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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BIPOC Revision Workshop

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5 events,

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

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Write Now Online: The Narrative Braid 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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Delve Readers Seminar: James Baldwin

2 events,

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Daylight Book Club

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Coffee Talk #26

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2 events,

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The Path of Perseverance: Writing No Matter What

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Telltale at the Tower Presents: We Are Infinite.

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3 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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Livestream Reading: Warren Easley: No Witness

1 event,

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Incite: Queer Writers Read – September

2 events,

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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)

2 events,

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Writing with our Ancestors, with Chelsea Hicks

2 events,

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

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How to Create the Perfect Crime for Young Readers

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1 event,

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Fantasy Book Club (REMOTE)

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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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Nine-Month Novel Intensive

3 events,

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Nine-Month Novel Intensive: Thursday

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Telltale Presents: What Did You Expect?

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

3 events,

ART & BACKFENCE PRESENT: CAMPFIRE STORIES

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Submission Deadline: 2022 Oregon Literary Fellowships

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An Evening with David Sedaris

5 events,

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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

1 event,

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

2 events,

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Write Your Grief Out: A Taste

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

5 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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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

1 event,

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Coffee Talk #27

4 events,

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Horror Book Club (REMOTE)

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Write Around Portland: Online Writing Workshops

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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

2 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

1 event,

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Writing the Long Short Story

1 event,

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FALL :: A Generative Creative Lab :: Exhausting Metaphor

1 event,

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

2 events,

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Sandra Cisneros: Presented with Wisconsin Book Festival

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Delve Readers Seminar: Hilary Mantel: Beyond the Booker

2 events,

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Jess Walter in Conversation With Amor Towles

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Writing the Tarot: Creative Writing Workshop

1 event,

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Reading: Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene

3 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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The Stacks Coffeehouse: October 2021 Writing Class

3 events,

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

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Writing Beyond Stereotypes of Disability

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: MORE THAN FOOD: Stories that Have Sustained Us Through the Pandemic

2 events,

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

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