UPCOMING EVENTS AND CLASSES

Our events, classes, and seminars bring the community together to hear, learn, and discuss the most compelling issues and ideas of our day. We hope you will join us in our community space and bookstore, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.

Upcoming Free Events

September 16, 2025
September Write-In
September 18, 2025
Slamlandia
September 24, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – September
September 26, 2025
come from: janan alexandra
September 29, 2025
Holding: Karleigh Frisbie Brogan in conversation with Jon Raymond
October 4, 2025
First Matter Press 2025 Book Launch
October 9, 2025
What a Time to Be Alive: Jade Chang in conversation with Genevieve Hudson
October 16, 2025
Oregon Book Awards Author Tour Pendleton: Becky Ellis, Charlie J. Stephens and tina ontiveros
October 17, 2025
Oregon Book Awards Author Tour Enterprise: Becky Ellis, Charlie J. Stephens and tina ontiveros
October 18, 2025
Oregon Book Awards Author Tour Baker City: Becky Ellis, Rachel King, Steven Moore, Charlie J. Stephens
November 6, 2025
Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris: Making Nonfiction Comics

Upcoming Ticketed Events

October 16, 2025
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Elizabeth Gilbert
October 23, 2025
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts
October 28, 2025
Timothy Snyder in Conversation
November 5, 2025
A Conversation with Kamala Harris (SOLD OUT)
November 7, 2025
Readers Night: Celebrating Portland Book Festival
November 8, 2025
Portland Book Festival 2025
November 8, 2025
PBF: Rebecca Yarros ONYX STORM
November 8, 2025
PBF: Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE
November 12, 2025
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Percival Everett
December 9, 2025
The Moth Mainstage in Portland
January 15, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Colm Tóibín
February 12, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Imani Perry
April 23, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Patrick Radden Keefe

Delve Readers Seminars

September 14, 2025
Apuleius: The Golden Ass
October 13, 2025
Roberto Bolaño: 2666
October 15, 2025
Carl G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
October 16, 2025
ALBERT CAMUS: THE PLAGUE AND THE ABSURD HERO
October 22, 2025
Five Decades of Short Stories: The 70s thru 2010s

Writing Classes

September 16, 2025
Oulipo: Generative Experiments in Constrained Writing
September 18, 2025
Writing the Weird
September 24, 2025
Scene Writing for Memoir
September 27, 2025
To Have and Keep a Beautiful Mind: A Multigenre Writing Workshop
October 2, 2025
The Finish Line: Weekly Accountability
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