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2021 Tin House Virtual Craft Intensive: Speaking With / Speaking to, with Raymond Antrobus

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

In this workshop we’ll look at poems from a range of time and place (from ancient Rome in 54 BC, London in the 1950’s to our present time). We’ll focus on the questions that go beyond the single poem and instead, explore our vision/projects as poets. We’ll discuss sequences in poems and look at concrete ways to bring who we are / and who we love into our work. Tin House is proud to announce our latest virtual Craft Intensives Series. A series of 3-hour-long masterclasses lead by  Tin House Residents and Tin House Books Authors, these Intensives combine close reading, discussion, and in-class writing to offer a potent dose of inspiration and explore what makes writing work when it works. Join us! Applying Admissions…

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$75

Beautiful, Flawed, and Troubled: Creating Memorable Characters with Carter Sickels

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT: A four-week generative online collaboration WHEN: Begins Saturday, October 16th, 2021. This class is hosted on our rich interactive online platform, WetInk. The class is broken into four weeks, and within those weeks you go at your own pace. There will be one Zoom meeting at the end of the class to wrap things up, date TBD. ACCESS: $350. Payment plans always available—contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are available, please click here to apply. The most memorable characters in fiction are the most human, motivated by desires and regrets, and deeply shaped by places, people, and memories. In this creative incubator, we’ll explore how to develop complex characters with emotional depth. How does desire inform the mystery of a character? How do characters…

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$350

Attic Institute: FALL Online Campus: Story Energy with Joanna Rose

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Tension – it’s not just for thrillers! Tension draws writer and reader into any story and evokes more deeply human experience. The constant adjusting of tension affects pacing and drives story in countless ways:  interactions among characters, sentence structure,  and even word choice. We’ll use excerpts from published works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry as well as work submitted weekly by participants to explore how the use of tension can create a vivid, visceral narrative.  | Maximum: 12 students Register for this workshop NOTE: To protect everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're offering our workshops via Zoom. All students must first sign up for a free Zoom account. Setting it up is easy. And we can help you with questions, if needed. For each class, you'll receive a Zoom "invitation," from…

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$215 – $242

Wilsonville Library: How to Write a Novel in 30 Days (online)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

November is National Novel Writing Month (aka "NaNoWriMo"). The goal: write a 50,000 word novel during the month. Not sure how to do it? Come find out! Learn tips and strategies for writing your Great American Novel in record time. Presented by local author Andi Winter Online with Zoom - Sign up to receive the Zoom meeting code. For more information visit the Classes and Lectures page.

Free

October BIPOC Writers Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For BIPOC writers Searching for a space to create new work with fellow BIPOC writers? This two-hour workshop meets on Zoom. A variety of prompts will be presented as avenues for generating and sharing new work in an informal setting. Open to BIPOC writers at all levels writing in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. Scholarships are available. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org for more information. Jacqueline Fitzgerald is a transformation coach, educator, and artist who centers healing, creativity, and embodied equity to cultivate collective belonging. After over a decade of experience as a teacher and facilitator in Portland area public schools, Jacque brings a trauma-informed, joyful, and loving approach to her values re-alignment work. Her writing has been published in The Oregonian, The Learning Network of…

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$10

Bookarts: Pamphlet Stitch & Cover Variations

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

Register here $25-55 sliding scale 3 no-cost spots available; BIPOC prioritized; reach out to hquinn@iprc.org to inquire Bookarts Workshop: Pamphlet Stitch & Cover Variations In this introduction to book arts participants will come away equipped with a basic understanding of the tools required for bookbinding, and will learn how to bind books with a pamphlet stitch. This binding is versatile and will lend your book projects a simple elegance. We’ll go over several different variations with and without covers. Paper materials provided. Beginners welcome. Instructor: Isabel Diana Class capacity: 10 Class meeting: Sunday, August 8th, 12-2pm PST $25-55 sliding scale 3 no-cost spots available; BIPOC prioritized; reach out to hquinn@iprc.org to inquire Materials Provided Waxed Linen Thread Awl Binder’s needle 2 binder clips Pencil Optional…

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$25 – $55

Cusp :: The Vibrant Space Between Fiction and Nonfiction :: A Webgasm

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT: A three-hour online webgasm with Lidia Yuknavitch and at least one magical guest. (With a 15-minute intermission.) WHEN: Sunday, October 17th, 1PM-4PM Pacific (4PM-7PM Eastern) WHERE: ZOOM. Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time. (Interested in this event but unable to join it live? All registered attendees will receive a link to a recording of it that will be viewable for one week afterwards.) HOW MUCH: $150. Payment plans are available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are always available. Click here to apply. Does your writing live in the fluid flux between fiction, nonfiction and poetics? Is your fiction informed, deformed, and reformed through nonfiction? Is your nonfiction inhabited by poetics, images, rhythm, sound? What is the relationship between forms when…

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$150

Cirro-numinous Salon: The Lens

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This event combines the elements of lecture, discussion, and generative workshop in order to create an inclusive space for creative discovery. Poets Natalie Jane Edson and Eva Bertoglio have crafted this series as a way to explore the components of craft, embodiment, and perception and asking: “how do these interrelated undertakings interact with a holistic creative practice?” In this particular salon, we will explicate the different ways of entering into poems through metaphors of the visual. When we look through a glass lens, we establish a focal point and emphasize certain elements of landscape, thereby enacting a transformation on what we see. How can we utilize this technology to aid in the creation of illusion and artful composition within our own work? The event will…

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Free

Joshua Jay in Conversation With Joe Posnanski

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The door to magic is closed, but it’s not locked. And now Joshua Jay, one of the world’s most accomplished magicians, not only opens that door but brings us inside to reveal the artistry and obsessiveness, esoteric history, and long-whispered-about traditions of a subject shrouded in mystery. And he goes one step further: Jay brings us right into the mind of a magician — how they develop their otherworldly skills, conjure up illusions, and leave the rest of us slack-jawed with delight time after time. Along the way, Jay reveals another kind of secret, one all readers will find meaningful even if they never aspire to perform sleight of hand: What does it take to follow your heart and achieve excellence? In 52 short, compulsively…

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Free

Livestream Reading: Teresa K. Miller and Amanda Moore

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poet Teresa K. Miller for a reading from her new collection, Borderline Fortune. Teresa will be joined by San Francisco poet Amanda Moore, whose debut collection is Requeening. Both are winners of the National Poetry Series. Please register in advance for this Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpdeCprj4sEtMYXfEafxU_5tXVJ1XiPh0v If you would like signed or personalized copies of either book (or both), please leave a note in the comments section of your order! About Borderline Fortune: Borderline Fortune is a meditation on intangible family inheritance—of unresolved intergenerational conflicts and traumas in particular—set against the backdrop of our planetary inheritance as humans. As species go extinct and glaciers melt, Teresa K. Miller asks what we owe one another and what it means to echo one's ancestors’…

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Free
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