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Tin House Summer Workshop Lectures: Kristen Radtke, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Michelle Tea, and Jim Shepard

Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland

9:00 am – 9:50 am, Vollum Lecture Hall Framing and Perspective in Graphic Storytelling, with Kristen Radtke We use framing and perspective all the time in prose writing, but we probably don’t think about them in the same way. We’ll look at how framing—from the simple way that illustrations are confined, to more complicated shapes—as well as pace, visual silence, visual argument, and interruption. Then we’ll talk about how these tools are employed beyond comics and into prose, poetry, and a myriad of visual storytelling forms. 2:30 pm – 3:20 pm, Vollum Lecture Hall Power and Audience: On Not Writing for White People, with Ingrid Rojas Contreras This lecture will look at the many ways we adopt speaking to address majority cultures, how those corners…

$10

Whitenoise Project 20: BI/PoC Open Mic

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland

Join Whitenoise Project for our 3rd BI/PoC literary open mic and featured reading! Bring any genre of writing or spoken word, essays, fiction, or hybrid, we'd love to hear it. All are invited to celebrate and support several emerging voices alongside more established names. Featured readers: jayy dodd Sea Mason jayy dodd is a blxk trans womxn from los angeles, california– now based in Portland, OR. she is a literary & performance artist. their work has appeared / will appear in zines & classrooms & basements & bookstores & over there probably. her words are award-nominated & are generally controversial. she is also a volunteer gender-terrorist, artificial intellectual, & wilderness prophet on the end times. find them talking trash online or taking a selfie. Sea…

Free

Summer Generative w/ Lidia Yuknavitch and Domi Shoemaker: July 12-14

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Sex. Heat. Abundance. Excess. Juice. Long hot nights, cool rivers, the moon the only witness. In this generative workshop we will take “excursions” into the belly of summer to generate writing and art. For the adventurous and sly. Experimental, mixed genre, utterly liberating. Workshop leader: Lidia Yuknavitch Co-facilitator: Domi Shoemaker SUMMER: Friday, 7/12/19: 7 - 9 Saturday, 7/13/19: 11 - 4, includes a 1 hour lunch break Sunday, 7/14/19: 11 - 4 WHERE: Corporeal Center, 510 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97204 COST: $425 The Corporeal Center houses all of Corporeal Writing's Face2Face workshops, readings, and open community hours Tues through Friday, 12 - 4. We are located in a beautiful historic building in downtown Portland. We are on bus lines, close to the Max line that goes…

$425

Creatives and Cocktails: Poetry and Prose edition

Santé Bar 411 NW Park Ave, Portland

Hey Fam! Ever find yourself writing something that makes you think, “Damn, I wish I could read this in the Park Blocks”? Well, sigh no more! Stay Litt is hosting a poetry and prose night where you can share your best rhymes and stories. This is a free event held at Santé Bar, and the performers must sign up in advance. We’ll be prioritizing the voices of historically marginalized populations. If you’re interested in performing, email us at staylittpdx@gmail.com or you can pm us. Looking forward to seeing ya’ll!

Free

Tin House Summer Workshop Readings: Garth Greenwell, Terese Marie Mailhot, and Samiya Bashir

Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland

8:00 pm,  Cerf Amphitheater– Signing to Follow Garth Greenwell, Terese Marie Mailhot, Patricia Smith Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for The New Yorker, the…

Free