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Two Plum Reading

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

ATTENTION READERS: We will be hosting our biannual group reading on Friday, November 30th, 7pm, at The IPRC! This reading will be the official release event for HOT, NEW books: Joshua James Amberson’s “Everyday Mythologies,” Delphine Bedient’s “The Last Time My Sadness Was Convenient,” Carol Ellis’s “Hello,” and Ross Robbins’s “The Three EPs.” Zachary Schomburg, Michelle Overby, Izzy Ferguson, and Chris Maday will all be reading new works that may become new Two Plum titles as well. Please join us for a rollicking good time! From IPRC's website: More details TBA!

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Small But Grand Reading

Belmont Books 3415 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Six zine, chapbook, and small press authors read in Portland's smallest (and newest!) bookstore. Readings from Tomas Moniz, Martha Grover, Jeff Miller, Karleigh Frisbie, Ariel Birks, and Joshua James Amberson. Free snacks and beverages, books and zines for sale, good times. Contact: Joshua James Amberson

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SongbookPDX 16

American Legion Post 134 2104 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

Writers on the songs that terrified and inspired them. Seven writers, seven stories, seven songs, unlimited connections. Writers for Songbook PDX 16: Nastashia Minto Jessica Ann Dena Rash Guzman Debby Dodds Joshua James Amberson Andrew Fort Adam Strong

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Celebrating PS. The Wolves

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

Mark those calendars! In a little over two weeks we release our newest title, PS. The Wolves by @justinhocking (Justin Hocking)! Keep that spooky thing going for at least one more night after Halloween! Also reading will be the author of our recent title “Everyday Mythologies,” @joshuaamberson (Joshua James Amberson), pal and exceptional writer @karleighannebrogan (Karleigh Frisbie Brogan), and the author of “Pop” + the book-next-released “Exercise Poems,” @ourholyfather (Chris Maday) ! Come to @iprc_pdx on Friday, November 1st at 7pm!  

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First Word: Antiquated Future

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

First Word is our new monthly reading series to be held the first Thursday of each month. Join us for a night of readings, talks, and tunes from the Portland zine distro and cassette tape label, Antiquated Future. Words from Joshua James Amberson, Karleigh Frisbie, Christopher Sutton, Danny Noonan, Candi Floss, and Bryce Canyon. Music from Olympia indie-pop supergroup Guidon Bear.

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#Merge by Rachel Chenven Powers: Writers Read from the Collection-In-Progress

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Mark your calendars! On March 18 at 7 p.m. PST a great lineup of alumni from the PSU MFA program will introduce you to the characters of Rachel Chenven Powers's in-progress short story collection, #Merge. Don’t miss hearing Joshua James Amberson, Karleigh Frisbie Brogan, Catherine Johnson, Timothy Day, Mike Schepps, Lauren Hobson, and Katie Borak bring Powers's #Merge characters to life! Email the author at rchenven@gmail.com for Zoom info. Thanks to generous funding from the Regional Arts & Culture Council!

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Holding: A Virtual Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

*IPRC Events & Workshops will be held via Zoom PST through Summer 2021* Register here and zoom link will be sent on the day of the event. Join the IPRC for an evening of virtual readings to celebrate Holding, a memoir in progress by Karleigh Frisbie-Brogan. Presented in partnership with the Regional Arts & Culture Council & the IPRC. With readings from: Karleigh Frisbie-Brogan Emily Flouton Joshua James Amberson Justin Hocking Leni Zumas August 14th, 7pm PST

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PSU Creative Writing Alumni Reading: Thea Prieto, LaVonne Griffin-Valade, and Joshua James Amberson

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Register here for the Creative Writing Alumni Reading. You will receive a Zoom link upon registration. Thea Prieto is the author of From the Caves (Red Hen Press, 2021), which won the Red Hen Novella Award and was a finalist in American Book Fest's Best Book Awards. Her work has also appeared in The Kenyon Review, Longreads, and New Orleans Review, among other journals, and she writes and edits for Poets & Writers and The Gravity of the Thing. She graduated from Portland State University's MFA program in 2016. LaVonne Griffin-Valade is the author of two novels, Dead Point and Murderers Creek (Severn River Publishing). Her work has also appeared in Oregon Humanities Magazine and Clackamas Literary Review. She was a finalist for the 2018 Fellowship for Emerging Writers at Fishtrap’s Writing and the West. Her third novel, Desolation Ridge, will be published in…

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Stranged Writing Release Reading

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

The Gravity of the Thing celebrates the release of its first anthology, Stranged Writing: A Literary Taxonomy (bit.ly/3d6z94O) on October 13th. Join us at The Stacks Coffeehouse in Portland, Oregon to hear contributors Joshua James Amberson, Alex Behr, Lucie Bonvalet, Benjamin Kessler, Matt Rebholz, and Eli Ronick read their experimental prose, poetry, and cross-genre works. The event is free to attend, and food, drinks, and Stranged Writing will be available for purchase. About the collection: Stranged Writing is an anthology of defamiliarized creative writing curated according to biological taxonomy (species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, and domain) using word count. Each hardcover edition includes a screen-printed dust jacket that transforms into unique literary organisms or book sculptures, the goal being a dimensional and tactile…

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