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3 events,

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Portland Underground Graduate School: Disarming Our Language

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Tech Support Group

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Fortune

4 events,

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Kathryn Kolbert & Julie F. Kay in Conversation With Dr. Jennifer Lincoln

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Fall | Zoom | Flash Nonfiction II Workshop w Brian Benson | Nov 2 – Nov 30

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Drop-in Writing Workshop for BIPOC Writers with Anya Pearson

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Shea Serrano / Ticketed Event

5 events,

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Virtual Writers Group

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in Conversation With Reece Jones

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PSU Comics Studies Info Session

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Fall Poetry Open Mic on Zoom

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Graduate Lecture Series: Janice Lee

11 events,

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Write Around Portland: Online Writing Workshops

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Daylight Book Club

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Ahead of His Time: Richard Neuberger, A conversation with Steve Forrester and Chet Orloff

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The Stacks Coffeehouse: November Prompt-Based Writing Class — Meets Thursdays at NOON

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Education: Refugee, Integrating Authentic Literature in the Classroom with Alan Gratz

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HomePlate Presents Front Porch Sessions

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4 events,

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Virtual Risograph Basics!

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Friday Night Collage

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Literally Crawling 2021 – A Virtual Lit-Crawl

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Imago Dei: Open Mic Night

4 events,

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Risograph Basics @ Outlet!

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New Moon Collage Circle

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From the Fragments with Roe McDermott

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: A Rug, An Arm, and A Scoundrel

3 events,

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Longreads Club – ‘We’re all fighting the giant’: Gig workers around the world are finally organizing

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Memory and Memoir :: How to tease out the story from the chaos of your mind :: A Webgasm

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Literally Crawling Workshop – *MIND MAPPING* (intuitive poetry comics)

3 events,

Portland Book Festival 2021

Portland Book Festival 2021

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Community Storytelling Training Intensive

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FALL | Zoom | Digging Deep w Wendy Willis | Nov 8 – June 20 TWO SPOTS REMAINING

8 events,

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Crash Course in Storytelling

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StoryWalk with Deborah

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Livestream Reading: Rachel King

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Ed Piskor & Jim Rugg: RED ROOM Virtual Book Launch

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Fantasy Book Club (REMOTE)

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Premise Course: What makes humans the same and different? King’s Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out

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4 events,

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Peter Martin | China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy

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Article Club (online)

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Kate Gray Poetry Reading

3 events,

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Killer Book Club (REMOTE)

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Igor Brezhnev

6 events,

OryCon 42

OryCon 42

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Jackson Bliss Reading

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In-person Book Launch & Exhibit: Diane Jacobs / Owed to The Mountain

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Teen Event (online)

9 events,

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Premise Course: Can we be our full selves everywhere we go? Should we be? Toomer’s Cane and Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection

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FALL | Zoom | Prose Poem Workshop w Ruben Quesada | Nov 13 NEW OFFERING — SPACE AVAILABLE

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Attic Institute: FALL Online Campus: Prose Poem Workshop w Ruben Quesada

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Writing Characters Who Take Up Space

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In-person Book Launch & Exhibit: Diane Jacobs / Owed to The Mountain

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Tales From a King County Search & Rescuer

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3 events,

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Bookarts: Stab Stitch & Variations

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Virtual Author Event: Jen Hewett, author of THIS LONG THREAD, in conversation w/ Mia Nakaji Monnier

0 events,

3 events,

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Debby Applegate in Conversation With Abbott Kahler

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Science Fiction Book Club (REMOTE)

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Livestream Reading: Joan Nockels Wilson

1 event,

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Incite: Queer Writers Read – November

6 events,

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Write Around Portland: Online Writing Workshops

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Transmit Culture: Diversity and Inclusion in the Children’s Publishing Workspace

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Columbia Writers Series: Sloane Crosley

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Susan DeFreitas with Lidia Yuknavitch, Michelle Ruiz Keil, David D. Levine, Leni Zumas & Curtis C. Chen

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November Poetry Practice Space

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Telltale Presents: Let’s Go Home

1 event,

PNCA Graduate Symposium 2021: Speculative Futures

PNCA Graduate Symposium 2021: Speculative Futures

4 events,

Portland Audubon’s Wild Arts Festival

Portland Audubon’s Wild Arts Festival

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The Stacks Coffeehouse: November Write-In

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Risograph Basics @ Outlet!

3 events,

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Application Deadline: Tin House Summer Residencies 2022

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November BIPOC Writers Workshop

1 event,

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Casey Michel in Conversation With Alexander S. Vindman (Lt. Col., U.S. Army, Ret.)

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1 event,

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Horror Book Club (REMOTE)

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1 event,

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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0 events,

2 events,

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Broadway Books: Virtual Holiday Book Chat

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Stand Up Smut : An Erotic Open Mic (now on zoom!)

2 events,

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Sandor Ellix Katz in Conversation With Liz Crain

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FROM KNOWLEDGE TO POWER Launch Party

1 event,

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James S. A. Corey in Conversation With Ann Leckie / Ticketed Event

2 events,

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Fonda Lee in Conversation With Sarah Gailey

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Fonograf Editions Five-Year Anniversary

1 event,

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Neal Stephenson in Conversation With Lev Grossman

2 events,

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Department of Truth Art Print Release!

3 events,

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Bookarts: Coptic Stitch

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Poetry Reading & Process Talk

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The Finish Line :: how to finish your book and move toward the world :: A Webgasm

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OryCon 42

OryCon 42

+ 1 More

OryCon 42

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