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Planning and Writing Your Book with Kristen James

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

THIS MEETING IS ONLINE and FREE to all. (Details below the talk decription.) Planning and Writing Your Book: How to Apply Methods and Tips from Bestselling Writers Kristen Chaney James, author of Blockbuster Books, Broken Down and other writing books will share the methods and tips she’s picked up during her writing career to plan and write an engaging novel. You don’t have to choose to “write from the middle” or only use the “three legged outline” because you can use a combination of methods to ensure your story is solid and hits all the plot points readers look for. **You can join us on your phone or on your computer. You do not need to have video, but it is helpful if you can.…

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Free

Liminal Writing Online w/ Sonya Lea

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Launches Saturday April 4th Online Four Weeks in Length ***In light of the current coronavirus crisis, Sonya has re-recorded audio elements of this workshop to specifically address the liminal space we are all living in right now. In addition, a limited number of sliding scale enrollments are available. If you have been financially impacted by the current situation, please write to Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com to inquire.*** Writing The Liminal Liminal means threshold, and liminal experiences are transitional, a suspension in identity, time, or community. We’ll write our way into dreams, ritual, wilderness, birth, death, visions, ghosts, tricksters, crossroads, revolutions, and all kinds of collapses of the status quo. You’ll come away with tools to help you work with your liminal experiences in writing. Week one: Definitions of thresholds, threshold/outlier experiences, and an…

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$350

The Art of Marketing Your Book

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This meeting will be ONLINE ONLY. We will post a link for you to watch on your computer as well as a phone number where you can call in to listen. We are determined to make the online experience as seamless as possible. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” Lao Tzu Dami will present steps for marketing your first book and guide you through the planning of a marketing journey that can start small and lead to great and unexpected places. She will share the lessons learned from her mistakes and share the unexpected successes and new worlds that have opened up…

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Free

VIRTUAL IPRC: Guided Visualization for Inner Exploration Workshop #1

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Guided Visualizations for Inner Exploration Workshop #1: Exploring fear and overwhelm during times of uncertainty In this Future Feels workshop series, facilitated by Grace Mervin, we will be deepening our understanding of our emotions, our creativity, and ourselves through guided visualizations and reflective prompts. The first in this series of workshops will focus on exploring fear and overwhelm. Link to Zoom meetup here Link to Guided Visualization Handout #1 here Link to facebook event to rsvp here $5-15 Suggested Donation: Venmo @endoplazmic

Free – $15

Books Around the Corner: Book Talk Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Books Around the Corner Book Talk Book Club is led by the owner/librarian, Stephanie Rose, and meets monthly on Wednesday every month. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our customers (RSVP is not required). Bring whatever book your are reading or have recently finished and book talk it to the group. This is a great way to find books outside of your genre that you may not have otherwise been introduced to! Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion with other readers. REMOTE INSTRUCTIONS Join online by clicking the link below! https://zoom.us/j/428989618…

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Free

CANCELED – Visiting Writers Series: sidony o’neal

Reed College - Eliot Hall Chapel 3203 SE Woodstock, Portland, OR, United States

sidony o’neal (b. 1988) is an artist and writer from Sacramento, CA. Previous exhibitions and performances include Fourteen30 Contemporary, Linfield Gallery, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Performance Space New York, and If I Can’t Dance. o’neal’s writings have been published at Arts.Black, Scrolldiving, The Capilano Review, Passages North, BATHHOUSE, SPOOK magazine, and the journal of Women & Performance. sidony is the translator of Prognosis: Descarga Poetica Decolonial (Quilomboarte 2013). Residencies include Literary In(ter)ventions Banff Center, Creative Exchange Lab, Arteles Center, and S1 Synth Library. sidony is an instructor in the Department of Music and Sonic Arts at Portland Community College.

Free

Submission Deadline: HOCUS Reading: The Tarot–Submissions Now Open

Rose City Coffee Co. - Brooklyn Park 3370 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR, United States

HOCUS is a quarterly reading event in the guise of a secret society. Our reading events are simultaneously silly and serious. "Hilarious," "profound," "close to the bone," and "goofy" are all words which were bandied about by attendees of our last event. Submissions are now open for our May 20th event. The theme is The Tarot. Works of prose or poetry which deal with this theme, either directly or obliquely, are welcome. We are looking for work which falls within the "literary" genre. No fantasy, sci-fi, horror, or romance please.

Free

Online: Coffee at Your Kitchen Table with Willamette Writers

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for coffee at your kitchen table with Willamette Writers Online! Warm up the coffeepot and get your cup — we’re ready for a coffee date with you online. Join us on Zoom for coffee and conversation. No reason — just connection. We will see you there! Details for joining online You can join us on your phone or on your computer. You do not need to have video, but it is helpful if you do. Log in a little early – sometimes it takes a second to load the online meeting on Zoom. You can click the link below on your computer or your smartphone to join. It will open an application: https://zoom.us/j/661140168 You can also phone call in to this number, and…

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Free

Delve Readers Seminar: Delve Online: Still and Unstill: Objects and Landscapes as Human Metaphors

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This Delve will take place online via Zoom. Participants will receive information about how to connect with Zoom online. This Delve takes place virtually, at the Portland Art Museum, and coincides with the exhibition Volcano!, which marks the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. This Delve will explore museum galleries, pages of books, and the realm of memory, discovering commonalities in ways writers and visual artists recreate human experience through their hyper-realistic descriptions of material objects and natural places. Through a multi-sensory examination of objects, images, and texts, we will become fluent in this symbolic language of concrete detail. We will also look at various ways text and image interact, including how illustration functions as form of creative adaptation of a text, influencing our…

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$220
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