Centrum’s newest literary gathering returns November 5-8, 2015. YAWP – Your Alternative Writing Program – is a personal development experience for writers.

YAWP’s first session in April 2015 was about community and reading and writing and doing guided freewrites and writing exercises and creating new work and having good food at PT restaurants.

Autumn YAWP will be the same, as well as being under the November sky and with clouds pressed together like bales of wet newspapers and the firs and madronas and deer wandering like tramps and all the inspiration of tea and wine and books and your notebook or laptop and lamps lighting the mid-autumn peacefulness of Fort Worden State Park.

Registration is now open, but April’s session sold out fast, and the November gathering is limited to just 20 participants.