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UPCOMING EVENTS

October 1, 2025
One Page Wednesday – October
October 3, 2025
ad tendo: with Oregon Symphony Artist in Residence Simone Porter
October 4, 2025
First Matter Press 2025 Book Launch
October 5, 2025
Banned Book Week Read In
October 7, 2025
Near Flesh: A Celebration of Katherine Dunn
October 9, 2025
What a Time to Be Alive: Jade Chang in conversation with Genevieve Hudson
October 11, 2025
Lit Mic presents: Murder in the Bookstore
October 14, 2025
I Am You: Victoria Redel in conversation with Kimberly King Parsons
October 15, 2025
October Write-In
October 21, 2025
Ghostly Encounters: Open Mic
October 23, 2025
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts
October 26, 2025
Halloween Story Time: with A.A. Livingston
October 28, 2025
Timothy Snyder in Conversation
October 30, 2025
Portland Parks Foundation presents: Green Dreams: Through the Eyes of the Elk
November 3, 2025
John Freeman: in conversation with Deborah Miranda
November 5, 2025
A Conversation with Kamala Harris (SOLD OUT)
November 6, 2025
Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris: Making Nonfiction Comics
November 7, 2025
Readers Night: Celebrating Portland Book Festival
November 8, 2025
Portland Book Festival 2025
November 8, 2025
PBF: Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE
November 13, 2025
Ritual Dyes Crafting Circle
November 18, 2025
Without Consent: Sarah Weinman in conversation with Sarah Marshall
November 19, 2025
November Write-In
December 9, 2025
The Moth Mainstage in Portland
December 16, 2025
December Write-In: Little Women
March 12, 2026
Everybody Reads 2026: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
April 30, 2026
Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship 2026

WRITING CLASSES

October 5, 2025
SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT: VISUAL POETRY WORKSHOP
October 6, 2025
Nonfiction Book Pitches That Sell: Writing a Winning Proposal
October 6, 2025
Stealing from the best: A fiction writing technique class
October 7, 2025
Nature Writing Seminar
October 13, 2025
Writing Outside of the Self
October 15, 2025
Yallah! Muslims Write: 3 Months to Publication
October 21, 2025
Tools for Nonfiction Narrative Writing
October 22, 2025
Five Decades of Short Stories: The 70s thru 2010s
October 30, 2025
Memoir Foundations: Writing the Truth Without Losing the Thread
October 30, 2025
Building worlds of Wonder: Speculative Fiction
November 1, 2025
Prompts and Play
November 2, 2025
Writing the Non-Fiction Book Proposal
November 3, 2025
Starting the Short Story
November 4, 2025
WRITING EKPHRASTIC POETRY
November 7, 2025
Ready, Set, Submit
November 8, 2025
Hooked: How to Capture Reader Interest From the Start
November 8, 2025
Visual Poetry and Art
November 8, 2025
Creating Suspense
November 12, 2025
Art of the Article Pitch
November 16, 2025
Every Force Evolves a Form

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Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Literary Arts denounces white supremacy in all its manifestations and we acknowledge our role in having contributed to and benefitted from the racist systems that still flourish in our community and the nation.

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