LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!

Calendar of Events

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3 events,

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Submission Deadline: Pathos: Fall 2019

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The Work Poetry Workshop: Monday Night Edition

6 events,

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Application Deadline: Tin House Internships

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Comic Cave anniversary & trick or treat!

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HOW TO DRAW A GHOST w/ Zachary Schomburg

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Mountain Writers Workshop: Reading as a Writer: A.R. Ammons

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Reading: Shannon Kaiser: Joy Seeker

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John Mark Comer

9 events,

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Mike Henderson “Dead Man Logan 12” Signing

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A Nonfiction Reading by Mohamed Asem

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Small Press Residency – Perfect Day Publishing

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Debbie Ethell

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Fiction Addiction Book Club

3 events,

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing

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Learn Make Share: Buttons & Zines

6 events,

The Write to Heal Retreat

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Jim Tilley and Cai Emmons

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Celebrating PS. The Wolves

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The Long Con Celebration

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Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You

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Beth Piatote in Conversation With Peter Rock

11 events,

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Reclaim your Voice: From the Page to the Stage w/Domi Shoemaker and G. Ravyn Stanfield: Nov. 2&3

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Risograph Basics with Kate Bingaman-Burt & Outlet Assistants!

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Frankenstein’s Comicbook Swap 17: Day of the Dead!

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Kids’ Storytime

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Bind your own Coptic Journal–in Portland OR!

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NEFP Benefit Raffle Drawing at Excalibur Comics!

6 events,

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Our First Anniversary

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Simon Tam in Conversation With Jacqueline Keeler

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Trevino Brings Plenty & Kelly Terwilliger – reading and Q&A

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Postcard Embroidery Workshop with Gutwrench Press!

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How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide

5 events,

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Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club

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Free Range Poetry: Christina Butcher, Jonathan Merritt, Armin Tolentino

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Grief Rites Readers Series ~ November 4

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Lilly Dancyger With Reema Zaman, Marissa Korbel & Dani Boss Wilson

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Brave New Medicine

7 events,

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Delve Fall 2019: We Are All For Sale: Capitalism and Consumerism

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Nicole Chung in Conversation with Meaghan O’Connell and Lydia Kiesling

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Cathy Lamb

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Reading: Dorice Horenstein: Moments of the Heart

8 events,

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Author Mat Johnson on His Novel, Loving Day

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Portland Stories of Change

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ONE PAGE Wednesday: November

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Comic reading with Jul Gordon

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Nathan Langston: I Need You to Tell Me Everything

14 events,

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Liz Prato

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Telltale: Community Day Part Two

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Community Day Part Two

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Susan DeFreitas – Alt. Architecture: Nov. 7, 14, 21

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The Selah Series

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DAKWÄKÃDA WARRIORS artist talk and book signing by Cole Pauls

33 events,

OryCon 41

OryCon 41

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Sporcle Live presents: Literature Trivia at Lit Crawl PDX!

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Reply All: Portland Review Reading

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Lit Crawl Portland: Our Words Are a Bridge

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She Can Really Lay It Down: A Celebration of Women Rockers and Rebels

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Poetry Karaoke: Celebrity Judge Edition

13 events,

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Portland Book Festival

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Michelle Tea: Conjuring Story (Nov 9-10)

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Kids’ Storytime

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The League of Exceptional Writers

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Books to Prisoners Fundraiser

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All of Me Book Event – Daedalus Books Portland

9 events,

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Longreads: The Shattered Afghan Dream of Peace

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Oregon Battle of the Books Trivia

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Let’s Make Ingratitude Journals!

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Sci-Fi Authorfest 13

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Fall 2019: Talking Back: Poetry In Conversation With Other Texts

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Stephen Meads

4 events,

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Marissa Meyer & Tamara Moss

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Matt Saincome & Bill Conway

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Blackout Party feat. David Loftus

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Heaux Stories: Portland’s First All PoC Femme Storytelling Show

11 events,

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Michael Dickman + Paulann Petersen

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PLEASE HOLD with Alissa Hattman

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The River at Night comix reading and signing with Kevin Huizenga

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club and Author Visit

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Collage Night

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How to Connect Young Readers to Real Authors

6 events,

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November Signing with Matt Fraction

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Incite: Queer Writers Read

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Warren C. Easley

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David Oates

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Book Talk Book Club

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Claire Rudy Foster

13 events,

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Learn Make Share: Embroidery

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Stories My Mother and Father Told Me

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Celebrates 15 Years with Rod Nelson

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Visiting Writers Series: She Who Has No Master(s)

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Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

10 events,

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NaNoWriMo Hangout

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English Alumni Reading: Fiction and Nonfiction

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*Advanced* Digital Illustration for Riso Workshop!

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Reading: Drunk In China

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IPRC Visiting Writers Reading

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Danny Fingeroth in Conversation With Brian Michael Bendis

13 events,

Intro to Letterpress: Two Day Workshop

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Risograph Basics with Kate Bingaman-Burt & Outlet Assistants!

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The Dramatist’s Toolbox with Matthew B. Zrebski

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Zine Workshop

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Kids’ Storytime

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PUBLISHING: w/ Literary Agent Rayhané Sanders

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The Work Poetry Workshop with Christopher Luna: Saturday Edition

13 events,

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Elizabeth Rusch Story Time!

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Tender Table: Shilo George, Daela Muñoz, Michelle Week

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When Motherhood Becomes Madness

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The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering

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True Crime Book Club

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Lilla Lit Presents BRAVE

4 events,

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Cyrus Farivar at Northwest Academy

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A Generous Nature: Lives Transformed by Oregon

6 events,

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Portland Correspondence Co-op

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Carlos Reyes and Christopher Howell

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Gumption

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Oregon Jewish Voices – 20th Anniversary

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Susannah Cahalan

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John U. Bacon “Overtime” Book Tour

3 events,

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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock: Issue #7 “Horror”

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H. W. Brands

20 events,

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Contemporary Brazilian Poetry at Portland State

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Storm Wrack & Spindrift Book Launch with Margaret Pinard

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Reading: How Your Story Sets You Free

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The Blackonteurs – November Edition!

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5 x 5

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Lindy West

5 events,

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(Soma)tic Poetry Workshop with CA Conrad

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Dissident X release party with the Pander Brothers!

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Keynote Lecture: Macarena Gomez-Barris

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Niche Book Club: Where the Crawdads Sing

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Jami Attenberg in Conversation With Cheryl Strayed

13 events,

Portland Audubon’s Wild Arts Festival

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Intro to Risograph Printing

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Local Comic Shop Day at Cosmic Monkey Comics

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Kids’ Storytime

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Celebrate Local Comic Shop Day at Bridge City Comics!

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Matt Fraction in Conversation With Chelsea Cain & David Walker

6 events,

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Parallel Play Writers’ Group

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Hodgepodge: The Reckoning

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Nastashia Minto

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CoCreate Art Collaboration

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American Spirit- a reading

1 event,

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Tommy Pico

2 events,

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Horror Book Club

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Tiffany Midge in Conversation With Jacqueline Keeler

2 events,

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Fiction Addiction Book Club

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7DS: Pants On Fire!

0 events,

1 event,

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The Tesla City Stories – Black Friday Bonanza!

4 events,

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Shop Small Saturday Festive Fun

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Risograph Basics with Kate Bingaman-Burt & Outlet Assistants!

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Kids’ Storytime

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Dan Raphael

3 events,

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Submission Deadline: smoke + mold: TRXST NO1

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The Voice of Empathy: Laura Winter and John Witte – reading and Q&A

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Jeff Alessandrelli & Dao Strom in Conversation With Danielle Frandina

OryCon 41

OryCon 41

OryCon 41

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