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Trans Nature Writing Extravaganza

Wed, May 14 from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214

Join local writers Callum Angus, Cavar, and Miranda Schmidt for a celebration of the art of trans nature writing.

 

Bios:

Callum Angus is a writer, editor, and publisher of smoke and mold, a literary journal invested in the narrative possibilities trans lives bring to our changing nature-culture. His first story collection, A Natural History of Transition, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and an Oregon Book Award. His work has appeared in many publications, and he writes the newsletter Sex Weather Climate Death, monthly(ish) meditations on a body and the planet in transition. Based in Portland, he teaches independent workshops online & occasionally through Corporeal Writing.

[sarah] Cavar is the author of Failure to Comply (featherproof books, 2024) and Differential Diagnosis (Northwestern University Press, 2026). They are editor-in-chief of manywor(l)ds.place, and their work can be found in Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. A PhD candidate in Cultural Studies, Cavar teaches bicostally and lives on the internet. More at www.cavar.club, @cavar on bluesky, and at librarycard.beehiiv.com.

Miranda Schmidt’s work circles the folkloric, the familial, queer magic, and the more-than-human world. Miranda’s debut novel, Leafskin, just out from Stillhouse Press, is a story rooted in folklore and poetry that explores acts of creation in our time of environmental destruction. Miranda’s writing has also appeared in TriQuarterly, Orion, Electric Literature, Catapult, Phoebe, and more. With an MFA from the University of Washington and a PhD from Bath Spa University, they have taught creative writing at Portland Community College, the University of Washington, the Loft, and the Portland Book Festival. Their ongoing newsletter and teaching project, Writing Toward Nature, explores methods for bringing the more-than-human more deeply into our writing craft.

 

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