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Craft Conversations: Focus on Scenes: Build Back Better

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The scene is a building block of fiction and memoir. During this discussion we will take a deep dive into the components of scene writing. What makes a scene compelling? How can we make scenes vivid and earn their place on the page? If scenes must move stories forward, and reveal character, how can you include both external events and interiority? What about handling time? Character’s goals? Obstacles? And, when is it best to use summary? Through writing examples, prompts and ample discussion, you will leave this workshop with a firmer grip on how to enliven your work with scene. Each writer should come to the workshop with a scene that has been dogging them, either it isn’t coming to life on the page, or…

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$75

Begin Again :: A Webgasm w/ Lidia Yuknavitch & Jen Pastiloff

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT: A two and a half-hour online webgasm. WITH: Jen Pastiloff and Lidia Yuknavitch WHEN: Saturday, March 6, 2021 from 11am to 1:30PM PST WHERE: ZOOM (But of course.) Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time. HOW MUCH: $150. Payment plans are always available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com SCHOLARSHIPS: Click here to apply. How many times do you find yourself returning to a stuck place or the end of something, only to find that you must begin again? All endings contain beginnings, all beginnings mark the end of something--a feeling, a state of being, a process, a choice, a piece of art, a relationship, a self moving from stasis through change to a new form. Just as we are coming through cultural endings…

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$150

Booklover’s Burlesque: Once Upon a Tease (Virtual Edition)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Explore the wondrously sensual world of fairy tales, myths, and legends like never before as Lacy Productions presents... BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE: Once Upon a Tease (Our next brand new, full-length Virtual Edition!) Saturday, March 6th, 2021 Livestream at 7pm PST on Crowdcast $15 GA & $25 VIP TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE ON EVENTBRITE at https://bit.ly/3pweic9 (A Crowdcast link to our livestream will be emailed to all ticketholders by 3pm- or later if purchased afterward- on the day of the show. Tickets will be available up until showtime.) General Admission: $15 VIP Admission: $25 (includes an exclusive invitation to a Zoom VIP Meet & Greet directly after the show and a special thank you during the show. The Zoom VIP Meet & Greet link will also be emailed…

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$15 – $25

Submissions for HOCUS Online Reading: Enchantments

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

HOCUS is currently accepting fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction on the theme of Enchantments. Submissions should total no more than 2000 words. You are welcome to interpret the theme however you like, but keep in mind that HOCUS prefers work in the literary genre. Deadline is March 7th at midnight. Reading will take place via Zoom on March 31st at 7:00 p.m.

Free

IPRC: 2021 BIPOC Residency Info Session

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a remote Q + A informational session about the 2021 BIPOC Residency program! Slideshow presented by IPRC Member and Community Projects Coordinator, Emmy Eao on the history of the residency, the intentions of the program, and the application process. RSVP here. Zoom link will be sent out the day of. More info about the residency here .

Free

Broadway Books Book Club Discussion

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the first Broadway Books Book Club meeting of 2021 and our inaugural event celebrating our Year of Toni Morrison. We will be discussing the new, highly touted debut novel by Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets. This event will take place on Zoom on March 9th at 6:00 pm Pacific Time. In honor of this discussion, we will be offering the book at a 20% discount until March 9th. The author's lyrical, third-person writing style has been likened to the writings of Toni Morrison. In our discussion we will compare and contrast his new work to Morrison's Beloved. Robert Jones, Jr., was born and raised in New York City. He received his BFA in creative writing with honors and MFA in fiction from…

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Free

Delve Readers Seminar: Imagining the Future: Dystopic and Utopic Fiction

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Many of us have described the past year as “apocalyptic” or “dystopian.” We’ve been living through a global pandemic, a critical presidential election, ravaging wildfires, and a national reckoning with our country’s legacy of racism and police violence. Utopic and dystopic fiction can help us make sense of our experience and ask questions about our future. In this seminar we’ll read three works of utopic and dystopic fiction written by women authors. In our reading and discussion of each text, we will focus on a few core questions: Who are we, as a society? Who do we want to be? What gets in the way of becoming the society we dream of? What do fictional dystopias and utopias teach us about what we fear and…

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$240

Fantasy Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Books Around the Corner Fantasy Book Club meets monthly on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our fantasy loving customers. 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 Tuesday March 9th at 6:30pm for our Books Around the Corner Fantasy Book Club. We will discuss The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. About the book: A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons…

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$15 – $25

Livestream Reading: Phillip Margolin

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Phillip Margolin for a livestream reading from his new thriller, A Matter of Life and Death. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckf-6vqD4jH9Q7ILsLo8sUGnh7aKRS417l About the book: The master of the courtroom thriller returns with a classic mind-bending puzzle, as Attorney Robin Lockwood must face her most challenging case yet, with everything stacked against her client and death on the line.  Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred illegal bout, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house. However, when he breaks in, he finds a murdered woman on the floor and the police have received an anonymous tip…

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Free

Incite: Queer Writers Read—March 2021

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, monthly reading series for Queer writers. Join us in March as we explore the topic of Repair/Rebuild with Ajai Terrazas Tripathi, Megan Alpert, Nastashia Minto, and Daniel Gyu. Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, monthly reading series for Queer writers. Incite’s hope is to create conversation, connection, and greater understanding both within the Queer community and with other communities. Hosted by Vinnie Kinsella and Jennifer Perrine. The theme for March is Repair/Rebuild. Register for this event in advance.

Free
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