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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
ON THE TENTH SEASON OF THE ARCHIVE PROJECT, ENJOY DISCUSSIONS FROM PORTLAND ARTS & LECTURES, PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL, AND OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS FROM OUR HOME IN PORTLAND, OREGON AND BEYOND.
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. His new novel, What Strange Paradise, was released in July, 2021 and won the Giller Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. It was also named a best book of the year by the New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR and several other publications. Omar lives near Portland, Oregon, where is on the faculty of the Pacific University MFA in Writing program.
The Future: Naomi Alderman
Douglas Stuart, in conversation with Omar El Akkad
2021 Oregon Book Awards
Madeline Miller, interviewed by Omar El Akkad
2020 Oregon Book Awards
Margaret Atwood in conversation with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad, Benjamin Percy, Lidia Yuknavitch
Reading Recommendations from Madeline Miller
Reading Recommendations from PBF Advisory Council
2019 Verselandia! Winners
2018 Oregon Book Awards Finalist: Fiction
2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipient Omar El Akkad
Books Submitted to the 2018 Oregon Book Awards
Announcing the 2017 Author Lineup for Portland Book Festival (formerly Wordstock)
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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
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