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The Book Burger Reading

August 10, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 11:30 pm

Free
View Venue Website, 3415 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR 97214 + Google Map

On August 10th, a group of local authors across multiple genres invite you to spend the evening with them.

It’s an invite unlike many you’ll come across, wherein we want you to meet us for a bite to eat at Nick’s Famous Coney Island to celebrate the last day of Burger Week before a reading at Belmont Books. After each author reads for about ten minutes, we’ll head over to Rendez Vous down the block for a cocktail or tea. What we want is a community of readers who get to know the authors, find new ones, and branch outside their favorite genre–if not just to tell a friend.

Belmont Books is a lovely, if not smaller bookstore. That means you we may be at standing room only–even spilling out onto the street, if all goes well. The authors have already accounted for that, with plans of reading in the doorway–loud and proud. As I said, this is unusual, but come check it out. You’ll love the authors, you’ll love Belmont Books, and who’s mad at hanging with writers while they have dinner for $5?

Author list:

Stevan Allred – Mytho-Fabulist
Chelsea Biondolillo – Nonfiction
Curtis Chen – Science Fiction
Beth Cook – Middle Grade & Young Adult Fantasy
Ben Gorman – Speculative Fictions
Jessie Kwak – Science Fiction
A W McCollough – Fantasy & Science Fiction
Elizabeth Mitchell – Suspense & Magical Realism
Margaret Pinard – Historical Fiction & Mystery
Liz Scott – Memoir

5:30 p.m. Burgers at Nick’s Famous Coney Island
7:00 p.m. Reading at Belmont Books PDX
9:00 p.m. Cocktails and tea at Rendez Vous

Keep a lookout for more multi-genre reading events hosted by Little Key Press. We hope to do a few a year all over Portland, Vancouver, and Beaverton.