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!

Oh Word!?: QTPOC Writing Workshop

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

Oh Word!? is a generative & developmental workshop space where writers will bring both original work & create new work from found & provided materials. Each session will feature a creative exercise & dedicated workshop time for works in progress. Structurally, we will be navigating media, poetics & the digital landscapes of which we attempt to make sense. Works created or completed in the workshop sessions will be collected into a small bound zine & participating writers would be invited to read a public installation. Dates: Mondays 7-9pm July 15th – August 12th Class Capacity: 10 Price: Sliding scale $25-50* Audience: QTBIPOC *2 scholarships spots available. To inquire about scholarships email hquinn@iprc.org

$25 – $50

Heaux Stories: Part Deux at Polaris Hall

Polaris Hall 635 N Killingsworth Court, Portland, OR, United States

We invite you to attend what some people anticipate to be the “steamiest night of the year”- Heaux Stories:Part Deux. This show is the sequel to sold-out storytelling showcase Heaux Stories. Heaux Stories is a production that was created as a space for women of color and femmes to gather and share their most intimate sexual truths through the art of storytelling. This event was born with the intention of being as a sex-positive safe space that will foster intimacy within community by centering femmes of color through the empowering act of authentic vulnerability. Due to the overwhelming lack of diverse perspectives in Portland’s local storytelling art scene, this show is a production created out of necessity by renowned storyteller and The Moth Storyhour producer…

$28 – $30