A Giddy Leap Through a Legal Window, Straight Onto the Barbeque Pit of Public Debate
Appearances
The Oregon Book Awards Author Tour on January 20th at the Eugene Public Library, 7pm, and on January 21st at the North Bend Public Library, 7pm.
On Jefferson Exchange, on Jefferson Public Radio, 9 am on December 5th, to talk about The Brides of March
QLiterati! An evening of queer literature at Portland QCenter on October 8th, 7pm, hosted by Diane and Jake Anderson-Minshall, with authors Ariel Gore, Tammy Stoner and Beren deMotier
Wordstock, the Festival of the Book in Portland, Oregon--November 9th at 12:30, Beren will be on a panel about queer in/visibility with Ariel Gore, and will read from her Oregon Book Award Finalist memoir at 5pm
Awards
Finalist in the 2008 Oregon Book Awards', Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction
Gold winner in the Foreword Magazine 2007 Book of the Year Awards, Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction
Winner in the National Indie Excellence Award 2008, Current Events category
Honorary Mention in the 2007 Reader Views Awards in Memoir/Autobiography
Honorary Mention in the 15th Annual Writers Digest Intl. Self-Published Book Awards, Life Stories
2nd Place in the Pacific Northwest Literary Association's 2006 Literary Contest, Memoir/Non-fiction
Radio Interviews
Ed Goldberg interviewed Beren about The Brides of March on KBOO Portland on November 13th, 2007
Maggi White interviewed Beren about The Brides of March on OPB in Dec. 2007
Jacob Anderson-Minshall hosted a GLBTQ literature round-table on June 17th, 2008, that included Marc Acito, Diane Anderson-Minshall and Beren deMotier
Interviews in Print
Rebecca Ragain interviewed Beren about her book in "Bride's Eye View, The memoir of a lesbian mom-next-door shares her experience of same-sex marriage" published in The Hollywood Star in October 2007
Malka Geffen interviewed Beren about The Brides of March in "Declaration of Love, Portland author takes a wild trip through same-sex marriage and beyond" published in Just Out on August 17th, 2007