LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

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Adalyn Grace in Conversation With Sara Gundell

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1 event,

Books With Pictures: Sale Week

3 events,

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Gary Shteyngart in Conversation With Carolyn Kellogg

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Aiden Thomas in Conversation With Alex Abraham

4 events,

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Sasha Fletcher in Conversation With Lydia Kiesling

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Kristina McMorris in Conversation With Rene Denfeld

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One Page Wednesday – September

4 events,

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Lidia Yuknavitch in Conversation with Omar El Akkad

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Jennifer Reimer and Connie Soper

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Jane Kirkpatrick

5 events,

Rose City Comic Con 2022

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Highgate: The One-on-One Workshop

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

5 events,

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Flea Market at Kindred Homestead Supply

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Manufactured Spaces: Setting

3 events,

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Kel Mitchell

3 events,

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Wendy Red Star in Conversation With Will Matsuda

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Crossroads

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Kristin Berger, Cathy Cain, John Miller

3 events,

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Colin Meloy in Conversation With Carson Ellis

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Brian Michael Bendis in Conversation With David F. Walker

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Fall | So, You Wanna Be A Writer w Wayne Gregory | Sep 13 – Oct 11 | Online

7 events,

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A taste of Write Your Grief Out

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Yuvi Zalkow in Conversation with Brian Benson

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Nine-Month Novel Intensive: Wednesday

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Incite: Queer Writers Read – September: SPECULATE

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Kevin Hearne

4 events,

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Ling Ma in Conversation With Alexandra Kleeman

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The Notebook: Your Creative Process

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Nine-Month Novel Intensive: Thursday

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A. M. Homes

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PSU Lit Mic

4 events,

IPRC at Portland Zine Symposium 2022

Portland Zine Symposium 2022

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Writing the Ensemble Cast

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Reading: Paul Haeder

4 events,

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Submissions Open: Portland Review

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FALL :: A (Virtual) Generative Creative Lab :: Exhausting Metaphor— begins September 18th

2 events,

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In-Store Reading: Marianne Monson: The Opera Sisters

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Outlaws

3 events,

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Refuse the Given World: Breaking Blocks Through Play

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Buzz Bissinger

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In-Store Reading: Michelle Ruiz Keil: Summer in the City of Roses

2 events,

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Exploring Fiction Narratives: How’d They Do That?

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Candice Carty-Williams in Conversation With Leni Zumas

5 events,

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Open Submissions: Old Pal – Issue 6

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Submission Deadline: Pile Press 2022 Fall Submissions

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Chelsea Martin in Conversation With Kimberly King Parsons

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Stephanie Garber in Conversation With Makiia Lucier

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Portland Arts & Lectures 2022/23: Abdulrazak Gurnah

4 events,

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Submission Deadline: HOCUS: October 21st Reading with Theme: “Spirits”

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

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Margaret Killjoy in Conversation With Robert Evans

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Randall Munroe & Sarah Andersen

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3 events,

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

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Portland Correspondence Co-op

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Amy Fusselman in Conversation With Kevin Sampsell

3 events,

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Drink and Write Tuesdays

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Two Rivers Book Club – September: Ruth Ozeki

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Hiron Ennes in Conversation With Sara A. Mueller

2 events,

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Weekly Check-In: Getting the Work Done

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Jonathan Hill in Conversation With Breena Bard

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2 events,

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing

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Fall Generative Lab w/ Lidia Yuknavitch and the Corporeal Squad: September 30th-October 2nd

4 events,

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Little Comics Bookgroup

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Where Do I Go From Here: Writing the Novel

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Fall | Short Fiction w Joanna Rose | Oct 1 – Oct 29 | In-Person

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Renée Watson

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