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 Ticketed Events

March 11, 2025
Everybody Reads: SOLITO by Javier Zamora
April 24, 2025
Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship 2025
April 28, 2025
2025 Oregon Book Awards

Upcoming Free Events

February 7, 2025
Art Installation: Glowing Portal Tentacles (3)
February 20, 2025
Slamlandia
February 26, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – February
March 12, 2025
Incite: Queer Writers Read

Portland Arts & Lectures 40th anniversary season: SOLD OUT!

February 13, 2025
Masha Gessen: Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25
April 15, 2025
Emily Wilson: Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25

Readers Seminars

February 9, 2025
Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs
February 13, 2025
GREEK MYTHS RETOLD
March 6, 2025
K-Healing: Korean Healing Fiction
March 18, 2025
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
April 3, 2025
State Violence and Human Resilience: Han Kang

Writing Classes

February 8, 2025
Poem or Picture Book: Writing the Lyrical Children’s Book
February 24, 2025
Writing A Novel: A Six Month Intensive
February 26, 2025
Nature Writing: Digging Deep
February 27, 2025
Resources for Refining Your Creative Writing Practice
March 1, 2025
The Art of Observation: Developing the Memoir
March 1, 2025
The Art of Brevity: Crafting Short-short Stories
March 8, 2025
Grief Spiral: Writing Elegies Along a Curved Path
March 15, 2025
Fool’s Journey: A Tarot & Dreamwork Creative Writing Workshop
March 18, 2025
Get Writing: Unblocking Writer’s Block
March 26, 2025
Short Story Generator
April 5, 2025
Wild Thing: Animals as Characters
April 12, 2025
The First Fifty Pages: Fiction Intensive
April 16, 2025
Yallah! Muslims Write
April 19, 2025
The Things Themselves: Poetry