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The MFA at Saint Mary's College of California, Omnidawn, and McSweeney's present a reading at Portland's Literary Arts featuring Victoria Chang, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, Sara Mumolo, Jesse Nathan, Joseph Rios, Tamsin Smith, Lysley Tenorio, and Matthew Zapruder. Contact: SMC MFA in Creative Writing
Printed Matter Vancouver and Angst Gallery proudly present an AWP offsite reading featuring Ohio's Argus House Press & Cervena Barva and NYC's great weather for MEDIA More detailed info COMING SOON Put it on your calendar! Saturday March 30 6:30-9:30 Angst Gallery 1015 Main Street Vancouver, WA 98663 FREE, but please support our out-of-town guests by buying their books. Food and libation provided by Niche Wine Bar, 1013 Main Street. 6:00-7:30 Argus House Press & Cervena Barva http://www.argushousepress.com/ ČERVENÁ BARVA PRESS was founded in April of 2005. The press solicits poetry, fiction, and plays from various writers around the world, and holds open contests regularly for its chapbooks, postcards, broadsides and full-length books. I look for work that has a strong voice, is unique, and…
A raucous party featuring visiting writers with new books from national independent presses (McSweeney’s, Third Man Books, Wave Poetry, and others), along with beloved local authors and popular NW bands (Power of County, The Savage Family Band, Ex-Kids, Morgan and the Organ Donors, and Bergerette). Come celebrate the last night of AWP 2019 at Portland’s historic Star Theater: Saturday, March 30, 5pm-2am, and dance the night away with DJ Cecilia after our roster of readers, rock and shenanigans have properly entertained you. For the complete list of performers, sponsors and stage times, please check: www.motherfoucaultsbookshop.com Doors at 5pm Full Schedule: 5pm Doors. DJ. 5:30 band: Power of Country 6:00 readers: Adèle Barclay, Cari Luna, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Jaswinder Bolina, Casandra Lopez 7pm Bookseller’s Ball. 7:00…
If you'll be at AWP 2019, join us for an EWU MFA reception where you can reconnect with former classmates and faculty, and meet some of the current students in the program. We will be serving hors d’oeuvres and there will be a no-host bar. The reception will take place in the Roosevelt Room of the Portland DoubleTree Hotel on Level 1 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 30. EWU will be represented at the conference at booth # 3048 just to the left of Powell’s Books official bookstore.
Floyd's Old Town Coffee and Tea presents: Intersections: Street Roots, Kimbilio Fiction, and Barrelhouse Come wind down after AWP with an offsite reading featuring the fiction and poetry of writers from: Kimbilio Fiction: extending, nurturing, and sustaining a community of writers from the African Diaspora Barrelhouse: non-profit litmag, small press, conference organizer, small grant maker, and purveyor of pop culture flotsam and jetsam and Street Roots: creating income opportunities for people experienceing homelessness and poverty by producing a newspaper and other media that are catalysts for individual and social change. Readings will start at 6:30. Space is limited, so come early to claim a seat. Readers include: Kate Haake K.B. Carle Lucas Church Amina Gautier Melanie Hatter Denise Campbell Laidler Lori Lematta Jeni McFarland Aileen…
Join Shirley Magazine for a showcase of past and present authors. http://www.shirleymag.com/ The lineup includes: Thea Prieto Matthew Robinson Lucie Bonvalet Alissa Hattman Mary Milstead Cat Ingrid Leeches Laura Paul Hugh Behm-Steinberg Kelly Krumrie Robert Long Foreman Jonathan Wlodarski
Join readers from Crab Creek Review, Blood Orange Review, and Willow Springs for a reading at Liberty Glass. Featuring: Jericho Brown Sayantani Dasgupta John Goodhue Jade Hurter Susan Moore Tamara Sellman Dujie Tahat Joe Wilkins Contact: Chris Maccini
At Another Read Through Book Store, Small Presses Get BIG. Join us for reading, drinks, and conversation with small press authors Chelsea Biondolillo, Leland Cheuk, Leah Dieterich, Sanda de Helen, and Melissa Duclos. Brought to AWP by "Magnify: Small Presses, Bigger," a monthly newsletter that celebrates small press books and the independent bookstores that sell them. Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird, forthcoming from KERNPUNKT Press, and two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong from Etchings Press. Her work has been collected in Best American Science and Nature 2016 and has been published widely online and in print. She is a Portland native with an MFA in English and Environmental studies from the University of Wyoming. A MacDowell Colony and Hawthornden Castle Fellow,…
Authors from Veliz Books and co•im•press will read from their books. Contact: Steve Halle
Join Foglifter and The Rumpus for an offsite event celebrating the Queer Syllabus, a collaborative project with the goal of identifying the foundational texts of queer literature. This is an act of community and education, but it’s also an act of resistance: When we identify our roots and point to the work that shaped us as writers and as people, we demonstrate that our stories are timeless, essential, and important—and so are we. Enjoy new work by contemporary queer writers, and go home with an underrated queer read courtesy of our gay book swap.