Olivia Olivia comes from the same place all sad things come from—the sea. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, The Establishment, Ex-Berliner, and the Portland Mercury, among other places. Her speculative memoir set in the afterlife, No One Remembered Your Name But I Wrote It Down, is available through Impossible Wings Press. Prepare yourselves. You can follow her work at oliviawrites.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
Thursday 8/20: PQ Monthly celebrates their August issue release party with drink specials and a chance to mingle with other readers, editors, and contributors. Crush Bar, 5 p.m., free. Local…
Thursday 8/13: Three Oregon-based writers, Matt Love, Tim Sproul, and Bill Hall read from their latest books. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free. Juliet Cardinal reads from her latest novel, An…
Thursday 8/6: Vanessa MacLellan reads from her latest book, Three Great Lies. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free. Saturday 8/8: A local author panel with Portland-based writers Nancy…
Thursday 7/30: Poets Kate Kingston and Carolyn Martin read from their latest work while accompanied by an artist talk by Lawrence Wheeler. Glyph, 5 p.m., free. Rinker Buck read’s from…
Thursday 7/23: Join Reading Frenzy for their inaugural event in The Logophile Reading Series. The lineup: Leni Zumas, Jenny Forrester, Melanie Alldritt, Nick Mattos, Katrina Carrasco, Nikki Lvne, Thea Prieto,…
Thursday 7/16: Wesley Chu reads from his new book, Time Salvager. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free. Steve Anderson reads from his new book, The Other Oregon: A…
Thursday 7/9: Rebecca Makkai reads from her latest novel, Music For Wartime. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free. Friday 7/10: Join Deborah Reed for the Portland launch of her novel,…
Thursday 6/2: Local author Jeannie Burt reads from her novel, When Patty Went Away. Another Read Through, 7 p.m., free. Friday 6/3–Sunday 6/5: Celebrate this 4th of July Weekend by…
Thursday 6/25: Lit Hop PDX, Portland’s Literary Barhopping Party, is hitting downtown and old town Portland this summer with 55 readings at 6 venues in 3 hours. The Rumpus and…
Thursday 6/18: Sue Schaefer reads from her debut novel, Now I Am Here Doing This. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free. Releasing the new season of his long-running, fairly epic, and…
Thursday 6/11: PQ Monthly throws their June issue release party and kicks off Portland Pride week. Vendetta Pdx, 5 p.m., free. Polly Dugan reads from her poignant new story, The…
Thursday 6/4: Nate Orton reads from his self-published collection of chronicles of Portland life, My Day: The First Ten Years. He is joined by friends and frequent collaborators Chris Ashby…