People entered over 400 poems into the 2019 Source Poetry Contestโa grand representation of the breadth of creativity in our community! We extend our thanks to the first round of judgesโstudents in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at OSU-Cascades, and the second round of judgesโlocal poets including Kit Stafford, Irene […]
Jenna Goldsmith
Woman to Woman
As we outlined in the Opinion piece on page 4 of this issue, the Source’s Woman of the Year in 2019 is Erika McCalpine, a business instructor at OSU-Cascades, who moved to this community in early 2018 from Alabama. Not long after, McCalpine experienced at least one racial incident that left her feeling vulnerableโan incident […]
Poetry Contest
The winning poems from the 2018 Source poetry contestโand a word about why they won, from the judges. The 2nd annual Source poetry contest was, like last year, a collaboration between this publication and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Oregon State University-Cascades. We received hundreds of submissions from writers in […]
Source Weekly Poetry Contest Winners
F or the Inaugural Source Weeklyโs 2017 Poetry Contest, we challenged local poets to send us their works in one of two categories: focused on the topic of growth, or in the โopenโ category. Scores of poets submitted more than 260 poems, which were judged in the first round by the MFA creative writing candidates […]

