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Orlo is a nonprofit organization using the creative arts to explore environmental themes. Orlo publishes the Bear Deluxe magazine, facilitates visual art projects and serves as a leader in the field of place-based arts.

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Bear Deluxe #34: the Town & Country issue

The Bear Deluxe’s special Town & Country issue is on the streets around the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Email us for ideas on where to find #34 or to have a copy mailed to you.

Contact us

810 SE Belmont, Studio 5
Portland, Oregon 97214

bear@orlo.org

Office is open by appointment only. Email is our preferred contact.
For time-sensitive matters, call 971-235-2734.

Submit

Fiction and nonfiction: 4,000-word limit. Nonfiction query letters welcome.
Poetry: 3-5 poems per submission. 50-line limit.
Art: Email low-resolution images or links.
Mail and email submissions are welcome. Include an appropriately stamped SASE if you'd like materials returned. We cannot respond to every email submission.

Congratulations 2012 Doug Fir Fiction Award winners!

This year’s contest was judged by Author Brian Doyle. First place was awarded to David M. Armstrong of Las Vegas, Nevada for his story “A Different-Sized Us.”  Honorable mention goes to Bridget Brewer of Portland, Oregon for “The Hungry Tide.” Contest finalists are Andres Augustine Carlstein for “The Lindbergh Baby” and Jorge Cino for “In Passing.”

We are pleased to present to David a residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and a $1,000 award. “A Different-Sized Us,” will be published in the Summer 2013 issue of The Bear Deluxe.

The 2013-14 Doug Fir Fiction Award judge is Lidia Yuknavitch, the author of the award-winning memoir, The Chronology of Water, the novel, Dora: A Headcase, and three works of short fiction: Her Other Mouths, Liberty’s Excess, and Real to Reel, as well as a book of literary criticism, Allegories of Violence.

The Doug Fir Fiction Award welcomes submissions of short fiction (5,000 words or less) focused on the environment or sense of place. Submissions for the 2013-14 contest open on June 1, 2013. Check back for submission details.

Support/Subscribe/Sample Issues

You can make a secure membership donation by clicking here:

http://www.orlo.org/donate.html

All membership donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. A one-year membership, including two issues of the magazine, is $50. Contact us for business-sponsor advertising and marketing opportunities. Sample issues and subscriptions are $5 per issue (please note your subscription or copy order in notes section of PayPal or with your check).

Thank you thank you

Thanks to our contributing writers, artists, designers, strategizers, supporters and problem solvers at all levels who make this labor of love possible.

Foundation Sponsors

Orlo enjoys the support of the Regional Arts & Culture Council, The Kinsman Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission.