Tonight 6-8: Mini Sledgehammer Writing Contest at Blackbird Wineshop

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Mini Sledgehammer Writing Contest (Blackbird Wineshop, @7:00pm, 21+): Join Indigo Editing for their monthly Mini Sledgehammer Writing Contest, graciously hosted by Blackbird Wine Shop, every second Tuesday at 7 p.m. The contest is free to enter. Each event includes 36 minutes of writing guided by four writing prompts. Stories will be read aloud, judged, and the winner will take home prizes.

Other Book Events Today:

Morning Book Discussion Group (Tigard Public Library, @10:30am): Join others in a group discussion about The Whole World Over by Julia Glass.  Greenwich Village bakery owner Greenie Duquette’s coconut cake becomes the impetus for a cross country move to become the New Mexico governor’s chef.  This impulse decision to move west, leaving her husband in New York, and other events beyond Greenie’s control, will change to course of several lives.

Drash: Northwest Mosaic Release Reading (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Thieves, Nobel Prize winners, bus riders and prophets will spring off the pages of Volume IV of Drash: Northwest Mosaic. Editor Wendy Marcus, along with poets and writers from the newest issue of this annual Seattle-based literary journal, will read and rub shoulders at this event. Seattle TimesBook Editor Mary Ann Gwinn described Drash as having an “affinity for the texture of the everyday.” Its content tilts towards Northwest and Jewish themes, but it embraces writers and poets and readers of all persuasions. Scheduled to read at this event are Diana Brement, Jeanne Krinsley, Willa Schneberg, Devan Schwartz, Scot Siegel, Jack Turteltaub, and Sharon Lask Muson.

Science Fiction Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds. Join us!

Hugh Rowland (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In On Thin Ice (Hyperion), Hugh Rowland, star of the History Channel’s popular Ice Road Truckers, shares his story with his own salty humor: from how he got his start on ice roads to how he’s survived misadventures north of the Arctic Circle.

Tuesday Night Nourishment Book Group (Garden Home Community Library, @7:00pm): This month’s selection is Per Petterson’s “Out Stealing Horses”. New members always welcome to join our lively discussion & light refreshments. Books available in the library. See us at the check out desk.

Linda Greenlaw (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): The bestselling author’s sequel to The Hungry Ocean is a fast-paced account of her return to swordfishing. Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey, Seaworthy (Viking) is Linda Greenlaw’s compelling narrative about a person setting her own terms and finding her true self between land and water.

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You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.

Image credit Sledgehammer Contest.