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Events, Classes, and Seminars
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Writing Classes Fall 2021
Grief and the Lyric Essay
Throughout history, writers have used lyrical techniques to access states of consciousness we associate with grief. Lyrical writing prioritizes music, rhythm, and emotion over the narrative arc. The goal of this course is to find entry into writing through reading, conversation,and various prompts and exercises to catalyze memory and thinking. We will consider how writers
Writing Classes Fall 2021
Nature Writing Now: Intensive
What does it mean to write about nature now? We are living at a time of great ecological peril and promise, when some thinkers are questioning whether “nature” even exists. How to write about this complexity in authentic and evocative ways? How to convey both the beauty and the corruption of beauty? Together, we will
Fall 2021 For Bipoc Writers Writing Classes
September BIPOC Writers Workshop
For BIPOC writers Searching for a space to create new work with fellow BIPOC writers? This two-hour workshop meets on Zoom. A variety of prompts will be presented as avenues for generating and sharing new work in an informal setting. Open to BIPOC writers at all levels writing in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. Scholarships are
Free Events Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships
Creating the Graphic Novel: Inception to Publication
Join us for a lively panel discussion about graphic novels and their creators. Moderated by Jonathan Hill, author of Odessa, and featuring winners of the Oregon Book Award in Graphic Literature.
Writing Classes Fall 2021
Writing the Long Short Story
This class is ideal for writers looking to work on a long short story of 35 pages or more. The long short story is an interesting form, giving writers the elbow room to delineate their stories more deeply yet still staying devoted to the principles of the short story. For some writers, the long short
Writing Classes Memoir Fall 2021
Nine-Month Memoir Intensive
This class begins in September, with the goal of finishing a complete draft of a memoir by June. Participants do not need to be published writers; however, they should have some experience with elements of memoir, including character, setting, dialogue and scene, and have a clear project in mind that they will devote nine months
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Sandra Cisneros: Presented with Wisconsin Book Festival
Join Literary Arts and the Wisconsin Book Festival for a conversation with Sandra Cisneros about her new book.
Delve Readers Seminars Fall 2021
Hilary Mantel: Beyond the Booker
Hilary Mantel is best known for her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, the first two volumes of which (Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies) won the Booker Prize (in 2009 and 2012). The third and final volume, The Mirror and the Light, was published to acclaim in 2020. These books are modern masterpieces, yet Mantel’s earlier
Free Events
Slamlandia September
Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets new and old to come share their work. We strive towards a safer space for poets to read their own poetry, witness others, and participate
Fall 2021 Writing Classes
Writing Beyond Stereotypes of Disability
Characters with disabilities have been around as long as there have been stories, but often those characters are based on stereotypes that serve as plot shortcuts and end up being harmful to real people with disabilities. Disability is one of humanity’s most shared traits. It is inevitable that to write characters you will write disability.
Writing Classes Fall 2021
Oracles and Creativity: Designing Your Own Symbolic System
In this follow-up to Oracles, Intuition, and Creativity, we will go deeper into our exploration of sets of symbols and how they function as tools for self-study and guides for artistic creation. The class will begin with a brief survey of the history of divination and an analysis of various types of oracles (their art,
Delve Readers Seminars Fall 2021
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is one of the most celebrated & impactful books ever written. Since its publication over 50 million copies of the novel have been sold. The story follows the Buendía family & the other residents of Macondo through seven generations, depicting everything from civil war to flying carpets. The lush
Free Events
One Page Wednesday: October
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! October's One Page Wednesday is hosted by Jessica Meza-Torres. The featured reader is
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts
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Literary Arts is proud to invite you to Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts, a showing of essential support for and celebration of the stories in our community and the essential ideas and issues they raise. Join us on Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 5:30PM (PDT) for a special pre-show in advance of the
Writing Classes Fall 2021
Archiving Ancestors, Collective Grief, and the Illusion of Time
The quiet and stillness of quarantine transported many of us beyond the bounds of time and space. Through our unexpected journeys, we may have traced new threads from ancestral roots to our present moments and felt them stretch towards an unknown somewhere on a vast continuum of time. Loss of place, people, and ways of
Portland Arts & Lectures
2021/22 Portland Arts & Lectures: Daniel James Brown
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This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, and will be held in person in accordance with public health guidelines. Each subscription also includes a full digital pass for those subscribers who may need extra time to rejoin us downtown and
Writing Classes Fall 2021
The Lyric Essay Intensive: Braiding the World
The lyric essay is a form which allows many small fragments to be drawn together to create a whole. A lyric essay might hold memories, research, a bit of poetry; it celebrates mixing genres. In this workshop, we will write a series of fragments, and then braid them together into essays. You will leave the
Fall 2021 Teaching Writing Classes
The Trauma-Informed Creative Writing Classroom
The creative writing classroom is not an explicitly healing space—yet writers regularly bring their stories of trauma into workshops. What are our obligations to these students as instructors? What are the best practices for managing workshop discussions about potentially triggering material? In this 6-hour intensive, learn when writing heals and harms, discuss syllabus disclaimers and
Delve Readers Seminars Fall 2021
Herman Melville: Great Shorter Works
Although Herman Melville is best known for Moby-Dick, he also demonstrated mastery of the novella, and this Delve will explore Melville’s best-known shorter works: Bartleby the Scrivener, famous for the Wall Street denizen who “would prefer not to,” no matter what his employer might want; Benito Cereno, where a captain answering a ship’s call of
Writing Classes Fall 2021
Six-Month Short Story Intensive: Starting the Collection
This class is for experienced writers who are dedicated to starting the first draft of a story collection over the course of 6 months. We will have 22 class meetings between October and April, with a four-week break in December to focus on generating and revising our work. Participants should have experience writing stories and
Writing Classes Memoir Fall 2021
Memoir Infusion
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. - William Faulkner If the primary purpose of literature is connection, what better way to accomplish that goal than through telling our experiences and how they formed us. This 8-week course is designed for writers already engaged in writing a memoir, who have some knowledge of
Delve Readers Seminars Fall 2021
Homer, The Odyssey
The Odyssey is one of the world's oldest and most enduring works of literature. Homer’s ancient Greek epic has inspired many modern artists and has introduced generations of readers to the the world of Greek myth, poetry, and storytelling. In this seminar, we will explore the intricacies of Homer’s epic and its central story— Odysseus’s effort
Ticketed Events
The Moth Mainstage in Portland
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The Moth is true stories, told live and without notes. The Moth celebrates the ability of stories to honor both the diversity and commonality of human experience, and to satisfy a vital human need for connection. It seeks to present recognized storytellers among established and emerging writers, performers and artists and to encourage storytelling among communities whose stories often go unheard.
Portland Arts & Lectures
2021/22 Portland Arts & Lectures: Cathy Park Hong
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This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, and will be held in person in accordance with public health guidelines. Each subscription also includes a full digital pass for those subscribers who may need extra time to rejoin us downtown and
Portland Arts & Lectures
2021/22 Portland Arts & Lectures: Brit Bennett
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This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, and will be held in person in accordance with public health guidelines. Each subscription also includes a full digital pass for those subscribers who may need extra time to rejoin us downtown and
Ticketed Events
Everybody Reads 2022: Mira Jacob
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In partnership with Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation, Literary Arts is proud to present a lecture by author Mira Jacob as the culminating event of Everybody Reads 2022. This year’s programming will center on Jacob’s illustrated memoir, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations.
Portland Arts & Lectures
2021/22 Portland Arts & Lectures: Richard Powers
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, and will be held in person in accordance with public health guidelines. Each subscription also includes a full digital pass for those subscribers who may need extra time to rejoin us downtown and
Ticketed Events Youth Events
Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship
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Celebrate Portland’s youth poets during Literary Arts’ annual Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship. This inspiring event draws more than 1,000 attendees as they cheer on students from Portland and East Multnomah County public high schools competing for poetic glory.
Portland Arts & Lectures
2021/22 Portland Arts & Lectures: Edwidge Danticat
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, and will be held in person in accordance with public health guidelines. Each subscription also includes a full digital pass for those subscribers who may need extra time to rejoin us downtown and
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