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

UPCOMING EVENTS

May 21, 2025
Incite: Queer Writers Read
May 28, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series
May 29, 2025
AAPI Heritage Month Author Reading and Community Celebration with APANO
May 30, 2025
Creative Mornings: Janice Lee & Lidia Yuknavitch
May 31, 2025
Story time with Tom Toro
June 2, 2025
FUTBOLISTA!: Jonny Garza Villa in conversation with Aiden Thomas
June 3, 2025
GLASS CENTURY: An Evening with Ross Barkan and Gabriel Kahane
June 11, 2025
Local KidLit Social at Literary Arts
June 14, 2025
Literary Arts Cafe Opening
July 1, 2025
ACCESS: Rebecca Grant in conversation with Zoë Carpenter
July 8, 2025
Oregon Literary Fellowship Reading
July 12, 2025
A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN: Jami Attenberg in Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
August 22, 2025
EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Mariah Rigg
October 23, 2025
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts

WRITING CLASSES

May 21, 2025
Yallah! Muslims Write
May 26, 2025
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
June 6, 2025
Grief and the Lyric Essay: SUMMER
June 11, 2025
Found Poetry: A Poetry Workshop
June 12, 2025
WRITE THE SELF: 8 weeks intensive
June 17, 2025
Creative Clarity, Focus and Momentum
June 18, 2025
Yallah! Muslims Write
June 25, 2025
Experiments in Fiction
July 9, 2025
Storytelling Through Design
July 10, 2025
Leading with Suspense: writing the unputdownable story
July 12, 2025
PUTTING YOUR CREATIVITY FIRST
August 4, 2025
The Art of the Gut: Renovation and Revising as Rebuilding
August 6, 2025
I Am Not An Erosion: Poems Against Decay
August 9, 2025
Writing A Picture Book Primer
August 16, 2025
Short Story: Take Two!
August 16, 2025
Making a Picture Book Dummy

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.

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