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Hannah Sward in Conversation With Amy Dresner

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

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Portland Correspondence Co-op

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Where We Come From: Writing Your Ethnoautobiography w/ Ella deCastro Baron, G. Ravyn Stanfield, and Anya Pearson—Begins September 27th

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Steven Hyden in Conversation With Chuck Klosterman

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Drink and Write Tuesdays

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Liz Prato in Conversation with Aaron Gilbreath

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Weekly Check-In: Getting the Work Done

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Submission Deadline: The Gravity of the Thing

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Fall Generative Lab w/ Lidia Yuknavitch and the Corporeal Squad: September 30th-October 2nd

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Residency Application Deadline: Caldera 2023 Artist in Residence

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Delve Readers Seminar: Delve for Writers: Joan Didion and Durga Chew-Bose

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Julian Aguon in Conversation With Karen Russell

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Grown

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If It’s Not One Thing It’s Your Mother: Preparing Nonfiction for Submission w/ Melissa Chadburn—begins October 4th

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Fiction Technique in Memoir

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One Page Wednesday: October

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Making it Make Sense: Storytelling for Healing

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Coffee Talk #39

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PUBLISHING: Literary Agent Rayhané Sanders—Seminar + Consultations—Oct 7th-9th

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PSU Lit Mic

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Cultivating a Sustainable Writing Practice

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Creative Writing & Chill

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Fall | Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Attention to Detail or “Of Thumbs” w Paige Thomas | Oct 11 – Nov 1 | In-Person

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Isaac Fitzgerald in Conversation With Lydia Kiesling

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3 events,

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The Ghost Show: A Telltale Production

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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In-Store Reading: David Ambroz: A Place Called Home

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Nabil Ayers in Conversation With Alicia J. Rose

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BIPOC Writing Workshop: October

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Writing the Weird and Wonderful: Nonfiction

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The Moth: StorySLAM: Costumes

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Pete Souza / TICKETED EVENT

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Fall | The Why and How of Writing Your Life w Wayne Gregory | Oct 19 – Nov 16 | Online

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Ecstatic Aesthetics w/ Amanda Montei — begins October 20th

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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Bowen Blair in Conversation With Kevin Gorman

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The Anatomy of a Wave — A Generative Retreat at the Oregon Coast — Oct 21-24

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Ekphrastic Creative Writing Lab

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Raise Your Pen 2022

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HOCUS Live Reading: SPIRITS

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Elizabeth Weinberg in Conversation With Chelsea Biondolillo

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In-Store Reading: Sherry Fishman: Avraham and Mary

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The Moth: GrandSLAM Championship

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Drink and Write Tuesdays

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In-Store Reading: Christine Babinec: Want a Hug?

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Amber Tamblyn in Conversation With Lidia Yuknavitch, Dr. Mindy Nettifee & Dr. Nicole Apelian

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BIPOC Reading Series – October

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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In-Store Poetry Reading: Riley Danvers, Xylophone Mykland, Ahuva S. Zaslavsky, Nastashia Minto

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Russ Feingold & Peter Prindiville

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Notes and Motes: Poetry and Jazz

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Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins in Conversation With Sam McCracken

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1 event,

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Tales from the Other Side: Bone-chilling Stories, Poems, Songs and Lore

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The Break with Kaveh Akbar

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Delve Readers Seminar: An Intensive Study of Totality: Jorge Luis Borges

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Omar El Akkad on Writing the Codacene: Literature in an Age of Endings | 57th Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Lecture

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Oregon Humanities Live

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TAP@PBF: Motherhood Is Psychedelic

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Writing the Complicated Self

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Pushpins & Portals: Experimenting with Short Forms

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TAP@PBF: Cookbooks

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Writing Into Big Questions

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Hilary Plum

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Portland Book Festival: Friday Night Book Market

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Documentary Screening: The Bookstour

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Starting the Memoir

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Storytime: Arab Arab All Year Long!

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Portland Book Festival!

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Mean Baby: Selma Blair with Esmé Weijun Wang

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Storytime: Friends Are Friends, Forever

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Reality Bites: Rafael Agustin & Chuck Klosterman

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Writing Food

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Kick-Start Your Picture Book

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PBF Cover to Cover: SPEKTRUM Tea Service

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PBF Cover to Cover: Tin House Autumn Workshop Showcase

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PBF Cover to Cover: SPEKTRUM Tea Service

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