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!

Fiction

  1. Events
  2. Fiction

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Attic Institute: WINTER Online: A Writer’s Toolkit: How to Get Started As A Writer w Wayne Gregory | Jan 14 – Feb. 11

Online N/A, Portland

“Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.” ~ Pablo Picasso You have a story to tell, but you’re not sure how to get started. The Writer’s Toolkit is the class for you.  In this workshop, you will discover how to transform your ideas from imagination to a cohesive and compelling story that engages readers and keeps them turning the pages for more. You will learn some of the basic conventions for good writing that successful writers use: how to develop plot, how to create compelling characters, how to build dynamic scenes, and how to show rather than tell. You will learn by doing and will take away a wealth of writing tools and resources to keep honing your…

Continue readingAttic Institute: WINTER Online: A Writer’s Toolkit: How to Get Started As A Writer w Wayne Gregory | Jan 14 – Feb. 11
$215 – $242

Collisions: Short Story Workshop

Online N/A, Portland

For writers at all levels In this fiction workshop, we will explore how to use all manner of combustible collisions, both small and large, as generative fuel. Have a slew of disparate ideas stewing in your brain? We’ll investigate the power of unexpected pairings—how colliding seemingly unrelated images or ideas can spark something entirely original and point your work forward. And we’ll study different ways authors can open up possibilities for a story and introduce tension that keeps readers engaged. You will build your own stories and receive the focused attention of a workshop environment. Thursdays, January 14-March 4, 2021 from 6:00-8:00 Pacific (eight sessions) online via Zoom Instructor: Josha Nathan Josha Nathan is a 2017 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient. He earned his MFA at…

Continue readingCollisions: Short Story Workshop
$385
Click a category label below to view the calendar with only events in that specific category.