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One Page Wednesday – March

Wed, March 4 from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

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. The featured reader for March is kim thompson.

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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kim thompson

kim thompson

kim thompson (she/her) is a queer Korean American adoptee and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR, after 25 years in Europe, South Korea, and Minneapolis. She received the 2023 Oregon Literary Fellowship and the 2008 Jerome Travel and Study Grant for Literature, as well as other state and national grants. Her work the year of the wood rabbit appeared in Brink (2024), where she later served as Fiction Editor, and her essay “Dear Mia*” was published in the Korean adoptee anthology In Our Words (2024). She has read at multiple Literary Arts events, including the 2025 Portland Book Festival. Her writing and performances have also been featured at Constellation, Pillsbury House Theatre, the Loft, and the Playwrights’ Center, as well as in Seoul-based media. She is working on a hybrid memoir that interweaves adoption, queerness, survival, and lineage with the fragmented strands of memory and history, moving through loss and reclamation toward being, becoming, and belonging.
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