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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Photoshop: Prepping Files for Print

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Brittney Corrigan and Charles Seluzicki, A Virtual Event

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The Work Poetry Workshop: Monday Night Edition

4 events,

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Jonny Sun in Conversation With Samantha Irby

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Delve Readers Seminar: From Another Angle: Marilynne Robinson’s Home, Lila, and Jack

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An Evening with Elaine Weiss

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Livestream Reading: Jacqueline Keeler

5 events,

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Making Comics with Ebony Flowers

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John Grisham in Conversation With J. T. Ellison (Ticketed Virtual Event)

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Delve Readers Seminar: New York City: Paul Auster and Jonathan Safran Foer

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Lewis and Clark: Fiction Capstone Readings

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Oregon Book Awards Finalists in Drama: Panel Discussion

5 events,

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Reach Out and Read Oregon: Reading, Relationships, and Resiliency

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#Virtualandia! 2021: YOUTH POETRY SLAM CHAMPIONSHIP

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Elissa Washuta, Kristin Arnett, Morgan Parker, and Tommy Pico: White Magic

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Livestream Reading: Jutta Donath

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Michelle Zauner in Conversation With Ben Gibbard

1 event,

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing: Spring 2021

2 events,

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Looking Back to Look Forward: A Daily Writing Practice

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: ROAD – TESTED !!!

1 event,

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Oregon Book Awards Show: The Archive Project

1 event,

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Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD in Conversation With Arianna Davis (Ticketed Virtual Event)

1 event,

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Kristin Hersh in Conversation With John Doe

5 events,

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Suzanne Simard in Conversation With Aaron Scott

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Feminist book circle: The Revolution Question

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Write A Book: Fiction & Creative Nonfiction Workshop

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OREGON ONLINE: End of Play.™ Pens Down Celebration

4 events,

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Wordplay Festival: West x Midwest Present Alison Bechdel in Conversation with Cheryl Strayed

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Larissa Pham in Conversation With Mary H.K. Choi

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Rooted with Mindy Nettiffe: A Four Week Poetry Workshop

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Coffee Talk #22

4 events,

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Wordplay Festival: Intercontinental Series featuring Helen Oyeyemi

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The Strange Case of Nick M.

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First Friday Poetry Reading and Open Mic on Zoom

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Mary Jo Bang, Joshua Beckman, and Zachary Schomburg

6 events,

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VIRTUAL Risograph Basics with Outlet!

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Quarantine Book Club: ‘Mrs. Dalloway’

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The Work Poetry Workshop: Saturday Afternoon Edition

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Book Launch: “Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone” by Beatriz Dujovne

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Beginnings and Before Beginnings – A Study of Novel Form and Style w/ Omar El-Akkad

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POST Launch and Release Party

1 event,

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The State of the Arts in COVID Times

2 events,

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Whitney Otto, Art for the Ladylike

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The Work Poetry Workshop: Monday Night Edition

3 events,

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Gregory Gourdet in Conversation With Michelle Tam

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Fantasy Book Club (Remote)

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Oregon Historical Society’s Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series: Jon Meacham

5 events,

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Article Club

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Writing Breakage: The Collage Essay

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Feminist book circle: The Revolution Question

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The Milwaukie Poetry Series: Anis Mojgani Poetry Reading

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Incite: Queer Writers Read

7 events,

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Joseph Fink & Meg Bashwiner in Conversation With Symphony Sanders

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Airlie Press May Mixer Reading & Fundraiser

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Five Oaks Museum Showcase

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No Shelf Control Book Club (Remote)

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Massy Arts presents Callum Angus, Hazel Jane Plante, and Corinne Manning

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Livestream Reading: J. T. Bushnell

5 events,

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I Am My Story: Voices of Hope

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Stacey Abrams in Conversation With Katie Couric (Ticketed Virtual Event)

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Short Fiction Writers Share Their Work

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild Monthly Story Swap – Free!

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Livestream Reading: Mary Keliikoa & Angela M. Sanders

1 event,

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Craft Conversations: Place: Setting Down Roots

3 events,

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Attic Institute: APPS DUE: May 16: Atheneum Master Writing Program for 2021-2022

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May BIPOC Writer Workshop

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Creative Semester: Poetry

4 events,

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Bodecker Foundation Workshops for High School Students – Summer Registration Opens

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InDesign: Zine Layout

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Talking Back: Writing in Conversation with Other Texts

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Delve Readers Seminar: Moby-Dick

5 events,

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Suyi Davies Okungbowa in Conversation With S. A. Chakraborty

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Connect in Place: Art as Activism: Changing the World through Creative Expression

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Windfall Reading: Susan Leslie Moore and Judith Montgomery

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Science Fiction Book Club (Remote)

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2020/21 Portland Arts & Lectures: Yaa Gyasi (RESCHEDULED)

6 events,

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Grant Submission Deadline: Make | Learn | Build – Round Two

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A Conversation with Author Sarah Federman

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David F Walker

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“From South Street to Not Doctor Street: Historicism and the African American Novel” with Kenneth Warren

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Claire Fuller in Conversation With Ron Rash

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OREGON ONLINE: Panel Discussion with Produced Oregon Dramatists

4 events,

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May Poetry Practice Space

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Virtual Event: Living in Global Community, A Conversation with Katherina Audley & Lucas Spiegel

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Telltale Presents: _______ Will Save Us

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Slamlandia

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1 event,

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

4 events,

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Queer Bodies/Queer Forms: Leaving Behind the Retrograde w/ Cooper Lee Bombardier

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Bookarts: Pamphlet Stitch & Cover Variations

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‘The Day I Woke Up Different’ Author Reading and Discussion

3 events,

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Photoshop: Prepping Files for Print

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Alex McElroy in conversation with Chelsea Bieker, Genevieve Hudson, and Kimberly King Parsons

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The Work Poetry Workshop: Monday Night Edition

3 events,

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Jonathan Taplin in Conversation With Robbie Robertson

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Oregon Historical Society: Rethinking American Grand Strategy

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Delve Readers Seminar: The Madwoman in the Attic and the Monstrous Feminine

3 events,

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Daniel Barbarisi in Conversation With Jason Gay

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MY BEGGING CHART virtual event with Keiler Roberts

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From Concept to Object: The Zine as a Creative Conduit

1 event,

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Horror Book Club (Remote)

1 event,

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Teen Event online

1 event,

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Cirro-numinous Presents: CIRRO-NUMINOUS SALON: THE MASK

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5 events,

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Show:Tell Middle Grades Print Camp

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Open Hours Printing!

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Bethany C. Morrow in Conversation With L. L. McKinney

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SPRING Online: Craft of Memoir w Brian Benson FULL — WAIT LIST ONLY

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Table Reading: THE PLAY ABOUT THE BOYS – by Christopher Lord

5 events,

Books With Pictures Five-Year Anniversary Celebration & Sale!

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Remote Writers Group

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Education: Book & Film Circle, May 2021

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Write A Book: Fiction & Creative Nonfiction Workshop

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One Page Wednesday: June

5 events,

HOCUS: Submissions Open!

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

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Benjamin Percy in Conversation With Victor LaValle

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Coffee Talk #23

3 events,

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First Friday Poetry Reading and Open Mic on Zoom

8 events,

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This House of Mine Zine

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Craft Conversations: Character

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Refuse the Given World: Generating Short Fiction Through Play

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Virtual Risograph Basics!

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Refuse the Given World: Generating Short Fiction Through Play: Afternoon session

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PSG Addition: YES, IT REALLY HAPPENED!

6 events,

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Drop-in Writing Workshops for BIPOC Writers with Anya Pearson

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When We Were Poets — with Brigid Yuknavitch—begins

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Bookarts: Stab Stitch & Variations

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The June Open Mic feat. K McClendon