A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
Come join as we celebrate a selection of our recently-published titles. Ryan Patrick Smith, Claudia Cortese, Denise Bergman, Rob Carney, Sarah McKinstry-Brown, Jeanann Verlee, sam sax, and Marc McKee will read from their work. Beverages and hors d'oeuvres to be served.
Join us for a reading by over a dozen authors with debut books arriving (or already arrived!) in 2019. Readers will include Kate Hope Day (If, Then), Susan Bernhard (Winter Loon), K Chess (Famous Men Who Never Lived), Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Sabrina & Corina), Aatif Rashid (Portrait of Sebastian Khan), Julia Phillips (Disappearing Earth), James Charlesworth (The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill), Rachel Howard (The Risk of Us), Daniela Petrova (Her Daughter's Mother), Layne Fargo (Temper), William Dameron (The Lie), Marco Rafalà (How Fires End), Keena Roberts (Wild Life), and possibly more! Contact: James Charlesworth
Voices of a People’s History celebrates diverse movement leaders by sharing their stories, in their own words. Leaders of today perform readings of notable speeches and essays from inspiring figures past and present. It's a radically-empowering opportunity to hear the echoes of history in the modern day. Voices is the biggest night of the year for OPAL, and brings us closer together while strengthening our resolve to fight for racial, social and economic justice. Featuring Performances By Portland City Commissioner JoAnn Hardesty Gresham City Councilor Eddy Morales, Founder, East County Rising Paul Lumley, Executive Director, Native American Youth and Family Center Reyna Lopez, Executive Director, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) Ana del Rocio, Executive Director, Oregon Futures Lab and ColorPAC Nakisha Nathan, Executive…
Join us at The Adventure Zone Graphic Novel Live! Featuring some of the creative team behind the graphic novel: Travis McElroy and Clint McElroy. At this live show, your ticket to the show gets you a copy of THE ADVENTURE ZONE: MURDER ON THE ROCKPORT LIMITED! graphic novel and each copy will come with a bookplate signed by one of the McElroys! The live show will include a conversation with the team about the graphic novel and a live "reading" of an excerpt from the new comic, featuring special guests playing your favorite characters. See you there! Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm SOLD OUT This Event is Reserved Seating and All Ages. Ticket includes a copy of THE ADVENTURE ZONE: MURDER ON THE…
Come out to the Ace Hotel for a stellar poetry line up. This event will showcase amazing poets from all around the PNW - and beyond! Event hosted by Stephen Meads. Featured poets: Bella Ben Yisrael Clementine von Radics Greg Harries Jane Belinda The Klute Rudy Francisco Sabrina Benaim This event is free and open to the public as part of The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, a two-day poetry festival and competition happening in Downtown Portland.
Join us for the first of what we hope will be a regular writing group meetup. The idea is to bring folks together, find out what they want out of the group, and make it something that everyone participating helps to create. We are creating a dedicated space to write, share, and connect with other trans and queer writers. Whether you want to start from a group prompt, journal, work on that novel/poem/interactive fiction you’ve been dreaming up, or anything else, this space is for you! Laptops or long hand, we want everyone to use what works for them. What the group ultimately ends up being very much depends on what folks want out of it, so come to our first meeting and share your…
Join us for our AUGUST Poetry Open Mic and Slam - at our first ever show at Revolution Hall! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the poetry open mic or slam! Show begins at 7:00 PM. Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark Street Portland, OR 97214 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. There is a $10 cover fee at the door. First place of the poetry slam walks way with $50 and the Slamlandia trophy! We will have an spotlight performance from the incomparable Stephen Meads! Stephen Meads (he/him), originally a Bay-based poet, has been living and performing in Portland for over seven years. He has featured at…
Jeff Merkley couldn't believe his eyes. He never dreamt the United States could treat vulnerable young families with such calculated brutality. Few had witnessed what Merkley discovered just by showing up at the border and demanding to see what was going on behind closed doors. Contrary to the official stories and soothing videos, on Senator Merkley’s visit he encountered mothers and children, newborn babies and infants, stranded for days on border bridges in blistering heat or locked up in ice-cold holding pens. There were nearly 1,500 boys jammed into a former Walmart, a child tent prison in the desert with almost 3,000 boys and girls, and children struggling to survive in gang-filled Mexican border towns after they were blocked from seeking asylum in the United…
Details TBA. About The Mystery Box Show: From vanilla to kinky, queer to straight, and everything in between, a night at The Mystery Box Show brings you tales of one-night stands, explorations into fetish, awkward first times, dark fantasies come true, and much much more. Storytellers have included bestselling authors, nationally touring comedians, adult film industry veterans, theatre professionals, sex toy experts, members from the kink community, students and people from all walks of life. Nothing here is too raw, too sweet, too strange, or too deep; it's all about the sex, and all about the story.
Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. The author of five novels, including the award-winning White Teeth and On Beauty, as well as two collections of essays, Smith was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. In her first short story collection, Grand Union, Smith combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interweaving 11 completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich…