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Fiction Workshop I with Joanna Rose

Attic Institute 4232 SE Hawthorne, Portland

Sentences are the Lego of Story A critique workshop for writers of all levels designed to lead you deeper into the experience of your story, true or imagined. Any story depends on its sentences, and this workshop is built on defining what the job of its sentences is, and how they are doing their work. We’ll look into voice and language in the terms of the stories at hand. | Maximum: 12 writers Register for this workshop Teacher: Joanna Rose Time: Saturdays, 9am - 11am, Sep 21 - Oct 19, 5 weeks Location: Attic Institute of Arts and Letters, 4232 SE Hawthorne Boulevard Total Fee: Early Registration and Tuition Deadline is seven (7) days prior to the start of the workshop. | Early Registration: $210 (cash/check);…

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$210 – $237

Kids’ Storytime With Amanda Jackson

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

Today, author Amanda Jackson joins us to read from her new picture book, My Shape Is Sam (Page Street Kids). In a world where everybody is a shape and every shape has a specific job, Sam is a square who longs for softer corners, rounder edges, and the ability to roll like a circle. But everyone knows that squares don’t roll, they stack. At least that’s what everyone thinks until the day Sam takes a tumble and discovers something wonderful.

Free

Fictional Film Club Book Release

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

This is the launch event for the new book FICTIONAL FILM CLUB by MARK SAVAGE, published by DEEP OVERSTOCK. There will be: Readings, invocations of the impossible, a live ritual in tribute to art that will never be. With snacks 'n' booze, glamour 'n' shoes. Bring your friends/crushes/lovers and receive bonus Tokens of Cool* In FICTIONAL FILM CLUB, our narrator attempts to review a series of movies that don't exist. From here, he slips into an ever more obsessive and self-obsessive unreality of made-up movie stars, false features, and perverse productions. MARK SAVAGE is writer and musician from Portsmouth, England. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is the host of the MIND-MELD, CAPTAIN OF STORYTIME, and the founding member of the FICTIONAL FILM CLUB.…

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