Upcoming Events
December 2019
Slamlandia: December
Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam which meets on the second Thursday of each month. This mic provides a space that is creative, fun, and welcoming to all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets new and old…
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January Writer of Color Sunday Morning Workshop
Sunday, January 5, 2020 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Meets at Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington Instructor: Emilly Prado For writers of color at all levels Searching for a space to create new work with fellow writers of color? This…
Find out more »Building a Writing Habit
January 5 - February 9, 2020 Sundays, 10 a.m. to noon (6 class meetings) Meets at Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington Instructor: Kristina Tate For writers at all levels Using The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron as a resource, this…
Find out more »January Writer of Color Sunday Afternoon Workshop
Sunday, January 5, 2020 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Meets at Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington Instructor: Emilly Prado For writers of color at all levels Searching for a space to create new work with fellow writers of color? This two-hour…
Find out more »Winter 2020: Fear and Freedom In A Time of Distrust: Zadie Smith and Hunter S. Thompson
Mondays, January 6 – February 10, 2020 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. (six sessions) Guide: Benjamin Ficklin Where have the gonzo journalists gone? Who is proudly owning the biases of their bylines? What use to a readership is a novelist turning…
Find out more »Delve Winter 2020: Family, Identity, and Womanhood in the work of Min Jin Lee
Wednesdays, January 8-February 19,2020 (no meeting January 15) 6:30-8:30 p.m. (six sessions) Guide: Hannah Kim This seminar is offered exclusively for people of color. Seminar participants will receive one complimentary admission to Literary Arts’ Portland Arts & Lectures event with…
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Delve: Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Tuesdays, January 14 - February 4, 2020 6:30-8:30 p.m. (4 sessions) Guide: Christopher Rose, Tuition: $150 With the growing interest in speculative fiction, several writers have worked to deconstruct popular tropes to examine contemporary social issues. Octavia Butler’s modern classic,…
Find out more »DELVE: Women Write the West: Leslie Marmon Silko, Annie Proulx and Claire Vaye Watkins
Wednesdays, January 22- February 26, 2020 7:00-9:00 p.m. (six sessions) Guide: Danielle Frandina In this seminar, we will explore the works of award-winning contemporary writers Leslie Marmon Silko, Annie Proulx, and Claire Vaye Watkins and how they confront, disrupt, challenge,…
Find out more »February 2020
James X Preview
Corrib Theatre will give a sneak preview of their upcoming play James X by Gerard Mannix Flynn, which plays February 13 – March 1, 2020 at New Expressive Works (corribtheatre.org) Plaintiff James X confronts the defendants, Church and State, for…
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The Moth Mainstage in Portland
December 10, 2019
The Moth returns to Portland this December! This extraordinary performance will sell…
Slamlandia: December
December 12, 2019
Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam which meets on the…
Collisions: Short Story Workshop
January 14, 2020
January 14–February 18, 2020 Tuesdays, 7:00–9:00 p.m. (six sessions) Instructor: Josha Nathan…
Everybody Reads 2020: Tommy Orange
March 5, 2020
Literary Arts is proud to host an evening with award-winning author Tommy…
