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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For people who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC). 2nd & 4th Friday of every month from 4 to 5:30 pm (Pacific Time), Free. (No workshops 11/26 & 12/25.) Workshops are held via Zoom. Pre-registration is required. Registration opens the 1st of the month every month. Pre-register for our 2nd Friday workshop here. Pre-register for our 4th Friday workshop here. Click here for more workshop details.

Free

2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Land Beyond Map, with Laura Da’

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This craft intensive is informed by the observational curiosities and imperatives of seasonality and land. This course uses the concept of the map and its inherent limitations as a central metaphor for crafting new work and evoking place. The creation, crossing, and elimination of boundaries of language and narrative will underpin writing prompts and extension activities designed to encourage new work and invigorate the revision process. Writing place has a long history in poetry, but this course will look closely at the ways that worldview shapes, guides, and hinders. Readings will include Cedar Sigo, Camille Dungy, and Megan Bang. Writers will leave this course with a variety of observational strategies and suggestions for future projects and ways of learning from the land. Tin House is…

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$75

Portland Storytellers’ Guild: Story Swap

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

PSG Story Swaps are a great way to visit with others that love stories. Story Swaps are open to all whether or not you are a PSG member. You will hear stories from every level of teller; seasoned, first timers, or those in between. Many people come at first just to listen to stories but decide over time to give storytelling a try. Swaps are a safe place for people to take those first steps into the world of storytelling. We like to get in as many tellers as possible. However, we only have so much time. If you want to tell a story, try to arrive early and get your name on the list.

Free

Wilsonville Public Library: Teen Event (online)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on Zoom (maybe in-person, too) for games, books, and more! Questions? Contact Brad at 503-570-1592 or clark@wilsonvillelibrary.org. On Zoom: Meeting code 901-104-467 For students in grades 6-12 For more information visit the Teen Events page.

Free

My Bizarre Writing Career with Phillip M. Margolin

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Phil grew up in NYC and Levittown, New York. He graduated from The American University in Washington, D.C. with a bachelor’s degree in Government. From 1965 to 1967, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. In 1970, he graduated from New York University School of Law. During his last two years in law school, Phil worked his way through by teaching junior high school in the South Bronx in New York City. His first job after law school was a clerkship with Herbert M. Schwab, the Chief Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals. From 1972 until 1996, Phil was in private practice specializing in criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels. As an appellate attorney, he appeared before the United…

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Free – $15

Writing Characters Who Take Up Space

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For all the descriptive writing in the world, it is often difficult to fully realize a physical body in a physical space for a reader. Bodies are so varied, spaces contain so many possibilities, but both bodies and spatial possibilities are often overlooked in writing craft. This class will use ideas presented in Amy Cuddy’s book, Presence: Bringing your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Bessel Van Der Kolk’s, The Body Keeps Score, and others, to present new ways of exploring the physical presence of characters on the page, their experiences with themselves, with their environment and with other characters. Access Program We want our writing classes to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present…

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$190

Scary Stories with Wendy N. Wagner at Willamette Writers

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Trick or treat? Join us for BOTH this October 11th online at 7PM as we talk scary stories, submissions, and so much more with author and editor, Wendy Wagner. The Eugene and Southern Chapters would love you to join us for this spooky evening! About Wendy N. Wagner Wendy N. Wagner is the editor-in-chief of Nightmare Magazine and the managing/senior editor of Lightspeed. Her short stories, essays, and poems run the gamut from horror to environmental literature. Her longer work includes the novella The Secret Skin (forthcoming at the end of October), the horror novel The Deer Kings, the Locus bestselling SF eco-thriller An Oath of Dogs, and two novels for the Pathfinder role-playing game. She lives in Oregon with her very understanding family, two…

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Free

Story Time for Grownups – You Might As Well Laugh

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

"After 20 months off, “Story Time for Grownups” is back! … with a program of humorous readings from Mark Twain, Woody Allen, Robert Fulghum, Dorothy Parker, Ian Frazier, and David Niven. No cover. Warm yourself with a mug of beer, a pot of tea, soup, sandwich, or cookies while reliving the childhood experience of being read to before bedtime. Proof of covid vaccination is required of all attendees. Rose City Book Pub observes all the current anti-infection protocols. David Loftus has read aloud to live audiences, for recordings, and as a principal character in the science-fiction podcast series “Exoplanetary.” He has performed as a voice character and narrator with the Willamette Radio Workshop, Filmusik, and Third Angle New Music Ensemble; and at Powell’s Books, Borders…

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Free

Author Talk: Good Morning, Midnight with PSU alumna Lily Brooks-Dalton

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join fellow alumni and friends for a Q&A with alumna author of Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton, MFA '16. The talk will be moderated by Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Gabriel Urza. The PSU Alumni Book Club will finish reading Good Morning, Midnight at t he end of September. All PSU alumni and friends of PSU are welcome to join the Book Club. Learn more at https://www.pdx.edu/alumni/book-club

Free

Jonathan Franzen in Conversation With Maria Semple / Ticketed Event

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the first novel in his new magnum opus trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies. It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless — unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high school class,…

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$30
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