Sterncastle Publishing

06/16/2025

Sterncastle is proud to share the newly released trailer video for My Sutured Mind: Poems of Healing Beyond Trauma by Taylor Yount and Veta Bakhtina.

The book is now available in print and ebook formats on multiple platforms. Get your copy today or send one as a gift to someone in need of encouraging words.

https://youtu.be/7RCqmVCx8co

My Sutured Mind: Poems of Healing Beyond Trauma is a collection of free verse poetry pa...

06/15/2025

Thank you Oregon Coast Breaking News for your coverage of our launch event for My Sutured Mind: Poems of Healing Beyond Trauma.

06/12/2025

Be there for the launch of this groundbreaking collaboration between author & artist, which reconsiders the way the world approaches trauma recovery.

Saturday 6/14 4-6pm at Aquarium Village, Newport.

It’s no secret that writers and visual artists are mostly solitary creatures when they work, but when they work together, it can create magic, as was the case with the collaboration between Taylor Yount and Veta Bakhtina.

06/12/2025

Be there for the launch of this groundbreaking collaboration between author & artist, which reconsiders the way the world approaches trauma recovery.

Saturday 6/14 4-6pm at Aquarium Village, Newport.

https://www.oregoncoasttoday.com/home/sharing-a-story

It’s no secret that writers and visual artists are mostly solitary creatures when they work, but when they work together, it can create magic, as was the case with the collaboration between Taylor Yount and Veta Bakhtina.

06/07/2025

Big thanks to all who attended today’s Sterncastle Writers Collective reading & signing event at Lincoln City’s Driftwood Public Library.

We would also like to express our gratitude to library staff for accomodating us even though they were short handed today.

Looking forward to the next one!

04/24/2025

April is National Poetry Month, and Sterncastle is proud to announce our next upcoming poetry release… 𝗠𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱: 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮

My Sutured Mind is a collaborative effort between poet Taylor Yount and painter Veta Bakhtina who combine talents to take readers verbal and visual voyage of the soul, from the depths of depression to the heights of hope, to show the power and possibility of true recovery.

Preorder info coming soon. For now enjoy these behind the scenes shots of the creative process. Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and more in print and ebook formats June 14, 2025!

04/18/2025

Looking to join Oregon’s long line of literary dynamos? Start your journey with Sterncastle Writing Group - Newport. We’ll be meeting this Saturday 4/19 from 11-2 at Sterncastle HQ.

It's the birthday of Ardyth Kennelly, born on April 15, 1912, in Glenada, Oregon, a small town near Florence on the lower Siuslaw River.

Novelist and artist Ardyth Kennelly was “one of the last of a celebrated group of Pacific Northwest writers with national reputations in the 1940s and 1950s,” literary historian Brian Booth noted at her death in 2005. The author of two successful Literary Guild books, she became an artist late in life, creating large collages and mixed-media pieces and exhibiting in venues such as the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland. “The work is so extraordinary that I can’t imagine cutting anything out,” Leach wrote the artist when choosing pieces for Kennelly’s first exhibit; “the amazing thing is that the work is really about us—all of us human beings here on this planet.”

Learn more about Ardyth Kennelly with this OE entry by Nancy Trotic. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/kennelly-ardyth/

Photo: Kennelly autographs her book The Peaceable Kingdom at the J. K. Gill bookstore, Portland, November 9, 1949. Courtesy Ardyth Morehouse.

01/25/2025

It’s on at Ashika-Con! Looking forward to an awesome weekend. Come on down to the Newport Rec Center and check it out.

01/25/2025

It’s on at Ashika-Con! Come on down to the Newport Rec Center and check it out!

01/23/2025

Hot new interview just dropped with debut author Savannah Gardiner. Learn more about this up and coming wordsmith and her new novel Could've Been, available now in print and ebook.

Big thanks to Kiera Morgan and the team at for the exposure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CfnaG00gg

In this episode I visit with local author Savanah Gardiner about her new book "Could've Been" Learn about how she came up with the idea for the book, her wri...

12/23/2024

Looking for that perfect holiday gift for the animal lover who already has everything?

Well I bet they don’t have a set of these one-of-a-kind animal divination cards by Toledo based artist Yelizaveta Bakhtina.

Animal divination cards, also known as animal oracle cards, are a tool used for guidance, introspection, and self-reflection. Each card features a detailed, hand drawn animal and its associated symbolic meaning or energy. Users draw cards to receive insights, messages, or inspiration based on the qualities or attributes of the animal depicted.

Common Uses:
1. Personal Guidance: They can help you navigate challenges by reflecting on the traits of the drawn animal (e.g., wisdom from an owl, perseverance from a turtle).
2. Meditation: Focus on the animal’s qualities during meditation to connect with its energy or symbolism.
3. Decision-Making: Draw cards to gain clarity on a situation or decision.
4. Spiritual Connection: Some people use them to feel a deeper connection to nature or animal spirits.
5. Self-Discovery: The cards can encourage you to explore your own characteristics and align them with the qualities of the animal.

Animal divination cards are the perfect gift for people interested in mythology and natural wisdom, but can be used by anyone to achieve greater clarity. Get your deck at the Sterncastle Bookshop in Newport while supplies last!

12/18/2024

Any Icelanders in the house? 🇮🇸

The Sterncastle Bookshop in scenic Newport, OR has dozens of books by authors local to the Pacific Northwest for your holiday gift giving traditions. Stop on by!