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Portland Book Festival

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland

The largest book festival in the Pacific Northwest returns Saturday, November 9, 2019 to the Portland Art Museum and neighboring venues. When:November 9 Cost:$15 Join Literary Arts for the annual Portland Book Festival, presented by Bank of America, returning on November 9, 2019. This one-day event features local and national authors presenting onstage events, pop-up readings, and workshops. Enjoy activities for readers of all ages, an extensive book fair, local food trucks, entry to the Portland Art Museum, and more. Gather with your community and celebrate our shared passion for books. Purchase your advance pass now. Adult passes are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Paid admissions includes a $5 book voucher redeemable at the book fair. Admission is free to youth ages 17 and younger and students…

$15 – $20

Kids’ Storytime

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

Join us for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Just in Case You Want to Fly by Julie Fogliano.

Free

Books to Prisoners Fundraiser

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Books to Prisoners will read letters that they have received at our local chapter, as well as letters than have been published in a book the Seattle Chapter recently put together. Copies of the books that Seattle published are already available at Rose City Book Pub and will be available at this event as well. Purchasing them will support the Seattle chapter (our parent chapter), Rose City Book Pub, and our local Portland chapter. This event will also be the last day of the book drive hosted by Rose City Book Pub. Hey there! We have some awesome fundraisers coming up before the year wraps up and we hope you can make it to one or all of them. Our first fundraiser of the Fall/Winter…

Free

All of Me Book Event – Daedalus Books Portland

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland

Join "All of Me" editor Dani Burlison and Portland writers Karleigh Frisbie Brogan and Amanda Blix--along with live music from feminist ukulele duo Sorry Not Sorry-- for a night of anger and laughs... * Amanda Blix is an artist, mother and lover of the earth. Her work has appeared in Hip Mama, Vision Quest, Rad Dad, the New York Times and 2 anthologies by the Sound Grounds Wrecking Crew. She has self-published 11 comic book zines and is the illustrator and collaborator of the zine series Which is Witch. She lives in Portland with her family and is about to finish her final year of mystery school (if she doesn't drop out first). * Dani Burlison is the creator and editor of All of Me:…

Free

Wordlights Poetry ft. Schuyler Peck

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday November 9th, we'll have a feature from Schuyler Peck, mini-features from Kate Leddy & Effy Bishop, and a short set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Schuyler Peck Schuyler Peck is a writer, plant mom, and part-time daydreamer in Portland, Oregon. Schuyler’s work explores themes such as nature, spirituality, surviving and trauma recovery, and the many facets of mental health. She is the author of To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart and A Field of Blooming Bruises, among other titles. Her work can also be found at Crooked Arrow Press, Rising Phoenix Review, JuxtaProse Magazine, Words Dance, Persephone’s Daughters, Thought Catalog, and Literary Sexts: Vol. 2. Schuyler enjoys all things…

Free

Michelle Tea Reading

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Award winning author, Michelle Tea is reading at Corporeal Writing Center Saturday evening, November 9th in the midst of her workshop, Conjuring Story (Nov. 9th & 10th). Light snacks and beverages will be present. There will be a chance for book signing and conversation after the reading also. Michelle Tea is the author of numerous literary works across genre, including the cult classic memoir Valencia, the illustrated Rent Girl, the how-to Modern Tarot and the kids' book Astro Baby. Her essay collection, Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions and Criticisms, was honored with the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Memoir. She is the creator of the Sister Spit international performance tours, the Bay Area literary organization RADAR Productions, the online parenting zine Mutha and…

Free

All of Me: Reading at Mother Foucault’s

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Celebrate the launch of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body with editor Dani Burlison and Portland writers Amanda Blix and Karleigh Frisbie Brogan. Live feminist ukulele music from Sorry Not Sorry! --- * Amanda Blix is an artist, mother and lover of the earth. Her work has appeared in Hip Mama, Vision Quest, Rad Dad, the New York Times and 2 anthologies by the Sound Grounds Wrecking Crew. She has self-published 11 comic book zines and is the illustrator and collaborator of the zine series Which is Witch. She lives in Portland with her family and is about to finish her final year of mystery school (if she doesn't drop out first). * Dani Burlison is the creator and editor…

Free

Dani Burlison reading

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Dani Burlison is the creator/editor/author of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body (PM Press, 2019), Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories, a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name, and the Lady Parts zine series (available at Pioneers Press). Her short story collection Some Places Worth Leaving will be published by Tolsun Books in February 2020. Dani has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Yes! Magazine, Chicago Tribune, KQED, The Rumpus, Made Local Magazine and Emerald Report. Her journalism, fiction and personal essays can also be found at Ms. Magazine,WIRED, Vice, Utne, Earth Island Journal, Ploughshares, Portland Review,…

Free

Reading: Punch Doubt in the Face by Nicolle Merrill

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Will robots take our jobs? Will algorithms become our managers? Nobody really knows for sure. But you're invited to speculate about it with local author Nicolle Merrill as she hosts an interactive reading of her new book, Punch Doubt in the Face: How to upskill, change careers, and beat the robots. Punch Doubt is a nonfiction career advice book about our new world of work with a twist: the book contains a choose-your-own-adventure style story set in a dystopian workplace. Join Nicolle as she reads the interactive story from her book and asks the audience to choose which path to take. You can learn more about Nicolle and her new book for career changers here.

Free