We have moved many of our offerings online! We hope you will join us.
An indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in an unraveling world, and a glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. Moderated by Alexander Chee.
Teen heroines find their voices and their power—thanks to strong female friendships, and at least a little bit of magic. Moderated by Emilly Prado.
This conversation series is intended to connect this critical moment to others in the past, establishing a link between the conversations folks are having now with the discussions that have been ongoing in Black writing communities.
Join us for a morning of story times with host Emily Arrow! Story time and craft videos from our picture book authors and illustrators will be available for on-demand playout, so that you can watch and participate at your own pace.
Explore cooperative exercises in this workshop aimed at encouraging shy writers and offering a variety of ways to look at subjects to stimulate every student. You will learn how to teach group projects that practice a range of writing techniques. We will write team poems, working together from brainstorming to polished pieces, and you will
Join bestselling author and illustrator Ben Clanton along with Narwhal and Jelly!
The beginning of two great middle grade series! It's time to team up at the Avengers Institute and the Tokyo Olympics... Moderated by Heidi Schulz.
Young writers will find an ordinary object, indoors or outdoors, that can magically transform into a portal to an altered universe! We’ll sketch it out and add descriptive words. Then we will use a guided visualization and literary models like The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Wildwood to help create a scene. It
Mythology infuses these middle-grade fantasy stories, the beginnings of exciting new series from acclaimed writers. Moderated by Kate Ristau.
Three dynamic Oregon high school artists will perform their work and discuss their experiences at the intersections of writing and activism in 2020.
Zoom webinar: Fear is a natural part of the creative process. Instead of fighting it, work with it. Through stories, mindfulness, and free-writing, you will discover simple, realistic ways to face your fear, get to know it, and use it to propel your writing, rather than hinder it.
Young adult novels about fighting for justice, which expose racism in the United States criminal justice system, and the injustices of immigration policies and the refugee crisis at the southern border.
For most of us, this year has made it hard to say all the things we want to share with family and friends who don’t live with us. Even if we get to stay in touch with texts or Zoom or TikTok, there are always more stories to tell! In this class, we’ll write about
Presented in partnership with Miami Book Fair. Watch at MiamiBookFairOnline.com.
Produced by Bay Area Book Festival in collaboration with literary festivals worldwide, including Portland Book Festival.
After a tumultuous year of protest, Hong Kong’s streets are quiet again following the adoption of the national security law on June 30. Join four experts for this indispensable analysis of the protest movement and its broader significance for freedom globally.
Listen to excerpts from the 2020 #PDXBookFest on OPB Radio!
Eisner Award–winning author Joe Sacco discusses his new book, a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world with OPB's Dave Miller.
Go behind the curtain of two quintessentially American worlds—baseball and Hollywood—in these novels about ambition, disappointment, family, and the possibility of a new story. Moderated by Jon Raymond.
Presented in collaboration with Black Mountain Institute, Literary Arts, The Loft's Wordplay, and Wisconsin Book Festival.
Priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture. Guy Raz in conversation with Sadie Lincoln, founder of barre3.
Obsession and lust, sex and death, preoccupy these sharp, wickedly funny novels about young women entangled in messy, obsessive relationships. Moderated by John Freeman.
Portland-based writer and filmmaker Juan Antonio Trujillo shares poems in both English and Spanish in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum. Trujillo is a member of the Los Porteños writing group, who are dedicated to raising Latinx voices and to raising awareness of diverse languages, canons, stories and cultures.
Portland-based writer, educator, and public speaker Octaviano Merecias shares an original poem in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum. Merecias is a member of the Los Porteños writing group, who are dedicated to raising Latinx voices and to raising awareness of diverse languages, canons, stories and cultures.
IRL friends and novelists talk about their new books, stories of coming out, running away, first love, and more.
In Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, she addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and... zombies. Pre-order from Powell's to attend.
The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together. Interview by John Notarianni of OPB.
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, blending fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. This event will be broadcast live on OPB radio.
A nourishing discussion about food and storytelling, in fiction and cookbook writing.
Portland-based writer Kesha Ajọsẹ Fisher shares from her Oregon Book Award-winning short story collection, No God Like the Mother, in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum.
Portland-based poet Susan Moore shares selections from her poetry collection, That Place Where You Opened Your Hands, as well as new pieces, in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum.
THIS EVENT IS PRESENTED BY OUR FRIENDS AT BROADWAY BOOKS. Broadway Books is thrilled to host a virtual event for the launch of Jacqueline Winspear's memoir.
A relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culture.
Two books which shed new light on history—and the present—by revealing often untold stories and reexamining some of our foundational "truths."
Corvallis-based writer Tracy Daugherty shares a selection from his new novella, High Skies, in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum.
Olivia Jones-Hall, Literary Arts' Youth Programs Coordinator, reads a selection from The Royal Abduls by Ramiza Koya in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum.
Contemporary YA romantic comedies about teens trying a new identity and grabbing the spotlight—and the girl. Moderated by Zan Romanoff.
An eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. Pre-order from Powell's to attend.
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
Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds.
A revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century.
What do you do when you’re the most famous people on Earth, your only education was in magical destruction, and your purpose in life is now fulfilled?
A moment of casual celebration and recovery, where Black writers and makers, from PDX and across the country share things that bring them joy in 2020. Hosted by Shayla Lawson. Featuring: Jericho Brown, Danielle Evans, Kim Johnson, Nate Marshall, Natasha Marin, Nicholas Nichols, Phillip B. Williams. Musical guest: Donovan Edwards.
This bimonthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color. This event will be hosted by Jessica Meza-Torres, Program Assistant for Programs for Writers. The theme this month is "Ghosts." Our featured readers are Chris Stuck and Jacqueline Fitzgerald. After our featured readers,
This event will be broadcast on Miami Book Fair's platform; register at MiamiBookFairOnline.com.
Listen to excerpts from the 2020 #PDXBookFest on OPB Radio!
Brian Komei Dempster's latest book of poems Seize focuses on his experience of raising a son who suffers from intractable epilepsy and pervasive developmental delays. Moreover, the book explores wartime incarceration, domestic/familial/racial tensions, and legacies of trauma and violence—along with paths towards resolution. Through juxtaposition, the poems link seemingly disparate events through a central metaphor:
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