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Comic Night!

Guilder Cafe 2393 NE Fremont St., Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an engaging evening about using comics for education and activism! We’ll be joined by local author, artist, and zinester Sarah Mirk and the comic artist who created the Ask Me About Cost of Production comic, Jim “Kett” Kettner. Sarah will present on using comics for educational and activist purposes and will be followed by a live reading of the Ask Me About Cost of Production by authors Mike and Caryn Nelson, and artist Kett. Both presenters will have their own creations available for purchase. The event is free to attend and no registration is required but donations are welcome! This is an all ages event. Happy hour will be available throughout the event.

Free

Happy Hour with Willamette Writers

Portland Center Stage 128 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Join Willamette Writers for a special Happy Hour before Tiny Beautiful Things. This event will feature a conversation with the Director of Tiny Beautiful Things, Rose Riordan, and the Assistant Director, Jennifer Rowe. They will have a conversation about transitioning Tiny Beautiful Things from story/novel onto the stage and host a short Q&A with guests.

Free

Hopkins AWP Portland Happy “Hour”and Reading

Ex Novo Brewing 2326 North Flint Ave, Portland, OR, United States

This event is for JHU Writing Program students, alums and fans. While you're in Portland for AWP, join us for some mingling, catching up, getting to know yous, delicious beer and snacks, and, of course, a reading! If you're interested in reading, please PM Brandi Dawn Cornelius, we'll post a lineup of readers as we get closer. Can't wait to connect with you all!

Free

Happy Hour with Poetry International, Calypso Editions & Locked Horn Press

Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

Poetry International/Calypso Editions/Locked Horn Press Present: A Happy Hour Reading at AWP 2019. Join three exciting presses for an afternoon of performances! Only a mile from the convention center...grab a drink and get some poems in your ears! Featured readers will be joined by special / surprise guests...fun will be had by all. Poetry International, Calypso Editions, and Locked Horn Press celebrate their ongoing commitment to publishing exciting voices from the U.S. and around the world. Join us for a fun happy hour reading featuring poets from these three literary communities. Special guests include Kaveh Akbar, Jericho Brown, Ilya Kaminsky, Abby Chabitnoy, Katie Farris, Breeann Kyte Kirby, Jeff Leong, Paige Lewis, Jenny Minniti-Shippey, and Hope Wakube. Contact: Jenny Minniti- Shippey

Free

Vermont Studio Center Alumni Happy Hour & Poetry Reading

Dig A Pony 736 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for happy hour at Dig A Pony to celebrate Vermont Studio Center's creative community and enjoy readings by poets Nandi Comer, Zayne Turner, and Ryan Walsh, three VSC alumni and former writing program staff with recent debut collections. Meet and mingle with VSC staff, alumni, visiting writers, and friends. Contact: Vermont Studio Center

Free

Translator Happy Hour

McMenamins Chapel Pub 430 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Two local translators' organizations, NOTIS and OSTI, invite all translators to join us for happy hour in a private room at McMenamins Chapel Pub. We're proud to have this conference come to the Pacific Northwest and we can't wait to meet you! Contact: Shelley Fairweather-Vega

Free

Drawn & Quarterly presents AWP Happy Hour!

Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR, United States

Drawn + Quarterly hosts a cocktail party with Rina Ayuyang, Peter Bagge, James Sturm, and Craig Thompson. Come down to Floating World on March 28 from 5-7pm for an evening of drinks, snacks, and Drawn & Quarterly comics. With special guests Rina Ayuyang (Blame This on the Boogie), Peter Bagge (Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story), James Sturm (Off Season), and Craig Thompson (Carnet de Voyage) visiting from all around the USA! This event coincides with the AWP 2019 Conference in Portland, OR. The AWP Conference & Bookfair is an essential annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers. Each year more than 12,000 attendees join our community for four days of insightful dialogue, networking, and unrivaled access to the organizations and opinion-makers that…

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Free

Thursday at The Cleaners: Offsite Party!

The Cleaners at Ace Hotel 403 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Please join Black Ocean, Poetry Northwest and Entre Ríos Books as we celebrate so many great writers and students coming together for AWP. We've got a line up of authors from our pages, and are in a fantastic location, close to Powell's, and plenty of restaurants, bars, and nightlife. Start with Happy Hour! with Northwest Film Forum's Cadence: Video Poetry Festival preview & popcorn. CASH BAR IS OPEN! See films featured in the upcoming festival as well as favorites from last year. Author readings start at 7:30 and we'll have two sets. 7:30 Elisa Gabbert Erin McCoy Wendy Willis Maya Jewell Zeller Kate Lebo David Biespiel Sierra Nelson 8:30 Kary Wayson Laura Read Jake Levine (trans. Kim Kyung Ju) Heather Alfeld Shin Yu Pai Zach…

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PageBoy Magazine Happy Hour!

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Join PageBoy Magazine for happy hour at Rose City Book Pub! We'll have over seventeen glorious readers reading seventeen-word poems from our latest issue devoted entirely to that form. "Simply the newest and most exciting literary form in recent memory! We unapologetically give it 17 honks!" –The Harpo Marx Review of Brevity. Full list of performers at the PageBoy Magazine blog! Contact: Thomas Walton PageBoy Magazine will host a constraint based, offsite event as part of AWP. A happy hour event from 4:30-6 at Rose City Book Pub on Friday 3/29. The event will be devoted to the poetic form the Seventeen - essentially a seventeen word poem or prose work. Seventeen writers will read work in this form, two heavy metal thrashers - aka…

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Free

WITS Alliance Reading: Off-site AWP event

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

The WITS Alliance hosts a happy hour and reading at Literary Arts.  Readers will include WITS alumni writers and students. Open to the public, and will include informational materials about WITS programs nationwide.

Free
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