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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1 event,

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BIPOC Revision Workshop

1 event,

7 events,

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

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Submission Deadline: Attic Institute: Poets Studio 2021-2022

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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

1 event,

4 events,

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Refuse the Given World: Breaking Blocks Through Play

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Jane Kirkpatrick in Conversation With Craig Johnson

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Drop-in Writing Workshop for BIPOC Writers with Anya Pearson

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Livestream Reading: Warren Easley: No Witness

3 events,

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Historians and the News: Kathleen Belew

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Marilyn Johnston Poetry Reading

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Incite: Queer Writers Read – September

6 events,

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Teen Comic Workshop

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Thom Hartmann

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Premise Course: Why do we resist the commonness of humanity? Morrison’s Beloved and Bluest Eye

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Killer Book Club (Remote)

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Returns to In-Person Readings with Featured Poet Jeffrey Morgan

3 events,

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Writing with our Ancestors, with Chelsea Hicks

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Open Mic and Poetry Reading on Zoom

6 events,

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Attic Institute: FALL Online: The Music of Language for Prose Writers w Joanna Rose

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Attic Institute: FALL Online: Prose Poetry or Creative Nonfiction? A Generative Writing Workshop w Ruben Quesada

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The Work Poetry workshop: Saturday Afternoon Edition

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How to Create the Perfect Crime for Young Readers

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The Poetry Box LIVE f. Elizabeth McBride, Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Marcia B. Loughran

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I Am My Story Live

0 events,

1 event,

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Gatherings

5 events,

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Writing the Intersection of Our Identities: Tuesday nights

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Dr. Jennifer Lincoln in Conversation With Dr. Jen Gunter

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Attic Institute: FALL Online: Introduction to Flash Nonfiction w Brian Benson

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Fantasy Book Club (REMOTE)

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Cult of! New Mutants: An X-Men Themed Drag Show

5 events,

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Premise Course: How do we carry borders with us even as we cross them? Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, Luiselli’s Tell Me How it Ends, Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters

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Writing the Intersections of Our Identities: For BIPOC writers

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Build Your Own Publicity Plan

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Inheritance Workshop Series

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Nine-Month Novel Intensive

5 events,

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September Poetry Practice Space

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Nine-Month Novel Intensive: Thursday

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Telltale Presents: What Did You Expect?

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Livestream Poetry Reading: Brittney Corrigan and David J. S. Pickering

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Live Wire: Sarah Marshall, Dino Archie, Omar El Akkad, MAITA

5 events,

ART & BACKFENCE PRESENT: CAMPFIRE STORIES

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Submission Deadline: 2022 Oregon Literary Fellowships

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Black Abolitionists and Mercantile Frontiers: A. H. Francis and His Circle, 1835–1864

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Grief and the Lyric Essay

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An Evening with David Sedaris

7 events,

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

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Attic Institute: FALL Online: Monthly Poetry Gathering and Workshop w John Morrison

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Writing with Herbs w/ Amanda Andrei

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From the Caves at 45th Parallel Wines and Two Rivers Bookstore

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Lux Radio Theater’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still”

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The Tesla City Stories Season 6 World Premiere

4 events,

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Nature Writing Now: Intensive

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Attic Institute: FALL Online: Other Inspirations Poetry Workshop w Matthew Dickman

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Premise Conversation Course: How will the pandemic change us and our world? Camus’ The Plague

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Imago Dei: Open Mic Night

3 events,

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Write Your Grief Out: A Taste

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GHOSTING a zine

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Livestream Reading: Stephen Cohen: Baggy Red Pants and Other Stories

6 events,

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Premise Course: How can we judge something’s value? Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew

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Attic Institute: FALL Online: Telling Stories: How to Write Fiction Workshop w Wayne Gregory

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Livestream Reading: Sarah Dougher

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Two Rivers Virtual Book Club September

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Science Fiction Book Club (REMOTE)

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Defne Suman in Conversation With Maureen Freely

5 events,

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Coffee Talk #27

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Band of Submitting Writers & Artists

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Leigh Cowart in Conversation With Jess Zimmerman

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Lecture with Eileen Isagon Skyers

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Creating the Graphic Novel: Inception to Publication

6 events,

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Horror Book Club (REMOTE)

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Write Around Portland: Online Writing Workshops

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Dave Zirin in Conversation With Etan Thomas

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Attic Institute: Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Studio

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Attic Institute: FALL Online: A Writer’s Toolkit: How to Get Started As A Writer Workshop w Wayne Gregory

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Friends of Mystery Presents: Tracy Clark, Mary Keliikoa, and Elle Marr

3 events,

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Ari Honarvar in Conversation With Ashleigh Renard

3 events,

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Attic Institute: FALL Online: Art of Personal Essay and Memoir w Lee Montgomery

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Writing the Long Short Story

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Nine-Month Memoir Intensive

2 events,

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CIRRO-NUMINOUS SALON: THE LENS

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FALL :: A Generative Creative Lab :: Exhausting Metaphor

2 events,

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Margaret Renkl in Conversation With Mary Laura Philpott

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Premise Course: What is heroism? Do we all have it within us? Sophocles’ Ajax

4 events,

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Sandra Cisneros: Presented with Wisconsin Book Festival

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Delve Readers Seminar: Hilary Mantel: Beyond the Booker

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John Mark Comer in Conversation With Tyler Staton

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Premise Course: Do we shape our world or does it shape us? Arendt’s The Human Condition

2 events,

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Jess Walter in Conversation With Amor Towles

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Writing the Tarot: Creative Writing Workshop

5 events,

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Annual Family Breakfast: Broadcast Edition

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BitchReads: Anita Hill in Conversation with Renee Bracey Sherman

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Hunter Shobe & David Banis

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Reading: Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene

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Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Angelique Palmer

8 events,

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Grab & Go Book Clubs

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Writing And/As the Mother with Amanda Montei

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Writing Care, with Brian Trapp

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Tween Graphic Novel Book Group

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Thor Hanson

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True North: Friday Night Collage

8 events,

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Writing Beyond Stereotypes of Disability

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Turning Words into Magic, with Keeonna Harris

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Savage Love From A to Z

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New Moon Collage Circle

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Eno/Ono: Jumping into Risk through Cross-Genre Explorations w/ Alex Behr

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Dáyquiri: Little Poems

2 events,

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: You Can Do Anything With Words and Images, with Courtney Cook

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Turning Words into Magic, with Keeonna Harris