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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Join us for a conversation with Craig Popelars from local publisher Tin House. We'll be talking about their Spring/Summer 2020 line-up: https://www.tworiversbooks.com/happy-hour-tin-house-craig-popelars Join the CrowdCast event: https://www.tworiversbooks.com/happy-hour-tin-housecraig-popelars
From the first feedback to the final copyedits, navigating literary publishing can be especially harrowing when your story doesn’t fit the industry’s narrow bookshelf. Kaitlyn Greenidge and Mira Jacob discuss their combined 30+ years of experience, as well as the strategies they’ve employed to stay sane and keep writing. YouTube
Pitch agents. Sit down with producers. Sharpen your manuscript with industry pros. You can do all this from the comfort of your own home, July 30 – August 2, 2020! Featuring keynote speakers Cheryl Strayed, Pete Souza, Mitchell S. Jackson, Zoraida Córdova, Rosanne Parry, and more! With over 80 virtual workshops, as well as night events, critiques, and gatherings, you're sure to find your community, develop your craft, and expand your career this year. Whether you're a poet, a screenwriter, a novelist, or a techie, you'll find your home at our annual conference. What's that? You're a memoirist? You're going to love our classes on voice and style, taught by New York Times Bestselling Authors. Newbie? Great! Come learn with us! Published 80 books? We're…
How much would you give to sit down with a traditionally published author and pick their brain about the ins and outs of working with a small press? How about two? Grab a notebook, a pen, and a magic lamp to harness some incredible insight from two of The Parliament House's most successful authors: Brianna Sugalski is an elf from the Hawaiian islands, obsessed with worldwide folklore and the late medieval ages. She is a reiki practitioner and flourishes in Fall weather, and is writing the sequel to Disenchanted as we speak. Jason Tanamor is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Anonymous and Drama Dolls. His writings have appeared in more than 250 publications. He's interviewed personalities such as Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Pete…
We have the great privilege of hosting Rayhané Sanders, literary agent at Massie and McQuilkin who represents our own Lidia Yuknavitch, for a 90-minute webinar on Publishing (with ample opportunity for Q&A) on Saturday October 17, 2020. at 1PM Pacific Time. In addition to the webinar, Ms. Sanders is taking on ten private manuscript consultations. Over the course of a 20-minute Zoom session, she will give you feedback from an agent’s point of view on the first 30 pages of your manuscript, submitted ahead of time. (A note: Ms. Sanders comes from New York publishing, and is very encouraging but also very direct!) The deadline for submitting your 30 pages will be October 1st and consultations will be scheduled throughout the day Sunday October 18th.…
Join Literary Arts for the annual Portland Book Festival, presented by Bank of America, taking place online November 5-21, 2020, with digital events streaming at different times throughout the day. The digital festival will feature author events for all ages, pop-up readings, and writing classes. Come together with your community and celebrate our shared passion for books. Subscribe to our monthly e-news and continue to check online for the latest news. The schedule is here! You can RSVP to events to receive reminders and add to your calendar. Be sure to register at PDXBookFest.org, our custom live streaming site, and tune in starting November 5. The 2020 Festival is free to attend, no passes are required. Register to watch at PDXBookFest.org. If you’d like to support the work we do…
Please join us for our Fall 2020 Transmit Culture event, Own Voices in Children's Publishing. We are excited to announce our three guests for our panel discussion: DongWon Song, literary agent at Howard Morhaim; Bryan Parker, author, illustrator, and publisher at Believe in Wonder; and Kyle Sullivan, publisher at Hazy Dell Press. Our panelists will engage in a discussion led by Ooligan Acquisitions Manager Jen Ladwig about current events in children's publishing, the changing nature of the publishing landscape in 2020, and the ways they have worked to foster diversity, representation, and positive social change through children's books. The event will be held remotely via Zoom on November 12 from 7:00–8:00 p.m. PST. Register here for a link to the event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQuoLuw6ynNqPgx9_8DTKgu7TY769dsf7qHgRuQ-twWxeK3A/viewform?usp=sf_link We hope to…
Although we won’t be in person this year as we had, we’re excited to host a *free* virtual mini-con on our con dates, November 13-15, 2020, called OR-e-Con! This event will be hosted online via ZOOM, with access links being provided to the Orycon mailing list. TO REGISTER AND RECEIVE THE ACCESS LINK: We will be giving access links for the Zoom rooms to the OR e-Con mailing list. To sign up for our mailing list, please email: announceadmin@orycon.org While this will be a free event, we will be requesting donations both to cover the costs of the virtual event and for use elsewhere in the organization. Volunteers are also needed for this event, and you can request more information by contacting volunteers@orycon.org. AUTHOR GUEST…
About a third of the stories published in Recommended Reading are unsolicited submissions, which share space in the magazine with work by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners. Unlike some legacy lit mags, we really are reading all the work you send in, and we really do publish it. So how can you make your stories stand out among the thousands of submissions we receive every year? Recommended Reading’s editorial team—Halimah Marcus, Brandon Taylor, Erin Bartnett, and Alyssa Sondsiridej—pull back the curtain on their decision-making process and offer invaluable advice to short story writers. A must-watch for anyone who is planning to submit. Q&A to follow. This event is part of Electric Lit's Winter Salon Series, presented by Reedsy.
For freelancers, writing an essay, feature, or opinion piece doesn’t start when you type the first line. It starts with the pitch. Having a topic and a talent isn’t enough; you also have to be able to package your idea in a way that catches an editor’s eye. But how do you get started writing a pitch? How long is too long—and how short is too short? What does a good pitch look like—and a bad one? And why does Electric Lit ask people to write a pitch, anyway? Electric Literature editor-in-chief Jess Zimmerman and contributing editor Jennifer Baker fill you in on everything you need to know when proposing nonfiction work to Electric Lit and other publications. Q&A to follow. This event is part…