A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
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!
Join us as we hear local young talented writers read their work aloud! Participants, please keep your expert to between 3 and 4 minutes. All forms of writing and word-art are welcome. Two Rivers Bookstore and Weird Sisters Yarn aims to create a safe space where everyone's voice can be heard in a mutually respectful environment.
A monthly performance series featuring poetry, prose, musicians, dancers, and visual artists. Doors 7pm/show 8pm.21+over. Free. Tuesday, March 3rd: Robert Lashley, (WA), Brian Stephen Ellis, DeAngelo Gillispie, Julian Smuggles & Cinema Obscura.
Writers, 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! March's One Page Wednesday is hosted by Natalie Serber. The featured readers are Matthew Dickman and Karen Karbo. 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 Natalie will draw as many additional names to read as we have time for before 8:30 p.m. One Page = one page,…
Based on their acclaimed community writing model, "Prompt" is a generative workshop that offers exercises to inspire the writing life. Workshop fee ($300) includes snacks, access to the “bowels of Powell’s,” and helps to fund workshops for low-income youth and adults. This workshop takes place on Thursdays, March 5-May 7. To register or for more information, visit writearound.org.
Launching Gobshite Quarterly # 35/36: *Portland poets Ann Farley, Nastashia Minto, Selena Bekakis, and Amy Baskin *OBA-nominated Portland writer Matthew Robinson *Australian poet Les Murray and a personal memoir of Murray by Swiss writer Christoph Keller... Poems also from Croatia, Lithuania, and Switzerland (German translation by Portland poet and Holbrook Award winner Douglas Spangle) *graphics and flash fiction from around the world *and also launching 25 Poems On The Death Of Ursula K. Le Guin (M. F. McAuliffe)
The First Word reading series at Powell's highlights emerging voices from the Portland literary community. The March event features contributors to The Crucible, a new zine dedicated to feminist creative practice and to dismantling the garbage narratives of patriarchy and capitalism. Featured readers: Effy Garside Mitchell, Missy Ladygo, Kristin Olson-Huddle, Renee Honn, Caitlin Delohery, Ivy Ross Ricci, & Nikki Levine. Emceed by Sophia Shalmiyev & Leni Zumas. The inaugural issue of The Crucible will be available for purchase! March's First Word features contributors to The Crucible, a new zine dedicated to feminist creative practice and to dismantling the garbage narratives of patriarchy and capitalism. Emceed by Leni Zumas (Red Clocks) and Sophia Shalmiyev (Mother Winter), with words by Effy Garside Mitchell, Missy Ladygo, Kristin Olson-Huddle,…
The IPRC’s mission has always been about access and empowering alternative paths to publishing for vital work & unique voices. To fulfill our mission better, we’re introducing this residency program that is designed specifically to support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) artists and writers to develop and create their art, and to share with the wider community. We want to give artists and writers time, financial (in the form of $3k stipends) and community support, as well as resources to create. The Call For Proposals is now open: https://bit.ly/3bEnPaz with an application deadline of Wednesday, 3/25 at 11:59 PST. We're offering this info session with IPRC ED Alley Pezanoski-Browne for anyone interested in applying. Come bring your questions! Food will be provided. If…
Brash, baudy, beautiful, these readers will wow you, make you weak. Leah Baer, Henry Alley, Missy Ladygo, and Evan Knapp will read around the theme of "Marching..." in, ...well..., March. This is the time to get yourself to this reading. Serious.
Originally celebrating the stories of working class immigrants around Seattle's International District and beyond, Restaurant Babies is coming to Portland's Jade District! 3.14.20 / 7pm / Canton Grill Restaurant Babies is a multimedia event featuring poems, creative nonfiction, and vibrant storytelling. Four Asian American artists who grew up in restaurants will share their stories: Cindy Louis, Jane Wong, Jeanette Li, and Roberta Wong. The Whitenoise Project is a reading and discussion series aiming to center voices from underrepresented communities (Black, Indigenous, PoC, Queer, Femme, WoC and people with disabilities), and is sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO) and the Collins Foundation.
Drop in between 5:30 and 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and spend your happy hour writing. Hosted by Jeanne Faulkner who provides prompts, tips, coaching, and community. Your bring your computer and notebook, buy your drinks at the bar, and get started. $10 optional contribution to the host.