LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!

Fiction

  1. Events
  2. Fiction

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

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…

Continue readingLaurel Everywhere Launch Party
Free

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…

Continue readingLivestream Reading: Ellen Michaelson with Natalie Serber
Free

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…

Continue readingAuthor Reading: Fall of Night by D. K. Stone
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…

Continue readingOR e-Con
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.…

Continue readingScience Fiction Book Club (Remote)
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…

Continue readingA Conversation with Charles Baxter
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
Click a category label below to view the calendar with only events in that specific category.