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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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

5 events,

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Livestream Reading: Rachel King: Bratwurst Haven

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Delve Readers Seminar: An Intensive Study of Totality: Jorge Luis Borges

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Alison Cochrun in Conversation With Anita Kelly

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Katherine Dunn Tribute Event with Naomi Huffman & Lydia Kiesling

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Omar El Akkad on Writing the Codacene: Literature in an Age of Endings | 57th Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Lecture

1 event,

TAP@PBF: Oregon Symphony

3 events,

TAP@PBF: Motherhood Is Psychedelic

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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In-Store Reading: Rosanne Parry, Trudy Ludwig, Mark Fearing

4 events,

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Creating Vibrant and Complex Characters

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Hilary Plum

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Portland Book Festival: Friday Night Book Market

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Rachel King in Conversation With Kimberly King Parsons

10 events,

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Reimagine Resistance: Harper Glenn & Justina Ireland

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Long Live Short Stories: George Saunders & Jess Walter

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Portland Book Festival!

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National Anthems: Juhea Kim & Lidia Yuknavitch

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Storytime: Friends Are Friends, Forever

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Think Out Loud: Somewhere Sisters

5 events,

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Writing Food

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Kick-Start Your Picture Book

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“The Most Important Element”: Plot in Literary Fiction

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PBF Cover to Cover: Tin House Autumn Workshop Showcase

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PBF Cover to Cover: Lit-Mondo

1 event,

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Leftovers

2 events,

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Recharge Your Writing Life: Experiments & Strategies

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Haunted: Writing into Death & The Dead with Sonya Lea — begins November 8th

2 events,

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Leanne Grabel, Brontosaurus Illustrated, reading with Joanna Rose and Sherri Levine

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Incite: Queer Writers Read – November

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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2 events,

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Holiday Book Chat

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Delve Readers Seminar: The Art of Memory: Autofiction

2 events,

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Submission Deadline: Old Pal – Issue 6

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Willpower

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2 events,

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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Portland Arts & Lectures 2022/23: Anthony Doerr

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2 events,

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Quarterly Book Sale

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BIPOC Writing Workshop: November

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1 event,

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

1 event,

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Drink and Write Tuesdays

2 events,

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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock: Issue 19: Hacking

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Submission Deadline: HOCUS: November Tarot Prompts

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2 events,

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Writing Dynamic Dialogue

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