Portland Lit Mic
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesPortland Lit Mic is always lit, mostly due to our hosts, Grace and Jordan. You wrote it, you read it.
Free
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Poetry & Prose
Portland Indie Book Fair
Honey Latte Cafe 1033 SE Main St, Portland, OR, United StatesBest-selling authors. Portland publishers. The Portland Independent Book Fair features local indie presses selling their wide selection of books directly to the public. All sales go directly to the publishers. Get holiday shopping done and support independent authors and publishers at the same time! Know your local y’all. Participating Presses Include: Microcosm Publishing, University of Hell Press, Airlie Press, Octopus Books, Fonograf Editions, Buckman Publishing, First Matter Press, and more!
Free
PCC Faculty Reading
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin us for a reading from the writing faculty at PCC, a faculty of talented writers who are guiding a new generation of writers.
Free
PCC Student Reading
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesWe are excited to welcome these students who are voluntarily reading in public.
Free
Drink and Write Tuesdays
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesJeanne Faulkner hosts this drop-in writing workshop on the last Tuesday of every month. Jeanne provides the prompts, tips, and coaching. You bring your computer and notebook.
Free
Cultivating a Sustainable Writing Practice
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesCultivating a Sustainable Writing Practice Instructor: Alissa Hattman This workshop is offered via Zoom PST Register here Class Meetings: 1 Saturday, Jan. 7th; 1-4pm $15 – $75 sliding scale *6 no-cost spots available; BIPOC & 2S prioritized Our practice—how we labor as writers—is highly personal. When we create a writing habit, it helps to consider our individual creative processes, life priorities, writing goals, and all the ways that we get in the way of our own writing. How we labor is also bound up in cultural notions of productivity and success that can often kill the creative drive. It can be hard to consistently carve out time in order to cultivate the type of patient, inner stillness required to write, but it is possible. Necessary,…
$15 – $75
Benson High School WITS
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States
Free
Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesPushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms This workshop is virtual, PST Register here Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms In this 6-week class, we will experiment with short form creative writing. Our focus—whether it’s flash fiction, lyric essay, prose poetry, or hybrid—will be on the art of compression. Each week, participants will be given a writing exercise, a short reading, and two workshop submissions from their peers. Class time will include workshop as well as discussion of readings and craft. Our workshop will be guided by observations, questions, and possibilities. We will be thinking less about how to “fix” a piece of writing and more about what we see, our curiosities, and how to recognize hidden opportunities. Each participant will receive feedback from…
$80 – $200
So, You Wanna Be A Writer w Wayne Gregory | Jan 17 – Feb 14 | Online
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ~ E. L. Doctorow You have a thousand stories inside your head. You dabble on the page but rarely if ever finish anything, much less share with others. “Is my work good enough?” you wonder. “Do I have something original and interesting to say? What makes me think I can be a writer?” The biggest obstacle for emerging writers is not lack of time nor lack of skill nor lack of things to write about. It’s a lack of self-confidence. This workshop is designed for those who want to be writers but are not sure they can be. …
$219 – $248
Constellation #1
Tin House 2617 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United StatesPlease join us for Constellation #1, a free community reading at Tin House Books, featuring poet Armin Tolentino, novelist Juhea Kim, and writer/artist Annika Hansteen-Izora. Location: Tin House Books, 2617 NW Thurman St, Portland, OR 97210 (Enter through the double doors on 26th) Armin Tolentino (he/him) earned his MFA at Rutgers University in Newark and is the author of WE MEANT TO BRING IT HOME ALIVE (Alternating Current Press, 2019). His poetry has appeared in Hyphen Magazine, Arsenic Lobster, The Raven Chronicles, and elsewhere. Originally from Lincoln Park, New Jersey, he now lives in Vancouver, Washington. He's an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient, Clark County's Poet Laureate, and an avid (albeit usually unsuccessful) fisherman. He hopes one day to earn a Guiness Record for World's Loudest Clap.…
Free
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