Picture Book Portland Book Festival
Storytime: Maya’s Song
This unforgettable picture book introduces young readers to the life and work of Maya Angelou, whose words have uplifted and inspired generations of readers.
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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.
Fiction Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Neil Cochrane
Neil Cochrane pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with his novel, The Story of the Hundred Promises. Cochrane is paired with the artwork Tower by Seymour Lipton; found in
Nonfiction Portland Book Festival
La familia: Rafael Agustin & Ingrid Rojas Contreras [BILINGUAL]
Stories of the search to understand your family history—and your place in it—moderated by Lilly Gonzalez / Historias de la búsqueda para comprender la historia de su familia, y su lugar en ella, moderado por Lilly Gonzalez.
Nonfiction Portland Book Festival
Think Out Loud: Ducks
Acclaimed comic artist Kate Beaton discusses her debut graphic memoir with Dave Miller, host of OPB's Think Out Loud.
Picture Book Portland Book Festival
Storytime: The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella
Blast off in a new out-of-this world graphic novel series from the bestselling creators Hello!Lucky
Fiction Poetry Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: BIPOC Reading Series presents Dey Rivers & Zephaniah Sole
Dey Rivers and Zephaniah Sole pop-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with their original works. Rivers and Sole are paired with the artwork The Day I Saw the Wind
Poetry Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Marisa Siegel
Marisa Siegel pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her poetry chapbook, Fixed Stars. Siegel is paired with the artwork Door 5 by Theodoros Stamos; found in the Modern
Fiction Portland Book Festival
Escape Plans: Tess Gunty & Cecily Wong
Stories revolving around girls search for meaning in their lives against the end of the American empire, told with (often dark) humor, tenderness, and honesty. Moderated by Kimberly King Parsons.
Picture Book Portland Book Festival
Storytime: Tater Tales
Two spud siblings face off in a series of epic challenges in this first installment of a new and hilariously silly graphic novel chapter book series from the bestselling creator of the Narwhal and Jelly books.
Fiction Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her works, Livid and Unleashed. Emmons is paired with the artwork For the Love by Isaka Shamsud-Din; found in the Northwest
Poetry Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Genevieve DeGuzman
Poet Genevieve DeGuzman pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries. DeGuzman is paired with the artwork Dual Form by Barbara Hepworth; found in the Modern and Contemporary Art area, on
Fiction Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Marcelle Heath
Marcelle Heath pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her short story collection, Is That All There Is?. Heath is paired with the artwork Mike Russo and Sally Haley
Fiction Portland Book Festival
To Be Continued: Andrew Sean Greer & Tom Perrotta
Get ready to laugh and maybe cry with bestselling, award-winning authors Andrew Sean Greer and Tom Perrotta as they discuss their new sequels with Steph Opitz of Bookshop.org.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Magic Powers: P.C. & Kristin Cast and Aaron Durán
Something wicked this way comes... things get witchy in the new novel from superstar mother-daughter duo P. C. and Kristin Cast, about twin sister witches; and in the new graphic novel from Aaron Durán a young bruja reckons with her magical inheritance.
Fiction Portland Book Festival
Future Tense: Mat Johnson & Jon Raymond
Two novels explore our current moment through imagined futures: one on a moon colony populated by alien abductees, and one here on our home planet as the climate collapse accelerates. Moderated by OPB's John Notarianni.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
To the End, Through the Tunnel: 2021-22 WITS Student Anthology Launch
Each year, Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program publishes an anthology of exemplary student work. To the End, Through the Tunnel showcases poetry, prose, and journalism written by high school students from four Oregon school districts: Portland Public Schools, Parkrose, Gresham, and Woodburn. Students will read their work from the anthology. All proceeds from the sale of the anthologies goes back to support WITS programming.
Poetry Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Pop-up: YesYes Books with Nina Packebush and Shelley Wong
Nina Packebush and Shelley Wong pop-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with their original works. Packebush and Wong are paired with the artwork Open Country by Larry Poons; found
Fiction Portland Book Festival
Family Secrets: Lan Samantha Chang & Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In these new novels exploring the complications of family relationships, classics are reimagined and reinvigorated. Moderated by Fiona McCann, editor-in-chief of Portland Monthly
Fiction Poetry Portland Book Festival
Generations: Matthew Dickman & Emiko Jean
Very different books—a poetry collection, a novel—that grapple with shared questions about parenthood and childhood. Moderated by Alicia Jo Rabins, poet, musician, and author of Even God Had Bad Parenting Days.
Middle Grade Portland Book Festival
GraphixCon: Middle Grade Graphic Novels
Four amazing graphic novelists on one stage! Featuring Kat Fajardo, Gale Galligan, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, and Aron Nels Steinke.
Fiction Poetry Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Incite: Queer Writers Read present Nicky Nicholson-Klingerman & Tashon Phoenix
Nicky Nicholson-Klingerman & Tashon Phoenix pop-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries. Nicholson-Klingerman and Phoenix are paired with the artwork Chief Bundle by Ka'ila Farrell-Smith; found in the Northwest Art
Fiction Portland Book Festival
Homeland: Chelsea Bieker & Morgan Talty
New story collections of homeland, birthplace, and identity. Moderated by John Freeman.
Portland Book Festival
PDX Jazz Presents Adriana Wagner
Adriana Wagner is an up-and-coming trombonist and composer based in Portland, Oregon.
Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: NBF presents Fatimah Asghar, Tess Gunty, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, & Shelley Wong
2022 National Book Foundation award nominees Fatimah Asghar, Tess Gunty, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Shelley Wong pop-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with NBF's Ruth Dickey. The group is
Fiction Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Emme Lund
Emme Lund pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her novel, The Boy with a Bird in His Chest. Lund is paired with the artwork Off the Ground by
Middle Grade Picture Book Portland Book Festival
Illustrator Draw-off!
Join us for the first annual Portland Book Festival Illustrator Draw-off! Picture book and middle grade illustrators face off in a live drawing competition. You'll laugh, you'll cry with laughter, you'll cheer.
Poetry Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Los Porteños presents Cindy Williams Gutiérrez & Juan Antonio Trujillo
Cindy Williams Gutiérrez & Juan Antonio Trujillo pop-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries. Williams Gutiérrez and Trujillo are paired with the artwork For the Love by Isaka Shamsud-Din; found
Middle Grade Portland Book Festival
Finding Your Way: Jenn Reese & Renée Watson
Middle school novels of girls caught in the middle between friends, family, and new challenges.
Nonfiction Portland Book Festival
Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes
Join Robin Pecknold, lead singer of Fleet Foxes, in conversation with Brandon Taylor (Filthy Animals). With an introduction by Brandon Taylor, and an afterword by Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water is
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Mysterious Strangers: April Henry & Naz Kutub
One lie, two truths, and three wishes: in these YA novels, our heroes face very different mysteries to be solved. Moderated by Isabelle Ibibo.
Fiction Portland Book Festival
Nightcrawling: Leila Mottley & Mitchell S. Jackson
Leila Mottley discusses her debut novel, which Oprah Winfrey called "A soul-searching portrait of survival and hope," with Mitchell S. Jackson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Nonfiction Portland Book Festival
Boys & Girls in America: Melissa Febos & Hua Hsu
Melissa Febos discusses her essay collection with OPB's Jenn Chávez; and New Yorker writer Hua Hsu discusses his memoir with OPB's Tiffany Camhi.
Nonfiction Portland Book Festival
Inheritance: Ingrid Rojas Contreras & Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Captivating new memoirs exploring ancestry, art, and inheritance. Moderated by Sara Ortiz.
Fiction Pop Up Events Portland Book Festival
Pop-up: Jules Ohman
Jules Ohman pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her debut novel, Body Grammar. Ohman is paired with the artwork The Sea in Me by Mary Josephson; found in
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.
Picture Book Portland Book Festival
Making Picture Books: Cathy Camper, Nora Ericson, Sabrina Moyle, Carrie Tillotson
This event is geared toward anyone who is interested in the process of creating picture books, from readers to potential authors of all ages.
Middle Grade Portland Book Festival
Middle School Is a Horror Movie: Jonathan Hill & Colin Meloy
Anyone who has been to middle school knows it can be like a horror movie. These new novels take that idea to... extremes.
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.
Poetry Portland Book Festival
Reconstruction: Eloisa Amezcua & Courtney Faye Taylor
These two poetry collections use visual form and experimentation in language to explore very different subjects: boxing and marriage, racial violence and Black womanhood. Moderated by Anis Mojgani, Oregon poet laureate.
Picture Book Portland Book Festival
Making Picture Books: Vera Ahiyya, Margaret Chiu Greanias, Dane Liu, Tammi Sauer
This event is geared toward anyone who is interested in the process of creating picture books, from readers to potential authors of all ages.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Unlikely Allies: Emiko Jean & Casey McQuiston
Two superstars of both adult and young adult fiction on stage together! From a royal wedding to prom and graduation, our heroines team up with unlikely allies as they seek to make things right in Tokyo and small-town Alabama, respectively. Moderated by Jules Ohman.
Middle Grade Poetry Portland Book Festival
Think Out Loud: The Door of No Return
"Absolutely spellbinding: Kwame Alexander weaves together storytelling, poetry, music and history like no one else can. An unforgettable journey to be treasured and shared across generations.”—Rick Riordan, NYT bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series
Nonfiction Portland Book Festival
An American Martyr in Persia: Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan share the story of Howard Baskerville, whose story is widely known in Iran but mostly unknown in the United States. Aslan will be interviewed by Andrew Proctor.
Fiction Poetry Portland Book Festival
Still Life: John Freeman & Meng Jin
Poet John Freeman and short story writer Meng Jin explore the isolation and search for connection of the past few years. Moderated by Mindy Nettifee.
In-person Portland Book Festival Writing Classes
Kick-Start Your Picture Book
This class will take you from idea to rough draft in four hours. Picture books are so much more than stories with short text for young readers. We’ll study the
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