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UPCOMING EVENTS AND CLASSES

Upcoming Free Events

One Page Wednesday – August

Oregon Literary Fellowships: Deadline to Apply

Crafting Stories: Mark Roberts and Jon Raymond

Slamlandia

EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Mariah Rigg

Holly Capelle: Preserving the Seasons

BIPOC Reading Series – August

Theatre Diaspora Presents: A Staged Reading of Isabel

The Ghostkeeper: Johanna Taylor

CLARIFYING YOUR NONFICTION BOOK CONCEPT

Incite: Queer Writers Read – September

Jade Chang: What a Time to Be Alive

Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris: Making Nonfiction Comics

Upcoming Ticketed Events

Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Elizabeth Gilbert

Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts

Timothy Snyder in Conversation

Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Percival Everett

Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Colm Tóibín

Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Imani Perry

Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Patrick Radden Keefe

Delve Readers Seminars

LEONORA CARRINGTON: SURREAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Henry James: The Bostonians

The Monstrous Feminine

Apuleius: The Golden Ass

Carl G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

ALBERT CAMUS: THE PLAGUE AND THE ABSURD HERO

Five Decades of Short Stories: The 70s thru 2010s

Writing Classes

The Art of the Gut Renovation: Revising as Rebuilding

Writing A Picture Book Primer

Short Story: Take Two!

Making a Picture Book Dummy

Ready, Set, Submit: Demystifying the Submission Process

Get Writing

The Art of Fiction

Personal Landscapes: The Braided Essay

CLARIFYING YOUR NONFICTION BOOK CONCEPT

9,131 Sentences: Reverse-Engineering Great Writing

Grief Spiral: Writing Elegies Along a Curved Path

Nine Month Novel Intensive: Wednesdays

Six Month Memoir Intensive

Nine Month Novel Intensive: Thursdays

Oulipo: Generative Experiments in Constrained Writing

Write the Self: Eight Week Online Intensive

Writing the Weird

Write the Self: Weekend Intensive

Scene Writing for Memoir

To Have and Keep a Beautiful Mind: A Multigenre Writing Workshop

The Finish Line: Weekly Accountability

SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT: VISUAL POETRY WORKSHOP

Nonfiction Book Pitches That Sell: Writing a Winning Proposal

Stealing from the best: A fiction writing technique class

Nature Writing Seminar

Writing Outside of the Self

Tools for Nonfiction Narrative Writing

Memoir Foundations: Writing the Truth Without Losing the Thread

Building worlds of Wonder: Speculative Fiction

Prompts and Play

WRITING EKPHRASTIC POETRY

Art of the Article Pitch

Every Force Evolves a Form