join us.

OVERVIEW

                  "An intimate world-class literary festival on one of our country's most
                            beautiful islands." —Jule Treneer, OILF President

The Orcas Island Lit Fest (OILF) is a celebration of literature, poetry and non-fiction
writing situated on one of the most beautiful places on Earth, Orcas Island, known as the
gem of Washington State’s scenic San Juan Islands. In an intimate setting, festivalgoers
have the opportunity to attend readings, panel discussions, and writers’ workshops
hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, critically-acclaimed authors, and beloved
regional and emerging writers.

   "The Orcas Island Lit Festival is doing for literature what the Telluride Film Fest
                has done so magically and intimately for filmmakers."
                       —Samuel Gailey, author of Deep Winter

Participants can also attend book signings, grab a bite to eat and peruse the exhibits at
our lively and interactive Book Fair at Orcas Center that runs throughout the weekend.
The festival will kick off Friday night with a Lit Walk and open mic night at locations
around quaint Eastsound Village. Saturday morning, the Kid Lit Fest will host Thor
Hanson and readings by characters in costumes and the Book Fair opens at the Orcas
Center for the Arts, featuring exhibits by literary journals, independent presses and
featured publishers. Writers' workshops will also be happening at various locations
around the island during the morning. Two tracks of moderated panel discussions
begin Saturday afternoon, featuring invited artists, thought leaders, and publishing
professionals. On Saturday evening, the Lit Fest's marquee event takes place on the
Orcas Center's main stage, with readings by our award-winning lineup of invited
authors. Afterwards, things get a bit more raucous at the Battle of the Genres gala
after party. Sunday morning is day two of the workshop program, and more fantastic
panels to attend at the Orcas Center, all of it capped off with a final closing event at the
Book Fair.

Festival tickets are available on Eventbrite, Stranger Tickets and at www.oilf.org

PRESS RELEASE

                   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                   Contact: Jule Treneer Skype: juletreneer Email: jule@oilf.org

ORCAS ISLAND LIT FEST ANNOUNCES HEADLINERS FOR APRIL FESTIVAL
Lineup Includes Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winners.

Eastsound, WA – January 8, 2018 -- The Orcas Island Lit Fest announced its first
round of confirmed featured authors for its spring festival. Notable highlights of
the lineup include National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Adam
Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winner Gilbert King and New York Times bestsellers Jami
Attenberg and Robin Sloan. Other celebrated artists announced include
critically-acclaimed authors Victor Lavalle, Kim Fu, Urban Waite, Thor Hanson
and Willy Vlautin, and award-winning actress Miranda Otto, who will appear as
part of the festival's Book-to-Film Panel. The inaugural festival is scheduled for
April 13th to 15th, 2018, in association with the Orcas Island Center for the Arts,
which will host the Lit Fest's Book fair and featured line-up of panels and
readings, with additional workshops and offsite activities, plus free children’s
programming to take place throughout Orcas Island.

"This will be an intimate literary event on a one-of-a-kind island with an
exciting and diverse lineup of celebrated authors and emerging voices,"
according to OILF co-founder Jule Treneer.

OILF's Festival planners will be announcing more beloved regional poets,
memoirists, and non-fiction authors in the coming days.
About Orcas Island Lit Fest

The mission of the Orcas Island Lit Fest is to bring together people who love to
read books with the authors who love to write them. This April, the Lit Fest is
inviting a select group of authors to beautiful Orcas Island to join local and regional
writers in sharing their art, wisdom and knowhow. Festivalgoers will have the
chance to attend readings, panel discussions, writers’ workshops, a Friday night lit
walk, and a Saturday evening marquee event on the Center Stage at the Orcas
Center followed by a Battle of the Genres showdown at historic Oddfellows Hall.
For more information, visit www.oilf.org or find us on Facebook. For press assets,
please email ayn@oilf.org

PRESS ASSETS

The Orcas Island Lit Festival is committed to helping press produce the most
accurate and appealing articles and features possible. We have several
photographers who have provided permission to use their photography of the
islands to support our mission. We can also provide images of our featured
authors and their books pre-festival.

If you would like interviews, facts or anything else to help you feature our festival,
please contact Ayn Gailey (ayn@oilf.org or (310) 467-3020)

For Photos Of Orcas Island:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sw68w5709k58j38/AADVXH7Qc9XIyIU03
KE_jJuya?dl=0

For Photos Of Authors + Book Covers:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tik4vcveyjmdxav/AADeet-
sSHeVNozV0BrHAZuka?dl=0

For Social Media Graphics:
https://www.dropbox.com/home/OILF/PRESS_ASSETS/SOCIAL_MEDIA_GRAPHICS