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HOCUS Online Generative Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

May 27th Workshop Sold Out, but others are in the works! Go to www.hocus.ink and click on the Newsletter tab to be informed of upcoming workshops. The HOCUS Tarot Method is a flexible, fun, and surprising way of generating short pieces with characters and themes which you didn't suspect were lurking in your subconscious. This two-hour workshop will include instruction and writing time, as well as opportunities for limited sharing, and will be led by HOCUS Grand Scribe Andrew Fort and HOCUS Grand Editor and Tarot expert Erik Arneson. Spaces are limited!

Free

Online Fiction Workshop for Teens

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This course consists of three consecutive 90-minute workshops that will take place from noon – 1:30 p.m on May 14, May 21, and May 28, 2020 and will be taught via Zoom, by writer Jules Ohman. The workshop is open to high school students at all skills levels interested in writing fiction. Students will be guided through fun and generative writing exercises, learn new craft techniques, and receive feedback on their work from their peers and instructor. Limited to 16 students. Zoom meeting instructions to be emailed to students by instructor prior to class start. Jules Ohman (pronouns: she/hers) is a program specialist and writer for Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools program. She co-founded the nonprofit Free Verse, which teaches creative writing in juvenile…

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Free – $30

Happy Hour with Forest Ave Press

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Vist our website to register and join in the conversation - https://www.tworiversbooks.com/event/happy-hour-forest-ave-press Laura from Forest Avenue Press, local indie publisher of literary fiction, joins us to talk about their fantastic spring and summer releases, plus a few of her other favorite local reads. (See the Forest Ave books here - https://www.tworiversbooks.com/happy-hour-forest-ave-press) Hope to see you there!

Free

Horror Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Books Around the Corner Horror Book Club is led by the owner/librarian, Stephanie Rose, and meets monthly on the fourth Thursday of every month at 6PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our horror loving customers (RSVP is not required). Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Our May pick is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill and we will meet on May 28th. About the book: A woman trying to save her son from a vicious, supernatural killer who has set his sights on him. We…

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Free

Delve Readers Seminars Online: Free 90 minute Discussion on Daisy Miller

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A free 90-minute Delve discussion on Daisy Miller, led by Christopher Lord. The discussion is limited to 16 people and pre-registration is required. Registered participants will receive information on how to sign on to the Zoom meeting. Is the young American heiress Daisy Miller innocent–or reckless? A flirtatious girl from Schenectady or a dangerous woman who “is going too far” to suit the tastes of other Americans in Rome? Young Frederick Winterbourne, American-born but long living abroad, can’t decide; he wants to know Daisy better. But can Daisy ever stop long enough for him to observe her carefully? This long “short” story that begins seemingly as a comedy and ends in tragedy, was Henry James’s biggest-selling work of fiction during his lifetime, and demonstrated at…

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Free

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES Houdini Interactive Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join author Katherine Factor for a live Choose Your Own Adventure Zoom event where she will read from her new book, SPIES: Harry Houdini and YOU will make the choices. This is family-friendly event for all ages showcasing interactive fiction by a local author. Fun for all! Signed copies of the book will be available through the Rose City Book Pub. Click the ticket link to register for this event.

Free

The Secret Music at Tordesillas: ZOOM LAUNCH and PRE-ORDER PARTY

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Monday June 1, 2020, 4:5o pm to 6 pm PACIFIC TIME: THIS JUST IN: be sure to arrive by 4:50 to hear a short live musical performance by members of Trio Sefardi, joining us by special appearance from Virginia. Two members of the group will be performing works featured in the novel. Thank you, Howard and Tina! Please send an email request to swlf.mainoffice@oregonstate.edu   or contact@marjoriesandor.com to request the zoom meeting code and password

Free

Live Stream Reading: Marilyn Sewell: In Time’s Shadow

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Portland author Marilyn Sewell for a live stream reading from her latest book, In Time’s Shadow. She will be in conversation with Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Paulann Petersen. Live stream registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqde-gqjIpH9Z8I4tcYQ-WHdVqkbHHk8bG Minister, author, and activist Marilyn Sewell reflects on the everyday, the places we live and work, the thoughts we all have but hardly ever share, though they may carry the most profound of our human concerns. Using a variety of short literary forms—dramatic monologues, vignettes, letters, prose poems, lists, surrealistic tales—Sewell presents quirky, ironic, and compassionate slices of life that will bring laughter and at the same time take you deeper into the mysteries of existence. Sewell pushes for the thin, startling light beneath the confusion and chaos…

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Free

Romance Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Books Around the Corner Romance Book Club will be community led and meets monthly on the first Thursday of every month at 5PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our romance loving customers (RSVP is not required). Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Join us on June 4th for our Romance Book Club. We will discuss The Honey Don't-List List by Christina Lauren. About the book: A romance about two personal assistants who find love while trying to keep their bosses marriage from imploding.…

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Free

Salman Rushdie: Quichotte

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Presented by the Wisconsin Book Festival in partnership with The Believer Festival, Literary Arts, and The Loft’s Wordplay, Salman Rushdie will appear live on Crowdcast. Join us at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/quichotte Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a…

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