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.
Active
Poetry and Prose
- Columbia Writers Series [in Vancouver, WA]
- Filament Reading Series [PSU MFA Reading Series]
- Grief Rites [Facebook]
- HOCUS: Hermetic Order of Clandestine Urban Scribes
- Hodgepodge
- home school
- Incite: Queer Writers Read
- IN FLUX:
- Lewis & Clark Events
Lilla Lit - Literary Arts Events
- Mountain Writers Series
- One Page Wednesday [see Literary Arts calendar]
- Orpheus
- Plonk
- Powell’s Events
- PSU Events [and Here]
- Reed College Visiting Writers
- Stay Litt [Facebook]
- submission
- Tell Me A Story?
- The Mouths of Others
- VoiceCatcher
- Whitenoise Project
- Why There Are Words
Poetry
Prose
Lectures, Talks, Discussions, and Panels
Open Mic
Slam and Spoken Word
Storytelling
Performance
Festivals, Fairs, Conventions, and Conferences
- Airstream Poetry Festival
- Art Spark
- Compose
- Design Week Portland
- LitCrawl [Facebook | formerly LitHop]
- NO FAIR / FAIR
- Oregon Historical Society’s Celebration of Oregon Authors
- Portland Book Festival [formerly Wordstock]
- Portland Comic Book Month
- Portland Indie Con
- Publication Fair
- Rose City Book & Paper Fair
- Tin House Workshop and Readings
- Write to Publish
- Willamette Writers Conference
- Winter Poetry Festival
Inactive
- À Reading
- Bad Blood
- Blue Skirt Productions
- Burnt Tongue
- Comma
- Compass Readings
- Conversations with Writers
- Death Club
- Dirty Queer
- Figures of Speech
- Fog Machine
- Get Nervous
- Ghostland
- If Not For Kidnap
- Legion Reader Series [or Here]
- Literary Mixtape
- Loggernaut
- Logophile
- Marylhurst Reading Series
- OPP: Other People’s Poems
- Penduline Reading Series
- Poetry Confluence
- Poetry Press Week
- POISON PEN
- Pure Surface
- SALON SKID ROW
- SLEEP
- Soft Show
- Soundings
- Studio Series [or Here]
- Tell It Slant
- Them’s Fightin’ Words
- Thursday Night Reading Series
- Unchaste Readers
- Word Warriors
- Words We Love