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Willamette Writers Conference

Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel 8235 Northeast Airport Way, Portland, OR, United States

For a half a century, the Willamette Writers Conference has been a beacon of opportunity for the writing community. Find your tribe in our exciting array of faculty, instructors and inspirational speakers while discovering new peers and friends. Develop your craft in our workshops, Master Classes, and Sunday Intensives. This August, take your career to the next level. Join us at the 50th annual Willamette Writers Conference! Find your community, develop your craft, and expand your career with three full days of writing, as well as Master Classes and intensive workshops this August. Writing a book? Find your agent or work on your craft in our workshops and critique sessions. Working on a screenplay? Pitch your film to top industry managers and producers. Poetry? Songwriting?…

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$274 – $594

PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: Reema Zaman: More than a Memoir; a Movement

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

Reema Zaman More than a Memoir; a Movement, 4:30pm In Room 601 The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is pleased to announce the launch of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with its first residential intensive. In the low-residency model, students will attend two 14-day campus residencies then, beyond residencies, work one-on-one with mentors. Most of the programming during this residency is free and open to the public. From July 28 through August 3, PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers as part of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program. Every event is free and open to the public. This innovative creative writing program is distinguished by its being situated within a school of…

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Free

Kay Snow Awards

Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel 8235 Northeast Airport Way, Portland, OR, United States

We invite you to join us at the Kay Snow Awards Ceremony, honoring our 2019 Kay Snow Award Winners. Members of the public and conference attendees are invited to come celebrate with us, as we announce our winners and recognize their achievements. This year, we welcome Pulitzer-prize nominee Janet Burroway as our keynote to kick off this celebration! The full list of winners is available at Willamettewriters.org/kay-snow. See you at the celebration!

Free

PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: da Carter: Aesthetic Refusals, Writing With and Against Loss

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

da Carter Aesthetic Refusals, Writing with and against loss, 3:30pm In Room 601 The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is pleased to announce the launch of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with its first residential intensive. In the low-residency model, students will attend two 14-day campus residencies then, beyond residencies, work one-on-one with mentors. Most of the programming during this residency is free and open to the public. From July 28 through August 3, PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers as part of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program. Every event is free and open to the public. This innovative creative writing program is distinguished by its being situated within a school…

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Free

Submission Deadline: Future Prairie: Performance Proposals

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

Call to artists! We are seeking performance proposals for our autumn variety show on the evening of 29 September in Portland, Oregon. Future Prairie VIII: The Veil please submit: dance music short plays poems lecture ritual As we transition from summer to autumn, the equinox asks us to honor the changing seasons with a balance of light and dark. Traditionally, this is a time for gathering, grounding, and comfort. The veil between the spiritual and mortal worlds is particularly thin around the autumnal equinox. What are you divining? What will soon be revealed? What's still enshrouded? We invite artists to submit 10-20 minute works to this open call. Pay for each act will be $50-$100. Send proposals to futureprairie.com/apply by 29 August for consideration.

Free

An Evening with Madeleine Albright

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Madeleine K. Albright is Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. She was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. Dr. Albright received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Obama on May 29, 2012. In 1997, Dr. Albright was named the first female Secretary of State and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. As Secretary of State, Dr. Albright reinforced America’s alliances, advocated for democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade, business, labor, and environmental standards abroad. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to…

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$40 – $85

Pageturners Author Visit: Rudy Owens

Multnomah County Library - Belmont Meeting Room 1038 SE César E. Chávez Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read You Don't Know How Lucky You Are: An Adoptee's Journey Through the American Adoption Experience by Rudy Owens. Nearly 50 years after he was relinquished for adoption, Rudy Owens learned how fortunate life can be. In 2014 in San Diego, Owens met his biological half-sister for the first time. That meeting inspired Owens to tell his adoption story set against the larger adoption narrative that has impacted millions of adoptees, their birth parents, and their collective biological and adoptive families. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Free

Delve Seminar: Richard Powers’ The Overstory and the Nature Writings of John Muir

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

In this Delve seminar, we will compare the ecological writing of Richard Powers and John Muir. Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, comes to us at a time when concern for preserving natural spaces has exploded into anxiety over the planet’s very future. While grappling with deforestation and global warming in fiction, Powers sees himself as a realist. He asks, “Which is more childish, naïve, romantic, or mystical: the belief that we can get away with making Earth revolve around our personal appetites and fantasies, or the belief that a vast, multi-million-pronged project four and a half billion years old deserves a little reverent humility?” Muir, something of a father for the national parks movement, used an ecological perspective in his stories of adventure and…

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$220

An Evening with Dan Rather

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on—and speaking passionately about—what it means to be an American. Drawn from his collection of original essays, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, he speaks with hope and conviction about the principles upon which the United States was founded. Rather examines the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine. As a living witness to historical change…

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$45 – $65

Margaret Atwood In Conversation with Omar El Akkad

Keller Auditorium 222 SW Clay St, Portland, OR, United States

Literary Arts is proud to present an evening with Margaret Atwood, acclaimed novelist, poet, literary critic, and activist. Join us as we celebrate the publication of The Testaments, Atwood’s hugely anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, coming September 10, 2019. Atwood will be in conversation with award-winning journalist and Oregon author Omar El Akkad. The appearance of Atwood’s acclaimed dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, and the current Emmy-award winning television series based on the novel, have created a cultural phenomenon. Interviewed live on stage by Omar El Akkad, the conversation will span the length of Atwood’s remarkable career, her diverse range of works, and why she has returned to her seminal story, 34 years later. Join us for an unmissable and intimate evening…

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$15 – $85
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