Compose Creative Writing Conference
Connect and create with practicing writers and publishers at Clackamas Community College's annual Compose Creative Writing Conference, hosted by CCC's English Department.
Compose 2025
Conference Keynote: Stephen Graham Jones
We’re thrilled to have as our 2025 keynote speaker Stephen Graham Jones, the New York Times-bestselling author of nearly 40 novels, short story collections, novellas and comic books, including “The Only Good Indians,” “My Heart is a Chainsaw,” “Mongrels,” “Earthdivers” and “I was a Teenage Slasher.”
Jones is not only one of the most prolific authors in publishing but also among its most decorated. He is a National Endowment for the Arts recipient and has won a wide range of awards for his fiction and graphic novels. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
