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!

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3 events,

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Spring 2020 Online: Strange Stories: Putting the Uncanny in Your Fiction

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WW Online: Sharpen Your Wit with Tiffany Pitts

5 events,

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club

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Delve Readers Seminar Online: Memory and Ancestors: Paula by Isabel Allende

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Delve Readers Seminar: Delve Online: William Gaddis: The Recognitions

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Two Rivers Virtual Book Club April

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Live Stream Reading: Kate Ristau: Shadow Queene

5 events,

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Pomodoro: Writing Alone Together with Natalie Serber

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Teen Poetry Time

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Fiction Addiction Book Club (Remote)

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Virtual Book Club: Nothing Special

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Virtual Trivia Night hosted by Rose City Book Pub

5 events,

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CANCELED – Harry Dodge reads at PSU

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing: Spring 2020

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The Write Place: An Online Meeting for Productivity

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Delve Readers Seminar Online: A Universal History: Selected Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges

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Stay Home Stay Queer

3 events,

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Delve Readers Seminars Online: Free 90 minute Discussion on Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things and Jose Saramego’s Blindness

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Folk Art & Musings by Toni Lumbrazo Luna

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Historical Fiction Book Club (Remote)

3 events,

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Online: Coffee at Your Kitchen Table with Willamette Writers

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Southern Oregon Online: Writing and Marketing Short Pieces with Sheila Bender

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

1 event,

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A Second Virtual Open Mic

5 events,

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Spring 2020 Online: Short Story Crash Course

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Submission Deadline: Pathos Literary Magazine, Fall 2020 Issue

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Delve Readers Seminars Online: Clarice Lispector: The Passion and Água Viva

1 event,

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club

6 events,

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[Canceled] Natalie Diaz reads at PSU

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Virtual IPRC / Lunch Poems: Beginnings

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Teen Poetry Time

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Writers Group (Remote)

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Online: One Page Wednesday May

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For Colored Folx Virtual Book

11 events,

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Drawing Time

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Virtual Book Launch: Trespassers by Local Author Breena Bard

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The Write Place: An Online Meeting for Productivity

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Virtual IPRC: Poetic Divination

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Romance Book Club (Remote)

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Virtual Author Reading with Malaka Gharib

4 events,

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Delve Readers Seminars Online: Free 90 minute Discussion on Normal People by Sally Rooney

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club Extra Hangout

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THE BOOKSELLERS Q&A presented by Living Room Theaters

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Nonfiction Book Club (Remote)

4 events,

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VIRTUAL Risograph Basics with Outlet!

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Embracing What Is

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Daily Write with Brian Benson

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Wordlights Hour on Shady Pines Radio

2 events,

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Submission Deadline: Oregon Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Funds

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Spring 2020 Online: Advanced Memoir

3 events,

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Online: Writing a Novel in 8 Weeks

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The Work Poetry workshop: Monday Night Zoom Edition

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Delve Readers Seminars Online: Clarice Lispector: The Passion and Água Viva

4 events,

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club

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Virtual IPRC: Origami

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club (Remote)

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Delve Readers Seminars Online: To the Wedding by John Berger

6 events,

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Submission Deadline: Literary Arts Booth Emergency Fund for Writers

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Virtual IPRC / Lunch Poems: Beginnings

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Teen Poetry Time

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Book Talk Book Club (Remote)

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Incite Online: Queer Writers Read

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Virtual Book Club: O Human Star

7 events,

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Drawing Time

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Happy Hour with Tin House/ Craig Popelars

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Virtual IPRC: Poetic Divination

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Make a Self-Care Zine with Malaka Gharib

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Discussing “The Cassandra” with Author Sharma Shields

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Zoom Edition featuring Linda Strever

3 events,

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club Extra Hangout

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Mt. St. Helens: Post-Eruption Recovery and Resilience

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Stephen King Films Trivia

8 events,

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Epistemologies Online Workshop w/ Leigh Hopkins – Starts May 16

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Spring 2020 ONLINE: The Lyric Essay: Braiding the World

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Compose Creative Writing Conference

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Oregon Reads Aloud: A SMART Read-A-Thon

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Embracing What Is

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First Matter Press Poetry Reading and Open Mic

5 events,

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Spring 2020: Filling the Well

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On Becoming 1 / Lost and Found / Tolentino

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Vanport Mosaic Festival: Becoming American. A conversation

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A Virtual Open Mic feat. Eric Sirota

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HYPNOZINE Release Party

2 events,

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(Play)Writing During the Quarantine

3 events,

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Virtual Story Time with Nikki McClure

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club

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Page to Screen Book Club (Remote)

6 events,

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Pomodoro: Writing Alone Together with Natalie Serber

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Teen Poetry Time

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Your Next Good Read? Let a teen tell you!

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Delve Readers Seminars Online: The Essays of James Baldwin

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HOCUS Reading: The Tarot

7 events,

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Online Fiction Workshop for Teens

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Happy Hour with OSU

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Page Turner Book Club (Remote)

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Slamlandia Poetry Open Mic ft. Eric Sirota

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Webinar: The Antifascist Artist

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STAY HOME STAY QUEER

2 events,

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Free 90 minute Letter Writing Session with Wendy Noonan

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club Extra Hangout

1 event,

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Spec Script: Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul on Twitch

3 events,

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Spring 2020 Online: May Writer of Color Sunday Morning Workshop

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True Crime Book Club (Remote)

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Grief Rites May Monthly Reading Series

3 events,

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The Work Poetry workshop: Monday Night Zoom Edition

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Creating a Movie in Your Reader’s Mind- C. Lill Ahrens

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The Occasion Radio Hour: Mothers

4 events,

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club

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Young Adult Book Club (Remote)

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Two Rivers Book Club

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Live Stream Reading: Trace Kerr: The Names We Take

6 events,

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Pomodoro: Writing Alone Together with Natalie Serber

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Teen Poetry Time

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Write Around Portland: Weekly Online Writing Workshop

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Fiction Addiction Book Club (Remote)

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Virtual Book Club: Strong Female Protagonist

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HOCUS Online Generative Writing Workshop

8 events,

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Spring Storytelling Intensive

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Write Around Portland: Weekly Online Writing Workshop

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Online Fiction Workshop for Teens

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Drawing Time

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Happy Hour with Forest Ave Press

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Horror Book Club (Remote)

4 events,

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Uncovering our Resilience, Gratitude, and Connections During COVID-19

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Delve Readers Seminars Online: Free 90 minute Discussion on Daisy Miller

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VIRTUAL IPRC: Elementary Art Club Extra Hangout

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Marrow PDX: Mind and Mouth Open Mic

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3 events,

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Airlie Press: Submit a Video of YOU Reading Your Poem

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Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES Houdini Interactive Reading

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A Virtual Slam and Open Mic