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The Stacks Coffeehouse Grand Opening Party (ALL DAY)

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

Help us celebrate the opening of The Stacks Coffeehouse! We'll have five minute readings all day long by a wide variety of amazing local authors. Schedule and details to come, but we'd love to see you that day! Readers: Mary Milstead, Nathan Metcalfe, Bradley J. Clark, Alicia Jo Rabins, Thea Prieto, Matt Robinson, Natalie Serber, Alexandra Brown & David Brown, Melissa Lynne, Melissa Duclos, Kimberly King Parsons, Elizabeth Pickard, Hannah Pass, Colleen Burner, Heather Napulani Hodges, Jenevive Desroches, Cecily Patterson, Jackie Shannon Hollis, Kevin Sampsell, Liz Prato, Alexa Weinstein, Joanna Rose, Amelia Woodside, Brian M. Biggs, Amber Keller, Stevan Allred, Kendra Ferguson, Kate Gray, Mo Daviau, Yuvi Zalkow, Jan Neudeck, Josh Lubin, Brian Benson, Leanna Moxley, Laura Stanfill

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Melissa Duclos in Conversation With Kimberly King Parsons

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

Melissa Duclos’s Besotted (7.13) is the ballad of Sasha and Liz, American expats in Shanghai. Both have moved abroad to escape. When they move in together, Sasha falls in love, but the sudden attention from a charming architect threatens the relationship. Besotted is an expat novel that explores what it means to love someone while running away from yourself. Duclos will be joined in conversation by Kimberly King Parsons, author of the forthcoming story collection, Black Light.

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AWP Kickoff Reading at The Stacks

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

Join us for an off-site AWP Kickoff Reading with Chelsea Bieker, Diana Marie Delgado, Mark Doten, Melissa Duclos, and Kimberly King Parsons. The Stacks has great coffee and food for purchase and there will be FREE WINE until we run out :) Chelsea Bieker is from California’s Central Valley. She is the recipient of a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the author of two forthcoming books, the novel GODSHOT (2020) and the story collection, COWBOYS AND ANGELS (2021). Her writing has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s, Catapult, Electric Literature, Joyland, No Tokens, and others. Her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and the Tin House Writer’s Workshop. She holds a BS in journalism from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and an…

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Small Presses Get BIG

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

At Another Read Through Book Store, Small Presses Get BIG. Join us for reading, drinks, and conversation with small press authors Chelsea Biondolillo, Leland Cheuk, Leah Dieterich, Sanda de Helen, and Melissa Duclos. Brought to AWP by "Magnify: Small Presses, Bigger," a monthly newsletter that celebrates small press books and the independent bookstores that sell them. Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird, forthcoming from KERNPUNKT Press, and two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong from Etchings Press. Her work has been collected in Best American Science and Nature 2016 and has been published widely online and in print. She is a Portland native with an MFA in English and Environmental studies from the University of Wyoming. A MacDowell Colony and Hawthornden Castle Fellow,…

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Compose Creative Writing Conference 2019

Clackamas Community College 19600 Molalla Ave, Oregon City, OR, United States

Clackamas Community College’s annual creative writing conference – Compose – features a full day of workshops from local authors and publishers. This year, we are offering workshops in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, and more!! Schedule for the Day: 8:45am-9:15am / Registration 9:30am-10:30am / Welcome Address 10:45am-12:15pm / Workshops 12:30pm-1:30pm / Lunch 1:45pm-3:15pm / Workshops 3:30pm-5:00pm / Workshops Our Creatives confirmed so far (with more to be added soon): Kate Gray Kate Ristau Tabitha Blankenbiller Stephanie Lenox Dennis Stovall Brett Warnock Trista Cornelius & Robin Vada Melissa Duclos Apricot Irving Courtenay Hameister Jessica Wadleigh Wendy Willis

$25

Why There Are Words: Truth and Reconciliation

Corkscrew Wine Bar 1665 SE Bybee Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join Why There Are Words – Portland (WTAW-PDX) for “Truth and Reconciliation” August 18, from 4 to 6 pm at the Corkscrew Wine Bar. We’ll have an amazing afternoon with the following featured authors. Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird, and two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong. Her work has been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016, Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women, and How We Speak To One Another: An Essay Daily Reader, among others. She is a current Oregon Literary Arts fellow and a former Olive B. O’Connor fellow at Colgate University, and her work has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Wyoming Arts Council and the Consortium for Science and Policy Outcomes/NSF. She has…

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