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

August 22, 2025
EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Mariah Rigg
August 25, 2025
Holly Capelle: Preserving the Seasons
August 27, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – August
August 28, 2025
Theatre Diaspora Presents: A Staged Reading of Isabel
September 3, 2025
One Page Wednesday – September
September 4, 2025
The Ghostkeeper: Johanna Taylor
September 6, 2025
CLARIFYING YOUR NONFICTION BOOK CONCEPT
September 10, 2025
Incite: Queer Writers Read – September
September 18, 2025
Slamlandia
September 24, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – September
October 9, 2025
Jade Chang: What a Time to Be Alive
November 6, 2025
Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris: Making Nonfiction Comics

Upcoming Ticketed Events

October 16, 2025
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Elizabeth Gilbert
October 23, 2025
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts
October 28, 2025
Timothy Snyder in Conversation
November 5, 2025
A Conversation with Kamala Harris
November 12, 2025
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Percival Everett
December 9, 2025
The Moth Mainstage in Portland
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
September 14, 2025
Apuleius: The Golden Ass
October 15, 2025
Carl G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
October 16, 2025
ALBERT CAMUS: THE PLAGUE AND THE ABSURD HERO
October 22, 2025
Five Decades of Short Stories: The 70s thru 2010s

Writing Classes

September 2, 2025
Get Writing
September 3, 2025
The Art of Fiction
September 3, 2025
Personal Landscapes: The Braided Essay
September 6, 2025
CLARIFYING YOUR NONFICTION BOOK CONCEPT
September 6, 2025
9,131 Sentences: Reverse-Engineering Great Writing
September 7, 2025
Grief Spiral: Writing Elegies Along a Curved Path
September 10, 2025
Nine Month Novel Intensive: Wednesdays
September 11, 2025
Six Month Memoir Intensive
September 11, 2025
Nine Month Novel Intensive: Thursdays
September 16, 2025
Oulipo: Generative Experiments in Constrained Writing
September 18, 2025
Write the Self: Eight Week Online Intensive
September 18, 2025
Writing the Weird
September 20, 2025
Write the Self: Weekend Intensive
September 24, 2025
Scene Writing for Memoir
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 6, 2025
Nonfiction Book Pitches That Sell: Writing a Winning Proposal
October 6, 2025
Stealing from the best: A fiction writing technique class
October 7, 2025
Nature Writing Seminar
October 13, 2025
Writing Outside of the Self
October 21, 2025
Tools for Nonfiction Narrative Writing
October 30, 2025
Memoir Foundations: Writing the Truth Without Losing the Thread
October 30, 2025
Building worlds of Wonder: Speculative Fiction
November 1, 2025
Prompts and Play
November 3, 2025
Starting the Short Story
November 4, 2025
WRITING EKPHRASTIC POETRY
November 12, 2025
Art of the Article Pitch
November 16, 2025
Every Force Evolves a Form
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