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

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UPCOMING EVENTS

October 30, 2025
Portland Parks Foundation presents: Green Dreams: Through the Eyes of the Elk
November 3, 2025
California Rewritten: John Freeman: in conversation with Deborah Miranda
November 5, 2025
One Page Wednesday: A Cover to Cover Special Event
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 9, 2025
Fall Hand-Sewing Social with SCRAP PDX
November 11, 2025
Cekpa by Leah Altman: Ooligan Press Launch Party
November 12, 2025
Incite: Queer Writers Read – November
November 13, 2025
Ritual Dyes Crafting Circle
November 17, 2025
Chris Kraus in conversation with Lydia Kiesling
November 18, 2025
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: Jane Austen
March 12, 2026
Everybody Reads 2026: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
April 30, 2026
Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship 2026

WRITING CLASSES

October 30, 2025
Memoir Foundations: Writing the Truth Without Losing the Thread
October 30, 2025
Building worlds of Wonder: Speculative Fiction
November 2, 2025
Refine Your Nonfiction Book Concept: Finding the Hook
November 3, 2025
Starting the Short Story
November 4, 2025
WRITING EKPHRASTIC POETRY
November 5, 2025
Art of the Article Pitch
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 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
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 26, 2026
So the Story Begins
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
March 14, 2026
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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