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!

WITS Alliance Reading: Off-site AWP event

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

The WITS Alliance hosts a happy hour and reading at Literary Arts.  Readers will include WITS alumni writers and students. Open to the public, and will include informational materials about WITS programs nationwide.

Free

Lewis & Clark Senior Student Fiction Reading

Lewis & Clark - Frank Manor House 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

Please join us for readings of original works of fiction by senior students from Pauls Toutonghi’s Fiction Writing 3 course. Refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

Free

Lewis & Clark Senior Student Poetry Reading

Lewis & Clark - Frank Manor House 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR, United States

Please join the English department for an evening of readings of original works of poetry by senior students from Mary Szybist’s Advanced Poetry Writing course. Refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

Free

2019 Orpheus

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

Featured writers: Ash Good, Celeste Gurevich, Nastashia Minto, Skyler Reed

Free

Capturing History – Students Write About COVID

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Beaverton City Library is assisting a student with her Girl Scout Gold Award project by helping to collect writings from students in grades 6-12 about their experiences during the pandemic. We are hoping to add teenage voices to the conversation surrounding the pandemic and its effects on people. Selected writings will be assembled into a booklet and added to the Beaverton City Library’s local history collection, and some entries will also be sent to the Oregon Historical Society and/or published elsewhere. Writing can be in the form of an essay, poem, or any other creative style. Submissions can be kept anonymous if the author chooses. This writing project is open to Oregon students living in Washington and Multnomah counties. There is an informational webpage…

Free