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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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University of Houston alumni, current students, and prospective students are welcome to meet faculty and each other! Past students will be on hand specifically to chat jobs in publishing, working, and life inside (and out) of academia. Come toast soon-to-be-grads over light bites and conversation. Contact: Giuseppe Taurino and Charlotte Wyatt
Join us at history Taborspace for the fourth annual reading of poet-alumni of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project and Conferences. A stellar lineup of contributing poets will read from their poems and have the opportunity to meet one another, sometimes for the first time. Light refreshments will be available and we welcome the public to attend!
The WITS Alliance hosts a happy hour and reading at Literary Arts. Readers will include WITS alumni writers and students. Open to the public, and will include informational materials about WITS programs nationwide.
Join us for the 6th Annual UCF MFA Alumni Reunion at this year's AWP in Portland, Oregon! Before the reunion, we'll have a student reading from 5:30 to 7:00, so we invite you to join us for the reading as well! Location: Lucky Labrador (Hawthorne Street) Time: 7:00 - 9:30 Spread the word to any UCF MFA students or alumni!
Register here for the Creative Writing Alumni Reading. You will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Thea Prieto is the author of From the Caves (Red Hen Press, 2021), which won the Red Hen Novella Award and was a finalist in American Book Fest's Best Book Awards. Her work has also appeared in The Kenyon Review, Longreads, and New Orleans Review, among other journals, and she writes and edits for Poets & Writers and The Gravity of the Thing. She graduated from Portland State University's MFA program in 2016. LaVonne Griffin-Valade is the author of two novels, Dead Point and Murderers Creek (Severn River Publishing). Her work has also appeared in Oregon Humanities Magazine and Clackamas Literary Review. She was a finalist for the 2018 Fellowship for Emerging Writers at Fishtrap’s Writing and the West. Her third novel, Desolation Ridge, will be published in…