We have moved many of our offerings online! We hope you will join us.
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. Our 2021/22 season is SOLD OUT, but we have released a limited amount of single tickets to this lecture. Subscriptions for the 2022/23 season will go on sale Spring of 2022. Cathy Park Hong will be appearing live and in person at Arlene
This bimonthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color. Come listen to our featured readers, or sign up to share your work in our open mic. Readings will be followed by a short community discussion. The theme for January is "Twin/Duality/Pair." Our
This class is ideal for writers who have some experience of craft and would like to gain momentum on their manuscript (either a short story collection or a novel). Students will work on their fiction to create up to 70 additional pages for their manuscript and complete a close read of a work of fiction.
“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many
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! Hosted by Jessica Meza-Torres. This month's featured reader is Amy Baskin. Click here
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
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. Our 2021–22 season is SOLD OUT! We invite you to check back two weeks before each event on single ticket availability. Subscriptions for the 2022/23 season will go on sale Spring of 2022. Brit Bennett is scheduled to appear live and in person
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 available. Contact Susan
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
This class will focus on how poetry stems from, evokes, or creates place. A place can be imaginary, material, or a combination of the two; most often, it is the latter. You'll learn about contemporary and historical ecopoetics, a field that looks at how places are created by ecological, social, cultural, and political forces, and
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.
In this generative workshop, participants will read two books of fiction and complete several exercises designed to assist in developing engaging and vibrant characters. Writers of all levels are welcome to participate! Students will showcase a 15-page writing sample as a final project in this class. Required texts: Whereabouts: A novel by Jhumpa Lahiri The
How do you move from 20 -50 pages of individual poems to a chapbook or book manuscript that you’re ready to send to publishers? This class will offer a range of methods for assembling a poetry collection, including questions and exercises that will help you identify themes in your writing, experiment with sequence and structure,
This course is for all levels of writers and readers; the only requirement is a desire to take a deep dive into the unique art of autofiction (autobiographical fiction). We will read and discuss excerpts from contemporary authors who write within the genre, such as Lucia Berlin, Tao Lin, Edouard Louis, Chris Kraus, Garth Greenwell,
Surrealist games are practices for circumventing our rational, reasoning mind to unlock unconscious or seemingly irrational forms of creativity. By using play, surprise, chance, and collaboration, we’ll write in ways that tap into our dreams, our imagination, and our intuition—the extraordinary spaces that help us move through challenging times. This in-person class will introduce you
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. Our 2021–22 season is SOLD OUT! We invite you to check back two weeks before each event on single ticket availability. Subscriptions for the 2022/23 season will go on sale Spring of 2022. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall,
Join us for an evening honoring our state's most accomplished writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, young readers, and graphic literature. We are excited to present an in-person awards ceremony for the first time in three years! The ceremony will be hosted by 2020 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction winner Kesha Ajose Fisher.
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.
This event is part of our Portland Arts & Lectures 2021/22 season. Our 2021–22 season is SOLD OUT! We invite you to check back two weeks before each event on single ticket availability. Subscriptions for the 2022/23 season will go on sale Spring of 2022. All dates are booked at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall,
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