Literary Arts is proud to announce Bank of America as our title sponsor for Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival in 2017. We are so grateful for their generous support, with special thanks to Roger Hinshaw, Bank of America’s Market President in Oregon and SW Washington. Bank of America’s leadership in the community and continued support of…
Thank you to all who attended and supported the Bookmark Bash: A Benefit for Wordstock on November 3. Together, we raised $95,000 to help make Wordstock a festival for our whole community and one that our youth can attend for free! The Portland Art Museum welcomed us back for Wordstock’s second annual fundraiser, the Bookmark Bash. The…
Written By: Liz Crain, 2016 Wordstock Moderator, Author ofFood Lover’s Guide to Portland, Editor and Publicity Director at Hawthorne Books Every year I look forward to Wordstock. It’s one of my favorite annual Portland festivals and just like when I’m lucky enough to attend local Pickathon music festival in the summer and get exposure to all…
Literary Arts has been hard at work preparing for our second year as the presenter of Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival, and we wanted to share some early updates and announcements with you as we look forward to the festival’s return on Saturday, November 5, 2016. We are thrilled to announce that Wordstock will present author…
With the relaunch of Wordstock as part of Literary Arts wanted to build a book festival for everyone. We wanted to produce a festival that felt very central to Portland and brought a mix of local and national authors. A change in programming meant that all featured authors would have books published in 2015. We also wanted…
Standing on the Atlantic side of the Florida keys, a sailor asked long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad to stick her tongue out, and report the taste. “We definitely tasted something grainy, crunchy, you know…” Nyad assumed it was salt, and told the sailor as much. She was corrected: “No. It is the Sahara dust,” she was…
One December evening in upstate New York, landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church stepped out to capture a twilight in watercolor. In a normal year the sky and icy waters on Chaumont Bay of Lake Ontario would have been lovely. But this year, 1883, the massive eruption of Krakatoa, thousands of miles away, made extraordinary the…
Now that the news about Wordstock is out in the world there are, understandably, a lot of questions. I’m writing to share what we have decided so far and invite you to help us shape the festival in the coming months. As previously announced, we will re-launch the festival next fall, on Saturday, November 7,…
September 6, 2017
A new curated reading series for Queer writers hosted by Kate Carroll…
October 2, 2017
Tickets start at $15, available at Portland5.com. Francis Ford Coppola is an…
October 12, 2017
The 33rd season of Portland Arts & Lectures features some of the…
October 25, 2017
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for our cocktail hour with dinner…
November 30, 2017
Literary Arts will host Joe Biden on Thursday, November 30 in celebration…
December 11, 2017
The Moth returns to Portland on Monday, December 11. This extraordinary performance…