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SO Homo/no FOMO: an offsite AWP reading

Dismantle, Change, Build Center 14 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Please join your hosts, TC Tolbert and Kristen E. Nelson for this reading full of queer, trans, and accomplice writers. We will be collecting donations at the door to support the DCBC, no one turned away for lack of funds! Readers include: Andrea Abi-Karam manuel arturo abreu Kay Ulanday Barrett Cara Benson Piper Daniels Hannah Ensor Raquel Gutiérrez Kristen E. Nelson Frankie Rollins Aisha Sabatini Sloan TC Tolbert Addie Tsai

Free

Big Gay Reading

Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

Micro-readings by queers of all kinds! Come to Portland's favorite LGBT bar Crush to get a sampling of 20+ queer writers from everywhere reading their hearts out. You'll laugh, you'll cry. Readers TBA, check event URL for details. If you're interested in being in the Big Gay Reading, contact us, as we may have a few spots left. Open mic will follow if we still have time! Contact: Stephen van Dyck BIG GAY READING (an AWP Off-Site event) 9:00 - 10:30 PM We're getting together a big group of queers in the back room of LGBT bar Crush to do short readings (3 minutes or less) and then switch to open mic at the end. There is still room for more readers if you are…

Free