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.
Being alive is really a very strange endeavor. Bizarre coincidences, déjà vu, the fallibility of our own memory and perceptions, and inexplicable, seemingly magical occurrences are perhaps all more commonplace
Explore a survey of long fiction pieces, and examine the many threads that hold them together. We will discuss the state of longform writing in today’s literary landscape, and use generative prompts and in-class writing time to liberate ourselves from word counts in order to write toward whatever length our stories need to be. Students will finish the course with the beginnings of at least one longer piece of prose.
Students can work on one or two stories in greater depth, or come away with a handful of starts to many different stories. For beginner and intermediate writers looking to get their work off the ground in a supportive, creative community.
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.
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.
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.
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