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Yallah! Muslims Write
Yallah! Muslims Write is a monthly workshop with the expressed intent to foster a joyful, supportive, and courageous space for self-identifying Muslim artists.
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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 community space and bookstore at 716 SE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.
Bookstore Free Events
Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in conversation with Trevino Brings Plenty
About the book: A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force–water–through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Summer 2025 Writing Classes
Write with Rachel
Join Rachel Attias for an afternoon of writing. Participants will spend time writing to a variety of prompts, sharing their work with classmates.Writers of fiction, memoir, and poetry are all welcome for this fun, focused afternoon.
PNCA Low Res Reading
Join the Pacific Northwest College of Art writers Stephanie Adams-Santos author of Dream of Xibalba, Megan Milks author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, Poupeh Missaghi author
Bookstore Free Events
Defiant Moments: Unyielding Queer Voices, Unstoppable Change
Literary Arts welcomes Our Bold Voices founder Paul Iorrobino and readers from the new Defiant Moments anthology: Noah Grabeel, Kyle Lang, Brandy Penner and Scott Strickland.
Free Events Oregon Literary Fellowships
Oregon Literary Fellowships Online Information Session
Featured
Questions about applying to this year's Oregon Literary Fellowships? Join us at this information session! Drop-in anytime between 3:00-4:00 p.m. Register in advance for this meeting here. Please contact Alexa
In-person Summer 2025 Writing Classes
Experiments in Fiction
In this six-week generative course we will read, watch, and listen to a wide range of sources—from traditional short stories to anonymous online forum posts, podcast excerpts, and short videos of people arguing at home or in the street. Each week we’ll discuss what story lives inside our experimental source, and will then come up with a prompt based on that source together.
For BIPOC Writers Free Events In-person
BIPOC Reading Series – June
This monthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color. Come listen to our featured readers, or sign
Free Events In-person
Slamlandia
Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month, on the third Thursday (although this month is an exception, meeting on the fourth Thursday!). This mic provides
Bookstore Free Events
Motherhood in Recovery
Join Claire Bernardo, Chelsea Bieker, and Meg Lucero for a conversation about the joys and challenges of motherhood and recovery.
Bookstore Free Events
ACCESS: Rebecca Grant in conversation with Zoë Carpenter
Join us for a timely conversation with two local journalists Rebecca Grant and Zoë Carpenter about Grant’s forthcoming title, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive
Bookstore Free Events
One Page Wednesday – July
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
Bookstore Free Events Oregon Literary Fellowships
Oregon Literary Fellowship Reading
Please join us for a special reading event featuring recipients of the 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowships. This event is free and open to the public. Featuring . . . Zoë
Free Events In-person
Incite: Queer Writers Read -July
Incite: Queer Writers Read is a curated, bimonthly reading series for Queer writers. Incite’s hope is to create conversation, connection, and greater understanding both within the Queer community and with other communities. Hosted by Vinnie Kinsella and Jennifer (JP) Perrine. The featured readers for July are JP Perrine, Grey Traynor, and Eliot Feenstra. The theme is
In-person Summer 2025 Writing Classes
Leading with Suspense: writing the unputdownable story
In this eight-week workshop, we will focus on leading with suspense to evoke curiosity and engagement. In our first class, we’ll discuss the craft of making big and little promises to the reader and fulfilling them in fresh but satisfying ways. Sterling examples of engaging openings from the canon will provide fodder for our discussion of how to captivate a reader. In our subsequent classes, we’ll workshop two student submissions per each class.
Bookstore Free Events
Drag Story Time with Starri Merryweather!
The Literary Arts bookstore is excited to welcome Starri Merryweather for a very special drag storytime! From the imagination of multi-hyphenate performance artist Sonnei Verbena, Starri Merryweather brings whimsy, heart
In-person Summer 2025 Writing Classes
PUTTING YOUR CREATIVITY FIRST
Putting Your Creativity first will feature a talk, writing prompts and group write-along, followed by a Q&A on the creative process, writing community, and business of art.
Bookstore Free Events
A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN: Jami Attenberg in Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Join us for a conversation between Jami Attenberg and Genevieve Hudson, discussing Jami's novel A Reason to See You Again.
Bookstore Free Events
A Physical Education: Casey Johnston in conversation with Rebecca Grant
A Physical Education traces Casey Johnston’s journey of calorie restriction and obsessive cardio—making herself small in almost every way—to finding healing through the (unexpected) practice of lifting weights. As she
Free Events Oregon Literary Fellowships
Oregon Literary Fellowships Online Information Session
Featured
Questions about applying to this year's Oregon Literary Fellowships? Join us at this information session! Drop-in anytime between 6:00-7:00 p.m. Register in advance for this meeting here. Please contact Alexa
Free Events In-person
Slamlandia – July
Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month, on the third Thursday. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary communities in
Bookstore Free Events
And After All: Melissa Locker in conversation with DJ Greg Glover
Just in time for the Oasis Live '25 tour, join us for a conversation with DJ Greg Glover and Melissa Locker on her latest book, And After All: A Fan
Bookstore Free Events
Orion Magazine’s Summer 2025 Issue Launch
Join Orion's deputy editor Tara Rae Miner with Erica Berry, Oregon Book Award–winning author of Wolfish; Julie Beeler, artist and author of The Mushroom Color Atlas; and Elan Hangens, mushroom
Online Class Writing Classes
YALLAH! MUSLIMS WRITE: 3 MONTH WORKSHOP
Yallah! Muslims Write is a three month workshop by and for self-identifying Muslim artists to join together in a joyful, supportive, and courageous space to share writing and foster community. It runs July-September.
Bookstore Free Events
Queer Community Write-In
Write, mingle, and be merry - The Literary Arts Bookstore and Cafe are excited to welcome local authors from the LGBTQ+ community for an evening of co-writing and and delicious
Bookstore Free Events
Stafford Challenge Anthology Reading
Join us for a night of readings from this year's Stafford Challenge Anthology! About The Stafford Challenge The Stafford Challenge is a yearlong international poetry project inspired by the daily
Online Class Writing Classes
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
In partnership with Alano Club of Portland, "The Break is a monthly virtual gathering of writers and artists lead by Kaveh Akbar, celebrating amongness, collaboration, and interdisciplinary creative experimentation. Though many of the activities and discussions orbit or are inflected by recovery themes (Akbar has been in active recovery for eight years), participants are not
In-person Oregon Literary Fellowships
Oregon Literary Fellowships Drop-In Information Session
Questions about applying to this year's Oregon Literary Fellowships? Join us at this information session! Drop in any time between 12:30 and 2:00 p.m.
Bookstore For BIPOC Writers Free Events
BIPOC Reading Series – July
Hosted by Kyle Yoshioka and Jessica Meza-Torres, this monthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color. The featured readers for
In-person Summer 2025 Writing Classes
The Art of the Gut Renovation: Revising as Rebuilding
This class is designed for nonfiction writers. Essayists, memoirists, and writers of literary reportage are all welcome. Please come with a complete early draft of a project — maybe it’s something fresh, or maybe it’s simply a piece on which you feel a bit stalled. By the end of the month, writers will emerge with a new set of revision strategies, and a clear path forward for revising their work-in-progress.
Bookstore Free Events
One Page Wednesday – August
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.
Free Events Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships Oregon Literary Fellowships
Oregon Literary Fellowships: Deadline to Apply
Deadline to apply for 2026 Oregon Literary Fellowships is Friday, August 8, 2025.
Bookstore Free Events
Crafting Stories: Mark Roberts and Jon Raymond
Join two accomplished storytellers, Mark Roberts, whose work spans the stage to screen with credits including Mike and Molly, Two and a Half Men, as well as his acclaimed plays, and Jon Raymond, known for his novels, teleplays and screenplays including Mildred Pierce, Meek’s Cutoff and Wendy and Lucy, for an in-depth conversation on the art of crafting stories for both screen and stage.
Online Class Summer 2025 Writing Classes
Short Story: Take Two!
Ideal for writers of short fiction and all levels, this fast-paced class will work on two drafts of the same short story to refine and review all the elements of craft, including character, tone, voice, and subtext from several different perspectives.
In-person Summer 2025 Writing Classes
Making a Picture Book Dummy
In this workshop, we will talk about all the ways a dummy can help your picture book writing craft, and then we’ll spend timing making them. You can use your own manuscript or an example text.
In-person Writing Classes
Writing A Picture Book Primer
This is a class to take if you’re new to writing picture books, if you’re curious about writing them, but don’t know quite where to start, or even if you’ve been writing for a while, but feel like you still have some unanswered questions.
Bookstore Free Events
Denali Sai Nalamalapu: Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance
Join us in welcoming Denali Sai Nalamalapu and the IPRC for a celebration of Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance. About the IPRC: The mission of the Independent Publishing
In-person Writing Classes
Ready, Set, Submit: Demystifying the Submission Process
Over the four weeks of this course, we’ll work to demystify the submission process. We’ll discuss how to find publications you’re excited to send your work to, set up personalized submission goals and to-do lists, and organize our own systems for keeping track of our submissions.
Free Events In-person
Slamlandia
Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month at Literary Arts, on the third Thursday. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary
Free Events Bookstore
EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Mariah Rigg
Literary Arts welcomes Mariah Rigg to celebrate her debut collection of short stories, Extinction Capital of the World. Mariah will be in conversation with Margaret Malone. About the book Magnetic,
Bookstore Free Events
Holly Capelle: Preserving the Seasons
Join us for a very special interactive event with local author Holly Capelle for her new cook book, Preserving the Seasons.Capelle will be joined in conversation by Liz Crain. About
For BIPOC Writers Free Events In-person
BIPOC Reading Series – August
This monthly reading series is intended to prioritize the safety, creativity, and stories of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color. Come listen to our featured readers, or sign
Delve Readers Seminars In-person
LEONORA CARRINGTON: SURREAL TRANSFORMATIONS
While better known for her extraordinarily imaginative paintings, the British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington was also a dazzling writer, conjuring stories that alchemically transform the banal and infuse the imagination
Free Events In-person
Theatre Diaspora Presents: A Staged Reading of Isabel
Join us for a special evening as local theatre collective Theatre Diaspora presents a staged reading of Isabel, a play by reid tang. This is event is free and open
In-person Writing Classes
Get Writing
Each week we’ll use new prompts and guided activities to inspire new creation. We’ll look at the work of writers we admire and ask: how’d they do that? As they say, writing is a muscle, and no matter what your experience level, you have to continually exercise that muscle and practice new tools to keep your writing nimble and moving.
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