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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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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.
Join fellow writers the first Wednesday of the month for a friendly critique. The goal is to support one another with constructive feedback and participate in writing exercises. All experience levels welcome!
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! November's One Page Wednesday is hosted by Natalie Serber. November’s featured readers are Emilly Prado, Sallie Tisdale and Don Waters. 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 =…
“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink….”–Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Red Ink makes one think of vitality, blood, the monthly cycle, correcting history, and making a mark on the world. This dynamic series focuses on women writers, past and present, and is held four times a year at Books are Magic in Brooklyn. Join us for a special Portland edition. Featuring Gabby Rivera (Juliet Takes a Breath), Cari Luna (The Revolution of Every Day), and Meaghan O'Connell (And Now We Have Everything). Curated and moderated by Michele Filgate (What My Mother And I Don't Talk About). The topic is ambition.
Write Around Portland presents WordPlay, a community writing extravaganza featuring prompts and exercises from our renowned workshop model. Led by trained facilitators, participants will have a chance write, share and stretch their literary muscles. Featuring group writes, mini-writes, speedy writes and more!
Come join ZYZZYVA—San Francisco's revered literary journal, featuring some of the West Coast's best writers and poets since 1985—for a program of short readings by some of their past and most recent contributors. With a long tradition of publishing writers living in Oregon, ZYZZYVA happily returns to Portland for this showcase hosted by Editorial Assistant Zack Ravas. Readings by Robin Romm, Don Waters, Lydia Kiesling, and John Sibley Williams.
Sporcle Live presents... Literature Trivia! Lit Crawl Portland hits the streets of downtown PDX for the fourth year in a row, November 8, the night before Portland Book Festival. Join Sporcle Live at The Big Legrowlski's Rug Room for three 45-minute long rounds of literature-themed trivia, beginning at 6pm, 7pm, & 8pm. Free to play, fun for everyone, bring a team or test your luck solo! At 6pm, we'll quiz on the topic of Children's Literature. At 7pm, test your knowledge on Books vs Movies. And we'll close out at 8pm with a potpourri of topics such as opening lines, titles by antonym, book by haiku, etc. Free and open to the public! No RSVP required, but hit "Going" to receive updates and reminders as…
Lit Crawl Portland is back, November 8. Hope you’re ready. Can you believe Lit Crawl Portland is FIVE YEARS OLD!? We are thrilled to be hitting the streets of Portland again with a full slate of madcap literary programming--a mix of genres, ages, voices, and formats within a walkable, downtown radius. RSVP here for updates, but each program will also make an event of its own, connected with the venues that generously agree to host us each year. It's time to shake out of your summer haze, and get ready for a festive fall. Lit Crawl PDX kicks off the Portland Book Festival (Nov 9) on November 8, 2019. It will all be here before we know it. See you soon!
Counterpoint Press celebrates the reissue of multidisciplinary writer Dao Strom’s The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys, a collection of novellas centering the experiences of Vietnamese women in the contemporary landscape, with a lineup of three women writers of the Vietnamese diaspora—Strom, Amy Lam, and Jenny Chu—performing readings accompanied by visuals and multimedia. Bios: Jenny M. Chu was born and raised in Portland, Oregon by way of immigrant parents from Saigon and Hong Kong. She's an older sister to a little brother. In life, she is the Community Engagement Manager at Write Around Portland. In life, she thinks and writes. In life, her creative work is intermittently public. In life, her creativity is omnipresent. She often seeks the horizon on a clockless day. Amy Lam is a…
Candy will be flung, prizes will be won: Come bingo with Lilla Lit! We’re back with more literary bingo madness courtesy an all-star lineup of Portland writers. Who will read a flashback? A sonnet? The word “panty”? Mark your cards and claim your prizes! Your bingolicious hosts: Lilla Lit coordinators Virginia Bellis Brandabur and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. This year's brave readers: Rebecca Claren (Kickdown), Kate Gray (For Every Girl), Apricot Irving (The Gospel of Trees), Missy Ladygo, Gigi Little (The Untold Gaze), Jessica Mehta (Savagery), Liz Scott (This Never Happened), and Natalie Serber (Community Chest). 7 PM • CENTRL Office Downtown • 1155 SW Morrison https://www.facebook.com/events/502956033891541/