• April 1, 2024
          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
          April 3, 2024
          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
          April 4, 2024
          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
  • Box Office

Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.

UPCOMING EVENTS

April 1, 2024
Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
April 3, 2024
One Page Wednesday: APRIL
April 4, 2024
Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
April 8, 2024
2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
April 18, 2024
Aimee Nezhukumatathil: Portland Arts & Lectures 2023/24

WRITING CLASSES

March 28, 2024
ON GHOSTS, GHOSTING and HAUNTS
April 1, 2024
Creative Nonfiction Workshop
April 13, 2024
A Wrinkle in Time: How to Manage Chronology
April 13, 2024
How to Write Riveting Scenes
April 16, 2024
Relearning the Lyric Essay
April 16, 2024
Places & Spaces: Making settings come to life
April 17, 2024
Form as Permission: Turning Formal Constraints into Green Lights in Creative Nonfiction
April 23, 2024
From Idea to Manuscript: Crafting Your Picture Book: Tuesdays
April 25, 2024
From Idea to Manuscript: Crafting Your Picture Book
May 1, 2024
Epistolary: Poems to Our Past and Futures Selves
May 2, 2024
Write the Self: the study and practice of writing from personal experience
May 9, 2024
Grief Work: Honoring Sorrow as a Generating Motor
May 13, 2024
WEIRDING THE EVERY DAY
May 18, 2024
Autofiction Weekend Intensive

A Statement from Literary Arts

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.

Read More