From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of July 3, 2010 through July 9, 2010 are: Saturday July 3- Happy 4th of July Weekend! Sunday July 4- Happy 4th of July [...]
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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 [...]
Tonight 5-23: Oolicon Open House at Portland State
Today’s Featured Book Event: Oolicon: Open House (Portland State, Smith Memorial Student Union, @10:00am, $10): Write to Publish is a two-day conference that aims to demystify the publishing process for writers of all levels of experience. Day two is “Open House Day,” featuring vendor booths and professional resources such as agents, editors, regional publishers, literary [...]
Add Your Book Blog to Reading Local: Portland!
Are you interested in attracting more readers to your Portland “book blog?” If so, you can now feature excerpts of your posts directly on Reading Local: Portland, with readers directed to your blog for the full post. These excerpts will get prominent billing right along with RLP’s main content. In order to not overwhelm the [...]
Tonight 5-3: 1000 Words Reading Series at The Maiden
Today’s Featured Book Event: 1000 Words: Quitting (The Maiden, @7:00pm): 1,000 Words convenes once again for another Monday night of literary revelry. As per usual, four writers agreed to write 250 words per week for the month leading up to the reading, this time on the theme “Quitting”. The writers also agreed, wisely or not, [...]
Today 5-2: Ed Lin at Murder by the Book
Today’s Featured Book Event: Ed Lin presents Snakes Can’t Run (Murder by the Book, @5:00pm): Following the success of This Is a Bust, the first in Ed Lin’s series, we find NYPD detective Robert Chow working on the murders of two Asian men. As an Asian-American cop, Robert knows Manhattan’s Chinatown. We, too, learn about [...]
Tonight 4-14: B. T. Shaw at the Milwaukie Ledding Library
Today’s Featured Book Event: B. T. Shaw (Milwaukie Ledding Library, @7:00pm): B. T. Shaw edits the poetry column for The Oregonian and teaches writing and literature at Portland State University and the University of Portland, as well as through writers-in-the-schools programs. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, FIELD, Orion, Poetry Northwest, the Seattle Review, Tin [...]
Tonight 3-31: Kevin Sampsell at Portland State University
Today’s Featured Book Event: Kevin Sampsell (Portland State, Smith Memorial SU, #238, @6:00pm): Kevin Sampsell reads from “A Common Pornography,” a memoir, told in vignettes, that captures the history of one dysfunctional American family. An extension of a 2003 “memory experiment” of the same name, “A Common Pornography” weaves recollections of small-town youth with darker [...]
Portland Book Events: March 20-26
From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of March 20, 2010 through March 26, 2010 are: Saturday March 20- 7th annual Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (University of Portland, 8:00am): Students [...]
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