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Forest Avenue Press Small Press Showcase

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Join Portland’s Forest Avenue Press in celebrating authors from ten small presses! Alex DiFrancesco, Tom DeMarchi, Wendy J. Fox, Casandra Lopez, D. Keali‘i MacKenzie, Ron Maclean, Angela Mitchell, Rheea Mukherjee, Liz Prato, and Michael Shum will read from their recently published books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry at a women/GLBTQ-owned independent bookstore. Snack and beverages provided! Accessible space, only one mile from the Convention Center. Contact: Liz Prato For tonight's AWP off-site reading we welcome ten authors from ten different small presses!! Reading this evening will be Tom DeMarchi (Möbius Strips, Rain Chain Press), Alex DiFrancisco (Psychopomps, Civil Coping Mechanisms Press), Wendy Fox (If the Ice Had Held, Sante Fe Writers Project), Casandra López (Brother Bullet, University of Arizona Press), Keali'i Mackenzie (From Hunger to…

Free

WTAW Press Authors and Reading Series Coordinators Together

Portland Northwest Hostel Cafe 1810 NW Glisan St, Portland, OR, United States

WTAW reading series coordinators Virginia Bellis Brandabur, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, and Barbara Roether join WTAW Press authors Anita Felicelli, Louise Marburg, Angela Mitchell, Sarah Stone, and Olga Zilberbourg for a night of “why there are words.” Reading is free and open to the public, and the venue offers food and drink before, during, and after the reading. Contact: Peg Alford Pursell

Free