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

Application Deadline: 2021 Tin House Summer Residencies

Online N/A, Portland

Each residency will feature two writers at the same time (in separate apartments). If eligible, you may apply for all of the residencies using this single application. Tin House Workshop recognizes that the ongoing pandemic makes traveling and timelines more difficult than ever. We’re committed to working with each resident to make their visit as comfortable and safe as possible. Should anyone need to cancel their residency due to COVID concerns, we will still honor the stipend. Application Requirements (submitted as one document): A personal essay (1,500 words or less outlining your journey as a writer and description of the project you will be working on) + writing sample. Fiction and Nonfiction: One writing sample of no more than 7,000 words. A short story/essay or…

Continue readingApplication Deadline: 2021 Tin House Summer Residencies
$25

March BIPOC writer workshop

Online N/A, Portland

For BIPOC writers Searching for a space to create new work with fellow BIPOC writers? This two-hour workshop meets on Zoom. A variety of prompts will be presented as avenues for generating and sharing new work in an informal setting. Open to BIPOC writers at all levels writing in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. Scholarships are available. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org for more information. Jacqueline Fitzgerald is an educator, coach, and writer who strives to lead through a love ethic and believes in the power of stories to change hearts and minds. Her writing has been published in the Oregonian, The Learning Network of the New York Times, and Beacon Magazine. Currently, she is working on a speculative future novel exploring intergenerational experiences of survival…

Continue readingMarch BIPOC writer workshop
$15

Band of Submitting Writers & Artists—Begins March 14th

Online N/A, Portland

WHAT: A two week online collaboration on submitting work to literary publications WHEN: Sunday March 14th @12-2pm & Sunday, March 21st @12-2pm ACCESS: $100 (additional $50 for glamour photo by Katie) Payment plans always available—contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com Where: The Corporeal Zoom room SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are available for collaboration only, not headshots please click here to apply. So, you’ve written something and/or created some visual art and want to get it out into the world of literary publications, now what? The process of submitting can be overwhelming, whether you’re just beginning to think about it, or returning to the process, and doing it alone can seem even more daunting. Where do we begin? Who do we submit to? What if you have questions along the…

Continue readingBand of Submitting Writers & Artists—Begins March 14th
$100
Click a category label below to view the calendar with only events in that specific category.