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Submission Deadline: smoke + mold Issue 2

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland

smoke + mold is an online journal of, broadly defined, nature focused prose by trans writers in reaction to ongoing crises of climate and culture. Work should be limited to 3000 words or less. Excerpts of longer work welcome, but should be able to stand on their own. Prose poems are welcome, but the journal really wants prose of fiction, nonfiction, and critical work. All writers receive $50 upon acceptance. See the website for greater detail of the kind of work their looking for. smoke + mold is also accepting issue proposals for 1-2 themed special issues revolving around a particular theme, issue, question, etc. to be selected, edited, and introduced by a guest editor. See the same link above for further info.

Free

Prompt Alumni Workshop with IPRC

Write Around Portland 133 SW 2nd Ave, Ste 304, Portland

This special workshop for Prompt alumni will feel like an expansion of one’s previous Prompt workshop experience. It's "Prompt plus" in partnership with the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)! Participants will still generate new writing together and will also engage in expanded writing exercises and focused re-(vision) activities. The final two workshops will take place at the IPRC studio where participants will receive instruction on how to design and produce risograph prints of their own work. DATES: 10 Tuesdays, Oct 1 – Dec 10, 2019 (skip 11/26)* TIME: 6:30-8:30pm LOCATION: Write Around Portland, 133 SW 2nd Ave., #304, Downtown Portland (and IPRC, 318 SE Main St., #155, Portland for Dec 3 & Dec 10 sessions). FEE: $350 (payment plan available) includes snacks, studio time, additional…

$350

Poetry Reading: Gary Lark, Jessica Mehta, Hannah Larrabee

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Airlie Press poets Gary Lark, Jessica Mehta, and Hannah Larrabee. Oregon poet Gary Lark will read from his new collection, Ordinary Gravity. These haunting poems drop you into a world of logging towns of western Oregon in the fifties and sixties—a way of life undergoing change—with forays into the small towns, the woods, and on the rivers. Gary Lark is a keen, elegiac witness to the people in this world and the generation marked by the Vietnam War, and their hard-won wisdom and ironies. These poems and people "enrich the thin life of this planet," as the title poem states. In life, one shouldn't presume too much, but there are gains—"All you have to do is brave the thorns." A lifelong Oregonian,…

Free

Jenny Brown in Conversation with Leni Zumas

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

We are thrilled to welcome author, teacher, and activist Jenny Brown in conversation with Portland author Leni Zumas. A portion of the proceeds of this day’s sales will be donated to Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon. Brown will be here to talk with Zumas about her book Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work, published by PM Press. She has another new book as well from Verso books, Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now. Jenny Brown is a women's liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to get morning-after-pill contraception available over-the-counter in the United States. She is the co-author of Women's Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. While editor at…

Free

Amy Long with Sophia Shalmiyev

Valentine's 232 SW Ankeny St, Portland

Come celebrate the last stop on Amy Long’s tour for her book Codependence: Essays (2019) with readings and a discussion between Long and PDX-based Sophia Shalmiyev, author of Mother Winter (2019). Both books challenge mainstream narratives about addiction, selfhood and womanhood, and love and dependence in all their forms in lyrical, nonlinear prose that electrifies and astounds. See you there!

Free

Seane Corn

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

In Revolution of the Soul (Sounds True), celebrated yoga teacher and activist Seane Corn shares pivotal accounts of her life with raw honesty – enriched with in-depth spiritual teachings – to help us heal, evolve, and change the world.

Free

Choreography of Violence: Writing Horror and Social Satire

The First Congregational United Church of Christ 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland

Join Willamette Writers in Portland this October 1st for a lecture and discussion on the topic of writing horror and social satire with filmmaker and writer, John Skipp. The UCC Portland doors open at 6:30PM for cookies and conversation. The horror starts at 7PM. John is a Saturn Award-winning filmmaker (TALES OF HALLOWEEN), Stoker Award-winning anthologist (DEMONS, MONDO ZOMBIE), and New York Times bestselling author (THE LIGHT AT THE END, THE SCREAM) whose books have sold millions of copies in a dozen languages worldwide. His first anthology, BOOK OF THE DEAD, laid the foundation in 1989 for modern zombie literature. He's also editor-in-chief of Fungasm Press, championing genre-melting authors like Laura Lee Bahr, Autumn Christian, Danger Slater, Cody Goodfellow, and Jennifer Robin. From splatterpunk founding…

Free – $5

Rene Denfeld

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

A riveting story of lost children and one haunted woman’s search for what may never be found, The Butterfly Girl (Harper) is the dark and haunting companion to Rene Denfeld’s acclaimed novel The Child Finder.

Free

Dracula Readings in The Snug

T.C. O'Leary's 2926 NE Alberta St, Portland

They've only just started! It's thrilling, and you can still join! T.C. O'Leary's Literary Society has two books clubs, both open to everyone. Monday nights the group reads Ulysses and Tuesday nights the group explores a variety of Irish literature. This famous Gothic horror novel is the latest endeavor.

Free