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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in Conversation With Sara Jaffe

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

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Sketchtasy (Arsenal Pulp) takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart – it’s an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-’90s. Boston, 1995: Alexa, an incisive 21-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity, willful apathy, and the specter of AIDS. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, Sketchtasy is an incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. Sycamore will be joined in conversation by Sara Jaffe,…

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Reading: Heidi Diehl: Lifelines

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Brooklyn, New York, author Heidi Diehl to read from her novel Lifelines. She'll be joined in conversation with Portland author Sara Jaffe (Dryland). For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany—where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier—to confront her past at her former mother-in-law’s funeral. It’s 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation’s horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she’s embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks in large part to Dieter, a mercurial musician. Their romance ignites quickly, but life gets in the way: an unplanned pregnancy, hasty marriage, the tense balance of…

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: Sara Jaffe: All Hooks, No Chorus: Pop Music and Plot

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

Sara Jaffe All Hooks, No Chorus: Pop music and plot, 4:30pm In Room 601 The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is pleased to announce the launch of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with its first residential intensive. In the low-residency model, students will attend two 14-day campus residencies then, beyond residencies, work one-on-one with mentors. Most of the programming during this residency is free and open to the public. From July 28 through August 3, PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers as part of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program. Every event is free and open to the public. This innovative creative writing program is distinguished by its being situated within a…

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PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Readings: da Carter, Sara Jaffe, and Jay Ponteri

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

da Carter, Sara Jaffe, Jay Ponteri, 6pm at PNCA Mediatheque The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is pleased to announce the launch of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with its first residential intensive. In the low-residency model, students will attend two 14-day campus residencies then, beyond residencies, work one-on-one with mentors. Most of the programming during this residency is free and open to the public. From July 28 through August 3, PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers as part of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program. Every event is free and open to the public. This innovative creative writing program is distinguished by its being situated within a school of art and…

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Spare Room reading: Lindsey Boldt, Sara Jaffe, & Steve Orth

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

$5 suggested donation for the readers (no one turned away for lack of funds) Lindsey Boldt's most recent publications include: Some Ennui (Portable Press @ Yo Yo Labs, 2019), <<(( ))>> (Couch Press, 2016), and Overboard (Publication Studio Portland, 2012). Her poems, essays, and stories have been published by Wolfman New Life Quarterly, Art Practical, The Drunken Boat, and The Poetry Foundation's blog, Harriet. With Steve Orth, she co-wrote and produced the plays "Dating by Consensus," "Escape from Century Hills," and "The Reading." She lives in Olympia, Washington on Squaxin and Nisqually land. Sara Jaffe is a writer living in Portland, OR. Her first novel, Dryland, was published by Tin House Books in September 2015. Her short fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared or are…

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A Writer in the World: An Online Prose Workshop (& more) with Sara Jaffe

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Registration deadline: June 15, 2020 As an instructor of creative writing for over a decade, I often find graduating students coming to me with a similar list of questions: How do I continue my writing practice outside of an academic setting? How do I become part of a writing community? How can I publish my work? Taken together, these concerns add up to one big, burning question: How do I figure out how to be a writer in the world? In this 7-week online class—part workshop, part forum, part resource-sharing assembly—we’ll touch on some of the key components of this admittedly huge question. We’ll practice strategies for generating work without hard deadlines, gain tools for revision, and explore both the broad map and the nooks…

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$200 – $400

PNCA Low-Residency MFA Program Summer 2020 Residency Classes & Readings Open to the Public

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

As part of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program, PNCA offers talks, discussions, and readings by acclaimed writers and artists, July 24th to August 3rd. Everything is free and open to the public. All events this summer are hosted via Zoom. The passwords for all faculty classes are 515000. CLASSES Saturday, July 25 10am: Unsafe is Not a Feeling: How Writing Contends with the Illusion of Safety Sara Jaffe https://pnca.zoom.us/j/98345715004?pwd=OVVOLysrZUh5S0hxS0d5QlBHUDZMUT09 2pm: Winter Poop, Spring Revivals, Summer Fires, and Fall Marigolds Alison C Rollins https://pnca.zoom.us/j/98224439656?pwd=TnNGWkJmQUZaTWlOOXFhZjlhUnJudz09 Sunday, July 26 10am: THE ART OF WEALTH (in life & in literature) Vi Khi Nao https://pnca.zoom.us/j/95075415254?pwd=YVd4ZVJON3YrZHIrdWF1MXN4WmkwZz09 Monday, July 27 10am: Outsider Ecopoetics Tyrone Williams https://pnca.zoom.us/j/95516376236?pwd=T1EycmFvM05STEJlN1JPZ3k3WVY3dz09 11am: Feminism / Queer Theory Shawna Liption and Sloane McNulty https://pnca.zoom.us/j/97573944766?pwd=Y0NZeEtETmxZdDFRczRrYU0wdEJLdz09 Tuesday, July 28…

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Fonograf Editions Five-Year Anniversary

Oregon Contemporary (formerly DISJECTA) 8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

(image by Adie Bovee) Celebration & Fundraiser With performances by Eileen Myles, Samuel Ace, Allison Cobb, Brandi Katherine Herrera, and Sara Jaffe and Auctioning print and analog delights from our friends: milkweed editions, Canarium Books, Fence, Albina Music Trust, Poetry Foundation, and many more.

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