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Writing Your Heart Wide Open: Winter Solstice Edition

You, whose heart sometimes aches in December. You, who longs for sacred winter rhythms: listen, write, dream, repeat. You who wishes not for hustle and bustle, but the soft hum of candlelit magic. You who welcomes dynamic stillness and knows that the bare bones of trees have gifts to bestow. You’re invited. A one-day writing retreat. Small group. Deep listening to/witnessing of each other. Ritual as a way in and out, honoring in particular, the Winter Solstice. Focus on crafting that particular story for which you need great courage (from the Latin "cor" - heart). Non-fiction, fiction, and form-defying feats of writing welcome. Plenty of time to actually write, to deepen, to revise. To give full time and attention to fully realizing one piece of…

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$175

[Canceled] Make IRL G!G Workshop: Resolution Writing with Pamela K. Santos

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

The IPRC is in the Willamette Week’s Give!Guide (G!G) this year, an easy path for year-end giving with lots of incentives for your generosity. We’re offering a number of special gifts and workshops as part of our campaign. Poet Pamela K. Santos will lead a generative resolution-writing activity. All ages welcome. To pre-register, make a G!G donation and email alley@iprc.org.

Donation

Learn Make Share: Zines Drop-in

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

Learn to make zines or get help with existing projects This workshop is part of the Learn Make Share series. Free for members taking the workshop as one of 3 annual Learn Make Shares $5-15 sliding scale for nonmembers, or for members who have already taken their 3 annual workshops Class capacity: 8 Learn Make Share Series Members can take up to three free Learn Make Share series workshops per calendar year by RSVPing here. Space is limited to 8 people. For more information about membership please the membership page on our website here.

$5 – $15

Winter Poetry Festival

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

Warm your soul during the darkest days of winter at the first Winter Poetry Fest! We are crafting this event to be an inspirational refuge from the chaos of the holiday season. It will be full of diverse, local poets, chapbooks and broadsides for sale their authors; writing workshops and readings. In addition, there will be hands-on activities, writing games, a holiday card print-pull, cut-up poetry button making and more! Buy last minute holiday gifts for all your artsy friends while directly supporting writers, hide from your in-laws, feed your creativity with writing prompts and games, feed your mouth with delicious snacks, write a poem to put on the Poetry Tree and celebrate the solstice with your creative family <3. Hosted by the Independent Publishing…

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Free

Risograph Basics with Kate Bingaman-Burt

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

Welcome to the Risograph Basics, Collage Experimentation and Mark Making Extravaganza! Participants will take home and edition of 25, 2-color 8.5x11 prints of your own design plus one print from all of the workshop participants (your own starter print collection!) Come and get to know Outlet's Barbara the Risograph as and her sisters Jolene, Lil' Tina, and Large Marge! REGISTER HERE! Want to learn what Risograph printing is? Want to meet others who do too? Come and learn all about the basics of the Risograph in our two-color introduction workshop. The workshop will kick off with a Show & Tell of exactly what a Risograph can do with a printing demo, print and zine samples and a general exploration of how we can get the best results from this…

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$50 – $65

We Shall Risk the Dimensions: Experiments in Poetry Revision

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

In this unique revision class, students will experiment with a variety of approaches that move beyond mere editing for the sake of discovery. With the goal of opening up possibilities, sharpening vision, and reinvigorating one’s poetic practice, students will spend each class exploring new techniques on old poems. Instructor: Stephanie Adams-Santos, Tuition: $275 (Scholarships available!)

$275

Feature-Length Screenwriting: Weekly Jan 7 – March 4

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

Start the New Year right and finish your feature-length screenplay! This screenwriting workshop will focus on intensive feedback culminating in participants finishing a feature-length script by the end of our nine week workshop. We will help you electrify your story idea and/or help you adapt your piece of fiction or nonfiction into a format suitable for a script. Some previous knowledge of screenwriting structure is recommended but not required. Also as a part of this workshop we will discuss strategies for selling your script and/or getting it made into a film. Taught by Writer/Director Andy Mingo: Andy is a seasoned screenwriter who has adapted fiction to screen from authors like Monica Drake, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Chuck Palahniuk. He and Palahniuk recently co-wrote the script adaptation…

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$300

Write and Publish Fierce in 2019

The First Congregational United Church of Christ 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

This meeting is at our new location: The First Congregational United Church of Christ in downtown Portland (1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205). Want to make 2019 your most productive writing year yet? Want to become more authentic and authoritative in your work? Author Sage Cohen can help you make the most of your writing life with her top success strategies for managing time, energy, fear, failure, deadlines, and your inner editor. Through a mix of lecture and workshop, you’ll gain solid tools and strategies that can make you more effective, energized, and satisfied with every dimension of your writing life. So you can write and publish fierce in 2019 and beyond! About Sage Cohen Sage Cohen is the author of Fierce on the…

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Free

Dreamlines: A Workshop with Brigid & Lidia Yuknavitch

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

Dreams are prescient, mysterious, strange, funny, timely, frightening, wondrous, unfinished. Dreams are creative process. Like art, dreams feed life individually and collectively by showing us symbols and language charged with raw corporeal voice, creative thresholds and energies. Come write with us from dreamlines, or stories and voices that begin in dreams. We will work with two or three different experiential structures for re-entering dreams and follow the dream in writing experiments. We’ll also be writing from reverberations of dreams within our group process. This work with dreams can help you re-enter a piece of your own writing as a creative space. Bring a dream if you can.

$400

Workshop: Step Into Storytelling

Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capital Highway, Portland, OR, United States

Led by Barbara Fankhauser and Ken Iverson An introduction to the basic principles of storytelling. Using fun exercises, interactive games, and shared resources, you’ll love end up telling a story and sharing your experience with the group. You won’t find a gentler, safer, easier way to step into storytelling than these three, happy hours. Useful to those who are newer to this craft, this is also an opportunity for experienced storytellers to reflect on their work and sharpen their skills. Barbara’s stories come from her life, her imagination, the richness of her Celtic and Norse roots. She believes that, at the heart of it, the stories of one are the stories of all. Loving how stories bring people together, Ken has delighted audiences for over…

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$25 – $30
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