• April 1, 2024
          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
          April 3, 2024
          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
          April 4, 2024
          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Melissa Matthewson

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Melissa Matthewson’s essays have appeared in Guernica, American Literary Review, The Rumpus, and Longreads, among others. Her work has earned an AWP Intro Journals award and has been listed as notable in Best American Essays. She is the author of a memoir-in-essays, Tracing the Desire Line, from Split/Lip Press (2019).

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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.