LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!

Calendar of Events

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1 event,

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Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion

2 events,

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Rene Denfeld and Kimberly King Parsons

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Eric Nuzum in Conversation With Chuck Klosterman

3 events,

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A Reading of The Berlin Diaries

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Reading: Marcy Houle: A Generous Nature

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Crissy Van Meter in Conversation With Leni Zumas

6 events,

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SFWA NW Portland Reading Series – January 2020

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Jackie Shannon Hollis

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James X Preview

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Reading: Rachel Carter & Sarah Coomber

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Russell Rowland

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Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now

1 event,

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American Dirt – CANCELLED

2 events,

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Wordlights Poetry ft. DeAngelo Gillispie

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Melissa Febos Reading

2 events,

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The Voice of Empathy: Jennifer Richter and Emmett Wheatfall – reading and Q&A

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Lilla’s Winter Reading: Thirst

4 events,

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Free Range Poetry: 2020 Opening Night Poetry Open Mic

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Reading: David Hedges: Prospects of Life After Birth

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Clyde W. Ford

4 events,

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Geraldine Foote, Leanne Grabel, Gwen McNeir, and Elaine S. Nussbaum

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Linsey Miller in Conversation With Rosiee Thor

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Literary AF Reading

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Lidia Yuknavitch

3 events,

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World Read Aloud Day

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Let’s Be Weird Together: A Book About Love

6 events,

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Slamlandia February Rocking Frog ft. Rob Gray

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Rick Wilson

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Spare Room reading: Michele Glazer & Martha Silano

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Anna Wiener in Conversation With Meaghan O’Connell

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Powell’s First Word Reading Series – featuring Grief Rites

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Powell’s Books Presents NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF & SHERYL WUDUNN

3 events,

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Mount Readmore Story Time

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Adalyn Grace in Conversation With Tomi Adeyemi

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The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice — Crossing Antarctica Alone

6 events,

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African American Read-In

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From Cozy to Chilling Author Event

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Unversed Comics

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Chrys Tobey

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OAT Open Mike

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Songbook PDX – 19

3 events,

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The Boy Who Became a Dragon: A Biography of Bruce Lee

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Spec Script 3rd Anniversary: The Mandalorian

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Richard Bell

2 events,

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Pam Houston and Stephanie Land

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Garth Greenwell in Conversation With Omar El Akkad

4 events,

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Cindy Baldwin in Conversation With Jody J. Little

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Salon Skid Row Presents: The Revival

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Emma Copley Eisenberg in Conversation With Vanessa Veselka

4 events,

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Marcy Cottrell Houle: A Generous Nature

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Ezra Klein in Conversation With Omar El Akkad

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Mother Winter’s Paperback Launch Party

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Mark Haber in Conversation With David Naimon

8 events,

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Gabrielle Civil reads at PSU

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Melissa Anne Peterson

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Aural Pleasure: A Poetry Soirée #9

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Armin Tolentino

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Kate Messner

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4 events,

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Brian S. Ellis

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Best Small Fictions Anthology Reading

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Book Launch: The Reboot: 50 Dates with Myself by Marie MacMillan

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Puffs Reading for Social Justice

2 events,

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One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

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Lance Olsen in Conversation With David Naimon

3 events,

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What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

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Gayle Brandeis in Conversation With Rene Denfeld

3 events,

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Jim Ottaviani

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Author in Chief

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Story Time for Grown Ups with David Loftus

2 events,

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HOCUS Reading: Familiars

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Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

6 events,

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Gabriel Urza

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Reading: Jason Brown: A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed

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You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters

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Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

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R. Douglas Fields

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Queer PDXpression

5 events,

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Whitenoise Project 23: Lashley / Mckizzie / Minto / Dudley / L&R

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Filament’s February Reading Featuring Sophia Shalmiyev

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PDX Queer and Trans Open Mic

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Catana Comics

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Gish Jen

7 events,

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Jenny Offill in Conversation With Claire Vaye Watkins

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Book Launch—The Poeming Pigeon: Cosmos!

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BUG BOYS release party with Laura Knetzger

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Submission: BIPOC Edition

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Maryam Gabriel-Imam

3 events,

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Is It Spring Yet? – a multi-genre reading

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Sierra Crane Murdoch in Conversation With Rebecca Clarren

3 events,

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Columbia Writers Series: Reading & Discussion with Terese Mailhot

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Chana Porter

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Megan Fernandes

2 events,

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Reading: Stephanie Thornton Plymale: American Daughter

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Courtney Maum in Conversation With Kimberly King Parsons

1 event,

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Dan Pfeiffer

5 events,

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John Sayles

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Green Bean Books Presents Author Thomas Lennon at T.C. O’Leary’s

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Visiting Writers Series: Janice Lee

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Charles Finch

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Ander Monson

2 events,

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Book Launch for Kirsten Ihns’s sundaey

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Thom Hartmann

2 events,

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Wordlights Poetry ft. Micah Fletcher

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Spare Room reading: James Yeary & Lisa Radon

3 events,

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A Marathon Reading of Ronald Johnson’s ARK

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Cindy Williams Gutierrez and Jessica Mehta – reading and Q&A

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William T. Vollmann