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The Telephone Game for Writers and Illustrators

Oregon Ballet School 1017 SW Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

In this twist on the traditional “telephone” game, participants will alternate drawing and writing to create hilarious, meandering narratives. We bring paper and pencils, you bring yourself (and gently used or new children’s books to donate to The Children’s Book Bank). Terrible drawing and writing skills not only invited, but strongly encouraged. Get ready to laugh your butt off. Program Organizers: We are a group of local writers and illustrators of children’s books. Many of us have participated as presenters at Portland Book Festival before. Our group consists of these members: Zoey Abbott (www.zoeyabbott.com) Alison Farrell (www.drawdrawdraw.com) Kate Berube (www.kateberube.com) Deborah Hocking (www.deborahhockingillustration.com) Tracy Subisak (www.tracysubisak.com) Lisa Mundorf (www.lisamundorf.carbmonmade.com) If you are able, please bring a lightly used children’s book and we will deliver all…

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WordPlay with Write Around Portland

CENTRL Office Downtown 1155 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Write Around Portland presents WordPlay, a community writing extravaganza featuring prompts and exercises from our renowned workshop model. Led by trained facilitators, participants will have a chance write, share and stretch their literary muscles. Featuring group writes, mini-writes, speedy writes and more!

Free

Zyzzyva Reading

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

Come join ZYZZYVA—San Francisco's revered literary journal, featuring some of the West Coast's best writers and poets since 1985—for a program of short readings by some of their past and most recent contributors. With a long tradition of publishing writers living in Oregon, ZYZZYVA happily returns to Portland for this showcase hosted by Editorial Assistant Zack Ravas. Readings by Robin Romm, Don Waters, Lydia Kiesling, and John Sibley Williams.

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Lit Crawl Portland

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Lit Crawl Portland is back, November 8. Hope you’re ready. Can you believe Lit Crawl Portland is FIVE YEARS OLD!? We are thrilled to be hitting the streets of Portland again with a full slate of madcap literary programming--a mix of genres, ages, voices, and formats within a walkable, downtown radius. RSVP here for updates, but each program will also make an event of its own, connected with the venues that generously agree to host us each year. It's time to shake out of your summer haze, and get ready for a festive fall. Lit Crawl PDX kicks off the Portland Book Festival (Nov 9) on November 8, 2019. It will all be here before we know it. See you soon!

Free

Children’s Literature Craft Panel

Oregon Ballet School 1017 SW Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

In their second event of the evening, a panel of children’s book illustrators and illustrator-authors talk shop about the art and craft of creating picture books: Alison Farrell, Zoey Abbott, Kate Berube, Deborah Hocking, Tracy Subisak, and Lisa Mundorf.

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Anthologies of Women’s Rage / Burn It Down x All of Me x LitCrawl

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

Editors and contributors from two new anthologies about women’s anger—Burn It Down and All of Me—present short readings and an opportunity for audience participation to unleash our collective rage. With Lilly Dancyger, Dani Burlison, Ariel Gore, Marissa Korbel, G. Ravyn Stanfield, and Marisa Siegel. About the editors: Lilly Dancyger is a contributing editor and columnist at Catapult, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She's the editor of Burn It Down, an anthology of essays on women's anger from Seal Press, and the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project in 2021. Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Washington Post, Glamour, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. Lilly lives in New York City, and she spends way…

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Collaborative Reading/Performance by She Who Has No Master(s) and Counterpoint/Catapult

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

Counterpoint Press celebrates the reissue of multidisciplinary writer Dao Strom’s The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys, a collection of novellas centering the experiences of Vietnamese women in the contemporary landscape, with a lineup of three women writers of the Vietnamese diaspora—Strom, Amy Lam, and Jenny Chu—performing readings accompanied by visuals and multimedia. Bios: Jenny M. Chu was born and raised in Portland, Oregon by way of immigrant parents from Saigon and Hong Kong. She's an older sister to a little brother. In life, she is the Community Engagement Manager at Write Around Portland. In life, she thinks and writes. In life, her creative work is intermittently public. In life, her creativity is omnipresent. She often seeks the horizon on a clockless day. Amy Lam is a…

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Cult of Orpheus / Rose City Art Song Project

Valentine's 232 SW Ankeny St, Portland, OR, United States

Readings by poets collaborating on the Rose City Arts Songs Project (Phase 3, Valentine's). It's a great variety, from the lyrical symbolist imagism of Coleman Stevenson to the surreal invocations of Jason Squamata. Cult of Orpheus presents the Rose City Art Song project, featuring works of Portland poets set to music. On the eve of Portland Book Festival and the night of LitCrawl! Join us at 7 pm for poetry readings by Mo McFeely, Jason Squamata, Coleman Stevenson and James Yeary. At 8 pm, Cult of Orpheus presents musical performances of eight poems, two from each poet. Our featured vocalists are tenor Eric Asakawa, soprano Jocelyn Claire Thomas, baritone Dan Gibbs, and mezzo-soprano Sadie Gregg. Music composed by Christopher Corbell, with music direction by Erica…

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Distressing Deaths in the Land of Literature

Ace Hotel 1022 SW Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Ah, death. It can be both beautiful and terrible, and death certainly makes us keep turning the page. Join author (and mortician!) Elizabeth Fournier and the many departed characters of fiction as we test our bookish cred in a game of Literary Demise for deathy prizes to (not) die for. Death, be not proud, but always be fictitiously entertaining.

Free

Kickstand’s Lit-Mondo

Kickstand Comedy 16 NW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Details TBA.

Free
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