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

Book Buddies

Ledding Library of Milwaukie 10660 SE 21st Avenue, Milwaukie, OR, United States

We'll read books nominated for the Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award. Join us the 1st Thursday of the month, 4-4:45pm, October-April, in the Community Room. October 6, 2022 Welcome to Book Buddies! Meet your Book Buddies, make a craft and share your favorite book titles. November 3, 2022 The Powwow Dog by Joseph Bruchac December 1, 2022 Our Friend Hedgehog: the Story of Us by Lauren Castillo January 5, 2023 Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business by Lyla Lee February 2, 2023 Here Comes Lolo by Niki Daly March 2, 2023 Puppy Problems by Paige Braddock April 6, 2023 VOTING PARTY! Vote for your favorite book from this list and help choose the winner of the Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award! To learn more about the Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award, visit https://ola.memberclicks.net/bccca-home (link is external) Room…

Continue readingBook Buddies
Free

In-Store Reading: Cai Emmons, Yuvi Zalkow, Kate Gale

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon author Cai Emmons who is presenting her new novel, Livid, published by Red Hen Press. The author Whitney Otto will be a stand-in reader for Cai, whose ALS precludes public speaking. They will be joined by fellow Red Hen author Yuvi Zalkow, whose new novel is I Only Cry with Emoticons, and Red Hen co-founder Kate Gale, whose new poetry collection is The Loneliest Girl. This in-store reading is first come, first served. Please be mindful of any store health policies that might be in effect on the night of the reading. About Livid: Sybil White Brown returns from Boston to the small West Coast city where she once lived, hoping to heal after a terrible loss. Summoned to jury duty,…

Continue readingIn-Store Reading: Cai Emmons, Yuvi Zalkow, Kate Gale
Free

Coffee Talk #39

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Come hear 5 wonderful writers read their grief words. This zoom event lasts about an hour and is guaranteed to be the best heart medicine. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84596161664?pwd=UktVamJyNlpKVGNUbjcxay9EY1Y4QT09 Meeting ID: 845 9616 1664 Passcode: 395080

Free

PUBLISHING: Literary Agent Rayhané Sanders—Seminar + Consultations—Oct 7th-9th

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We have the great privilege of hosting Rayhané Sanders, literary agent at Massie and McQuilkin, for a 90-minute webinar on Publishing (with ample opportunity for Q&A) on Saturday October 8th, 2022, from 11:00AM to 12:30PM Pacific. Yes, Rayhané represents our very own Lidia Yuknavitch.) In addition to the seminar, Ms. Sanders is taking on twenty private manuscript consultations. Over the course of a 20-minute meeting, she will give you feedback from an agent’s point of view on the first 25 pages of your manuscript, submitted ahead of time. (Please note, Ms. Sanders comes from New York publishing, and is very encouraging but also very direct!) The deadline for submitting your 25 pages will be September 15th, and you’ll be provided with specific formatting guidelines. Consultations will…

Continue readingPUBLISHING: Literary Agent Rayhané Sanders—Seminar + Consultations—Oct 7th-9th
$150 – $375

PSU Lit Mic

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

PSU Lit Mic is always lit. Hosted by the delightful and compelling duo Jordan and Grace. You don’t need to be affiliated with PSU to participate. You wrote it, you read it.

Free

APPS DUE: SEP 25: Fiction Studio: Novel Intensive | Oct 8 – Apr 15

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

25 Weeks to Focus on Your Novel Fiction Studio is based on the idea that inspiration, accountability, and community are essential to every novelist’s growth. Fiction Studio meets weekly for half the year, and its curriculum is designed to help you deepen your writing through a keener understanding of both literary craft and your own voice. Fiction Studio is open to applications from all writers (see application information below). This creates the Studio’s special "novel intensive" experience: a consistent, deep, and supportive study of your writing in the company of other writers. Learn more about applying to the Fiction Studio To Apply: To apply to join the next Fiction Studio, please send a writing sample of up to 3,500 words and a 250-word statement of purpose. APPLICATIONS DUE: Sep 25, 2022. NOTE: This…

Continue readingAPPS DUE: SEP 25: Fiction Studio: Novel Intensive | Oct 8 – Apr 15
$1345 – $1395

Cultivating a Sustainable Writing Practice

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This workshop is offered via Zoom PST Register here Cultivating a Sustainable Writing Practice Our practice—how we labor as writers—is highly personal. When we create a writing habit, it helps to consider our individual creative processes, life priorities, writing goals, and all the ways that we get in the way of our own writing. How we labor is also bound up in cultural notions of productivity and success that can often kill the creative drive. It can be hard to consistently carve out time in order to cultivate the type of patient, inner stillness required to write, but it is possible. Necessary, even. In this supportive workshop, we will talk about how to design a sustainable writing practice that aligns with your creative process, priorities…

Continue readingCultivating a Sustainable Writing Practice
$15 – $75

Reading: Amy Bleu

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading from Amy’s new novel, In My Secret Life.

Free

Creative Writing & Chill

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

*This event is in-person. Masks and proof of vaccination is required Register here Writing and chill: a high vibe, on the fly, structure free writing space for all-ages (youth centered). Come generate, share and get support! Creative prompts and writing materials provided. Stay tuned for an Open Mic Night later in October!

Free

Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan / TICKETED EVENT

Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

From Jodi Picoult, the bestselling author of Wish You Were Here, and Jennifer Finney Boylan, the  bestselling author of She’s Not There, comes a soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind. Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life — living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher — was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New…

Continue readingJodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan / TICKETED EVENT
$39.99
Click a category label below to view the calendar with only events in that specific category.