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          April 4, 2024
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Events, Classes, and Seminars

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 downtown Literary Arts space, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.

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Saturday

Nov 4

Saturday

Nov 4

Saturday

Nov 4

Saturday

Nov 4

In-person   Portland Book Festival   Writing Class   Writing Classes  

The Unique Art of Autofiction

This is a three-hour, one-day intensive discussion on the unique genre of autofiction. This course will provide insight into the many nuances of autofiction, or autobiographical fiction. This “genre” involves writing that is based on real life experiences, but also utilizes fictional literary devices, making it  a very unique form.

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Sunday

Nov 5

Monday

Nov 6

Tuesday

Nov 7

Fall 2023   online class   Writing Classes  

Recharge Your Writing Life: Experiments & Strategies

Equal parts strategy, community, generative writing, and experiment, this class will help writers spark curiosity and deepen self-knowledge while crafting artistic habits that nourish. A good fit for writers who want to reimagine their creative life. We’ll discuss methods for working through blocks and rejection, rituals that refill the well, and ways to make time

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Thursday

Nov 9

Fall 2023   In-person   Writing Classes  

Finders, Keepers: Reclaiming Agency through Erasure and Collage

The hybrid genre of erasure and collage often exists between and because of two different mediums: text and image. Through obscuring a pre-existing text using various methods, an original work is created. Like erasure and collage, we as writers and community members exist between and because of various factors and people. What we amplify in

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Monday

Nov 13

Fall 2023   online class   Writing Classes  

Essaying the Essay

While we may know of essays as personal narratives crafted with creative storytelling techniques, essay as a verb means an attempt. In this six-week series, we’ll explore a variety of essays under the creative nonfiction umbrella in an attempt to expand our entry points to writing and in an attempt to build community. Our evenings

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Wednesday

Nov 15

Thursday

Nov 16

Thursday

Nov 30

Free Events   In-person  

Timeless Feminist Wisdom: A poetic conversation between Adela Zamudio and Adrienne Rich

Lynette Yetter, translator of Bolivian feminist poet Adela Zamudio’s work from the Spanish and Sara Guest, local teacher of American feminist Poet Adrienne Rich’s work will facilitate a “conversation” between these two poets through overlaps and confluences in their canons — in a belated celebration of Zamudio’s birthday! Come for the poetry and stay for the

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Wednesday

Dec 6

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Dec 8

Tuesday

Dec 12

Thursday

Dec 21

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Jan 7

Monday

Jan 8

Wednesday

Jan 10

Wednesday

Jan 17

online class   Winter 2024   Writing Classes  

Six Month Short Story Intensive

This class is for experienced writers who are dedicated to starting the first draft of a story collection over the course of six months. Participants should have experience writing stories and familiarity with the elements of literary short fiction including scene, character, conflict, place, and revision. We will study individual stories by authors, read craft

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Wednesday

Jan 17

Thursday

Jan 18

Sunday

Jan 21

Monday

Jan 22

Tuesday

Jan 23

Tuesday

Jan 23

Wednesday

Jan 24

online class   Poetry   Winter 2024   Writing Classes  

There’s Something About Mary: The Practice of Looking Closely with Mary Oliver & Mary Ruefle

"I’m half crazy with the wonder of it- the abundance of leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I’m, in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter." - Mary Oliver Winter is a time of deep introspection. The world gets dark and cold, we huddle close under blankets, we

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Thursday

Jan 25

online class   Winter 2024   Writing Classes  

Write the Self: the study and practice of writing from personal experience

This course is for all levels of writers and readers. We will read and discuss excerpts from contemporary authors who write the self (or write from the basis of personal experience) such as Annie Erneaux,Carmen Maria Machado, Kate Briggs, Emmanuel Carrere, Zadie Smith, Rachel Cusk, Hilton Als, Melissa Febos and others, in addition to weekly

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Friday

Jan 26

Tuesday

Jan 30

online class   Winter 2024   Writing Classes  

Recharge Your Writing Life: Experiments & Strategies

Equal parts strategy, community, generative writing, and experiment, this class will help writers spark curiosity and deepen self-knowledge while crafting artistic habits that nourish. A good fit for writers who want to reimagine their creative life. We’ll discuss methods for working through blocks and rejection, rituals that refill the well, and ways to make time

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Saturday

Feb 3

Monday

Feb 5

Tuesday

Feb 6

Wednesday

Feb 7

Thursday

Feb 15

Monday

Feb 26

Free Events   online class   Writing Classes  

The Break with Kaveh Akbar

Event Series The Break with Kaveh Akbar

In partnership with Alano Club of Portland, "The Break is a monthly virtual gathering of writers and artists lead by Kaveh Akbar, celebrating amongness, collaboration, and interdisciplinary creative experimentation. Though many of the activities and discussions orbit or are inflected by recovery themes (Akbar has been in active recovery for eight years), participants are not

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Mar 6

Wednesday

Mar 13

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