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Center Justify: An Offsite Extravaganza

PSU Native American Student and Community Center 710 SW Jackson St, Portland, OR, United States

Come join us for readings, performances, food (dinner will be served!), camaraderie, and more. This event is co-sponsored by The Accomplices (Civil Coping Mechanisms, Entropy, Writ Large Press), De-Canon: A Visibility Project, Whitenoise Project, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University, and The Operating System. Contact: Janice Lee CENTER JUSTIFY: An #AWP19 OFFSITE EXTRAVAGANZA Come join us for readings, performances, food (dinner will be served!), camaraderie, and more. This event is co-sponsored by: - The Accomplices (Civil Coping Mechanisms, Entropy, Writ Large Press) - De-Canon: A Visibility Project - Whitenoise Project - Asian American Writers' Workshop - Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University - The Operating System More details, including additional readers and a detailed hourly schedule are coming soon!…

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Collaborative Reading/Performance by She Who Has No Master(s) and Counterpoint/Catapult

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

Counterpoint Press celebrates the reissue of multidisciplinary writer Dao Strom’s The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys, a collection of novellas centering the experiences of Vietnamese women in the contemporary landscape, with a lineup of three women writers of the Vietnamese diaspora—Strom, Amy Lam, and Jenny Chu—performing readings accompanied by visuals and multimedia. Bios: Jenny M. Chu was born and raised in Portland, Oregon by way of immigrant parents from Saigon and Hong Kong. She's an older sister to a little brother. In life, she is the Community Engagement Manager at Write Around Portland. In life, she thinks and writes. In life, her creative work is intermittently public. In life, her creativity is omnipresent. She often seeks the horizon on a clockless day. Amy Lam is a…

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Visiting Writers Series: She Who Has No Master(s)

Reed College - Eliot Hall Chapel 3203 SE Woodstock, Portland, OR, United States

She Who Has No Master(s) is a project of multi-voiced collectivity, hybrid poetics, encounters, in-between spaces and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through a collaborative art process and social engagement interaction(s), they endeavor to bring into concert the voices of women writers of the Vietnamese diaspora. They define writing as art that has storytelling at its core, but may express itself in hybrid, performance, visual, musical/aural, and interdisciplinary forms. This event includes: Vi Khi Nao, Stacey Tran, and Dao Strom. Vi Khi Nao is the author of the short stories collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture (which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016), and a novel, Fish in Exile. Vi holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University. This Fall 2019, she is BMI Shearing…

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