A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
From Mother Foucault's website: Join us for Filament’s October reading, with special guest Jason Arias! The PSU writing program will have their usual cast of wonderful MFA readers in addition to Jason, and we’re happy to be hosting them again. See you the 13th! Facebook event here.
Join Shirley Magazine for a showcase of past and present authors. http://www.shirleymag.com/ The lineup includes: Thea Prieto Matthew Robinson Lucie Bonvalet Alissa Hattman Mary Milstead Cat Ingrid Leeches Laura Paul Hugh Behm-Steinberg Kelly Krumrie Robert Long Foreman Jonathan Wlodarski
Join us for our quarterly series, the Five-Minute Reading Marathon! All afternoon, authors will be sharing five-minute readings from their work. List of authors and line-up to be announced. Join us for our Summer Five-Minute Reading Marathon! Every half an hour or every fifteen minutes, another author will get up on stage and read for five minutes. You'll hear poetry, short stories, essays, and excerpts from longer pieces, with time in between to talk or get up and move around. Our summer event will feature Liz Scott, Katie Guinn, Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Steve Arndt, David Naimon, Lucie Bonvalet, Omar El Akkad, Gail Tupper, Samm Saxby, and Ramiza Koya. Hope to see you there!
Join us for Filament's first reading of the year, where we'll celebrate the new cohort joining the MFA program and get inspired for Fall quarter. Our readers are: Karleigh Frisbie Andrew Byrds Lucie Bonvalet Cherif Jennifer Cie A.M. Rosales Jill McKenna
RSVP to join us in celebration on May 8th at 7PM (PDT) for an online reading event. Recommended donation is $5 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Alissa Hattman will be joined by TJ Acena, Chalaundrai Grant, Hannah Pass, Lucie Bonvalet, Chrys Tobey and lark pien ~~~ Elevator Pitch: Love letters as postcards to people, spaces, and objects. The Details: "POST" is an epistolary collection of postcards written by Alissa Hattman during the American Short Fiction Constellation Challenge. This was a month-long writing experiment that took place in November 2020. In the collection, Alissa explores distance from loved ones, spaces, and objects with intense depth and nuance. She offers poignant observations about our relationship to the passage of time, memories, and ideas. The…
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…