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Author Reading: Fall of Night by D. K. Stone

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an evening of reading and lively conversation with mystery & YA author D. K. Stone, celebrating the release of the final book in her Waterton Mystery Series! About the Waterton Mystery Series Set in Waterton, AB - a small town in the heart of Waterton National Park, Canada - D. K. Stone's Waterton Mystery Series follows New York City Hotel Manager Rich Evans on a journey from outsider to lover of this place that lags just out of step with modern times. In Fall of Night, the third and final book, Rich Evans is desperate to say goodbye to his past in New York and embrace a future in Waterton with Lou Newman, the small-town car mechanic who is also the love…

Free

OR e-Con

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Although we won’t be in person this year as we had, we’re excited to host a *free* virtual mini-con on our con dates, November 13-15, 2020, called OR-e-Con! This event will be hosted online via ZOOM, with access links being provided to the Orycon mailing list. TO REGISTER AND RECEIVE THE ACCESS LINK: We will be giving access links for the Zoom rooms to the OR e-Con mailing list. To sign up for our mailing list, please email: announceadmin@orycon.org While this will be a free event, we will be requesting donations both to cover the costs of the virtual event and for use elsewhere in the organization. Volunteers are also needed for this event, and you can request more information by contacting volunteers@orycon.org. AUTHOR GUEST…

Free

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, Free. 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

Literally Crawling: A Virtual Lit Crawl

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Produced by Zines + Things, Death Rattle Writers Festival, Unchaste Readers, and The Poetry Brothel A two-day reading festival featuring five curated shows from each collaborating literary organization showcasing the poetry and prose of writers and artists from around the country. We hope these readings offer you something inspiring, relaxing, and stirring to tune into all weekend this fall. The recommend ticket donation is $7. Each participating organization will be raising money for charities in their own cities — we will be announcing artists and line-ups soon so register, and stay tuned! November 14th & 15th

Free – $7

Science Fiction Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Books Around the Corner Science Fiction Book Club meets monthly on the third Tuesday of every month at 6PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our science fiction 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 Tuesday November 17th for our Books Around the Corner Science Fiction Book Club. We will discuss To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. About the Book: Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare.…

Free

A Conversation with Charles Baxter

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a conversation with fiction writer Charles Baxter. Dr. Baxter will discuss fiction writing and the short story, “The Next Building I Plan to Bomb,” from his collection, Gryphon. (Link here.) Feel free to join the discussion! Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective, and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of the World, A Relative Stranger, There’s Something I Want You to Do, and Through the Safety Net. His stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories. A recipient of the Guggenheim Award, Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and…

Free

Native Story Hour

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Come sing, listen, learn and celebrate. Join Karen Kitchen (Osage Nation) for this story hour featuring songs and books from Native cultures. Children, families, elders, aunties and uncles -- everyone is welcome. Join via zoom: https://multco-us.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvceippzMtHdRGxpLwKis5EugZ8BwGfno-

Free

Page Turner Book Club

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Books Around the Corner Page Turner Book Club is led by the owner/librarian, Stephanie Rose, and meets monthly on the third Thursday of every month at 6PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our mystery and thriller 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 November 19th for Page Turner Book Club. We will discuss Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker. They said she walked away. But what really happened to Molly Clarke? From the bestselling…

Free

BLUEBEARD

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

"Every man must have one secret, even if only one, from his wife,' he said. "...All is yours, everywhere is open to you--except the lock that this single key fits." --Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber Join us as we unlock Bluebeard's forbidden chamber with: * Artist, writer, and educator Coleman Stevenson * Psychiatrist Dr. Chinenye Onyemaechi, * Melissa Mullins, professor and folktale scholar * Katharina Raven, photographer and filmmaker * Michelle Ruiz Keil, author To experience this gruesome tale of deception, discovery, and escape, here to the fullest, before the reading, follow the links: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm040.html https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault03.html https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm046.html https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0311.html#devil and the first story in: https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/1-the-bloody-chamber-and-other-stories-1979.pdf BIOS AND TALK DESCRIPTIONS: Chinenye Onyemaechi, M.D. ("Dr. Chi") is a board-certified physician specializing in general and forensic psychiatry. She merges…

Free

Writing Fairy Tales

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The fairy tale is a fanciful storytelling genre that uses supernatural elements, personification, transformation, repetitive plot lines, and unambiguously good and evil characters to speak to social and cultural violence, oppression and shifts in power. How do we write an effective, inspiring modern fairy tale? We will read from the original Brother’s Grimm, Italo Calvino’s fairy tales, and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber with the form, tapping into its nuances and reach as we find inspiration for our own fairy tales. Class time will be spent engaged in writing exercises, working with and discussing assigned reading, and sharing our own drafts. November 21 and December 5-19, 2020 Saturdays, 10:00 a.m to noon (4 sessions) Online via Zoom Instructor: Wendy Noonan Wendy Noonan’s poetry has appeared…

$190