LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Seek Shelter Salon

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We are thrilled and honored to feature these beautiful and powerful Black writers at the next Seek Shelter Salon: Amber Flame, Breezy Janae, Jewels, Nastashia Minto, and Shay Raymond. Please join us this Saturday, June 20, at 5 p.m. PST to seek shelter in words, in art, and in each other. We only have room for 100 people, so make sure you mark your calendars and go to zoom.us to download the app. Then go to room 584-693-1435.

Free

Incite: Queer Writers Read

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The theme for July’s Incite is Justice! We're back for a virtual Incite on July 15th with a country-wide line-up of writers that will make you contemplate our theme, justice: Leah Baer, Carolyn Martin, Ron Bloodworth, and Shay Raymond. Stunning! We've only got room for 100 in our virtual room so, register and get the link at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMudOGtrD8rHdE5zQh8ziw4DWiGLGKw7MXh Hosted by Kate Carroll de Gutes and Kate Gray Sign up in advance here Kate Gray’s passion comes as a teacher, writing coach, and a volunteer writing facilitator with women inmates. For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems was published by Widow & Orphan House in 2019. Her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive (Cedar House Books, 2007) was a finalist for the Oregon…

Free