Readings, storytellings, and other regular events in the Portland area. If you are a series host and would like to add or remove a listing please contact us, or feel free to contact us for collaboration or general comments. For upcoming events see the calendar on our home page.
Last Updated: 9/27/22
Active
Poetry and Prose
- Columbia Writers Series [in Vancouver, WA]
- Constellation [Instagram][Twitter]
- Everything is Fine
- Filament Reading Series [PSU MFA Reading Series]
- Grief Rites [Facebook]
- HOCUS: Hermetic Order of Clandestine Urban Scribes
- Incite: Queer Writers Read
- Lewis & Clark Events
Lilla Lit - Literary Arts Events
- One Page Wednesday [see Literary Arts calendar]
- Powell’s Events
- PSU Events [and Here]
- Reed College Visiting Writers
- Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series
- Stay Litt [Facebook]
- Tell It Slant
- Tell Me A Story?
- The Mouths of Others
- VoiceCatcher
- Whitenoise Project
Poetry
Prose
Lectures, Talks, Discussions, and Panels
Open Mic
Slam and Spoken Word
Storytelling
Performance
Festivals, Fairs, Conventions, and Conferences
Inactive
- 5 x 5
- À Reading
- Airstream Poetry Festival
- Art Spark
- Aural Pleasure
- Bad Blood
- Blue Skirt Productions
- Bone Tax Poem Club
- Burnt Tongue
- Comedy vs. Tragedy
- Comma
- Compass Readings
- Conversations with Writers
- Death Club
- Design Week Portland
- Dirty Queer
- Figures of Speech
- Fog Machine
- Free Range Poetry [formerly Verse in Person]
- Get Nervous
- Ghostland
- Gridlords
- Hodgepodge
- home school
- If Not For Kidnap
- IN FLUX:
- Invisible Spectrum Stories
- Legion Reader Series [or Here]
- Lemon World
- Liar’s League
- LitCrawl [Facebook | formerly LitHop]
- Literary AF
- Literary Mixtape
- Loggernaut
- Logophile
- Long Story Short
- .:LOOP:.
- Marylhurst Reading Series
- Mountain Writers Series
- NO FAIR / FAIR
- OPP: Other People’s Poems
- OPP: Other People’s Poems [Facebook]
- Orpheus
- Ours Truly [fka Tender Table]
- PDX Queer and Trans Open Mic
- Penduline Reading Series
- Plonk
- Poetry Confluence
- Poetry Press Week
- POISON PEN
- Pure Surface
- ROAR
- SALON SKID ROW
- SFWA Portland Reading Series (Science Fiction and Fantasy) [and Here]
- SLEEP
- Soft Show
- Songbook PDX
- Soundings
- Studio Series [or Here]
- submission
- Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories
- The Hour That Stretches
- The People’s Poets
- The Switch
- Them’s Fightin’ Words
- Thursday Night Reading Series
- Unchaste Readers
- Verse Showcase
- Wallflowers
- Why There Are Words
- Winter Poetry Festival
- Word Warriors
- Words We Love
- Yale Union