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!

Calendar of Events

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4 events,

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

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Tech Support Group

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In-Store Poetry Reading: A. Molotkov and Susan Leslie Moore

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Notes and Motes: Improvised Jazz with Surreal Poetry

1 event,

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Rinker Buck

2 events,

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Adalyn Grace in Conversation With Sara Gundell

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Trivia Night

1 event,

3 events,

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Poetry Reading and Open Mic

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First Friday Poetry with John SIbley Williams and Emmett Wheatfall

1 event,

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Satya Doyle Byock

1 event,

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Ghost Print *Youth* Studio Time

4 events,

Books With Pictures: Sale Week

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Now Here We Are Thirty Years Later: A Memoir in Mountain Goats Songs

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Tech Support Group

4 events,

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Gary Shteyngart in Conversation With Carolyn Kellogg

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Kristin Ohlson in Conversation With Lee van der Voo

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Aiden Thomas in Conversation With Alex Abraham

5 events,

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Sasha Fletcher in Conversation With Lydia Kiesling

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One Page Wednesday – September

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Kristina McMorris in Conversation With Rene Denfeld

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Trivia Night

6 events,

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Madeline Ostrander in Conversation With Michelle Nijhuis

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Lidia Yuknavitch in Conversation with Omar El Akkad

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Jennifer Reimer and Connie Soper

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Mike Duncan

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Jane Kirkpatrick

8 events,

Rose City Comic Con 2022

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Highgate: The One-on-One Workshop

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Virtual Risograph Basics!

Chapbook Workshop

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

9 events,

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Flea Market at Kindred Homestead Supply

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Risograph Basics @ Outlet!

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Manufactured Spaces: Setting

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To Agent Or Not to Agent

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Sidewalk Sale: I’m Having Top Surgery

4 events,

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Fall | Exploring the Elegy w Matthew Dickman | Sep 11 – Nov 13 | Online

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Kel Mitchell

4 events,

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Tech Support Group

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Crossroads

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Wendy Red Star in Conversation With Will Matsuda

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Kristin Berger, Cathy Cain, John Miller

6 events,

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Thom Hartmann

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Matthew Dickman and Richard Tillinghast

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Colin Meloy in Conversation With Carson Ellis

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Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series: Naomi Shihab Nye

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Brian Michael Bendis in Conversation With David F. Walker

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Fall | So, You Wanna Be A Writer w Wayne Gregory | Sep 13 – Oct 11 | Online

14 events,

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A taste of Write Your Grief Out

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Vampirella Mindwarp signing with Jeff Parker at Cosmic Monkey Comics

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Fall | Prose Poetry I w Ruben Quesada | Sep 14 – Oct 12 | Online

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David J. S. Pickering Poetry Reading

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Yuvi Zalkow in Conversation with Brian Benson

6 events,

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Ling Ma in Conversation With Alexandra Kleeman

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September Poetry Practice Space

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The Notebook: Your Creative Process

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Nine-Month Novel Intensive: Thursday

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Slamlandia ft. Nykole Jackson

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A. M. Homes

1 event,

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PSU Lit Mic

8 events,

IPRC at Portland Zine Symposium 2022

Portland Zine Symposium 2022

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Fall | Personal Essays w Lee Montgomery | Sep 17 – Nov 19 | Online

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Writing the Ensemble Cast

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Fall | Monthly Poetry Gathering w John Morrison | Sep 17 – Jan 21 | Online

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First Matter Press 2022 Book Release Celebration & Reading

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Hanif Abdurraqib, Kaveh Akbar, and Leslie Jamison

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Reading: Paul Haeder

9 events,

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Submissions Open: Portland Review

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Xylophone Mykland

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September Collage Night

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Hanif Abdurraqib

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FALL :: A (Virtual) Generative Creative Lab :: Exhausting Metaphor— begins September 18th

3 events,

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In-Store Reading: Marianne Monson: The Opera Sisters

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Tech Support Group

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Outlaws

5 events,

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Fall | Writers’ Lab: Life Stories w Lee Montgomery | Sep 20 – Oct 25 | Online

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Fall | Introduction to Flash Nonfiction w Brian Benson | Sep 20 – Oct 18 | Online

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Refuse the Given World: Breaking Blocks Through Play

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In-Store Reading: Michelle Ruiz Keil: Summer in the City of Roses

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Buzz Bissinger

5 events,

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Risograph Basics @ Outlet!

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Nate Schweber, This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild

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Exploring Fiction Narratives: How’d They Do That?

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Candice Carty-Williams in Conversation With Leni Zumas

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Trivia Night

10 events,

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Open Submissions: Old Pal – Issue 6

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Submission Deadline: Pile Press 2022 Fall Submissions

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Memoir: The Process — with Kimberly Dark — begins September, 22nd

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APPS DUE: SEP 12: Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Studio | Sep 22 – Dec 15,

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A Conversation with Kate Birdsall

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Spare Room reading: J Coleman, J Dunn, J Stanley, Thursday 9/22

4 events,

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Submission Deadline: HOCUS: October 21st Reading with Theme: “Spirits”

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Randall Munroe & Sarah Andersen

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Margaret Killjoy in Conversation With Robert Evans

4 events,

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Stamp Collecting: Another Approach to Memoir Writing

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Creative Nonfiction III

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Nine-Month Memoir Intensive

3 events,

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Delve Readers Seminar: Henri Bergson and the Revolution in Time

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Wordlights Poetry Popup Show ft. Christopher Luna

4 events,

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

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Hannah Sward in Conversation With Amy Dresner

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Portland Correspondence Co-op

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Amy Fusselman in Conversation With Kevin Sampsell

6 events,

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Steven Hyden in Conversation With Chuck Klosterman

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Where We Come From: Writing Your Ethnoautobiography w/ Ella deCastro Baron, G. Ravyn Stanfield, and Anya Pearson—Begins September 27th

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Drink and Write Tuesdays

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Liz Prato in Conversation with Aaron Gilbreath

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Two Rivers Book Club – September: Ruth Ozeki

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Hiron Ennes in Conversation With Sara A. Mueller

4 events,

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Deadline: Application Deadline for Director of Archives and Library Programs at IPRC

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Weekly Check-In: Getting the Work Done

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Jonathan Hill in Conversation With Breena Bard

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Trivia Night

3 events,

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Notes & Motes: The Vlatkovich Trio Plus One

2 events,

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing

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Fall Generative Lab w/ Lidia Yuknavitch and the Corporeal Squad: September 30th-October 2nd

6 events,

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Little Comics Bookgroup

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Where Do I Go From Here: Writing the Novel

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Fall | Short Fiction w Joanna Rose | Oct 1 – Oct 29 | In-Person

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The Witching Well

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Renée Watson

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Storytime and Cupcake Decorating

2 events,

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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Nykole Jackson

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October Virtual Collage Night