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 5/29: Celebrate Noland Bo Chaliha’s book release for his latest collection, We Try to Touch Everything (May 2014). Readings to follow by Donald Dunbar, A.M. O’Malley, Rachael Jensen, Kelly…
Thursday 5/22: Kiera Cass, Kevin Emerson, and Amanda Maciel read from their respective works, The One (May 2014), Exile (April 2014), and Tease (April 2014). Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing,…
Thursday 5/15: Celebrate the May issue of PQ Monthly at their release party, complete with drinks and tunes. West Café, 5 p.m., free. Celebrate Portland’s bike culture with the launch…
Thursday 5/8: Join in with a book launch party to celebrate Annie Murphy’s latest book, Symbology (May 2014), a mega-mini-comic. Reading Frenzy, 6 p.m., free. Jenny Han and Morgan Matson…
Thursday 5/1: Portland author Trevor Blake reads from his latest collection of essays, Confessions of a Failed Egoist (March 2014). Mother Foucault’s, 5 p.m., free. Douglas Watson reads from his…
Thursday 4/24: Enjoy a cup of coffee at the Kaplan Storytelling Event, featuring Kaplan students reading from their latest stories. Glyph, 4 p.m., free. Lewis & Clark hosts its annual…
Thursday 4/17: Portland State University presents My Walk Has Never Been Average: A Staged Reading, based on a collection of interviews with Black tradeswomen. Lincoln Studio Theatre, doors open at…
Let’s say it’s Redwood City, California, in the year 2000. It’s just barely summer, May or June. I just got out of middle school, but maybe not, maybe I have a year…