A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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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.
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
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.…
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…
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-
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…
"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…
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…
Writing, even on a good day, is hard. So how do we do it on the not-good days, on the days when it feels like the world is upside-down? “Butt in chair” is the simple answer. We make ourselves sit down, and we don’t get up until we’ve gotten a few sentences down at the very least. But sometimes it feels impossible to even get to the chair. We’d honestly rather throw the chair out the window than sit in it. But what if we made an appointment with the chair? And we knew that other interesting people were doing it too, at the exact same time? This free Zoom meeting is that appointment. We’ll say hello, and then we’ll work from a writing prompt.…
Three siblings search for their missing mother across a ruined America in Ignatz Award nominee Jonathan Hill’s new original graphic novel, Odessa (Oni Press). Eight years ago an earthquake — the Big One — hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes up and down the west coast of the United States. Life as we know it changed forever. But for Vietnamese American Virginia Crane, life changed shortly after the earthquake, when her mother left and never came back. Ginny has gotten used to a life without her mother, helping her father take care of her two younger brothers, Wes and Harry. But when a mysterious package arrives for her 18th birthday, her life is shaken up yet again. For the first…