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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5 events,

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Show:Tell Middle Grades Print Camp

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Open Hours Printing!

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Bethany C. Morrow in Conversation With L. L. McKinney

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SPRING Online: Craft of Memoir w Brian Benson FULL — WAIT LIST ONLY

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Table Reading: THE PLAY ABOUT THE BOYS – by Christopher Lord

5 events,

Books With Pictures Five-Year Anniversary Celebration & Sale!

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Remote Writers Group

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Education: Book & Film Circle, May 2021

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One Page Wednesday: June

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Write A Book: Fiction & Creative Nonfiction Workshop

5 events,

HOCUS: Submissions Open!

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

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Benjamin Percy in Conversation With Victor LaValle

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Coffee Talk #23

3 events,

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First Friday Poetry Reading and Open Mic on Zoom

8 events,

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This House of Mine Zine

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Virtual Risograph Basics!

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Refuse the Given World: Generating Short Fiction Through Play

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Craft Conversations: Character

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Refuse the Given World: Generating Short Fiction Through Play: Afternoon session

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PSG Addition: YES, IT REALLY HAPPENED!

6 events,

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When We Were Poets — with Brigid Yuknavitch—begins

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Drop-in Writing Workshops for BIPOC Writers with Anya Pearson

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Bookarts: Stab Stitch & Variations

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The June Open Mic feat. K McClendon

2 events,

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Persistence: What It Takes to Publish a Book, featuring Ellen Michaelson, Joanna Rose, and Suzy Vitello

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Livestream Reading: Donna Ward & Jackie Shannon Hollis

6 events,

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Open Hours Printing!

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Trystan Reese in Conversation With Andrew Solomon

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Collecting & Art Making

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Strange Love: A Short Fiction Workshop

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Fantasy Book Club (Remote)

2 events,

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HOOD FEMINISM with Mikki Kendall

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The Milwaukie Poetry Series: Paulann Petersen

3 events,

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Jonathan Evison in Conversation With Thomas Kohnstamm

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No Shelf Control Book Club (REMOTE)

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic on Zoom Featuring Shawn Aveningo-Sanders

2 events,

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Collage Sketchbook

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SUMMER Online: Prose Poem Workshop w Ruben Quesada

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Let’s Make a Zine! A Riso Zine Making Workshop with Kate Bingaman-Burt

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The Work Poetry Workshop: Saturday Afternoon Edition

1 event,

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Creative Semester: Poetry

3 events,

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InDesign: Zine Layout

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Show:Tell High School Creative Writing & Print Camp

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The Work Poetry Workshop: Monday Night Edition

6 events,

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Open Hours Printing!

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Complexity and Simplicity: Unlocking the Genius of Your Craft

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Daisy Hernández in Conversation With Amy Stewart

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Super Magic Forest virtual event with Ansis Purins

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Science Fiction Book Club (REMOTE)

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Livestream Launch: Cindy Baldwin with Jamie Pacton

2 events,

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Matthew Clark Davison in Conversation With T Kira Mahealani Madden

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This Is Not for You: An Activist’s Journey of Resistance and Resiliance, by Richard Brown, with Brian Benson

5 events,

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Livestream Reading: Megan Galbraith with Liz Prato

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Writers in the Schools End of Year Celebration

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June Poetry Practice Space

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Livestream Reading: Joshua Henkin with Tom Barbash

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Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Greg Harries

1 event,

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Writing with our Ancestors, with Chelsea Hicks — begins

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4 events,

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June BIPOC writer workshop

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Bookarts: Coptic Stitch

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Third Eye Books Grand Opening – Special Appearance by Author Tianna Bartoletta

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Dovesong Labs Midsummer Poetry Camp

1 event,

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Moving Here As Love: Making A Collaborative Zine About Becoming Love

2 events,

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Delve Readers Seminar: Love in the Time of Cholera

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Livestream Reading: William Ritter

2 events,

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Kai Bird in Conversation With T. J. Stiles

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“George Venn: The Literary Lion of La Grande” Film and Q&A

3 events,

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Paul Neilan in Conversation With Marissa Levien

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Conversations in Cohort : ROUTES BETWEEN RAINDROPS by Dan Wiencek

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Horror Book Club (REMOTE)

3 events,

Melanated Market Pop-Up!

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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BIPOC Reading Series June

5 events,

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Writing Towards Radical Self Love

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Unlikeable on Purpose—A Three-Hour Webgasm w/ Lidia Yuknavitch

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BOOKLOVER’S BURLESQUE: To Tease Or Not To Tease (VirtualShakespeareEdition)

1 event,

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Drag Queen Story Hour with Salt & Straw

3 events,

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Workshop: Tell Your Story! Risograph Printing and Zine Making with Kate Bingaman-Burt & Leland Vaughan (3 weeks)

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Photoshop: Prepping Files for Print

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Stand Up Smut: An Erotic Open Mic

1 event,

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Two Rivers Virtual Book Club June

9 events,

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June Broken Sleep Books Launch

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Wild Love: An Introduction to Nature Writing

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Midsummer Poetry Camp

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Brandon Taylor in Conversation With Phil Klay

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Amy Mason Doan in Conversation with Julie Clark

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Live on Crowdcast! Rachel Griffin, The Nature of Witches, in conversation with Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

2 events,

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Write Around Portland: Weekly Online Writing Workshop

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Coffee Talk #24

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