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8 events,

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: Brandon Shimoda, Jay Ponteri, and Emily Kendal Frey

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Readings: Emily Kendal Frey and Rachel Jamison Webster

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The Work Poetry Workshop: Monday Night Edition

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Tell Me A Story? #6

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5 events,

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: Vi Khi Nao and Daniela Naomi Molnar

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Sh-ARC Week

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Writing Through It: A Reading and Celebration

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Readings: Daniela Naomi Molnar, Brandon Shimoda, and Taylor Eggån

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Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic

11 events,

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing

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The Ultimate Harry Potter Birthday Party

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: Sara Jaffe: All Hooks, No Chorus: Pop Music and Plot

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Manor Black #1 Signing w/ Tyler Crook!

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Readings: da Carter, Sara Jaffe, and Jay Ponteri

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Poetry Practice Space

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11 events,

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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock #6: Westerns

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Submission Deadline: Windfall

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Delve Seminar: Narratives in the Tarot: The Fool’s Journey

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First Thursday: A Walk on the West Side

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Slamlandia August Revolution Hall ft. Stephen Meads

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Tiffany Jenkins: This Show is Awkward AF

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12 events,

Willamette Writers Conference

Willamette Writers Conference

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Submission Deadline: Oregon Literary Fellowship

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Submission Deadline: Bitch Magazine #85: Sanctuary

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: Reema Zaman: More than a Memoir; a Movement

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The Unseen

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Kay Snow Awards

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Nigerian poet Romeo Oriogun: The Story of Our Lives

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10 events,

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Terese Marie Mailhot – Writing Trauma, Making Art: August 3

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Dead End Kids & Manor Black Signing Tyler Crook & Frank Gogol

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Horror Comics with Emily Lewis

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Gallery Closing Party

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: da Carter: Aesthetic Refusals, Writing With and Against Loss

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How to Break Into Comics W/ Frank Gogol

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6 events,

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Longreads Club: Viktor Orbán’s War on Intellect

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Intro to Hand-Drawn Animation: Two Day Workshop

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Summer Snack: A Day Party Presented by YGB x Tender Table

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Erin Moran

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QTIPOC Draw Night

5 events,

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High Summer Poetry Open Mic

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Oh Word!?: a Creative Writing Workshop on Poetry & Media

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Animals

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Grief Rites Readers Series ~ August 5

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Sharma Shields & Simeon Mills

2 events,

Submission Deadline: IPRC Certificate Program Application

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Chuck Klosterman

5 events,

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Summer 2019 Roundtable: The Agent Search

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It Tells You: Poetry to Script Workshop with Laura Houlberg

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ROUGH DRAFT

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Kira Jane Buxton

9 events,

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Slamlandia August Literary Arts Show ft. Avery Gadling

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Shallow Waters – Kay Denning

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Eugenia Petty and Guests

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Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

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ROUGH DRAFT

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5 events,

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Whitenoise Project 21: Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader

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Inkwater Authors Night

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Fodder Live Album Recording at Disjecta

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Creatives and Cocktails: Music and Lyrics

12 events,

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Intro to Risograph Printing

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Kids’ Storytime With Sarah & Ian Hoffman

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Humor and Gag Comics: A Miss Anthology Comics Workshop (all ages)

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Smith & Bybee Writing Workshop

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Recognizing & Honoring Life Transitions

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Author Event with Heather Redmond & Grave Expectations

+ 6 More

2 events,

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The Trauma Cleaner

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat Shanna and Michael Alden

6 events,

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Comics and Zines for Middle Schoolers

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Ulysses Support Group (Book Club)

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Emperors of the Deep

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Oh Word!?: a Creative Writing Workshop on Poetry & Media

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Erik Davis

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Story Time for Grownups

9 events,

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Teen Book Club

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Collage Night

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Passing Our Stories Down: A Mandarin/English Bilingual Workshop

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club

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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America

+ 3 More

6 events,

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SKIP release party with Molly Mendoza

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Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler’s Journey Home

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Book Talk Book Club

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Reading: Kay Jennings: Shallow Waters

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PowerPoint Party

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Chris Rush

14 events,

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Submission Deadline: Potlatch Fund

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Submission Deadline: PLAYA Residency

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Submission Deadline: Shirley Magazine #14

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Niche 9th Anniversary Poetry Contest (Deadline August 15, 2019)

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Mystery/Thrillers Book Club

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Queer PDXpression

+ 8 More

3 events,

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Comedy vs. Tragedy #18

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Final Flight Final Fight – Erin Miller

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Another Fortune & Other Poems Book Release & Performance

5 events,

Intro to Letterpress: Two Day Workshop

Intro to Letterpress: Two Day Workshop

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Bookstore Romance Day!

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Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

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Mystery Box Social Dinner Party Featuring Janet W. Hardy and Ceara Lynch

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Sexy Leper – Chad Stroup

7 events,

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Longreads Club: Is Brazil’s Anti-Corruption Task Force Corrupt?

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Street Roots’ Street Party

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Why There Are Words: Truth and Reconciliation

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Seek

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. The Rain City Slam Team

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Family Portrait Poetry Reading

3 events,

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John Marble Bids Farewell to his Youth

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Kathleen Belew in Conversation With Elliott Young

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The Making of a Democratic Economy

5 events,

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Portland Correspondence Co-op

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Camp

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Reading: J B. Fisher: Echo of Distant Water

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Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors

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Téa Obreht

2 events,

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Thomas Lin

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New Mutants: A X-men Themed Drag Show!

9 events,

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Book Launch for Beyond the Third Door by Maria Heckinger

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Horror Book Club

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Oh Word!? Issue 001 Zine Launch [Cancelled?]

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For Colored Folks

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Reading: Cody Luff: Ration

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A Raven Lost – M.W. Horses

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1 event,

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Booklover’s Burlesque: Summer Heat

5 events,

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The Sixth Storm – Kim Cooper Findling and Libby Findling

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The Creeping Museum Artist Market

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Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

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Slamlandia House Show – ft. Jaz Sufi and Brandon Melendez

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All Kinds of Fur at the Creeping Museum Artist’s Market

6 events,

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BUST: Breaking Up Stuckness Together w/ Liz Asch Greenhill – Aug. 25

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Tender Table: Emmy Eao, Daphne Jenkins, Alley Pezanoski-Browne

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Jaz Sufi and Brandon Melendez

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Tell Me A Story #7 – Jessica’s B-Day Edition

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Girls ROAR

2 events,

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Powell’s Books presents Senator Jeff Merkley

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Lauren Acampora in Conversation With Cari Luna

3 events,

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Queer Nature/Nurture: Readings, performances, and a screening

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Rick Moody

6 events,

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Poetry Practice Space

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Books Around the Corner Book Club

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Summer 2019: Read Your Work in Public!

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Susan Steinberg in Conversation With Leni Zumas

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Lemon World 7

5 events,

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Submission Deadline: Future Prairie: Performance Proposals

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Queer PDXpression

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Reading: Bryan Denson: The Unabomber

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Pok Pok Noodles: Recipes From Thailand and Beyond

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Southern Oregon Beer: A Pioneering History

3 events,

End of Summer Sale

End of Summer Sale

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Open Mic: MIND & MOUTH (all ages)

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Young Adult Book Club (Burnside)

4 events,

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Submission Deadline: The Masters Review Short Story Award for New Writers

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TFAW Book Club w/ Cat Farris!

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Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

6 events,

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Longreads Club: LGBTI Asylum Seekers in Africa

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The Trauma Cleaner

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Intro to Hand-Drawn Animation: Two Day Workshop

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic

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Delve Seminar: Escape from the Dollhouse

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QTIPOC Draw Night

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Seek

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