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Raise Your Pen

Vitalidad Movement Arts & Event Center 116 SE Yamhill Street, Portland

Save the date and celebrate 20 years at Write Around Portland's Annual Party with a purpose! Raise Your Pen on Friday, October 11, 2019 | 6-9:30 pm Vitalidad Movement Arts & Events Center | 116 SE Yamhill St. Portland, OR 97214 Meet Featured Writers from our past 20 years Plus Wine Wall | Silent Auction | Live Auction | Special Appeal Tickets: $55 General Admission | $110 Supporter | $1250 Power of Ten Prices increase after September 1. https://writearound.org/events/raise-your-pen/ Thank you to our generous sponsors! ¿Por Qué No? Taqueria AHA Agency Great Escape Publishing Beneficial State Bank The Commerce Bank of Oregon Box Lunch Design

$55

Monthly Story Swap

Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capital Highway, Portland

JOIN US AT OUR STORY SWAPS THE SECOND FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH  -- SEPTEMBER THROUGH MAY The Portland Storytellers' Guild invites you to join us at the Multnomah Arts Center (Room 30 - parking available behind building) for a Story Swap and Potluck beginning at 6:30PM. It is open to the public, free of charge, and is for tellers and non-tellers alike. (Some months we may be able to offer a mini-workshop at 6:30 so come knowing that may or may not happen depending on other circumstances.) The Story Swap is a great time to visit with others that love stories. Here you will hear stories from well experienced tellers and those telling for the very first time, and all of the stops along the way…

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Free

Fariha Róisín in Conversation With Tanaïs

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

Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words and a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín’s How to Cure a Ghost (Abrams Image) is a poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness. Róisín will be joined in conversation by Tanaïs, author of Bright Lines.

Free

Myths, Sharks, Parrots, & Fables: Poets Rob Carney & Scott Poole

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

An evening of newsworthy and humorous poems by Utah State Book Award Winner Rob Carney and former House Poet of NPRs Live Wire!, Scott Poole Rob's The Book of Sharks is a finalist for the Washington Book Award. Scott will be selling a special limited edition of an art book of 20 poems and 20 original paintings. Rob Carney is originally from the northwest (Puyallup, Tacoma, Spokane) and now lives in Salt Lake City. He is the author of five books, most recently The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), which is a finalist for this year's Washington State Book Award for Poetry (winner to be announced Saturday Oct. 12, so think good thoughts, please). His collection 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2015) was…

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Free

Augusten Burroughs

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

From the hilarious to the terrifying, Augusten Burroughs’s new memoir, Toil and Trouble (St. Martin’s), is a chronicle of one man's journey to understand himself, to reconcile the powers he can wield with things with which he is helpless. Ghosts are real, trees can want to kill you, beavers are the spawn of Satan, houses are alive, and in the end, love is the most powerful magic of all.

Free

The Tesla City Stories – Halloween Special 2019!

The Old Church Concert Hall 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland

A monthly night of vintage radio comedy and drama — live onstage in Portland, Oregon! Straight outta 1944! Laughs! Chills! Romance! Danger! Booze! Eats! Cash bar! Live Foley! 1940’s live music! Prizes! Audience participation! This month’s halloween special takes place in the beautiful confines of the historic Old Church Concert Hall deep in the arts district of downtown PDX. Enjoy the thrilling adventures of two episodes of the vintage horror classic, The 13th Floor! Since 2014, we at The Tesla City Stories have been presenting an evening of live “radio” theater derived from the recently uncovered archives of the ultra-obscure Tesla Broadcasting Company (1943-1945). It’s “pop archaeology” as performance art, or, more simply, a fun night of vintage entertainment! The shows of the TBC run…

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$9 – $26

Confessions of a True Crime Addict: James Renner

Curious Comedy Theater 5225 NE MLK Blvd, Portland

James Renner celebrates our obsession with true crime and shares weirdly funny stories about his life hunting serial killers and hosting crime shows. His job often places him in compromising situations - from being scammed into buying crack for his neighbor to accepting rides in cars from strange men at crime scenes. He explores the big questions behind our guilty pleasure, such as why is true crime so popular and whether killers are born bad or made that way. From Serial to Making a Murderer, Renner takes us through the absurd world of popular crime and finds the humor at its heart. James Renner is a journalist from Cleveland, the author of True Crime Addict, and the host of Discover ID's Lake Erie's Coldest Cases.…

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$20
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