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First Thursday: Mother Winter

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

Sophia Shalmiyev's art came directly out of the pages of her debut, Mother Winter, scenes painted from the book through a wish for temporary amnesia, as though the old story was a found object collecting dust on the top shelf of an ancient wardrobe. The amniotic folklore of hybrid creatures depicted in oils and acrylics are stand-ins for the real characters in the narrative. The absent mother gets to be a mermaid instead of a slumped-over drunk. The author gets a new story to tell.

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Spring 5-Minute Reading Marathon

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our Spring Five-Minute Marathon Reading! If you were here for our Grand Opening party in December, you’re familiar with the format, but if not—each reader will read a five minute piece, and there will be about ten minutes between each reading, all afternoon. It’s a lot of fun, and we hope you can be there! Readers include: jay dodd, Sophia Shalmiyev, Nastashia Minto, Myllo Mae, Callum Angus, Gary Gamza, Ben McPherson, Laura Lampton Scott, Cecily Patterson, Michele Glazer, Alissa Hattman, Bethany Marcel, & Consuelo Wise.

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AWP: Chris Kraus, Sophia Shalmiyev & Veronica Gonzalez Peña

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Three writers will read whatever they feel like and talk about all the tough stuff and blow your house down. Wolf On! Chris Kraus is the author of four novels and three books of art and cultural criticism. Her first novel, I Love Dick, was adapted for television. In 2017, she published the first full length biography of Kathy Acker, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. Her work has been widely translated. She is a co-editor of Semiotext(e) and lives in Los Angeles. Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to America in 1990. She is a feminist writer and painter living in Portland, OR with her two children. Mother Winter (S&S, 2019) is her first book. Veronica Gonzalez Peña is a writer and filmmaker. In 2006…

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Bookseller’s Ball

Star Theater 13 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

A raucous party featuring visiting writers with new books from national independent presses (McSweeney’s, Third Man Books, Wave Poetry, and others), along with beloved local authors and popular NW bands (Power of County, The Savage Family Band, Ex-Kids, Morgan and the Organ Donors, and Bergerette). Come celebrate the last night of AWP 2019 at Portland’s historic Star Theater: Saturday, March 30, 5pm-2am, and dance the night away with DJ Cecilia after our roster of readers, rock and shenanigans have properly entertained you. For the complete list of performers, sponsors and stage times, please check: www.motherfoucaultsbookshop.com Doors at 5pm Full Schedule: 5pm Doors. DJ. 5:30 band: Power of Country 6:00 readers: Adèle Barclay, Cari Luna, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Jaswinder Bolina, Casandra Lopez 7pm Bookseller’s Ball. 7:00…

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Sophia Shalmiyev in Conversation with Leni Zumas

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We are thrilled to welcome Sophia Shalmiyev at 7 pm on Thursday, April 18th, in conversation with Leni Zumas to discuss Shalmiyev's recently published memoir Mother Winter (Simon & Schuster). Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). An imbalance of power and the prevalence of antisemitism in her homeland led her father to steal Shalmiyev away, emigrating to America, abandoning her estranged mother, Elena. At age eleven, Shalmiyev found herself on a plane headed west, motherless and terrified of the new world unfolding before her. Now a mother herself, in Mother Winter Shalmiyev depicts in urgent vignettes her emotional journeys as an immigrant, an artist, and a woman raised without…

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Orpheus 2019 Night Three

Fort Vancouver High School 5700 East 18th Street, Vancouver, WA, United States

Featured Writers: Shannon Brazil, Daria Eckhardt Eliuk, Aaron Gilbreath, Sophia Shalmiyev, Kristi Straight

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Robert Lashley, Nastashia Minto, and Sophia Shalmiyev

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Three writers and poets (Lashley, Minto and Shalmiyev) will read from and discuss their work through an audience Q/A. A 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award, Robert Lashley has had poems published in such journals as Feminete, Seattle Review of Books, NAILED, Gramma, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and The Cascadia Review. His work was also featured in Many Trails to the Summit, an anthology of Northwest form and lyric poetry, and It Was Written, an anthology of poetry inspired by hip hop. His full-length books include THE HOMEBOY SONGS (Small Doggies Press, 2014) and UP SOUTH (Small Doggies Press, 2017). Nastashia Minto is an African American woman who was born in South Georgia. Her life experiences…

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Peg Alford Pursell in Conversation With Sophia Shalmiyev

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

Following her acclaimed debut, Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow, Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. A Girl Goes Into the Forest (Dzanc) immerses readers in the complex desires, contradictions, and sorrows of daughters, wives, and husbands, artists, siblings, and mothers. In forests literal and metaphorical, the characters try, fail, and try again to see the world, to hear each other, and to speak the truth of their longings. Powerful, lyrical, and precise, Pursell’s stories call up a world at once mysterious and recognizable. A Girl Goes Into the Forest invites fans of Lydia Davis and Helen Oyeyemi into a world where “no one can deter a person from her mistakes.” Pursell will be…

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Amy Long with Sophia Shalmiyev

Valentine's 232 SW Ankeny St, Portland, OR, United States

Come celebrate the last stop on Amy Long’s tour for her book Codependence: Essays (2019) with readings and a discussion between Long and PDX-based Sophia Shalmiyev, author of Mother Winter (2019). Both books challenge mainstream narratives about addiction, selfhood and womanhood, and love and dependence in all their forms in lyrical, nonlinear prose that electrifies and astounds. See you there!

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One Page Wednesday October

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Writers, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh work. Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented Portland writers.Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! October's One Page Wednesday is hosted by Chelsea Biondolillo. October’s featured readers are Delphine Bedient and Sophia Shalmiyev. The reading begins at 7:00. Doors open around 6:30 p.m. Potential readers can sign up to read and after the list is full, they can add their name to the fishbowl and Natalie will draw as many additional names to read as we have time for before 8:30 p.m. One Page = one page,…

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