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

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5 events,

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THE SUM OF US: Heather McGhee, presented by West x Midwest

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Marc C. Johnson in Conversation With Steve Duin

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Attic Institute: WINTER Online: Craft of Memoir w Brian Benson | Mar 2 – Mar 30

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Nature Writing Now

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Core Character & Environment Online Class (7 Weeks)

9 events,

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Profiles: Jill Tarter and the Search for E.T.

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Matthias Kemeny Endowed Design Lecture Series Presents: Amuki

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Homeschool Family Book Group: Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice Award

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Virtual Writers Group

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Pop Culture Poems! a Youth Poetry Slam Workshop | #Virtualandia! 2021

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Renée Watson in Conversation With Nicola Yoon

2 events,

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Romance Book Club (Remote)

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Coffee Talk#20

4 events,

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Amuki Type Workshop

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Ooligan and Beyond Series: Career Possibilities Panel

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Walidah Imarisha

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Richard Brown in Conversation With Brian Benson

4 events,

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Craft Conversations: Focus on Scenes: Build Back Better

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Begin Again :: A Webgasm w/ Lidia Yuknavitch & Jen Pastiloff

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PSG: SILVER LININGS AND BLESSING IN DISGUISE

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“A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff” Film Talkback with Alicia Jo Rabins

2 events,

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Booklover’s Burlesque: Once Upon a Tease (Virtual Edition)

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Submissions for HOCUS Online Reading: Enchantments

2 events,

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All About Slam! a Q&A Session | #Virtualandia! 2021

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IPRC: Tech Support: A Zine Workshop & Peer Support Group for Phone Users

8 events,

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IPRC: 2021 BIPOC Residency Info Session

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Solution Salon presented by PHFS & Street Roots

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Rebecca Solnit in Conversation With Jia Tolentino (Ticketed Virtual Event)

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Broadway Books Book Club Discussion

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Delve Readers Seminar: Imagining the Future: Dystopic and Utopic Fiction

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Fantasy Book Club (Remote)

6 events,

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Justin Zimmerman and Robbi Rodriguez

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Article Club

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From the Page to the Stage! a Youth Poetry Slam Workshop | #Virtualandia! 2021

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Claudia Savage Poetry Reading

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Quinton Hallett Poetry Reading

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Incite: Queer Writers Read—March 2021

3 events,

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The Secrets of Successful Author Interviews

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IPRC: March Collage Challenge

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Morgan Paige

5 events,

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Spectral Transmissions: Ghosts of Futures Past

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IPRC: Flash in the Pan Session Two

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Michelle Nijhuis in Conversation With Elena Passarello

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PSG: Guild Monthly Story Swap – Free!

7 events,

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Write Around Portland: Prompt Online Workshop with Author Neil Aitken | 10 Saturdays, Mar 13 – May 15

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Outlet: Let’s Make a Zine! A Riso Zine Making Class w/ Kate Bingaman-Burt

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Artist Statement As Manifesto Workshop w/ Pamela K. Santos

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Feedback Session #1 for Youth Slam Poets | #Virtualandia! 2021

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Things that have to do with fire: Artist talk and virtual walkthrough with Vo Vo

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PSG !Extra! SURPRISE ENDINGS, with Anne Rutherford

8 events,

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Application Deadline: 2021 Tin House Summer Residencies

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March BIPOC writer workshop

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Band of Submitting Writers & Artists—Begins March 14th

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Memoir Infusion!

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IPRC: Winter Poetry Workshop

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Moon School – A Poetry Workshop

4 events,

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Submission Deadline: Airlie Prize 2021

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Demystifying Publishing

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

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Performance that Pops! a Youth Poetry Slam Workshop | #Virtualandia! 2021

6 events,

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Submission Deadline: SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts

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Submission Deadline: LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists

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A conversation with Faris Cassell

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Teen Graphic Novel Group

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Science Fiction Book Club (Remote)

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Joanne B. Freeman: Virtual Hatfield Lecture

5 events,

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Submission Roulette

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A Conversation with Amy Woolard

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in Conversation With Elissa Washuta

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True Crime Book Club (Remote)

10 events,

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

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Feedback Session #2 for Youth Slam Poets | #Virtualandia! 2021

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Feedback Session #3 for Youth Slam Poets | #Virtualandia! 2021

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Whitney Otto in Conversation With Lidia Yuknavitch

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IPRC: March Poetry Practice Space

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Page Turner Book Club (Remote)

1 event,

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PROTOCOL: Episode 1

4 events,

Passages Bookshop: Ephemera 40: Virtual Book Fair

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VIRTUAL Risograph Basics with Outlet!

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Revision: Taking a Second Look

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Social Justice Book Club (Remote)

3 events,

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Attic Institute: APPS DUE: MAR 21: Poets Studio Spring Sessions | Apr 5 – June 14

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IPRC: Creative Semester: Poetry

2 events,

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IPRC: Tech Support: A Zine Workshop & Peer Support Group for Phone Users

1 event,

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Mannie Murphy + Stephen R. Bissette: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden Virtual Book Launch

2 events,

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Kale Williams in Conversation With Jon Mooallem

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Bagley Wright Lecture Series: Douglas Kearney

4 events,

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We Protect Us: A Sign Making Event

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Delve Readers Seminar: Joy Harjo: American Sunrise

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Horror Book Club (Remote)

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The Role of the Artist in Revolution: Panel discussion with CLASSIX featuring Intisar Abioto and James R. Dixon

1 event,

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

4 events,

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Mind Fuck: A Seminar on Writing Better Sex with Melissa Febos

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Mind Fuck: A Seminar on Writing Better Sex with Melissa Febos

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IPRC: Horrorshow: A Creative Writing Workshop

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Tender Table Ramen Party!

1 event,

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Attic Institute: APPS DUE: MAR 28: Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Studio | Apr 15 – June 24

1 event,

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2021 Oregon Book Awards finalists announced

2 events,

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Brian David Johnson in Conversation With Cory Doctorow

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Livestream Reading: Emmeline Duncan

7 events,

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Submission Deadline: #Virtualandia 2021

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Homeschool Family Book Group: Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice Award

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Confronting Conspiracy Theories in the Classroom

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Jonathan Meiburg in Conversation With Michael Azerrad

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A Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, hosted by University of Portland

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Jacqueline Winspear and The Consequences of Fear

6 events,

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Capturing History – Students Write About COVID

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

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Vanessa O’Brien in Conversation With Phil Powers

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Live Online Lecture and Q & A with Saeed Jones

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Romance Book Club (Remote)

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Coffee Talk #21

2 events,

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Flash in the Pan Session Three

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Powell’s Used Book Drive

5 events,

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The Path of Perseverance: Writing No Matter What

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Treelines: A Generative Collaboration with the Sisters Yuknavitch

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Let’s Make a Zine! A Riso Zine Making Class w/ Kate Bingaman-Burt

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Inheritance Stories: Oral Histories of Food Culture with Lola Milholland

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PSG: A Beautiful Girl, Her Prince (and that Step-mother!)

5 events,

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OREGON ONLINE: Write Now!

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Drop-in Writing Workshops for BIPOC Writers with Anya Pearson

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Creative Semester: Poetry

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April Open Mic feat. Catherine Weiss

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Marking Making & Comics Appreciation