Tuesdays this September and October, the 6th Annual Zinesters Talking Series provides you with an opportunity to talk and interact with independent publishers sharing their work. For detailed listing of presenters and locations, see the Multnomah County Library website. Zines may be available for purchase. Space at library programs is limited. Seating is provided on [...]
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Reading Local Interview: Julia Holmes
Julia Holmes’s first novel, Meeks, is just out from Small Beer Press and has been getting plenty of attention. Publishers Weekly calls it “a highly imaginative debut,” and The L.A. Times says, “with humor and heartbreak, Holmes’ novel unfolds like a game in which the deck is irredeemably stacked.” Holmes’s eligible bachelors are mayflies: they [...]
Event Preview: Phil’s Fire Fund-The Great Northwest Bookstore Demolition Benefit
As you’ll no doubt recall, The Great Northwest Bookstore and it’s wonderful collection of rare and out of print books, went up in flames this past May. In an effort to help owner Phil Wikelund raise money to finish the demolition of the First Presbyterian Church that housed the store, McMenamin’s will host a benefit [...]
Event Preview: “Rock Out to Walk Out” with Powell’s Union
While on the picket line during ILWU Local 5’s first contract campaign, a tired Powell’s Books employee started a chant to lift the spirits of his fellow workers: “We like to party, but the fight comes first.” Now, after ten years, ILWU Local 5 (whose membership is comprised of workers at Powell’s Books and Aramark) [...]
1,000 Words Reading Moves To The Waypost For It's Next Installment: Excess
1,000 Words returns tomorrow (8-5, 7pm-9pm) for their inaugural reading at The Waypost (3120 N Williams). They’ll present the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: five exemplary local writers wrote on the theme EXCESS, penning 250 words per week in response to the theme and prompts created/found/stolen by series curator Mel Favara. The results, as [...]
Event Preview: 41st Annual Willamette Writers Conference
Many authors and aspiring authors are gearing up for the annual Willamette Writers Conference, coming up on August 6th-8th. The conference includes the opportunity to pitch ideas for screenplays and books to agents from national and local publishing houses, as well as workshops, a silent auction, and banquet dinners. For the third year in a [...]
Event Preview: Sid Miller and Alison Apotheker at 100th Monkey Studio
Trying to coordinate the development of the new site has been eating up the majority of my Reading Local time as of late, so I wasn’t able to get a calendar of events finished for this week. But I did want to make a quick note of a terrific poetry reading happening tomorrow evening (6-16) [...]
Save the date: Write to Publish conference this weekend
Ooligan Press’s awesome two-day Write to Publish conference is powering up for this weekend, May 22 and 23rd. The aim of the conference is to “demystify the publishing industry for writers,” and who better to do that than the folks at Ooligan? Here are a few highlights of what you can expect at Workshop Day [...]
Event Preview: Sheila Lowe at Murder by the Book
Be careful before signing anything in front of Sheila Lowe. The mystery writer is also a professional handwriting expert who testifies in trials and assists corporate human resources in hiring. Lowe will appear at Murder by the Book tomorrow (5-5) at 7:00pm, supporting her book Dead Write (Signet Books). Lowe is a successful fiction and [...]
Reminder: Loggernaut turns 5 tomorrow!
Don’t forget to get down to Urban Grind East tomorrow, Saturday May 1, to help celebrate Loggernaut‘s fifth anniversary. Hard to believe Loggernaut’s been hosting awesome readings for five whole years, but there you go. Tomorrow’s event will be an all-star cast including Chelsey Johnson, Rodney Koeneke, Barry Sanders, and Mary Szybist. The whole thing [...]
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