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!

Calendar of Events

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

2 events,

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Delve Readers Seminar: An Intensive Study of Totality: Jorge Luis Borges

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Omar El Akkad on Writing the Codacene: Literature in an Age of Endings | 57th Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Lecture

1 event,

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Oregon Humanities Live

3 events,

TAP@PBF: Motherhood Is Psychedelic

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Writing the Complicated Self

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

5 events,

TAP@PBF: Cookbooks

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Writing Into Big Questions

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Hilary Plum

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Portland Book Festival: Friday Night Book Market

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Documentary Screening: The Bookstour

9 events,

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Starting the Memoir

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Storytime: Arab Arab All Year Long!

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Portland Book Festival!

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Mean Baby: Selma Blair with Esmé Weijun Wang

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Storytime: Friends Are Friends, Forever

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Reality Bites: Rafael Agustin & Chuck Klosterman

6 events,

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Writing Food

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Kick-Start Your Picture Book

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PBF Cover to Cover: Tin House Autumn Workshop Showcase

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PBF Cover to Cover: SPEKTRUM Tea Service

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PBF Cover to Cover: Lit-Mondo

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PBF Cover to Cover: SPEKTRUM Tea Service

1 event,

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Leftovers

3 events,

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Recharge Your Writing Life: Experiments & Strategies

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Haunted: Writing into Death & The Dead with Sonya Lea — begins November 8th

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LC English Fall ’22 Reading Series: Jane Wong

2 events,

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Fall | Erasing the Male Gaze (and Other Power Structures) in Creative Nonfiction w Paige Thomas | Nov 9 – Dec 7

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Incite: Queer Writers Read – November

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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Holiday Book Chat

3 events,

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Submission Deadline: Old Pal – Issue 6

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Josephine Woolington & Ramon Shiloh in Conversation With Michelle Nijhuis

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Willpower

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3 events,

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Ledding Library Speaker Series

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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Adam Elder in Conversation With Shawn Levy

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2 events,

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Quarterly Book Sale

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BIPOC Writing Workshop: November

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1 event,

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

1 event,

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Drink and Write Tuesdays

2 events,

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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock: Issue 19: Hacking

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Submission Deadline: HOCUS: November Tarot Prompts

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2 events,

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Writing Dynamic Dialogue

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