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Livestream Reading: Sarah Dougher

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland writer and professor Sarah Dougher, a contributor to Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40. She will be in conversation with the book's editor, Vicki Breitbart, and OHSU reproductive endocrinologist Paula Amato, MD. Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/ftZN8Wa3L94 If you would like a signed or personalized copy of this book, please leave a note in the comments section of your order! About Tick Tock: In this groundbreaking collection of essays, poems, and creative nonfiction, more than twenty-nine writers offer witty and incisive insight into the unique experience of being or having an older parent in today's world. By turns raw, funny, tender, and wise, these stories reshape our understanding of the social factors that impact later parenthood, honor the…

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Free

Coffee Talk #27

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Come hear 5 wonderful writers read their grief words and share their hearts. The zoom reading will be about an hour long. Invite your friends. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82654716716?pwd=dVI5QTlkTnN5OENSbjRMalJFbVI5Zz09 Meeting ID: 826 5471 6716 Passcode: 252537

Free

Write Around Portland: Online Writing Workshops

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

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 22 years, is proven for people of all writing levels: from the budding writer to the published author. Fall 2021: Every other Thursday, September 23 through December 16, from 11 am to 12:30 pm (Pacific Time).  Thursday, Sept 23 from 11 am-12:30 pm Thursday, Oct 7 from 11 am-12:30 pm Thursday, Oct 21 from 11 am-12:30 pm Thursday, Nov 4 from 11 am-12:30 pm Thursday, Nov 18 from 11 am-12:30 pm Thursday, Dec 2 from 11 am-12:30 pm Thursday, Dec 16 from 11 am-12:30 pm…

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$5 – $30

Attic Institute: FALL Online: A Writer’s Toolkit: How to Get Started As A Writer Workshop w Wayne Gregory

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

“Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.” ~ Pablo Picasso You have a story to tell, but you’re not sure how to get started. The Writer’s Toolkit is the class for you.  In this workshop, you will discover how to transform your ideas from imagination to a cohesive and compelling story that engages readers and keeps them turning the pages for more. You will learn some of the basic conventions for good writing that successful writers use: how to develop plot, how to create compelling characters, how to build dynamic scenes, and how to show rather than tell. You will learn by doing and will take away a wealth of writing tools and resources to keep honing your…

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$215 – $242

Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For people who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC). 2nd & 4th Friday of every month from 4 to 5:30 pm (Pacific Time), Free. (No workshops 11/26 & 12/25.) 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.

Free

Other People’s Poems in the Park

Colonel Summers Park SE 17th Avenue and Taylor Street, Portland, OR, United States

Bring a poem in your head/heart to share.

Free

CIRRO-NUMINOUS SALON: THE LENS

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

THE LENS is a continuation of our salon series that investigates the components of craft, embodiment, and perception. During each event, we’ll take a different approach to the question “how do these interrelated undertakings interact with a holistic creative practice?” In this salon, we will explicate the different ways of entering into poems through metaphors of the visual. When we look through a glass lens, we establish a focal point and emphasize certain elements of landscape, thereby enacting a transformation on what we see. How can we utilise this technology to aid in the creation of illusion and artful composition within our own work? The event will be happening over zoom on Sunday September 26th at 2 PM PST, and you can register here.

Free

FALL :: A Generative Creative Lab :: Exhausting Metaphor

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Collaboration Leader: Domi Shoemaker, alongside weekly videos featuring Domi and Lidia Yuknavitch in conversation When: Begins September 26th Where: Videos are hosted on our site—you’ll receive a link to one each week on Sundays, and then have access to them always. Domi will host a Zoom meeting every Thursday from 5:30-7:30PM PST. September 30th, October 7th, October 14th & October 21st. Cost: $250—payment plans are available. Please contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com. Scholarships are also available—Apply Here. Six years ago (!!!) Corporeal Writing hosted its first ever seasonal lab—and we started with Fall. It’s an exciting time for us all as we cozy back into this beautiful season ripe with metaphors. Color. Changes in light, leaves, life. Meditation. Observation. In this generative lab we will develop…

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$250

Annual Family Breakfast: Broadcast Edition

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Our annual family breakfast is going virtual again this year on 09/30, and you're invited to join us! We'll be celebrating all of our annual successes, and highlighting our newest program, Mobile Journalism (MoJo), which aims to give unhoused folks the tools and skills to be the architects of their own stories. Plus, just like your weekly paper, there will be vendor poetry, profiles and more! RSVP and learn more about the event: avcast.me/streetroots2021 If you have any questions, please contact Andrew Hogan at andrew@streetroots.org.

Free

Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Angelique Palmer

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We're so incredibly excited for Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Angelique Palmer this upcoming Thursday! Here's what you need to know about this month's feature: Angelique Palmer (she/her) is a performance poet, a finalist in the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and a member of the 2017 Busboys and Poets/Beltway Poetry Slam Team. Author of The Chambermaid’s Style Guide, and the upcoming Also Dark (Etruscan Press), she’s a Florida State University Creative Writing graduate who calls northern Virginia home. Her work centers on Black Femme Narratives, Awkward Queerness, and Mental Health & Recovery. She makes her own ice cream. Slamlandia is hosting another digital poetry open mic. This open mic - only poetry, no music please - will take place on September 30th.…

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Free
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