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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2 events,

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Workshop: Hot Off the Press: Traditional Printing and Food Connections with Daniela del Mar/Letra Chueca Press (3 weeks)

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Somatic Reflections: Movement & Zine Workshop

3 events,

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Lisa Wells in Conversation With Lydia Millet

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Live on Crowdcast! Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I, in conversation with Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

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Two Rivers Virtual Book Club July

2 events,

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Karolina Waclawiak in Conversation With Vanessa Veselka

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July BIPOC Craft Series: Poetry

1 event,

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Chuck Wendig in Conversation With Cassandra Khaw

0 events,

3 events,

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing: Summer 2021

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Submission Deadline: Airlie Press Summer Reading Period

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See Me. iAm. HEAR. Creative Activation of Youth Voices of Color

0 events,

0 events,

5 events,

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Brian Evenson in Conversation With Matt Bell

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Hybridity: Writing that Crosses the Line

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Book Club: YA For Adults

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Convos in Cohort 3: THE GROWTH LINES by Gabby Hancher

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PDX Playwrights: AN EVENING WITH OSCAR AND NOEL – by Thomas Mason and Craig Mason

4 events,

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Free Lunch + Play at Raymond Park

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Richard Zenith in Conversation With Patricio Ferrari

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Oracles, Intuition, and Creativity

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One Page Wednesday – August

3 events,

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Daylight Book Club

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Margot Wood in Conversation With Gayle Forman

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Coffee Talk #25

3 events,

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Charles Seluzicki

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Friday Night Collage

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Open Mic and Poetry Reading on Zoom

3 events,

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Kesha Ajose-Fisher Book Signing

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True North Studios: Saturday Open Hours

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Memoir: The Process — with Kimberly Dark — begins 8/7/21

4 events,

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Bookarts: Pamphlet Stitch & Cover Variations

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Writing About Sex

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Premise Course: What is feminist power? Who decides? Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq

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THE CABARET SOCIETY: A Rooftop Burlesque Revue (August 2021)

0 events,

2 events,

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Beyond Fake News

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Fantasy Book Club (REMOTE)

2 events,

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Article Club

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh in Conversation With David Adjmi

3 events,

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Thea Prieto in Conversation With Leni Zumas

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No Shelf Control Book Club (REMOTE)

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic on Zoom Featuring Leah Mueller

4 events,

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Telling the Story of Portland – Mayor’s Office Native Art Project

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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PSG: Monthly Story Swap

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Open Mic Night

3 events,

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Virtual Risograph Basics!

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Holding: A Virtual Reading

1 event,

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August BIPOC writer workshop

1 event,

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Poetry Is A Prompt: Community Healing Project

3 events,

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Melissa Broder in Conversation With Katherine Morgan

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Author Reading and Conversation with Jessamyn Stanley

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Science Fiction Book Club (REMOTE)

6 events,

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Free Lunch + Play at St. Johns Park

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James Lee Burke in Conversation With Charlaine Harris

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August BIPOC Craft Series: Fiction

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Live on Crowdcast! Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, in conversation with Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

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Crit Night

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Attic Institute: SUMMER Online: So You Wanna Be a Writer Workshop w Wayne Gregory | Aug 18 – Sep 15 SPOTS OPEN FOR NEW WRITERS

3 events,

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Rafia Zakaria in Conversation With Jean Guerrero

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August Poetry Practice Space

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Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Adrienne Novy

0 events,

2 events,

Unrepeatable Peattie/Abel Yard Sale!

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Revivify: Breathing Life into Dead Matter with Lidia Yuknavitch

1 event,

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Exploring Our Inner Monsters

2 events,

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Nick Flynn in Conversation With Melissa Febos

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Delve Readers Seminar: The Book of Embraces

4 events,

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Confronting Toxic Productivity

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Jaime Lowe in Conversation With Jeff Sharlet

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Writing the Non-Fiction Book Proposal

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On The Metaphysics of Deep Gossip: Bagley Wright Lecture Series

2 events,

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Horror Book Club (REMOTE)

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Telltale Presents: I Won’t Wait.

2 events,

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Cirque Journal at the Kennedy School

1 event,

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Let’s Make a Zine! A Riso Zine Making Workshop with Kate Bingaman-Burt

0 events,

1 event,

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BIPOC Revision Workshop

1 event,

7 events,

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Submission Deadline: Attic Institute: Poets Studio 2021-2022

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Write Now Online: The Narrative Braid w/ videos by Lidia Yuknavitch (Ongoing)

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Write Now Online: The Narrative Palimpsest w/ videos by Lidia Yuknavitch (Ongoing)

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PROFILES – The Banning of George Orwell

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Books Around The Corner: Virtual Writers Group

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Rickie Lee Jones

3 events,

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Daylight Book Club

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Poetry Is A Prompt: Community Healing Project

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Coffee Talk #26

0 events,

8 events,

Submission Deadline: Tin House: Nonfiction (including Memoirs and Graphic nonfiction)

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Risograph Basics @ Outlet!

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The Path of Perseverance: Writing No Matter What

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True North Studios: Saturday Open Hours

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: HEATWAVE