UPCOMING EVENTS AND CLASSES

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, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.

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Upcoming Free Events

July 12, 2025
A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN: Jami Attenberg in Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
July 15, 2025
A Physical Education: Casey Johnston in conversation with Rebecca Grant
July 16, 2025
Oregon Literary Fellowships Online Information Session
July 17, 2025
Slamlandia – July
July 21, 2025
And After All: Melissa Locker in conversation with DJ Greg Glover
July 22, 2025
Orion Magazine’s Summer 2025 Issue Launch
July 23, 2025
Queer Community Write-In
July 24, 2025
Stafford Reading Challenge
July 30, 2025
Oregon Literary Fellowships Drop-In Information Session
July 30, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – July
August 8, 2025
Crafting Stories: Mark Roberts and Jon Raymond
August 22, 2025
EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Mariah Rigg
September 4, 2025
The Ghostkeeper: Johanna Taylor

Upcoming Ticketed Events

October 16, 2025
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Elizabeth Gilbert
October 23, 2025
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts
November 12, 2025
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Percival Everett
January 15, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Colm Tóibín
February 12, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Imani Perry
April 23, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Patrick Radden Keefe

Delve Readers Seminars

August 28, 2025
LEONORA CARRINGTON: SURREAL TRANSFORMATIONS
September 8, 2025
Henry James: The Bostonians
September 10, 2025
The Monstrous Feminine
October 15, 2025
Carl G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Writing Classes

July 12, 2025
PUTTING YOUR CREATIVITY FIRST
July 23, 2025
YALLAH! MUSLIMS WRITE: 3 MONTH WORKSHOP
July 28, 2025
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
August 4, 2025
The Art of the Gut Renovation: Revising as Rebuilding
August 5, 2025
Close Reading and Imitation: A Generative Workshop
August 6, 2025
Poems Against Decay: Online Writing Workshop
August 9, 2025
Writing A Picture Book Primer
August 16, 2025
Short Story: Take Two!
August 16, 2025
Making a Picture Book Dummy
September 3, 2025
The Art of Fiction
September 7, 2025
Grief Spiral: Writing Elegies Along a Curved Path
September 10, 2025
Nine Month Novel Intensive: Wednesdays
September 11, 2025
Nine Month Novel Intensive: Thursdays
September 16, 2025
Oulipo: Generative Experiments in Constrained Writing
September 27, 2025
To Have and Keep a Beautiful Mind: A Multigenre Writing Workshop
October 2, 2025
The Finish Line: Weekly Accountability
October 5, 2025
SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT: VISUAL POETRY WORKSHOP
October 7, 2025
Nature Writing Seminar
October 21, 2025
Tools for Nonfiction Narrative Writing
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