Welcome Home: Literary Open Mic
Hoot-n-Annie Home 6970 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin us for the December edition of Welcome Home! Bring your words, bring your hearts. Sign-ups at 6:30.
Free
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Poetry & Prose
ONE PAGE Wednesday: December
Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United StatesWriters, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh work. Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented Portland writers.Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! November's One Page Wednesday is hosted by Emilly Prado. December’s featured readers are Jewels and Ramiza Koya. The reading begins at 7:00. Doors open around 6:30 p.m. Potential readers can sign up to read and after the list is full, they can add their name to the fishbowl and Emilly will draw as many additional names to read as we have time for before 8:30 p.m. One Page = one page, one…
Free
Unsolicited Press Drop-In Submission Pitch
Elephants Delicatessen on Corbett 5221 SW Corbett Avenue, Portland, OR, United StatesUnsolicited Press will hold an informal drop-in submissions period in which local writers can pitch their manuscripts to one of the editors on the team. The pitches should be 1-3 minutes in length and authors should bring with them a query letter to leave with the author (if the author wants to furnish a sample of the work, 10 pages max). Think of it like speed dating for books. Writers can identify the editor by looking for the table with a copy of Who Killed Buster Sparkle?
Free
Buckman Journal 003 Launch & Holiday Art Market
Bunk Bar - Water 1028 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR, United StatesBuckman Journal, a literary and art anthology features a wealth of short stories, essays, flash fiction, and visual art, all made by Portlanders. The third installment of Buckman Journal explores the way technology and media work with, for, and against our world. New issue out December 1st, 2019. Alongside the launch of Buckman Journal 003, Buckmxn Publishing is proud to host a holiday art market. Looking for unique gifts and want to support local artists and writers? Presto! Buckmxn has made it easy for you! Shop prints, stickers, craft items, original pieces, books, and more. Great deals and specials! All sales go directly to artists. Bunk Bar @ SW Water Ave. Thursday Dec 5. 6-9pm. Buy a sandwich. Have a drink. Browse art. Buy Buckman…
Free
Fall 2019: December Writer of Color Sunday Morning Workshop
Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United StatesSearching for a space to create new work with fellow writers of color? This two-hour workshop meets once a month on Sundays. Writers can register for one or more sessions. A variety of prompts will be presented as avenues for generating and sharing new work in an informal setting. Open to writers of color at all levels writing in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. You can also bring your own prompts and questions about the writing process, and explore them with the group. Emilly Prado is an award-winning multimedia journalist. A Chicana native of the San Francisco Bay Area, she has been writing and photographing since she was a child though studied education, social work, and library sciences after high school. Using an intersectional feminist framework,…
$15
Spare Room reading: Gabriel Urza, Joel Bettridge
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States$5 suggested donation for the readers (no one turned away for lack of funds) *** Gabriel Urza is the author of the novel All That Followed (Henry Holt & Co.) and the novella The White Death: An Illusion. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Guernica, The Guardian, LitHub, and other publications. He teaches Creative Writing in the MFA program at Portland State University. Joel Bettridge is the author of four books of poetry, Ligatures (Dos Madres 2019), The Public Life of Chemistry (The Cultural Society 2007), Presocratic Blues (Chax 2009), and That Abrupt Here (The Cultural Society 2007), as well as two critical studies, Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics (Routledge 2018) and Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith (Palgrave 2009). He co-edited Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (The National Poetry Foundation 2008). He is Professor of English…
Free – $5
Tell Me a Story
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesA curated series of readings hosted by Jessica Wadleigh.
Free
Loose Cornrows Presents: Jasmin Oya, Tender Mercy Series Reading
IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United StatesLoose Cornrows Presents: Jasmin Oya Tender Mercy Series Reading Refreshments included, donations encouraged.
Free
Passages Bookshop HOLIDAY CLEARANCE SALE: 30% OFF
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesVisit Passages Bookshop between now and December 21 for great holiday bargains! * * ALL BOOKS 30% OFF * * PLUS: Hundreds of books, and all framed art, marked down 50–75% Markdowns in all categories: Poetry / Literature / Philosophy Music / Film / Video Art / Photography / Graphic Design Original prints, drawings, photographs; mixed media pieces; posters: Karel Appel / Tom Phillips / Antoni Tapies Mar Goman / John Martineau / Clayton Holcomb Josef Hodek / Ben Nelson / Jacqueline Brito * * TWO WEEKENDS ONLY * * Thurs-Sat, December 12-14 Thurs-Sat, December 19-21 12:00-6:00 pm each day = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =…
Free
Plonk Reading Series: Jackie Shannon Hollis, Suzanne Sigafoos, Cosima Bee Concordia
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesThree fabulous writers look at how gender happens. A curated, monthly reading series with well-selected readings. Always a delight!
Free
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