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7th Annual Portland Cookbook & Artisan Marketplace

The Heathman Hotel 1001 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Join your favorite local cookbook and culinary guidebook authors for a holiday book signing at Headwaters at The Heathman Hotel. (Hint, hint: a signed book makes a great holiday gift.) Authors will be on hand to sign and sell their latest and greatest titles as well as offer small bites and beverages for the crowd. Local makers will be selling their artisan treats and we'll have exciting raffle prizes. Free to attend! Before the marketplace, Join Portlanders John Becker and Megan Scott, authors of the new Joy of Cooking, in conversation with cookbook author and PCA President Diane Morgan. Morgan will lead a Q&A with Becker, the great-grandson of the original author, Irma Rombauer, and his wife, Megan Scott. Tickets for the Joy of Cooking author talk from 11-noon…

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Free

Faraday Christmas Lectures

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

A series of 5-10 minute talks on topics relating in any way to the winter holidays. Topics are broad, guidance is thin. If you would like to be put on the list as a speaker, please provide a title and contact information at bookpubpdx@gmail.com. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Institution_Christmas_Lectures

Free

Are Girls Turning into Killer Cats?

Multnomah County Library - US Bank Room 801 SW 10th St, Portland, OR, United States

Listen to the creative team of the Eisner Award–nominated comic book Man-Eaters talk comics, felines, and feminist agendas. Featuring NYT bestselling writer Chelsea Cain (Man-Eaters, Mockingbird), Lia Miternique (Man-Eaters co-creator), and 14-year-old contributors Eliza Fantastic Mohan (writer), Stella Greenvoss (artist), and Emily Powell (Haiku-writer-in-residence).

Free

PNCA Lecture / Tyrone Williams / Only a cry absent its mouth

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

As part of the Winter Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program, PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers, January 4th to January 12th. Everything is free and open to the public. All events (unless otherwise stated) are in Room 601, PNCA, 511 SW Broadway.

Free

Writing from Real Life: Everyone Has a Story

The First Congregational United Church of Christ 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our first Portland Chapter meeting of the new year on January 7, 2020 with New York Times Bestselling novelist, Rene Denfeld. With years of hard work and sacrifice, Denfeld went from unknown writer to award-winning, bestselling novelist. Join us as she explores how to tell your own story, with tons of practical publishing and writing advice. Rene Denfeld is the bestselling author of The Butterfly Girl, The Child Finder, and The Enchanted. Her novels have won numerous honors, including a prestigious French Prix, an ALA Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a Carnegie listing, an IMPAC listing, Oregonian best book of the year and more. A longtime death row investigator, Rene has won awards for her justice work, including a Break the Silence…

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Free – $5

Write to Publish Conference

PSU - Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Write to Publish is an annual publishing conference hosted by Portland State University’s graduate program in Book Publishing. It is the largest fundraising event for both the program and the student-run general trade publisher, Ooligan Press. This event serves as an open house for people interested in the publishing program, while also being a great networking event for local publishers and writers. Every year, we hold panels, workshops, and seminars about the latest trends in publishing, making it a great conference for writers and industry professionals alike.

$20 – $65

Winter Poetry Festival

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

Portland’s second Winter Poetry Festival is a joyful gathering of poets and poetry lovers. Winter is a magical time where the beauty of language burns brightly in the darkness. The festival will feature a marketplace where you can support poets by buying from them directly, inspiring workshops for poets of all levels of experience, innovative performances and craft-talks from top-notch poets, a guest-screening from Seattle’s Cadence: Video Poetry Festival, and the “Poet’s Playground” an ephemeral pop-up of poetic challenges and collaborations. The Festival will be housed in the beautiful PNCA. ADA accessible. Centrally-located, near many major transit lines.

Free

2019/2020 Portland Arts & Lectures: Min Jin Lee (Sold Out)

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

Min Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017. The San Francisco Chronicle lauds it as “beautiful. . . Lee’s sweeping four-generation saga of a Korean family is an extraordinary epic.” It was on over 75 best books of the year lists, and will be translated into 27 languages. Her debut novel, 2007’s Free Food for Millionaires, was also a national best seller as well as a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air, and USA Today. Lee is a recipient of fellowships in fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard. The 35th season of Portland Arts & Lectures features some of the most engaging…

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Vancouver: Write and Publish Fierce with Sage Cohen

The Quarry Senior Living 415 SE 177th Avenue, Vancouver, WA, United States

Sage Cohen is back, kicking off our 2020 year in Vancouver! Want to meet your most important writing goal in 2020? Join author, coach, and instructor Sage Cohen to create a one-page strategic plan for making the most of your writing life. Through a mix of lecture and workshop, you’ll gain solid tools and strategies that can make you more effective, energized, and satisfied with every dimension of your writing life. You’ll leave with a solid plan for managing time, energy, fear, failure, deadlines, and your inner editor. So you can write and publish fierce in 2020 and beyond! The Vancouver Willamette Writers meet at The Quarry Senior Living Center at 415 SE 177th Ave, Vancouver, WA 98683. Meeting is in theater on the second…

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Free

15th Annual Gus and Libby Solomon Memorial Lecture

PSU - Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the 15th Annual Solomon Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Eddy Portnoy, author of Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press. Eddy Portnoy has an MA in Yiddish from Columbia University and received his Ph.D from the Jewish Theological Seminary. A specialist in Jewish popular culture, he has published in numerous academic journals and also in The Forward and in Tablet Magazine. He currently serves as Senior Researcher and Director of Exhibitions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. An underground history of downwardly mobile Jews, Bad Rabbi and Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press mines century-old Yiddish newspapers to expose the seamy underbelly of pre-WWII New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of…

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