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  • Portland Arts & Lectures: Masha Gessen

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Masha Gessen is a Russian American author, activist, translator, and journalist. They’ve written 11 books, including Surviving Autocracy, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction). They’ve written for many US publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The...

  • Everybody Reads: Javier Zamora Solito

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    In partnership with Multnomah County Library and the Library Foundation, Literary Arts is proud to host an evening with Javier Zamora as the culminating event of the Library’s Everybody Reads program. This year’s selection is Zamora’s memoir, Solito. Everybody Reads is an annual community-wide project that promotes shared reading and...

  • Portland Arts & Lectures: Emily Wilson

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Emily Wilson is a classicist, translator, professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of the bestselling translations of Homer’s The Odyssey and The Iliad (winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Literary Fiction and Classics). In addition to Wilson’s translated works, her other books...

  • Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, United States
    Verselandia! is the annual youth poetry slam championship presented by Literary Arts. It is the Grand Slam for the winners from individual school slams hosted by public high school librarians across the Portland region. Finalist poets compete for five great prizes. Celebrate Portland’s youth poets during our annual Verselandia! Youth...

  • Oregon Book Awards Ceremony

    Portland Center Stage at the Armory 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, United States
    The Oregon Book Awards program honors the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in the genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. The finalists for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards will be announced in January 2025, and the winners will be...

  • Pitch Black Showcase

    Portland Center Stage at the Armory 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, United States
    Pitch Black Showcase returns to Portland for a one-night celebration of Black ideas and brilliance. Experience powerful live pitches from Black founders, makers, and creatives sharing the ideas they’re building, dreaming of, and fighting for. This isn’t a competition. It’s a stage for possibility. The evening will also feature live...