LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Submission Deadline: Old Pal Mag: Issue 7

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Old Pal is currently open for submissions until May 20, 2023! We publish poetry, fiction, criticism, excerpts, audio, mixed media, and various mediums of art. We encourage artists from all experience levels and communities to submit. Contributors are compensated $50 upon publication. We ask that submissions are limited as follows: Up to 10 pages of poetry Up to 15 pages of prose Up to 10 images or visual artworks Up to five minutes of audio or video Simultaneous submissions are welcome; we just ask that you notify us to withdraw works if accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work; however, works previously posted to social media will still be considered. There is no submission fee or subscription required to submit. All rights revert…

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Chris Daniels, Tom De Beauchamp, & Flavia Rocha (Spare Room Reading)

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading by CHRIS DANIELS TOM DE BEAUCHAMP FLAVIA ROCHA   Wednesday, April 3 7:30 pm   Free admission Doors open at 7:00 pm; no late entry Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 info@passagesbookshop.com 503-388-7665 ============================================================== Upcoming Event at Passages April 7       Marathon reading: Keats Endymion & Boone Century of Clouds ============================================================== Chris Daniels is a self-taught, feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. Tom DeBeauchamp is a fiction writer living in Portland, Oregon. His work has been published in DIAGRAM, Full-Stop, Smokelong Quarterly, and other publications. He is currently working on a novel, The Not-Vampire, about country music, industrial design, various creatures of the night, love, and family drama. Flavia Rocha is the author of four books of poems…

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Constellation #14 (4/11): Kiesling, Patel, Wong

Tin House 2617 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR, United States

After an amazing and special BIPOC Adoptee showcase at the Armory in March, we're back to our regularly scheduled programming at Tin House/Bishop&Wilde (NW 26th and Thurman)! On Thursday April 11th, we're excited to host local luminaries Lydia Kiesling and Ami Patel and welcome Jane Wong who is traveling from Seattle to be with us.  Lydia Kiesling (she/her) is a novelist and culture writer. Her first novel, The Golden State, was a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree and a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her second novel, Mobility, a national bestseller, was named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, Time, and NPR, among others. It is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her essays and nonfiction have…

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