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.

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Upcoming Free Events

November 18, 2025
Sarah Weinman in conversation with Sarah Marshall
November 19, 2025
November Write-In
November 20, 2025
Slamlandia
December 2, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series
December 3, 2025
One Page Wednesday – December
December 16, 2025
December Write-In: Jane Austen
February 17, 2026
Karina LeBlanc: A Kid’s Book About Purpose

Upcoming Ticketed Events

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
March 12, 2026
Everybody Reads 2026: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
April 23, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Patrick Radden Keefe
April 30, 2026
Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship 2026

Delve Readers Seminars

January 6, 2026
Early Works of Barbara Kingsolver
January 11, 2026
Hope in Dark Times: the last works of Virginia Woolf
February 10, 2026
W.G. Sebald: Narratives of Trauma, Trauma of Narrative
February 21, 2026
Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon
February 25, 2026
The Waste Land in Our Time

Writing Classes

November 24, 2025
Poetry of Observation: Starting and Keeping a Commonplace Book
December 6, 2025
Ways In: Starting Your Memoir
January 10, 2026
Digital Storytelling: Making Short Films
January 10, 2026
Writing with the Seasons: Winter
January 10, 2026
Truing the Narrative: A Revision Magic Trick
January 12, 2026
Writing Comic Fiction Workshop
January 12, 2026
Advanced Memoir
January 15, 2026
Get Writing 2026: New Prompts for the New Year
January 18, 2026
How to Start a Novel: and How to Finish It, Too
January 20, 2026
Your Novel’s First Pages
January 24, 2026
Unreliable Historians: Reclaiming Truth and Agency in Creative Writing
January 26, 2026
So the Story Begins
February 7, 2026
Writing in Scenes: Bringing Your Story to Life
February 10, 2026
The Art of Fiction
February 11, 2026
The Shape of a Life: An 8-week Memoir Intensive
February 17, 2026
Poetry and Obsession
February 23, 2026
Pushing Through: Carrying Your Manuscript Over the Finish Line
February 26, 2026
Feminist & Queer Approaches to Creative Writing
March 14, 2026
Every Force Evolves a Form
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