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Nasty Women Poets Anthology Reading & Book Signing

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The resistance continues! Hear contributors to Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017) read their poems at this event hosted by Lost Horse Press and Co-Editors Grace Bauer and Julie Kane. Contributors who wish to read: please sign up when you arrive. The Cardinal Club is a 30-minute walk or a short taxi ride from the Convention Center. Food and drink available until midnight. Contact: Christine Holbert, Grace Bauer, Julie Kane

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Readings from They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing

The Fixin' To 8218 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an evening of readings from Black Lawrence Press' anthology of collaborative writing. Edited by Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton, and Jackie K. White, They Said includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as hybridized forms. Readers include: Amorak Huey, Todd Kaneko, Martha Silano, Ben Clark, GennaRose Nethercott, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Denise Duhamel, Julie Marie Wade, Jennifer Givhan, Alicia Elkort, Kelly Magee, Carol Guess, John Gallaher, G.C. Waldrep, Tyler Mills, Kendra DeColo, Callista Buchen, Amy Ash, Isobel O’Hare, Sarah Lyn Rogers, and Kyle McCord. Contact: Gina Keicher Come out for an evening of collaborative readings from They Said, BLP's multi-genre anthology of collaborative writing! Edited by Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton, & Jackie K. White, They Said includes poetry, fiction, and…

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Launch Party and Broadside Printing Demo with Ecotone & Lookout Books

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us as we launch Ecotone's Bradford–Niedermann Broadside Series, and celebrate Ecotone's latest issue and the new anthology, Trespass, from Lookout Books. Featured poets Cortney Lamar Charleston and Molly Tenenbaum will read, and designer and printer Rory Sparks will host a letterpress printing demo for anyone who wants to try out printing the last run on a broadside. Door prizes will include broadsides and copies of our publications. Light refreshments will be served. Come celebrate with Ecotone and Lookout staff and authors! Contact: Anna Lena Phillips Bell Print Studio, Room 257, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts, 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209 Here’s something we’ve been scheming about for a while: in honor of Ecotone poetry editor Jason Bradford, and his mother, Shirley Niedermann,…

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This Side of the Divide: Baobab Press Anthology Reading

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Baobab Press, an independent publisher based in Northern Nevada, presents a reading by the authors of This Side of the Divide, a new short-fiction anthology attempting to capture the newness, vastness, territoriality, and sense of transience alive in the American West. "This Side of the Divide welcomes readers into the vast landscape of worries and wonders dogging some of the most gifted writers of today’s American West," wrote Claire Vaye Watkins in her foreword. Readers include Melinda Moustakis, Leah Griesmann, Linda Lenhoff, David Gillette, and Cathy Warner.

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Free Community Reading and Book Release Party

First United Methodist Church PDX 1838 SW Jefferson St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us to celebrate the release of our 56th anthology featuring the talented writers from our spring workshops for adults in recovery, youth experiencing homelessness, adults living in affordable housing and many others. Few Portland events include so many diverse voices! At this event we are also celebrating Write Around Portland's 20th birthday and our 20 years of writers! We’ll have cake and an anthology retrospective to share featuring writers from 1999 to today! The reading is free, ADA-accessible and open to all. Books will be available for purchase. Free guided playtime for children is provided. These readings are funded in part by generous support from: Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, Hillsboro Arts & Culture Council and Multnomah County Cultural Coalition. For…

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Space Cocaine Reading

Belmont Books 3415 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Four authors. One anthology. One space. Join Jessie Kwak, Grá Linnaea, Andrew McCollough, and Mark Teppo as they read from SPACE COCAINE, a new anthology of totally unrelated stories that are wrapped in a cover that has a wizard and a dragon on it. It'll be an evening of interstitial slipstreaming across the liminal fringes. You won't want to miss it because we're producing an edition of SPACE COCAINE that will only be available this evening.

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Book Launch Party for Itty Bitty Writing Space

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrate flash fiction with readings and a Q&A with authors from the latest Flash in a Flash Anthology!

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Submission Deadline: Portland Review: LABOR Anthology

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

Portland Review is accepting submissions for a themed anthology on LABOR. The anthology will accept theme fitting works in genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and mixed-genre. No current students of PSU's CW program will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are OK, just indicate in submission. Submitted work will also be considered for upcoming print issues and website publication. Published contributors receive $30 and a copy of the issue. See their website for more details.

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Unversed Comics

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Sometimes, you know a moment will be the last time. Whether it’s saying goodbye, ending a chapter in your life, or moving on to the next thing. Other times, you don’t realize it was the last time until it’s too late. Maybe these moments are filled with sadness, or maybe the nervousness of a new beginning. Join Unversed Comics as they celebrate their third and final anthology, Postscript (Unversed). The final volume features 550 pages and 39 cartoonists, some of whom are the biggest rising stars in the Portland comics scene. Editor Jonathan Hill emcees an afternoon where artists Cas Marotta, Katie York, Delta Vasquez, Sarah Hickey, and Tandy Kunklewill will read their stories.

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Best Small Fictions Anthology Reading

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

This reading will feature authors from BSF 2019 reading their work. Copies of BSF 2019 will be available for purchase. Features Jennifer Fliss, Marcelle Heath, Alvin Park, Ben McPherson Ficklin, and Margaret Adams. The Best Small Fictions is the first ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year. Now in its sixth year of existence, Best Small Fictions features the best micro fiction, flash fiction, haibun stories and prose poetry from around the world. Founded by Tara L. Masih, Best Small Fictions is now steered by series editor Nathan Leslie. Guest editors have included Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert Olen Butler (2015), PEN/Malamud Award winner Stuart Dybek (2016), Pen/Malamud Award winner Amy Hempel (2017), two-time Pushcart…

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