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One Page Wednesday – July

Wed, Jul 2, 2025 from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214

Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read—or come to listen and prepare to be inspired.

Our host is the one and only, Emme Lund. July’s featured reader is 2024 Oregon Book Award winner Erica Berry.

Emme Lund

Emme Lund

Emme Lund is an author living and writing in Portland. She has an MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Electric LiteratureTIME MagazineThe RumpusRomperthe Portland Mercury, and Autostraddle, among many other venues. In 2019, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction. Her debut novel, The Boy with a Bird in His Chest(Atria Books, 2022) was longlisted for the First Novel Prize from the Center For Fiction, was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award,  named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed and The Portland Mercury, and was included on lists in The Washington PostUSA TodayPeople MagazineThe AdvocateCosmopolitan, and Shondaland.

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Erica Berry

Erica Berry

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Erica Berry is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron, 2023) which won the 2024 Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her essays, which often explore the intersection of our emotional lives and the natural world, appear in The New York Times, Orion, Outside, The Guardian, and The Yale Review, among other publications. A contributing editor at Orion magazineshe has taught at Summer Fishtrap, the Orion Summer Environmental Writers Workshop, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the New York Times Student Journeys. A forthcoming visiting distinguished writer at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, she is also a Writer-in-the-Schools in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her second book, on love amidst climate catastrophe, is forthcoming from Flatiron (US) and Faber (UK).
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