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Margaret Renkl in Conversation With Mary Laura Philpott

3 events,

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John Mark Comer in Conversation With Tyler Staton

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Delve Readers Seminar: Hilary Mantel: Beyond the Booker

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Premise Course: Do we shape our world or does it shape us? Arendt’s The Human Condition

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2 events,

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BitchReads: Anita Hill in Conversation with Renee Bracey Sherman

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Hunter Shobe & David Banis

4 events,

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Writing And/As the Mother with Amanda Montei

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Writing Care, with Brian Trapp

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Thor Hanson

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The Stacks Coffeehouse: October 2021 Writing Class

5 events,

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Turning Words into Magic, with Keeonna Harris

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Writing Beyond Stereotypes of Disability

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Savage Love From A to Z

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Eno/Ono: Jumping into Risk through Cross-Genre Explorations w/ Alex Behr

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: MORE THAN FOOD: Stories that Have Sustained Us Through the Pandemic

2 events,

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: You Can Do Anything With Words and Images, with Courtney Cook

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Turning Words into Magic, with Keeonna Harris

1 event,

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Legends

4 events,

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Ben Hodgson & Laura Moulton in Conversation With Omar El Akkad

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Drop-in Writing Workshop for BIPOC Writers with Anya Pearson

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Cookbook Club (Remote)

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Eminent Oregonians: Abigail Scott Duniway, Richard Neuberger, Jesse Applegate

5 events,

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Submission Deadline: Make|Learn|Build Grants – Round 3

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Wilsonville Library: PROFILES (online): Halloween’s Haunted History

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Books Around the Corner: Virtual Writers Group

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Oracles and Creativity: Designing Your Own Symbolic System

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One Page Wednesday: October

5 events,

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Write Around Portland: Online Writing Workshops

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Daylight Book Club

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Everyone’s a Critic

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Bookmark 2021

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Livestream Reading: Sarah Foster: STEM Like a Girl

5 events,

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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Land Beyond Map, with Laura Da’

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: Story Swap

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Sallie Tisdale

1 event,

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Delve Readers Seminar: 9/11 Literatures and the Global War on Terror: 20th Anniversary

1 event,

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Writing Characters Who Take Up Space

2 events,

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Susan Orlean in Conversation With Meg Wolitzer

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Story Time for Grownups – You Might As Well Laugh

3 events,

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Steel Yourself Before You Reveal Yourself

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Inquiry as Narrative w/ Lilly Dancyger

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Archiving Ancestors, Collective Grief, and the Illusion of Time

4 events,

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Article Club (online)

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Pitch Roulette

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Band of Submitting Writers & Artists

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Consider This with Mitchell S. Jackson

6 events,

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Cecily Wong in Conversation With Liz Crain

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Livestream Event: Belonging – Middle Grade Author Panel

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Telltale Presents: Don’t Be Afraid

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WRITING & THE BODY w/ Lidia Yuknavitch and Jen Pastiloff

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Live Wire: Tom Scharpling, Mohanad Elshieky, Kaveh Akbar, and MAITA

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2021/22 Portland Arts & Lectures: Daniel James Brown

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1 event,

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Attic Institute: FALL Online Campus: Story Energy with Joanna Rose

2 events,

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October BIPOC Writers Workshop

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Cusp :: The Vibrant Space Between Fiction and Nonfiction :: A Webgasm

1 event,

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Joshua Jay in Conversation With Joe Posnanski

4 events,

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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter Virtual Discussion

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Sallie Tisdale in Conversation With Bernard Cooper

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Premise Course: Do we have the ability to make ourselves free? de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity & Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

2 events,

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Dr. Jane Goodall in Conversation With Dr. Evan Antin / Ticketed Event

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Pre-Show Discussion: Emily Rapp Black in Conversation with Vanessa Severo

4 events,

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Write Around Portland: Online Writing Workshops

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Chris Hedges in Conversation With Boris Franklin

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The Lyric Essay Intensive: Braiding the World

2 events,

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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BOOKLOVER’S BURLESQUE: The Gothic Edition

3 events,

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: Storytelling 101

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The Trauma-Informed Creative Writing Classroom

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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: Guild EXTRA Show

3 events,

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Submission Deadline: Tin House 2022 Winter Workshop

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Pre-Show Author Talk & Book Signing with Emilly Prado

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Premise Course: How do illness and pain define the human experience? Zadie Smith’s Intimations and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor

1 event,

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An Evening with Yamiche Alcindor

2 events,

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Alyssa Milano in Conversation With Charlotte Clymer / Ticketed Event

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Oregon Jewish Voices 2021

2 events,

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Pamela Paul in Conversation With Ayad Akhtar

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Memoir Infusion

5 events,

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Uli Beutter Cohen in Conversation With Simmone Taitt & Daniel Vosovic

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Attic Institute: FALL Online Campus: The Why and How of Writing Your Life: A Creative Non-Fiction Workshop w Wayne Gregory

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BIPOC Reading Series – October

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Livestream Reading: Sallie Weissinger

1 event,

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Gobshite Quarterly 2021 Launch/ with Michael Shay’s The Words I Own

0 events,

3 events,

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Submission Deadline: Global Grasshopper: Portland Travel Blogger Competition

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Submission Deadline: Portland Review

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