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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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For people who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC). 2nd & 4th Friday of every month from 4 to 5:30 pm, Free. Workshops are held via Zoom. Pre-registration is required. Registration opens the 1st of the month every month. Pre-register for our 2nd Friday workshop here. Pre-register for our 4th Friday workshop here. Click here for more workshop details.
I'll be sharing from a few of my books this Friday from one of the coolest places in the world, the Rose City Book Pub (an amazing bookstore and literary-themed bar in Portland, Oregon), and you can join me in that cool space from anywhere in the world (but you'll have to bring your own beverage).
Walking the Path of Perseverance: Writing No Matter What The writing journey, exhilarating and wondrous as it is, can be punctuated with delays and disappointments. How do you keep writing through chaos or a stressful live event? If you are tired of not writing, and want to cultivate the “stick-to-it-ness” necessary for meeting your goals, this workshop is for you. Gleaning inspiration and guidance from writers like Annie Dillard and Julia Cameron, and mining the well of our own life experiences, this three-part workshop will help us identify the obstacles that keep us from writing, and provide tools to help us stay the course so we can keep writing, no matter what. Class level: This class is for serious writers who are ready to reclaim…
Whitenoise Project presents a new BIPOC writing workshop: On Becoming, where we explore the state of becoming as a state of infinite potential and evolution, to contrast with the static essentialism of being. Becoming is a verb with a consistency all its own; it does not reduce to, or lead back to, "appearing," "being," "equaling," or producing."(Deleuze/Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 39). cost: FREE please register for zoom link and password: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-becoming-1-lost-and-found-tolentino-tickets-119973633367 By popular demand, we are bringing back our first workshop for the full two hours this time instead of only one! On Becoming (1) Lost and Found: how we are lost in space and time. How we find ourselves. How becoming "lost and found" is a present participle, an ongoing act rather than a…
with Ashia Ajani, Jari Bradley, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Faylita Hicks, Kirin Khan, and Abbey Mei Otis Free and open to the public! ASL Interpreters! We’re very excited to host the 2020 Tin House Residents for an online reading! Mark your calendars for September 14th, 5:00 pm PST, and join us for an evening of remarkable talent! Head to our website for more info about the Residents and their incredible work.
Writing, even on a good day, is hard. So how do we do it on the not-good days, on the days when it feels like the world is upside-down? “Butt in chair” is the simple answer. We make ourselves sit down, and we don’t get up until we’ve gotten a few sentences down at the very least. But sometimes it feels impossible to even get to the chair. We’d honestly rather throw the chair out the window than sit in it. But what if we made an appointment with the chair? And we knew that other interesting people were doing it too, at the exact same time? This free Zoom meeting is that appointment. We’ll say hello, and then we’ll work from a writing prompt.…
Writing is often thought of as something done in isolation; we know there is immense power when writing is done in community. Join us for 90 minutes of creativity and community-building, with generative writing exercises, sharing and strengths-based feedback. Our workshop model, refined over 21 years, is proven for people of all writing levels: from the budding writer to the published author. Workshops are held via Zoom. Weekly registration opens Mondays at noon and closes one hour before the workshop. Click here for more info. Wednesdays from 4 to 5:30 pm Sliding Scale Registration $5-$30. Register here. $0 registration available for past Write Around Portland participants at a social service agency and people experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus. Register here. Thursdays from 11 am to…
Writing is often thought of as something done in isolation; we know there is immense power when writing is done in community. Join us for 90 minutes of creativity and community-building, with generative writing exercises, sharing and strengths-based feedback. Our workshop model, refined over 21 years, is proven for people of all writing levels: from the budding writer to the published author. Workshops are held via Zoom. Weekly registration opens Mondays at noon and closes one hour before the workshop. Click here for more info. Wednesdays from 4 to 5:30 pm Sliding Scale Registration $5-$30. Register here. $0 registration available for past Write Around Portland participants at a social service agency and people experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus. Register here. Thursdays from 11 am to…
This class is designed for students who wish to deepen their understanding of the emotional and psychological restrictions that interfere with their work. These issues have taken on even greater significance during this time of social unrest and Pandemic anxiety. Many writers are feeling their creative initiative stymied by brain static and emotional overload. In this five-week class, we will use the text of The Writer’s Crucible as a starting point for an exploration of the emotional vulnerabilities we are familiar with and the challenges unique to the present day. Why the Crucible? Crucible is defined as: A situation of severe trial, or in which different elements interact, leading to the creation of something new. Writers know what it is to go through the crucible. It is trial…
For writers of color at all levels Searching for a space to create new work with fellow writers of color? This two-hour workshop meets on Zoom. 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. Scholarships are available. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org for more information. Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. online via Zoom Instructor: Jacqueline Fitzgerald Jacqueline Fitzgerald is an educator, coach, and writer who strives to lead through a love ethic and believes in the power of stories…