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!

Pop-up: Incite: Queer Writers Read presents Sam Roxas-Chua, David Rutiezer, & Karelia Stetz-Waters

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Portland-based writers Sam Roxas-Chua, David Rutiezer, Karelia Stetz-Waters read from their personal works. This pop-up is presented in collaboration with Incite: Queer Writers Read. This group is paired with Coliseum Blue by Avantika Bawa; found on the 4th floor of the Portland Art Museum, in the Northwest Art galleries. Please reference the Portland Art Museum Map to find this location. Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated monthly reading series for Queer writers hosted by Kate Carroll de Gutes and Kate Gray. Incite’s hope is to create conversation, connection, and greater understanding both within the Queer community and with other communities. INCITE. Because of queer stories. Because of these times. Because.

$15 – $20

Winter Poetry Festival

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Warm your soul during the darkest days of winter at the first Winter Poetry Fest! We are crafting this event to be an inspirational refuge from the chaos of the holiday season. It will be full of diverse, local poets, chapbooks and broadsides for sale their authors; writing workshops and readings. In addition, there will be hands-on activities, writing games, a holiday card print-pull, cut-up poetry button making and more! Buy last minute holiday gifts for all your artsy friends while directly supporting writers, hide from your in-laws, feed your creativity with writing prompts and games, feed your mouth with delicious snacks, write a poem to put on the Poetry Tree and celebrate the solstice with your creative family <3. Hosted by the Independent Publishing…

Free