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2019 Women’s Caucus Reading & Mingle at AWP Portland

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Join The Women's Caucus, YesYes Books, and Little A for a brief reading, conversation about publishing and writing, and time to mingle and speak one-on-one with authors, caucus members, and publishers. This year's lineup includes Susan Bernhard, Tiana Clark, Tanya Olson, and Erika L. Sánchez. Wine and non-alcoholic beverages will be served. Susan Bernhard is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient and a graduate of the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program. She was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and lives with her husband and two children near Boston. WINTER LOON (Little A, December 2018) is her debut novel. Tiana Clark is the author of the debut poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the…

Free

Debut Authors ’19 Reading

Enso Winery 1416 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

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

Free