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!

Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing: Spring 2020

Online N/A, Portland

Our Spring 2020 reading period is open until April 30th. The Gravity of the Thing accepts defamiliarized works in the following general categories: Short: tell us a story in 3,000 words or less; we are interested in fiction, creative nonfiction, self-contained excerpts, and genre-bending forms. Flash: a fiction, creative nonfiction, or genre-bending story under 500 words. Poetry: share up to three poems, prose poems, or multimedia works for a combined count of 500 words or less. Six Words: a story in six words; you may share up to five stories per submission, but only one will be chosen. Baring the Device: brief essays for our Baring the Device column; click here to learn more.

Free

The Write Place: An Online Meeting for Productivity

Online N/A, Portland

Looking for writers in all the wrong places? Maybe you need the write place. Join at the Write Place each week, online. Discuss goal setting and productivity while encouraging, supporting, and connecting with other writers. We will share our rejections, sales, and other market news so that we can inspire and learn from each other. How to join the Write Place Please fill out the Google Form here, and we will send you details for logging in: https://forms.gle/4tN8y78Atcw3WbU87 See you at the Write Place

Free

Delve Readers Seminar Online: A Universal History: Selected Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges

Online N/A, Portland

This Delve takes place online with Zoom teleconferencing. Participants will receive instructions for how to log on to the Zoom meeting. Born in 1899, Jorge Luis Borges devoted his life to literature, exploring far beyond the previously-held boundaries of fiction, and this devotion shifted not just our understanding of language, but of our consciousness. As he once said, “This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen.” One never knows what they might find within his masterful prose. The fiction of Borges dissolves and reconstructs itself as you venture from its first page to its last. A story that begins in a wine cellar might end with a reach toward the limits of the universe, a conversation between two old friends…

$75

CANCELED – Harry Dodge reads at PSU

Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 327

Harry Dodge Harry Dodge is an American visual artist and writer whose interdisciplinary practice is characterized by its explorations of relation, materiality and ecstatic contamination. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. His first book, a work of literary nonfiction entitled My Meteorite, or Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2020. Dodge’s sculpture, drawing, and video work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He co-founded the now-legendary San Francisco community-based performance space The Bearded Lady, which served as a touchstone for a pioneering, queer, DIY literary and arts scene. Dodge’s narrative feature film, By Hook or By Crook, premiered at Sundance in 2002 and won five Best Feature awards. He is permanent faculty of…

Free

Stay Home Stay Queer

Online N/A, Portland

Please join us Thursday April 30th for our Stay Home Stay Queer edition of Queer PDXpression . We will be using zoom to try to bring everyone together . if you are needing a safe space to get away from all the crazy things happening in life, or if you just need to say f*ck we are here for you. We will announce the room id and password the day of the event, and if you need any help downloading or getting into the room just message us and we will love to help. Sign up starts at 7:30 pm and show starts at 7:45ish

Free