We have moved many of our offerings online! We hope you will join us.
Learn more about the process of creating single panel cartoons through with some analysis, history, and hands-on crafting. New Yorker cartoons are amazing examples of minimalism. They usually are a
They say 99% of writing is showing up and doing the work. But writing is also about not getting stuck in the same old ruts. It’s about experimenting. It’s about
The novella has its own parameters, intricacies, and rewards. Together we’ll look at the novella’s histories, jewels, origins, and how its varying structures still feed into the overall design. Students
Portland Book Festival Virtual Events: Join us for five virtual events over five nights, November 8–12, 2021, presented by Bank of America.
This event is podcast only, and will be released on The Archive Project wherever you get your podcasts as part of the 2021 Portland Book Festival.
This three-hour intensive will focus on the poetics of place: even as we all move through places familiar and altogether new to us, have perhaps lockdown-lingered in landscapes we might
Portland Book Festival virtual events, presented by Bank of America, will feature variety-show style interviews. Each night, three authors whose work shares thematic connections will join remotely, and interviewers will be broadcasting live from Portland literary locations. Tonights event features: Donika Kelly & Christopher Rose; Kirstin Valdez Quade; Brandon Taylor & Genevieve Hudson
This event is podcast only, and will be released on The Archive Project wherever you get your podcasts as part of the 2021 Portland Book Festival.
What is collective grief? How can writing in communal creative spaces open pathways for us to explore what collective grief sounds like, feels like, settles like, heals like, and looks
We know how important sensory detail can be to writing, but after many months of teaching and learning online, it can be easy to feel disconnected from our bodies and
Portland Book Festival virtual events, presented by Bank of America, will feature variety-show style interviews. Each night, three authors whose work shares thematic connections will join remotely, and interviewers will be broadcasting live from Portland literary locations. Tonights event features: Aminder Dhaliwal & Tiffany Camhi; Nathan Harris & Gabriel Urza; and Maggie Nelson & Masha Gessen.
This event is podcast-only, and will be released on The Archive Project wherever you get your podcasts as part of the 2021 Portland Book Festival.
Six kids are ready to play: three speak English. Y tres hablan español . But all of them laugh alike and together! This clever playground adventure weaves together bilingual Spanish and English conversations, so two groups of children can express similar thoughts in their own languages. Join Carmen T. Bernier-Grand for this fun, online storytime with Multnomah County Library's Natasha Forrester Campbell!
This generative workshop will focus on the skills involved in creating and sustaining vibrant and complex characters. Through a series of in-workshop prompts and exercises participants will create and bring
Ever see a work of art and you want to tell the artist or the piece: I love it, or I don’t get it, or I don’t see myself in
Portland Book Festival virtual events, presented by Bank of America, will feature variety-show style interviews. Each night, three authors whose work shares thematic connections will join remotely, and interviewers will be broadcasting live from Portland literary locations. Tonights event features: Rita Dove & Mary Szybist; Lauren Groff & Andrew Proctor; Qian Julie Wang & OPB's Jenn Chavez
This event is podcast only, and will be released on The Archive Project wherever you get your podcasts as part of the 2021 Portland Book Festival.
There is a great temptation to airbrush ourselves on the page, to fill in the pockmarks of our flaws—and yet this leaves us not only less trustworthy, but less interesting.
In this class led by author Ruth Ozeki, we will explore ways that meditation and writing can work as complementary practices, opening our minds and imaginations and enriching our expression
“It was about time that I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer
Portland Book Festival virtual events, presented by Bank of America, will feature variety-show style interviews. Each night, three authors whose work shares thematic connections will join remotely, and interviewers will be broadcasting live from Portland literary locations. Tonights event features: Julia Cooke & Amy Wang; Ruth Ozeki & OPB's Dave Miller; Atsuro Riley & David Biespiel.
How can we ethically write about other people—and what does it mean to do it well? In this 3-hour virtual workshop, writers explore the craft of building nuanced characters, reckon
Portland Book Festival virtual events, presented by Bank of America, will feature variety-show style interviews. Each night, three authors whose work shares thematic connections will join remotely, and interviewers will be broadcasting live from Portland literary locations. Tonights event features: Jasmine Guillory & Kisha Jarrett; Danielle Henderson with Live Wire's Luke Burbank & Elena Passarello; and Devon Walker-Figueroa with Jennifer Perrine.
Get your pass for our one day in-person Portland Book Festival on Saturday, November 13, 2021. Please note: all attendees must provide proof of vaccination (OR negative COVID test within 72 hours of event) to attend.
Featuring contributors Jason Arias, Rene Denfeld, Juhea Kim, and Jesse Kwak with moderator Arwen Spicer.
A discussion about the way food shapes the way we experience the world, and who we are. Moderated by Liz Crain.
Two novels explore our contemporary crises through stories of people in the middle of them. Moderated by Andrew Proctor.
In this science fiction seminar, Matt Smith will teach students how to start brainstorming their stories. The nature of the genre often demands a lot of imagination, and the function
John D’Agata describes memoir as “an agitation of memory,” which suggests memory-based writing as not just the expression of memory but volatile, vital consideration of memory. In this workshop, participants
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation—a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls “one of his generation’s most original writers.” Best-selling author Gary Shteyngart discusses his new novel with Jon Raymond.
“The right book can change a person forever in a few hours time. Anyone looking for evidence to pair with this grand claim of mine should read Loaners immediately.” –Karen Russell, author of Orange World
Sonora Jha discusses her book, which Rebecca Solnit praised as “ beautiful hybrid of memoir, manifesto, instruction manual, and rumination on the power of story and possibilities of family," with Sarah Rothenfluch.
Dao Strom discusses her new multi-disciplinary project, Instrument/Traveler's Ode with fellow poet, musician, teacher, composer, and filmmaker Alicia Jo Rabins.
Dave Miller, host of OPB's Think Out Loud, interviews Kristen Radtke about her new graphic exploration, a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction.
Ash Davidson discusses her stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future, with Jacqueline Fitzgerald.
Stories about friendship, growing up, and growing apart with young adult novelists J. C. Geiger and Alissa Sallah. Moderated by Kate Ristau.
Louise Erdrich discusses her latest novel in this conversation with Trevino Brings Plenty. Purchase a copy of THE SENTENCE, along with your in-person festival pass, to attend.
These exciting new story collections tackle race and place and America with honesty and humor. Moderated by Margaret Malone.
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good
New poetry collections about homelands, generational trauma, what we inherit and how we face our current moment. Moderated by Erika Stevens.
Eli Saslow discusses his new book, a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from feeling afraid and overwhelmed to extraordinary resilient—told through voices of people from all across America.
Award-winning Portland chef Joshua McFadden (Ava Gene's, Tusk, Cicoria) discusses his new cookbook with bartender and cocktail expert Jim Meehan.
Each year, Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program publishes an anthology of exemplary student work. Connections in 1s and 0s showcases poetry, prose, drama, and comics written by high school students from Portland’s public high schools in 2020-21.
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale.
Current National Book Award Longlisters, Finalists, and potential Winners come together for a variety-style showcase of readings and interviews. Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation.
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