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Application Deadline: Tin House Craft Intensives

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland

The Tin House Workshop is known for its lectures: brilliant, practical craft talks that hone our writerly chops and make us hungry to work. In this same spirit, Tin House is proud to announce our Portland Tin House Craft Intensives. A series of master classes led by favorite Tin House writers, the intensives combine close reading, discussion, and in-class writing to offer a potent dose of inspiration and explore what makes writing work when it works. Join us! Tin House will be offering two intensives that take place in November: Drawing from the Corners with T KIRA MADDEN Drawing from the Corners with T KIRA MADDEN Writing Place: Homelands in Literature with KALI FAJARDO-ANSTINE See their website for more details. T Kira Madden is an APIA…

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$175

Jim Wallis

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

Writing in response to our current “constitutional crisis,” bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation. In Christ in Crisis (HarperOne), Wallis provides a path of spiritual healing and solidarity to help us heal the divide separating Americans today.

Free

Tell Me A Story #9

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Welcome to Tell Me A Story #9, a free monthly reading series presented by zines + things and hosted by Rose City Book Pub. We're excited to announce a stellar lineup of writers and poets for our next installment. Join us Monday, October 21st, from 7-9pm as we welcome work from Katherine D. Morgan, Leigh Nishi-Strattner, Juleen Johnson, Meg Weber and Robert Torres. Hope to see you there!

Free

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

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

Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in a sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world. Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Mitchell’s Artificial Intelligence (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI.

Free

Revising the Poem Workshop w Ashley Toliver

Attic Institute 4232 SE Hawthorne, Portland

Where can revision take us when we're not too attached to our creative work? What new avenues can we discover by taking risks and having the courage to experiment? In this workshop, we'll share works-in-progress and engage deeply with each other's drafts as we write our way into new poems. You'll learn different ways of looking at your own work, acquire new strategies for tackling creative indecision, and come away with a more concrete understanding of how to know when a poem is "finished." | Maximum: 12 writers Register for this workshop Teacher: Ashley Toliver Time: Mondays, Oct 21 - Nov 18, 5:30 - 7:30pm, 5 weeks Location: Attic Institute of Arts and Letters, 4232 SE Hawthorne Boulevard Total Fee: Early Registration and Tuition Deadline…

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$210 – $237

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation with Renée Watson

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland

Literary Arts is proud to present an evening with acclaimed author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates in celebration of his first novel, The Water Dancer (coming September 24). Coates will be in conversation with bestselling author Renée Watson. Tickets will go on sale July 16 at 1:00 p.m. Tickets start at $15. Each $85/65-level tickets includes a pre-signed copy of The Water Dancer, Coates' latest book (coming September 24). In this boldly imagined work of magic and adventure, Coates offers a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery. Driven by the author’s bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America’s oldest struggle—the struggle to tell the truth—from one…

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$15 – $85
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