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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1 event,

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

8 events,

TAP@PBF: Keep Swimming

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Poetry Through Divination

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Livestream Reading: Rachel King: Bratwurst Haven

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Delve Readers Seminar: An Intensive Study of Totality: Jorge Luis Borges

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Bill Siverly and Penelope Scambly Schott

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Alison Cochrun in Conversation With Anita Kelly

3 events,

TAP@PBF: Oregon Symphony

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Poetry Reading and Open Mic on Zoom

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Oregon Humanities Live

6 events,

TAP@PBF: Motherhood Is Psychedelic

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Writing the Complicated Self

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Sallie Tisdale and Elizabeth Fournier Death Trivia

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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In-Store Reading: Rosanne Parry, Trudy Ludwig, Mark Fearing

10 events,

TAP@PBF: Cookbooks

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Creating Vibrant and Complex Characters

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Writing Into Big Questions

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First Friday with Kevin Nettleingham

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Portland Book Festival: Friday Night Book Market

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Hilary Plum

21 events,

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Starting the Memoir

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Think Out Loud: Somewhere Sisters

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This is Portland: An Evening of Poetry & Music

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Food Is a Weapon: Ghetto Gastro with Gregory Gourdet

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Criminal Intent: Fonda Lee & Daniel Nieh

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Storytime: KINDergarten

13 events,

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Writing Food

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Calligraphy

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“The Most Important Element”: Plot in Literary Fiction

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Kick-Start Your Picture Book

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PBF Cover to Cover: Voices Like Thunder: An afternoon of poetry with the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation

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PBF Cover to Cover: Write a Renga, Save the World

1 event,

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Leftovers

3 events,

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Haunted: Writing into Death & The Dead with Sonya Lea — begins November 8th

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Recharge Your Writing Life: Experiments & Strategies

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LC English Fall ’22 Reading Series: Jane Wong

5 events,

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Fall | Erasing the Male Gaze (and Other Power Structures) in Creative Nonfiction w Paige Thomas | Nov 9 – Dec 7

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Tiel Aisha Ansari Poetry Reading

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Leanne Grabel, Brontosaurus Illustrated, reading with Joanna Rose and Sherri Levine

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Incite: Queer Writers Read – November

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Trivia Night

3 events,

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

0 events,

3 events,

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Risograph Basics @ Outlet!

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Oregon BIPOC Publishing Event: Pitching, Submitting, & Proposing

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Oregon BIPOC Publishing Event: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (a Book!)

1 event,

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Calligraphy

2 events,

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Holiday Book Chat

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Delve Readers Seminar: The Art of Memory: Autofiction

4 events,

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Submission Deadline: Old Pal – Issue 6

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Advanced Poetry Workshop

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Josephine Woolington & Ramon Shiloh in Conversation With Michelle Nijhuis

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Willpower

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8 events,

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November Poetry Practice Space

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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Ledding Library Speaker Series

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Adam Elder in Conversation With Shawn Levy

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Slamlandia

1 event,

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Virtual Risograph Basics!

5 events,

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Intro to Screenprinting

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BIPOC Writing Workshop: November

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Risograph Basics @ Outlet!

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Quarterly Book Sale

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Fonograf Editions Benefit Fundraiser

2 events,

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Calligraphy

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Intro to Risograph Printing

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1 event,

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

1 event,

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Drink and Write Tuesdays

2 events,

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Submission Deadline: Deep Overstock: Issue 19: Hacking

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Submission Deadline: HOCUS: November Tarot Prompts

0 events,

3 events,

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Transmit Culture: Libraries in the Publishing Ecosystem

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A Portland Reading: PSU and PCC

2 events,

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Writing Dynamic Dialogue

2 events,

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Calligraphy

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December Virtual Collage Night