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!

First Thursday: In the Pursuit of Truth: Art by Nils Dougan

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

Using laser technology to cut precise geometric patterns out of wood, Nils Dougan explores the intersection between math, art, illusion, and reality.

Free

Printmaking Celebration Opening

Sidestreet Arts 140 SE 28th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Our Featured Show Opening for Our Print Month Celebration. Visit with Printmakers, mingle and munch with art lovers and sip a little wine (If 21).

Free

Fandom PDX 2020

Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel 8235 Northeast Airport Way, Portland, OR, United States

Fandom PDX® (formerly Newcon PDX/Anime PDX) is Portland, Oregon's hotel based pop culture convention celebrating cosplay, video games, anime, tabletop gaming, comics, and "all things geek". Our twelfth event will take place at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel on Saturday and Sunday: January 4-5, 2020. The event features an Exhibitor's Hall, Artist Alley, celebrity guests, video game rooms, CCG/RPG/tabletop gaming, panels, workshops, and much more. Details coming soon!

$20 – $35

Make Your Fortune: Collage Card Workshop

Two Rivers Bookstore 8836 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR, United States

Start the year off right, making art and setting intention!

Free

Cookbook Club: Baking Edition

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

SIGN UP WILL OPEN ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH Join us for a special baking edition of Cookbook Club this winter filled with good food and conversation with foodie and amateur chef, Stephanie Rose and your community. This is a potluck-style event with every attendee choosing a recipe from the cookbook to share with the group. The event is limited to 12 participants and purchase of the cookbook at Books Around the Corner confirms your place on the list. After the event is full we will form a waitlist. If you have any questions please email info@booksaroundthecorner.com We will be baking out of Bake From Scratch by Brian Hart Hoffman ($39.95) . Order your copy today. Prepayment required.

Free

Creation Island

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Creation Island is a generative writing salon hosted in Portland, Oregon. Why island? Do you know how islands are formed?? They bubble up from the magma or snap off from other land masses, and they have their own ecosystems and their own rules. We’ve been forming islands for years. We’re all about eruptions and watching the lava flow. We make space for you to write HELP and other messages on the shore, then kick down sandcastles and build new ones. Also, we believe deeply in not being an asshole, to yourself or others. Creation Island is taught by Nathan Wade Carter and Zulema Renee Summerfield. Click here for more information, or to sign up.

Free

Creatives and Cocktails: have a new decade on us

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Finally! We’re making moves to have another Creatives and Cocktails night. Bring your stories, your songs, your jokes and most importantly, yourselves for a night of community. Can’t wait to see you! Details to come!

Free

Write to Publish Conference

PSU - Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Write to Publish is an annual publishing conference hosted by Portland State University’s graduate program in Book Publishing. It is the largest fundraising event for both the program and the student-run general trade publisher, Ooligan Press. This event serves as an open house for people interested in the publishing program, while also being a great networking event for local publishers and writers. Every year, we hold panels, workshops, and seminars about the latest trends in publishing, making it a great conference for writers and industry professionals alike.

$20 – $65

Movie Screening: The Space Between Words

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

ONE NIGHT ONLY! The super awesome, super intimate, super screening of our award winning feature film TheSpaceBetweenWords at The Rose City Book Pub! "Everything here simply feels true." Richard Propes, The Independent Film Critic. The romantic dramedy stars Lindsae Klein, Michael Draper, Beth Moesche and Willow Finney AND a virtual cavalcade of Portland's finest actors! Come and mingle, eat, drink, laugh and cry. See the film before it's release in 2020.

Free

St Johns Salon: A Quarterly Conversation

Two Rivers Bookstore 8836 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR, United States

Hosted by Two Rivers Bookstore and moderated by Rebekah Courpet, this quarterly meetup is all about expanding our knowledge on selected subjects and practicing respectful communication to share thoughts and ideas with each other. We will announce topics and suggested reading lists a month prior to the scheduled meet up so everyone has time to educate themselves on the topic and form initial thoughts and impressions to be shared with the group (if desired). Come to listen, come to share, come to connect! First meeting: January 12th at 4:00pm Meeting Topic: Clothing and the fashion industry as it pertains to conscientious consumerism as a whole. Visit our website for the conversation reading list! https://www.tworiversbooks.com/event/st-johns-salon-community-connection%C2%A0-conversation-rebekah-courpet

Free