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Rebecca Brown with Kevin Sampsell & Kate Carroll deGutes

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

From Mother Foucault's Bookshop's website: Saturday, October 27, we welcome Seattle literary legend and Stranger Genius Award winner, Rebecca Brown, as she reads from her dazzling new book of stories, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else (Tarpaulin Sky Press). Rebecca will be joined by Portland authors Kevin Sampsell (This Is Between Us, A Common Pornography) and Kate Carroll deGutes (The Authenticity Experiment), both of whom will be reading from new work.

Free

Tammy Lynne Stoner in Conversation With Kate Carroll de Gutes

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

From Powell's website: Tammy Lynne Stoner’s Sugar Land (Red Hen) is the story of Nana Dara, a prison cook in 1923, who – with the help of the blues singer Lead Belly – discovers how to break out of her own physical and emotional prison to become the feisty, lesbian matriarch to a family of Texas misfits. Stoner will be joined in conversation by Kate Carroll de Gutes, author of The Authenticity Experiment. Preorder a signed edition of Sugar Land

Free

Incite: Queer Writers Read

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

From Literary Arts's website: Christopher Lord Adam Swanson Mel Wells Amy Schutzer Hosted by Kate Gray and Kate Carroll De Gutes

Free

Literary Bingo

The Big Legrowlski 812 NW Couch St, Portland, OR, United States

Join Why There Are Words PDX for some literary bingo madness with an all-star lineup of Portland writers. Who will read a flashback? A sonnet? The word “panty”? Mark your cards and claim your prizes! Our bingolicious readers: Brian Benson (Going Somewhere), Kate Carroll de Gutes (Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear), Elyse Fenton (Sweet Insurgent), Shauna Hannibal (Hannibal), Jaqueline Keeler (Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Occupation, Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Lands), Ramiza Koya (The Royal Abduls), Margaret Malone (People Like You), Jennifer Perrine (No Confession, No Mass), and Sara Rivara (Animal Bride).

Free

Why There Are Words – PDX presents Migrate

Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Why There Are Words – PDX presents “Migrate” November 18, 2018 (Sunday) at 4pm, at  Leach Botanical Garden in SE Portland, with the following seven acclaimed authors. Doors open at 4pm; readings begin at 4:15. $10 suggested donation at the door. Kate Carroll de Gutes’ first book, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir, and First Place in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in LGBT Writing. Her second book, The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life, won an Independent Publishing Award Medal for LGBTQ Nonfiction. She lives in Portland, in a house with lots of light, wood floors, and a view of…

Free – $10

Indies First/Small Business Saturday

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

It's Indies First Day AND Small Business Saturday, and we are going to have so much fun!! We have more than a dozen local authors joining us. You'll be able to talk to them about their books and purchase signed or personalized books, as well as hear about what books they're particularly excited about giving and getting this holiday season. Here are some of the great authors who will be joining us on Saturday. It's possible more might pop in -- we are blessed with a richness of wonderful writing talent in our city. We appreciate them taking the time to hang out with us and with you! Stevan Allred (12 to 2): Author of the just-published novel The Alehouse at the End of the…

Free

A Very Bookish Christmas at the Siren Theater

The Siren Theater 315 NW Davis St, Portland, OR, United States

Ever wish you could chat up your favorite Portland author whilst drinking some festive nog and gnawing on a holiday cheese log with George Michael's "Last Christmas" blaring in the background? Well, NOW'S YOUR CHANCE! Twenty Portland authors, poets, artists and others will be selling their literary wares at the Siren Theater on Wednesday December 12h from 6:30-9. Here's a list of the authors who have signed on so far! Kelly Williams Brown Kate Carroll de Gutes Kerry Cohen Monica Drake Alex Falcone Toni Greaves Martha Grover Courtenay Hameister Sheila Hamilton Karen Karbo Pauline Lane Shawn Levy Gigi Little Margaret Malone Anis Mojgani Stephen O'Donnell Scott Poole Mark Russell Elizabeth Scott Suzy Vitello Soule Shannon Wheeler Ryan White Join us, won't you? And give your…

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