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Funny/Sexy/Sad plus The Morals and Atomic Candles for AWP 2019

Mississippi Pizza Pub 3552 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The bi-coastal reading series Funny/Sexy/Sad comes to Portland for an AWP offsite reading, bringing writers and comedians together to make you feel something. Followed by music from campfire rock band The Morals and synthpop duo Atomic Candles. Readers below. Martha Grover is an author, poet, and artist living in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of One More for the People (Perfect Day Publishing) and The End of My Career (Perfect Day Publishing). The End of My Career was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards in creative nonfiction in 2017. Her work has also appeared in The Collagist, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and The Portland Mercury, among others. She has been publishing her zine, Somnambulist, since 2003. Martha is currently at work on a graphic memoir.…

Free

Creation Island

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Creation Island is a generative writing salon hosted in Portland, Oregon. Why island? Do you know how islands are formed?? They bubble up from the magma or snap off from other land masses, and they have their own ecosystems and their own rules. We’ve been forming islands for years. We’re all about eruptions and watching the lava flow. We make space for you to write HELP and other messages on the shore, then kick down sandcastles and build new ones. Also, we believe deeply in not being an asshole, to yourself or others. Creation Island is taught by Nathan Wade Carter and Zulema Renee Summerfield. Click here for more information, or to sign up.

Free

Creation Island

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Creation Island is a generative writing salon hosted in Portland, Oregon. Why island? Do you know how islands are formed?? They bubble up from the magma or snap off from other land masses, and they have their own ecosystems and their own rules. We’ve been forming islands for years. We’re all about eruptions and watching the lava flow. We make space for you to write HELP and other messages on the shore, then kick down sandcastles and build new ones. Also, we believe deeply in not being an asshole, to yourself or others. Creation Island is taught by Nathan Wade Carter and Zulema Renee Summerfield. Click here for more information, or to sign up.

Free