Thursday 7/10: Join Julia Clare Tillinghast for a reading and launch party celebrating her latest book, Instructions Before Leaving Earth (July 2014). Reading alongside Tillinghast are fellow writers Julian Smuggles, Jay Stephen Nebel, Timmy Straw, and Rich Smith. IPRC, 7 p.m., free.
This month’s Ghost Town Reading features Oregon Book Award-winning poet Willa Schneberg and Clark County Poet Laureate Christopher Luna followed by an open mic. Cover to Cover Books, 7 p.m., free.
Historian Barney Blalock offers a lively account of Portland’s “Shanghaiing” maritime days in his latest book, The Oregon Shanghaiers (Apirl 2014).. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 7/11: The Portland Zine Symposium hosts a space-themed art show and reading with an amalgamation of local zinesters, including Ariel Birks, Kelli Callis, Gina Sarti, Joshua James Amberson, and many others. Floating World Comics, 6 p.m., free.
Poets Patricia Lockwood and Emily Kendal Frey read from their latest books, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (May 2014) and Sorrow Arrow (April 2014). Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Saturday 7/12: Day 1 of the 14th Annual Portland Zine Symposium. Check out over 150 tables worth of zines or take in a one of dozens of free workshops. Buy, share, trade, or sell zines at your leisure with hundreds of other zinesters. Ambridge Event Center, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., free.
Sunday 7/13: Day 2 of the Portland Zine Symposium. Ambridge Even Center, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., free.
Join author of Emily’s Blue Period (June 2014) Lisa Brown for a reading, signing, and print release party. Reading Frenzy, 3 p.m., free.
The Tin House Summer Writers Workshop welcomes Peter Mountford, Lacy Johnson, Bianca Stone, and Vanessa Veselka for tonight’s reading. Reed College Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $5.
Monday 7/14: The Show and Tell Reading Series welcomes Amanda Cochran Helstrom, Pecos Jett, and Leesa Thompson for their latest reading. Three Friends Coffeehouse, 7 p.m., free.
The Tin House Summer Writers Workshop welcomes Anthony Doerr, Ann Hood, and Dinaw Mengetsu for tonight’s reading. Reed College Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $5.
Tuesday 7/15: The Unchaste Readers Series hosts a night of readings by women writers. This month’s reading features Golda Swass, Elizabeth Hart, Kathryne Gargano, Camille Perry, Suze Pierce, Laura Lucas, Jamondria Harris, and Walidah Imarisha. The Jack London Bar, 7:30 p.m., free.
The Tin House Summer Writers Workshop welcomes Elissa Schappell, Kevin Young, and Jonathan Dee for tonight’s reading. Reed College Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $5.
Wednesday 7/16: The Penduline Reading Series welcomes Portland writers Meg Weber Jeske, Jessica Starr, Laura Green, Sally Lehman, Jessica Standifird, Suze Pierce, Bonnie Ditlevsen, and Diana Kirk for their latest reading. Common Grounds Coffeehouse, 7:30 p.m., free.
The Tin House Summer Writers Workshop welcomes Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Jo Ann Beard, and Mat Johnson for tonight’s reading. Reed College Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $5.
