A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Our next Zoom open mic is Dec 17th!! If you’d like a holiday writing prompt/s, think about “passion” and “support,” two things we all thrive with. Zoom code: 878 8742 4707 Password: poetry
An annual celebration of Jolabokaflod, the Icelandic Yule Book Flood! While Icelanders celebrate on Christmas Eve Portland will be celebrating in late December. This year, it will be online, as the world is uncertain and we want everyone to feel safe and enjoy their holidays! The event is all about celebrating and supporting local Pacific Northwest indie authors. When it’s in person, it’s a book fair with many author and bookish vendors with music and spirits. 2020 will take us in a different direction. More on this to come, but you’ll still get to learn about new authors, hear about their books, their inspiration, and connect with fellow literary minded folk (should that aspect appeal to you). Please join us to support PNW authors and…
This is the second style of Grimoire making we are offerring by popular request. Normally we do a dry-bind, single day class. We are talking real bookmaking, with a witchy twist, but this time it will be a hard bound book. Custom make your own and choose from different materials available. You will learn how to stitch your paper, cut, and glue up your book. This will be an open bind, coptic bind with a durable hard cover and a special embossed design you will create yourself! Come prepared with ideas for artwork Special upgrades of materials are available but limited to current selection. Ticket costs are: Linen $80 Leather $90 Goatskin $100 The cost covers instruction and materials. Class must be pre-paid for and…
In this online generative workshop, participants will explore various methods of divination as prompts for poems, including tarot and oracle reading, lithomancy, scrying, and more. We will allow ourselves to be guided intuitively in our creations, suppressing the urge to control the process intellectually. Focus will be on starting and progressing new poems rather than revision/completion. $35 $10 materials fee *The materials fee includes a small oracle kit available for local pickup. **Register by Dec. 8th to have materials shipped. Register here *2 spots available at sliding scale, BIPOC prioritized; email hquinn@iprc.org *2 spots available at no cost, BIPOC prioritized; email hquinn@iprc.org
How we'd love for you to join us this Saturday, December 13th at 1pm PT for a reading featuring contributing writers of the highly anticipated and award nominated anthology, Accra Noir. Including editor and contributor, Nana-Ama Danquah. Please register for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwucOirpj8rEtT1JfQYI8maR89Z_742ZMjq Each contributor will read briefly from their story and then we can take questions from the audience. Kwame Dawes has published over thirty-five books, most recently the novel Bivouac. He was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and is considered one of the Caribbean’s leading writers. Dawes is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, an honorary FRSL, and programming director of the Calabash In-ternational Literary Festival. At the University of Nebraska, he is the Glenna Luschei Editor of…
The Hermetic Order of Clandestine Urban Scribes opens its metaphorical doors for an early observance of the Winter Solstice, to include readings, rituals, music, and terriible puns.
Writing, even on a good day, is hard. So how do we do it on the not-good days, on the days when it feels like the world is upside-down? “Butt in chair” is the simple answer. We make ourselves sit down, and we don’t get up until we’ve gotten a few sentences down at the very least. But sometimes it feels impossible to even get to the chair. We’d honestly rather throw the chair out the window than sit in it. But what if we made an appointment with the chair? And we knew that other interesting people were doing it too, at the exact same time? This free Zoom meeting is that appointment. We’ll say hello, and then we’ll work from a writing prompt.…
Join us on the second and fourth Monday of every month for The Work. The Monday Night Edition of The Work takes place from 6-8:30 pm on the second and fourth Monday of each month, unless otherwise noted. These workshops will take place on Zoom until it is safe to do so again in person. Upcoming Monday night workshops will take place on December 28, January 11 & 25, February 8 & 22, March 8 & 22, and April 12 & 26. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion, and sparks the shifts in consciousness which can lead to healing, personal growth, and an interest in fighting for progressive social change.…
Stories are postcards from along our way. Discoveries, detours, the ordinary suddenly transformed, as we get lost in a new country, return home to find ourselves or stumble into the fog of someone’s cheap sci-fi movie. So many details squeezed between the compact margins of the postcard. For in these small souvenirs full of memory, it’s always in the details that we find how we got through. Wish you were here! Join storytellers Steven Henegar, John Wylder and Tony Zimbardi for the full story on Saturday, January 2 at 7:00 pm via Zoom in the comfort of your own home. Click here for Tickets. AND... Register Now, Watch Later -- Registrants will get an email the day after the performance and can watch the recording…
We are now accepting submissions for the Spring 2021 issue of Oregon Humanities on the theme “Possession.” We want to hear stories about property and wealth, having and holding, things gained and taken away. Explore issues relating to sovereignty, self-determination, dominion, or ownership. Tell us about how control of wealth and territory show up in Oregon’s history and present. Write about influences on your own life or work, for good or ill, or about the things you possess: land, belongings, emotions, beliefs, or innate characteristics. We’re looking particularly for stories that relate to challenging questions, diverse perspectives, and just communities. Tell us something we’ve never heard before. Show us something from a different angle. Make us feel, see, hear, smell the world anew. We welcome…