June 1, 2017
By Kate Jayroe, WITS PSU MFA Intern On Thursday May 25, 2017, WITS was happy to host Gresham High School’s end of residency reading at Origin’s Coffee, Tea & Desserts. Ten students read moving pieces of poetry, bold works of…
Upcoming Events
Words that Burn: a staged reading
June 26, 2017
Click here to RSVP for guaranteed entry. Space is limited. Words That Burn brings…
University of Hell Press Reading
July 6, 2017
Featuring Robert Duncan Gray and other University of Hell Press authors.
Oregon Literary Fellowship Deadline
July 10, 2017
July 10 is the deadline to submit an application for a 2018…
2017/2018 Portland Arts & Lectures
October 12, 2017
The 33rd season of Portland Arts & Lectures features some of the…
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts
October 25, 2017
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for our cocktail hour with dinner…
The Moth Mainstage
December 11, 2017
The Moth returns to Portland on Monday, December 11. This extraordinary performance…
Latest Blog Posts
May 30, 2017
We brought New York Times bestselling author P.C. Cast to Madison High School to visit with Brooke Bettencourt’s Language Arts class this week in the library, and everyone had a great time together. Cast has sold over 20 million copies of…
May 30, 2017
by Kate Jayroe, WITS PSU MFA Intern At our WITS student reading on Thursday May 11, 2017, students from Franklin High School read their work at the Bipartisan Café. The students filed into the café all at once, with proud…
Featured Lecture from the Archives
Malcolm Gladwell (Rebroadcast)
June 21, 2017
Nonfiction author and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell examines the idea of the underdog and why some people just won’t give up, despite the odds.