Thursday 10/30: Join contributors to Winged: New Writing on Bees for a book launch celebration. Readings by Michele Glazer, Adrienne Flagg, Annette Fisch, Kate Gray, Jennifer Moore, Leni Zumas, Lois Leveen, Paulann Petersen, George Venn, Marina Callahan, and John Beer. Literary Arts, 7 p.m., free.
Friday 10/31: Writers will be incapacitated by alcohol and candy consumption and thus unable to provide literary entertainment this Halloween! ENJOY!
Saturday 11/1: Cuban novelist Leonard Padura reads from his latest work. Note that the reading will be in Spanish with a simultaneous English translation. Glyph, 5:30 p.m., free.
Back Fence PDX presents Gone But Not: All Souls/Day of the Dead Stories and Other Events. Live stories from Vin Shambry, Brian Finkelstein, Matthew Dickman, Karen Finneyfrock, and hosted by B. Frayn Masters and Mindy Nettifee. Disjecta, 7:30 p.m., $20.
Sunday 11/2: Charles D’Ambrosio reads from his new and collected essays, Loitering. Disjecta, 7 p.m., free.
The Women of Color Zine Workshop panel welcomes Tonya Jones, Jamondria Harris, and Tessara Dudley to share their experiences and art with the public. Kennedy School, 4 p.m., free.
Portland Poetry Slam hosts their weekly reading. Glyph, 7 p.m., free.
Monday 11/3: Urban Waite reads from his latest book, Sometimes the Wolf. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 11/4: Salon Skid Row welcomes Jenny Forrester, Amy Temple Harper, Aubrey Lenahan, and Cinema Obscura for tonight’s reading, followed by an open mic. The Corner Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Rumpus columnist Kevin Thomas reads from his new book, Horn! The Collected Reviews. Reading Frenzy, 7 p.m., free.
Editor Kerry Cohen shares stories in Spent: Exposing Our Complicated Relationship with Shopping, alongside several contributors including Emily Chenoweth, Monica Drake, Kristin Thiel, Mel Wells, Nancy Rommelmann, Gigi Little, and Nan Narboe. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Wednesday 11/5: Elizabeth Lopeman, author of the new story collection Trans Europe Express, talks about travel, Europe, and the value of short fiction with Mary Rechner, author of the story collection Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.
