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

February 6, 2026
Lamina + Infinity Crystals Installation: Portland Winter Light Festival 2026
February 11, 2026
February Write-In: Dreams
February 17, 2026
Karina LeBlanc: A Kid’s Book About Purpose
February 19, 2026
Slamlandia – February
February 24, 2026
An Evening of QTBIPOC Poetry
February 25, 2026
BIPOC Reading Series – February
March 3, 2026
Paige Thomas: Person Under
March 4, 2026
One Page Wednesday – March
March 5, 2026
Kim Fu in conversation with Emma Pattee
March 10, 2026
Scott Broker in conversation with Peter Rock
March 19, 2026
Slamlandia – March
March 25, 2026
BIPOC Reading Series – March
March 27, 2026
Devon Walker-Figueroa, Lisa Wells, Leni Zumas
April 25, 2026
Independent Bookstore Day 2026
May 14, 2026
Stephanie Fairyington: UGLY

Upcoming Ticketed Events

February 12, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Imani Perry
February 20, 2026
LitMic presents: LOVE IS MURDER
March 12, 2026
Everybody Reads 2026: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
March 26, 2026
Maggie Smith: A SUIT OR A SUITCASE
April 14, 2026
Planet Money: Live
April 20, 2026
2026 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
April 23, 2026
Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Patrick Radden Keefe
April 30, 2026
Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship 2026

Delve Readers Seminars

February 21, 2026
Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon
February 23, 2026
Fernanda Melchor: Paradais & Hurricane Season
February 25, 2026
The Waste Land in Our Time
April 12, 2026
Reading and Looking: Texts and Images
April 13, 2026
Alone, Together: The Short Works of David Foster Wallace
April 15, 2026
Marilynne Robinson: Home, Lila, and Jack
May 6, 2026
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems

Writing Classes

February 11, 2026
The Shape of a Life: An 8-week Memoir Intensive
February 17, 2026
Poetry and Obsession
February 23, 2026
Pushing Through: Carrying Your Manuscript Over the Finish Line
February 24, 2026
Humor Fiction Workshop
February 26, 2026
Feminist & Queer Approaches to Creative Writing
March 7, 2026
A Repository of Prompts: Creating New Work
March 14, 2026
Every Force Evolves a Form
March 21, 2026
The Writers Compass
March 28, 2026
Advanced Short Story Workshop
March 31, 2026
Writing the Emotional Truth
March 31, 2026
Novel Support: Weekly Check-In
April 4, 2026
THRUSH NOTES: Place-Based Writing and Poems
April 4, 2026
Writing with the Seasons: Spring
April 8, 2026
WRITING WITH TAROT
April 9, 2026
Haunted and Hybrid: Exploring Occult Ecopoetics
April 9, 2026
Write More, Feel Better: Resources, Routines, and Accountability
April 12, 2026
The Sijo: Crash Course in Traditional Korean Poetry
April 12, 2026
Small Stories, Big Meaning: a storytelling workshop
April 25, 2026
EPISTOLARY POEMS
April 25, 2026
Creating Vibrant Characters
April 26, 2026
The Sijo: Poetry Workshop in Korean Traditional Form
April 26, 2026
Bring Your Story to the Stage
May 4, 2026
Cosmic Versus Detail: Finding balance between the granular and big picture
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