• October 3, 2023
          Pushing Through: Carrying Your Manuscript Over the Finish Line
          October 4, 2023
          One Page Wednesday- October
          October 5, 2023
          The Study and Practice of Autofiction
          October 5, 2023
          Bookmark: A fundraising gala for Literary Arts
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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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Tuesday

Oct 3

Fall 2023   In-person   Writing Classes  

Pushing Through: Carrying Your Manuscript Over the Finish Line

This six-week course is designed to help students finish a draft of a fiction or non-fiction manuscript. We'll read craft essays about drafting a book, set aside time each week to discuss problems we're having with manuscripts, and design a schedule for each student to ensure everyone addresses the issues specific to their draft. This

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Thursday

Oct 5

Sunday

Oct 8

Saturday

Oct 21

Wednesday

Oct 25

Fall 2023   online class   Writing Classes  

Writing For Television: Where to Begin

This unique course is designed for creative aspiring writers with no prior experience, as well as those with screenwriting experience, wishing to break into television writing. Learn in an interactive environment the basics of creating, writing, and presenting your first television script for both drama and/or comedy, including how to take your idea to the

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Friday

Oct 27

Fall 2023   online class   Writing Classes  

Grief and the Lyric Essay

Throughout history, writers have used lyrical techniques to access states of consciousness we associate with grief. Lyrical writing prioritizes music, rhythm, and emotion over the narrative arc. The goal of this course is to find entry into writing through reading, conversation,and various prompts and exercises to catalyze memory and thinking. We will consider how writers

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Monday

Oct 30

Wednesday

Nov 1

Fall 2023   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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Wednesday

Nov 1

Thursday

Nov 2

Saturday

Nov 4

Tuesday

Nov 7

Fall 2023   online class   Writing Classes  

Recharge Your Writing Life: Experiments & Strategies

Equal parts strategy, community, generative writing, and experiment, this class will help writers spark curiosity and deepen self-knowledge while crafting artistic habits that nourish. A good fit for writers who want to reimagine their creative life. We’ll discuss methods for working through blocks and rejection, rituals that refill the well, and ways to make time

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Thursday

Nov 9

Fall 2023   In-person   Writing Classes  

Finders, Keepers: Reclaiming Agency through Erasure and Collage

The hybrid genre of erasure and collage often exists between and because of two different mediums: text and image. Through obscuring a pre-existing text using various methods, an original work is created. Like erasure and collage, we as writers and community members exist between and because of various factors and people. What we amplify in

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Monday

Nov 13

Fall 2023   online class   Writing Classes  

Essaying the Essay

While we may know of essays as personal narratives crafted with creative storytelling techniques, essay as a verb means an attempt. In this six-week series, we’ll explore a variety of essays under the creative nonfiction umbrella in an attempt to expand our entry points to writing and in an attempt to build community. Our evenings

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Wednesday

Nov 15

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