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Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Writing is often thought of as something done in isolation; we know there is immense power when writing is done in community. Join us for 90 minutes of creativity and community-building, with generative writing exercises, sharing and strengths-based feedback. Our workshop model, refined over 21 years, is proven for people of all writing levels: from the budding writer to the published author. Workshops are held via Zoom. Weekly registration opens Mondays at noon and closes one hour before the workshop. Click here for more info. Wednesdays from 4 to 5:30 pm Sliding Scale Registration $5-$30. Register here. $0 registration available for past Write Around Portland participants at a social service agency and people experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus. Register here. Thursdays from 11 am to…

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$5 – $30

Romance Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

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 5th at 5pm for our Romance Book Club. We are excited to announce that Sally Thorne will be joining us at 5:30pm! We will discuss The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. About the book: Debut author Sally Thorne bursts on the scene with a hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love. Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. 2) A person's undoing 3) Joshua…

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Portland Book Festival: Jess Walter in Conversation With Andrew Proctor

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The author of Beautiful Ruins delivers another “literary miracle” (NPR) — an intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early 20th-century America that eerily echoes our own time. The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. Featuring an unforgettable cast of cops and tramps, suffragists and socialists, madams and murderers, it is a tour de force from a “writer who has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors” (Boston Globe). Buy the Portland Book Festival Event Ticket and Book

$28.99

Livestream Reading: Ashley Sweeney with Ellen Notbohm

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's Books welcomes Washington author Ashley Sweeney for a livestream reading from her new novel, Answer Creek. Ashley will be in conversation with Portland author Ellen Notbohm, who previously read at Annie Bloom's from her novel The River by Starlight. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcuqtqD4jGtYlb_6pMELJC-HAaykPI6aX About Ashley Sweeney's Answer Creek: From the award-winning author of Eliza Waite comes a gripping tale of adventure and survival based on the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party on their 2,200-mile trek on the Oregon-California Trail from 1846 to '47. Nineteen-year-old Ada Weeks confronts danger and calamity along the hazard-filled journey to California. After a fateful decision that delays the overlanders more than a month, she––along with eighty-one other members of the Donner Party––finds herself stranded at Truckee Lake…

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Historical Fiction Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on November 6th at 4pm for our Historical Fiction Book Club. We will discuss Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. About the book: It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating…

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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 6PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our fantasy 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 Tuesday November 10th at 6pm for our Books Around the Corner Fantasy Book Club. We will discuss The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. About the book: A timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and…

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Laurel Everywhere Launch Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We are excited to announce the details for LAUREL EVERYWHERE's Launch Party with author Erin Moynihan in conversation with Ooligan Press!! We'll have a reading of the novel, discussion about what it's like to publish your first book, and a Q&A with the audience, all from the comfort of our own homes! Join us on Zoom, Tuesday, November 10th from 6:30 to 7:30 as we discuss LAUREL EVERYWHERE and enjoy each other's online company! Register for the event here: https://tinyurl.com/y6e5z38z. ⭐ GIVEAWAY ALERT!!! ⭐ If you are interested in entering a raffle drawing for a FREE COPY of LAUREL EVERYWHERE Head over to the Ooligan Press Instagram, @Ooliganpress to enter to win!! ⭐If you've already pre-ordered, or plan to pre-order LAUREL EVERYWHERE, submit your receipt…

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Livestream Reading: Ellen Michaelson with Natalie Serber

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Ellen Michaelson for a livestream reading from her debut novel, The Care of Strangers. She will be in conversation with fellow Portland writer Natalie Serber, author of Community Chest. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkdOGvpzktHNUZ-aF_D6euq8AY-lWb8C1d About The Care of Strangers: Winner of the 2019 Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize, The Care of Strangers is a moving story about friendship set in a gritty Brooklyn hospital, where a young woman learns to take charge of her life by taking care of others. Working as an orderly in a gritty Brooklyn public hospital, Sima is often reminded by her superiors that she's the least important person there. An immigrant who, with her mother, escaped vicious anti-Semitism in Poland, she spends her shifts transporting patients, observing…

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InciteXtravaganza

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Hey, we are having an InciteXtravaganza on November 11th! 23 readers from the past four years will speed read for three minutes each. Don't miss it. Register and get the Zoom link via the URL below.

Free

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…

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