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A taste of Write Your Grief Out

Online N/A, Portland

Want to write start writing your grief story? Or keep writing it? Wondering where to start writing your deep story? Come write with us September 14th from noon to 1:30 pm Pacific. Any level of writing. Everybody welcome. It’s a free one day drop-in writing session. Limited spaces! Join the zoom room right at noon (when we start) to make sure you get in Hosted on zoom. Join by clicking here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86223534482?pwd=emdDS25TOXVmNzFxMHRnYkJhRmwydz09 Meeting ID: 862 2353 4482 Passcode: 645699 We’ll talk a little about grief. Then free-write from a writing start/prompt. There’s time to share your writing if you choose to. Bring your laptop or pen. Your coffee too. Bring your friends! Invite them on this Facebook event Come get a taste of our 30…

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Free

Vampirella Mindwarp signing with Jeff Parker at Cosmic Monkey Comics

Cosmic Monkey Comics 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland

Cosmic Monkey Comics is excited to have Jeff Parker signing copies of Vampirella Mindwarp #1 with us Wednesday September 14th 4-6pm. VAMPIRELLA MINDWARP #1 (OF 5) (W) Jeff Parker (A) Ben Dewey (CA) Jonathan Case It's a deadly chase across reality in a Vampirella epic unlike any you've seen before. Enter the twisted world of Mindwarp! Meet Baroness Gruzal, an evil sorcerer with an ancient crown that possesses dreadful powers. Gruzal's ambition is to live one thousand years - and she plans to accomplish this by stealing and inhabiting the powerful body of Vampirella! What follows is a mad chase across time and space itself, as seen through the prism of Vampirella's wild history and dark origins! Don't miss this new, brain-melting epic from the…

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Free

Portland Book Festival Author Announcement

Online N/A, Portland

Literary Arts is thrilled to announce the lineup of authors appearing at this year’s Portland Book Festival, presented by Bank of America, which will take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022. Passes to Portland Book Festival will also go on sale at this time.  

Free

Fall | Prose Poetry I w Ruben Quesada | Sep 14 – Oct 12 | Online

Online N/A, Portland

Make It, Don't Break It Explore imaginative and innovative possibilities in writing poetry without line breaks. Our practice will employ the craft of lineated poetry and traditional narrative, including attention to language, syntax, and sound; rhythmic or imagistic patterning; repetition; precision; compression. This is generative class focused on the foundations of poetic prose. The intersection of poetry and prose offers a range of possibilities for style and subject. I encourage a diversity of styles and subject matters, and I encourage you to take risks in your work. We will write together and discuss elements of writing. No previous writing experience is needed. Zoom link provided prior to start of workshop. Teacher: Ruben QuesadaTime: Wednesdays, Sep 14 - Oct 12, 5 - 7pm Pacific TimeLocation: Online via ZoomTotal Fee: Discounted…

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$219 – $248

Rachel Aviv in Conversation With Stephanie Danler

Online N/A, Portland

Strangers to Ourselves (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is the highly anticipated debut from acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv, compelling us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are. In her powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her children’s forgiveness after recovering from psychosis; a man who devotes his life…

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Yuvi Zalkow in Conversation with Brian Benson

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

Yuvi Zalkow is the author of I Only Cry with Emoticons (Red Hen Press, 2022) and A Brilliant Novel in the Works (MP Publishing, 2012). I Only Cry with Emoticons is a quirky comedy that reveals the cost of being disconnected--even when we're using a dozen apps on our devices to communicate--and an awkward man's search for real connections, on and offline. His short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Narrative Magazine, Carve Magazine, Rosebud, The Los Angeles Review, and others. He received an MFA from Antioch University. You can find out too much information about him at yuvizalkow.com. He lives with his wife, kid, and grumpy cats in Portland, Oregon. Brian Benson grew up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. He now lives in…

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Free

David J. S. Pickering Poetry Reading

Ledding Library of Milwaukie 10660 SE 21st Avenue, Milwaukie

The 16th season of the Milwaukie Poetry Series kicks off on September 14 at 6pm with a live reading at the library by poet David J. S. Pickering. Seating limited to 50. David J.S. Pickering is a native Oregonian, having grown up and lived much of his life in the working-class culture of the North Oregon Coast. He received the 2020 Airlie Prize for his first poetry collection, Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland (Airlie Press, 09/2021). His poetry is published in a variety of journals including Reed Magazine, Pine Row, Raven Chronicles, and Gertrude Journal. David never aspired to have his own website, so he is a bit nonplussed to find that he owns one, www.pickpoetry.com (link is external). David has retired from a…

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Fall | Getting Started (or Getting Started Again!) with Poetry w John Morrison | Sep 14 – Oct 12 | Online

Online N/A, Portland

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”  ~ Theodore Roethke There is so much pleasure in poetry. Yes, there’s heartache, and mystery, and play, and drama, but there’s pure pleasure in the writing, the reading, and the sharing. Honestly, there’s just pleasure in joining the company of poets. This session is for those who are interested writing or sharing your poetry but you’re not quite sure. What will a workshop be like? What will others think? Will I belong? Here is your opportunity and now is your time. Although the session is available to all, we will always be mindful of writers who haven’t been in a workshop or haven’t been for a long time. For inspiration and edification, we’ll read marvelous…

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$219 – $248

Nine-Month Novel Intensive: Wednesday

Online N/A, Portland

This course for dedicated writers is designed to guide you through the writing and/or revising of your novel. It runs from September through May. You’ll read excerpts from published novels by authors including Han Kang, Tommy Orange, Lina Meruane, Mitchell S. Jackson, Deborah Levy, and Susan Steinberg, as well as craft essays by authors including Dorothy Allison, Jane Alison, and Alexander Chee. Some weeks you’ll have craft assignments to complete outside of class, and other weeks we’ll do in-class exercises together. After the first month of meetings, two students will workshop each week. Each student will have the opportunity to workshop five times, turning in up to 25 double-spaced pages per submission. Students should be prepared to read and comment on up to 50 pages…

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$1450

Kevin Hearne

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

The New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne collect the hilarious, action-packed tales of a 2,000-year-old Druid pursued by ancient gods in the modern world. Hearne joins us for a special event in celebration of the reissuing of the final four Iron Druid Chronicles books: Shattered (Del Rey), Staked, Besieged, and Scourged. Preorder a Signed Edition (Shattered) Preorder a Signed Edition (Staked) Preorder a Signed Edition (Besieged) Preorder a Signed Edition (Scourged)

Free

Consider This: Black Political Power in Oregon

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland

Join Oregon Humanities on Wednesday, September 14, for a conversation on the state of Black political power in Oregon with Joy Alise Davis, executive director at Imagine Black; Keith Jenkins, director of Southern Oregon Black Leaders, Activists, & Community Coalition; and Marcus LeGrand, vice-chair of Bend-La Pine Schools. Journalist Bruce Poinsette will facilitate the conversation. The event will take place in-person at the Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., in Portland. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m, and the event will begin at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $15, and no-cost tickets are available by request. Joy Alise Davis is a Cincinnati native who graduated from Miami University with a bachelor of arts in political science and from Parsons School of Design with a master…

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Free – $15

Incite: Queer Writers Read – September: SPECULATE

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, bimonthly reading series for Queer writers. Incite’s hope is to create conversation, connection, and greater understanding both within the Queer community and with other communities. Hosted by Vinnie Kinsella and Jennifer Perrine. This event will take place in-person at Literary Arts’ downtown center. Please review our Covid-19 guidelines.  Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, bi-monthly reading series for Queer writers. For September, our featured readers are Wendy N. Wagner, Lydia Rogue, and Christopher Rose. Our theme for the month is SPECULATE. This is a free event hosted by Literary Arts.  

Free

Fall | New Generative Writing: Grief and Compassion w Ed Sage | Sep 14 – Oct 12

Online N/A, Portland

In this exploratory, generative workshop we will be using our writing to be in relationship with our grief and compassion by meeting them, reimagining them, and bring light to the shadows. We will interrupt the "arrangements" in our lives that perhaps are not serving us well and redefine stubborn “truths” about our sorrow. You can expect to discover new threads in your work as well as create drafts of pieces that inspire more commitment. Writing about grief can free us to be more empathic and compassionate with ourselves and others; it can help us discover the universal in our experience and blessings we would share. Zoom link provided prior to start of workshop. Teacher: Ed SageTime: Wednesdays, Sep 14 - Oct 12, 7-9pm Pacific TimeLocation: Online via ZoomTotal…

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$219 – $248

Trivia Night

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Trivia is conducted hybrid online and in person. Join us at the bar or join us through Zoom. This is one of our most popular events. Come early to make sure you get a table, and come early so that you can order food and drinks and get settled in time. It is also important to come up with a clever team name. If you come as a single person or a pair and are looking to make new friends, let us know and we will place you with welcoming regulars, or we might place you with other new folks. Trivia night is a great way to make new friends, and they will be sure to be good people since Publiners are quality folks. The…

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Free
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