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10th Annual Publication Fair

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

It's the 10th Annual Publication Fair! Celebrating small presses, art books, zines, niche mags, political rags, and everyone who pushes the boundaries of what's possible with paper and ink. This years participants: The Accomplices Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books Anthology Bookseller Antiquated Future Book Arts Editions Container Corps Couch Press Cumbersome Multiples Eberhardt Press Floating World Comics Future Tense Books: A Micro-Press Gobshite Quarterly Independent Publishing Resource Center justseeds MIXED NEEDS Monograph Bookwerks Mother Foucault's Bookshop Nationale / Le Oui Octopus Books Passages Bookshop Perfect Day Publishing Personal Libraries Library Portland Review Quotidian Press Sidebrow Tavern Books Tin House Two Plum Press University of Hell Press Volumes Volumes Yes Yes Books :: FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ::

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Gridlords Presents a Collaborative Comics Evening

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Gridlords is a Portland Based comics publisher and event organizer. This event is hosted by the IPRC, on April 15th, from 6:30-8:30 pm. In celebration of Portland’s own Comics Month, Gridlords would like to bring together the larger DIY comics community of Portland for a night of creative mixing and making. The goal is to make a collected anthology of pieces in one night. There will be stations with drawing games, prompts, and templates to follow. It is essentially a comics relay where we are all winners at the end of the race. It’s a time to collaborate amongst friends and peers and make magic happen. It’s a time to celebrate comics among the silliest and the cartooniest of humans.  It is an event to…

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Sunday Parkways x IPRC: Virtual Summer Zine Workshop for Youth

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The IPRC is working with Sunday Parkways to make September a month of zine making for all of Portland! Each week will feature a different workshop facilitated by a local artist. We’ll be making a community zine called Portland’s Got Talent with submissions that will be printed and bound at the IPRC. Workshop Description: Let’s make a collaborative zine about summer! In this 45 minute virtual workshop facilitated by Marissa Perez, we will learn about zines, draw together, and start working on our zine pages. You can expect: self portraits, eyes-closed drawings, and art prompts! Bring paper and whatever kind of art materials you like to use! Open to youth ages 15 and under. Tune in live on the Sunday Parkways Facebook page. RSVP on…

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Free – $20

Sunday Parkways x IPRC: Virtual Zines 101 Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The IPRC is working with Sunday Parkways to make September a month of zine making for all of Portland! Each week will feature a different workshop facilitated by a local artist. We’ll be making a community zine called Portland’s Got Talent with submissions that will be printed and bound at the IPRC. Workshop Description: Zines 101: Monuments We Need Zines take all kinds of forms. They can be about personal stories, politics, food, travel, anything! In this virtual workshop, Portland zine maker Sarah Mirk will show examples of inspiring zines from around the world. We’ll fold a zine together and each create our own short zine about monuments (like statues and plaques) that we think the city needs. No special writing or drawing skills required,…

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Free – $20

Sunday Parkways x IPRC: Virtual BIPOC Zine Creator’s Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The IPRC is working with Sunday Parkways to make September a month of zine making for all of Portland! Each week will feature a different workshop facilitated by a local artist. We’ll be making a community zine called Portland’s Got Talent with submissions that will be printed and bound at the IPRC. Words from Geeta about this workshop: The stories of we Black…, Indigenous…, People of (every melanated) Color are our stories to tell, our way, and in our own voices. Making our own zines is one way of controlling our BIPOC narratives. This workshop is designed to cover three key areas regarding how I create zines that celebrate BIPOC-centric narratives: The Written Word in Three Storytelling Formats, In Living Color, and Transactional Reparations. *Zoom…

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Free – $20

Sunday Parkways x IPRC: Group Work Session

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The IPRC is working with Sunday Parkways to make September a month of zine making for all of Portland! Each week will feature a different workshop facilitated by a local artist. We’ll be making a community zine called Portland’s Got Talent with submissions that will be printed and bound at the IPRC. Description: Work on finishing your zine in a group setting! Swap tips, talk about themes, get other people’s opinions on pieces of your zine, find inspiration from other people’s work, so many possibilities! This is an open time to make and be together (virtually). *Zoom link coming soon! You can also watch the workshop on Sunday Parkways Facebook livestream. RSVP here. *Suggested $20 donation for the workshop includes a finished copy of the…

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Chapbook Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

IPRC Creative Workshops for Winter 2021 will be held online via zoom, PST. Register here Have you been wanting to put a chapbook or short poetry collection together? Begin your new year by returning to an existing body of work with fresh eyes, incorporating new editorial techniques and peer feedback designed to sharpen your work into an impactful chapbook in four weeks. In this month-long intensive course, students will share, discuss, and learn from a variety of short publications. Theories of composition, ordering, editing, thematic approaches, and publication FAQs will be covered. Each student will have the opportunity to workshop a short collection and receive feedback from the class and the instructor. At the end of the class, students will ideally leave with a sharpened, short…

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$200

Band of Submitting Writers & Artists—Begins March 14th

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT: A two week online collaboration on submitting work to literary publications WHEN: Sunday March 14th @12-2pm & Sunday, March 21st @12-2pm ACCESS: $100 (additional $50 for glamour photo by Katie) Payment plans always available—contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com Where: The Corporeal Zoom room SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are available for collaboration only, not headshots please click here to apply. So, you’ve written something and/or created some visual art and want to get it out into the world of literary publications, now what? The process of submitting can be overwhelming, whether you’re just beginning to think about it, or returning to the process, and doing it alone can seem even more daunting. Where do we begin? Who do we submit to? What if you have questions along the…

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$100

Chapbook Workshop

IPRC Creative Workshops for Winter 2021 will be held online via zoom, PST. Register here Have you been wanting to put a chapbook or short poetry collection together? Begin your new year by returning to an existing body of work with fresh eyes, incorporating new editorial techniques and peer feedback designed to sharpen your work into an impactful chapbook in four weeks. In this month-long intensive course, students will share, discuss, and learn from a variety of short publications. Theories of composition, ordering, editing, thematic approaches, and publication FAQs will be covered. Each student will have the opportunity to workshop a short collection and receive feedback from the class and the instructor. At the end of the class, students will ideally leave with a sharpened, short…

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