• May 21, 2024
          Oregon Literary Fellowship Reading
          May 29, 2024
          BIPOC Reading Series – May
          June 5, 2024
          One Page Wednesday: June
          June 13, 2024
          Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam (Prelims)
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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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Friday

May 20

Free Events   In-person  

Susan Rich and John Sibley Williams

Join us for a reading and conversation with Susan Rich and John Sibley Williams, to celebrate the launch of Susan Rich's new book. A Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems collects the essential and award-winning poems from Susan Rich’s four books of poetry along with a generous selection of unpublished work. Rich’s

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Saturday

May 21

Sunday

May 22

Thursday

May 26

Free Events   In-person  

WITS Writer End-of-Year Reading

Join us on Thursday, May 26 to celebrate the writers-in-residence and host teachers who make Literary Arts' Writers in the Schools program possible. Each year, Youth Programs hires local, professional writers to teach creative writing residencies in public high school classrooms. Our writers are so devoted to sharing their time, craft, and knowledge with students

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Saturday

May 28

Monday

May 30

Tuesday

May 31

Delve Readers Seminars   Online  

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and a Room of One’s Own

One of the most talented and prolific writers of her (or any) generation, Virginia Woolf published novels, short stories, plays, essays, reviews, a biography (of Roger Fry), and an impressionistic, vividly realized memoir. She is a central figure of modernism, admired for her innovative style and attention to craft. In this seminar we will read

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Wednesday

Jun 1

Free Events  

One Page Wednesday – June

Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! Our feature for June is Callum Angus. Click here to register in advance.

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Wednesday

Jun 8

Wednesday

Jun 15

Delve Readers Seminars   In-person  

White Teeth

Written when she was only 25 years old, White Teeth catapulted Zadie Smith into renown as one of the most exciting authors in the English language. This profound & humorous novel revolves around two families living as neighbors in Willesden, London: the English/Jamaican Jones family & the Bangladeshi Iqbal family. The families initially become intertwined

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