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Events, Classes, and Seminars

Our events, classes, and seminars bring the community together to hear, learn, and discuss the most compelling issues and ideas of our day. We hope you will join us in our downtown Literary Arts space, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.

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Poetry   Portland Book Festival  

Designing Women: Tayi Tibble & Shelley Wong

Celebrate two exciting debut poetry collections. Poem by poem, Tayi Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation. Shelley Wong celebrates queer and Asian identity in "shape-shifting poems of becoming and knowing, seeing and being seen" (Electric Lit). Moderated by Alyssa Ogi.

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Portland Book Festival  

PDX Jazz Presents Cory Limuaco

Cory Limuacoe throws his full self into every performance, whether that’s working in the cosmic realm of Mae.Sun, blending neo-soul and fusion as a member of greaterkind, backing up superstar rapper Aminé, or deconstructing jazz and pop favorites with his own ensemble.

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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
Cover to Cover   Free Events  

PBF Cover to Cover: Lit-Mondo

Lit-Mondo is an improv comedy show inspired by prose, poetry, and other writing by local and traveling authors. A team of experienced improv comedians listen to short readings by authors and pull from the themes and ideas in their work to create hilarious original comedy scenes on the spot! 

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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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The logo for the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, featuring an umbrella and an open book.
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Fall 2023   online class   Portland Book Festival   Writing Class   Writing Classes  

STYLE AND THE SENTENCE

When it comes to writing short fiction and novels, the ideas we’ve absorbed about narrativizing from our outside lives often don’t apply. Even the most thrilling story, if written without a reverence to form, loses its audience quickly. In this seminar on literary style, we’ll study the most minute of authorial choices, coming to understand how subjectivity comes through on the subconscious level of the sentence.

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In-person   Portland Book Festival   Writing Class   Writing Classes  

The Unique Art of Autofiction

This is a three-hour, one-day intensive discussion on the unique genre of autofiction. This course will provide insight into the many nuances of autofiction, or autobiographical fiction. This “genre” involves writing that is based on real life experiences, but also utilizes fictional literary devices, making it  a very unique form.

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