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Transmit Culture: Modern Feminism in Publishing

PSU - Cramer Hall 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Modern feminism plays a vital role in today's high-stakes political climate. Reproductive rights, sexual harassment and assault, wage inequality, gender identification, and inclusivity are only a few of the topics that have been frequented in recent political discussions. With movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp shaking up conversations about women in America, this installment in the Transmit Culture lecture series will be a panel of women in publishing discussing the intersection between modern feminism and book publishing. The panel features Leni Zumas (Red Clocks), Samm Saxby, and Jackie Shannon Hollis (This Particular Happiness). Note this will be held in room 328 in Cramer Hall.

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Nailed Reading

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Join us as we celebrate some of the spectacular writers and poets who have published with us! Featuring performances by: Robert Lashley Sage Lilac Robb Piggot Domi Shoemaker Jackie Shannon Hollis Doors open at 6:30 pm Readings will begin at 7 pm (*doors close at 7:30 pm*) Afterwards please hang around, chat, and enjoy some refreshments as we bring the local branch of our online literary community into actual space! Drinks and light snacks provided (with suggested donation) OPEN TO ALL!

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Jackie Shannon Hollis

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

When Jackie Shannon Hollis marries a man who doesn’t want children, she joyfully commits to a childless life. But when she holds her newborn niece, Jackie begins to question her decision. As she navigates the overlapping roles of wife, daughter, aunt, sister, survivor, counselor, and friend, she explores what it means to choose a different path. This Particular Happiness (Forest Avenue) delves into the messy, beautiful territory of what we keep and what we abandon to make the space for love.

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Reading: Jackie Shannon Hollis: This Particular Happiness

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes local author Jackie Shannon Hollis to read from her memoir, This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story. She'll be joined in conversation with her husband, Bill Hollis. Knowing where your scars come from doesn't make them go away. When Jackie Shannon Hollis marries Bill, a man who does not want children, she joyfully commits to a childless life. But soon after the wedding, she returns to the family ranch in rural Oregon and holds her newborn niece. Jackie falls deep into baby love and longing and begins to question her decision. As she navigates the overlapping roles of wife, daughter, aunt, sister, survivor, counselor, and friend, she explores what it really means to choose a different path. This Particular Happiness delves into…

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Jackie Shannon Hollis

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Jackie Shannon Hollis in Conversation with Annilee Durfey Hyre We are pleased to welcome Portland author Jackie Shannon Hollis to read from her new memoir, This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story, published by Forest Avenue Press. Joining Hollis in conversation will be her niece, Annilee Durfey Hyer, to discuss the many ways of being a parent and mentor to the children in our lives. As a farm girl in eastern Oregon, feeding bottles to bummer lambs and babysitting her little sister, Hollis expected to become a mother someday. After a series of failed relationships, she met Bill, the man she wanted to spend her life with--a man who never wanted children. Saying “I do” meant saying “I don't” to a rite of passage her…

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Reading: Katharine Coldiron, Jackie Shannon Hollis, and Claire Rudy Foster

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Los Angeles author Katharine Coldiron presents Ceremonials, a twelve-part lyric novella inspired by Florence + the Machine's 2011 album of the same name. It's the story of two girls, Amelia and Corisande, who fall in love at a boarding school. Corisande dies suddenly on the eve of graduation, but Amelia cannot shake her ghost. A narrative about obsession, the Minotaur, and the veil between life and death, Ceremonials is a poem in prose, a keening in words, and a song etched in ink. "Between poetry and prose, between word and music, Katharine Coldiron's hybrid tour de force, Ceremonials, is a loveletter between art and the body. This book makes my whole body ring like a tuning fork inside its lyric narratives. A specular devotional between artists,…

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Book Talk: Do You Have Kids? Life When the Answer is No

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

On the eve of Mother’s Day weekend, please join Kate Kaufmann and Jackie Shannon Hollis for an intimate, respectful, and frank conversation about what it means to be childless or childfree in a society that celebrates motherhood as the ultimate expression of female identity. This is a conversation for all of us--non-parents, parents and those as yet unsure--to explore a different path, whether by choice or circumstance, and to recognize the important role we all play in the lives of the children in our world. Register to join us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/book-talk-do-you-have Kate Kaufmann is the author of DO YOU HAVE KIDS? LIFE WHEN THE ANSWER IS NO (https://www.tworiversbooks.com/book/9781631525810), in which she explores topics from the shifting meaning of family to what we leave behind…

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Livestream Reading: Donna Ward & Jackie Shannon Hollis

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Australian author Donna Ward for the US livestream launch of her memoir, She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life. She will be joined by Portland author Jackie Shannon Hollis, whose memoir is This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story. They will discuss childlessness, writing, and "spinsterhood." Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlce-oqTsoEtGoLdIc0iRs3pEUF-LjxyU3 About She I Dare Not Name: Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human. She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the threshold between two millennia. Both manifesto and confession, this moving memoir explores the meaning and purpose Donna Ward discovered in a life lived entirely without a partner and children. The book…

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In-Person Reading: Liz Prato and Yuvi Zalkow

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Portland authors Liz Prato and Yuvi Zalkow to read from their new books, Prato's essay collection Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning and Zalkow's novel I Only Cry with Emoticons. They will be in conversation with Jackie Shannon Hollis, author of the memoir This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story. Signed and personalized copies of both authors' books are available! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; all orders without a name specified in the order notes will be signed only. About Kids in America: Generation X was born between the legions of Baby Boomers and Millennials, and was all but written off as cynical, sarcastic slackers. Yet, Gen X's impact on culture and society…

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