portland-books

Portland Author Willy Vlautin Writes About Broken People, Fixing Themselves in a Broken Way

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tom Perrotta, Claire Messud and Lemony Snicket Come to Portland For Maybe Wordstock’s Biggest Line-up Ever

The line-up will also include more than 50-percent authors from the Pacific Northwest

Portland's Ursula Le Guin Just Got an Honor Only a Few Living Novelists Have Ever Received

Ursula Le Guin will receive an honor few other than Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, and Philip Roth have ever received.

Independent Publishing Resource Center Searching for New Home After 300% Rent Increase

Grixsen Brewery next door may take over space currently occupied by the IPRC.

Elizabeth Woody Named Eighth Poet Laureate of Oregon

Elizabeth Woody has been named Oregon’s new poet laureate by Gov. Kate Brown—the eighth to hold the post of Oregon poet laureate since 1921.

Portland Native Mitchell Jackson Wins $50,000 Whiting Award

Portland native Mitchell Jackson—who grew up on the rough streets of Northeast Fremont back when the streets of Northeast Fremont were rough—just picked up a $50,000 Whiting award following his breakout 2013 novel The Residue Years.

Willamette Weekend: 15 Things to Do and See in Portland March 18-20

Plan your weekend around DJ Anjali’s Punjabi hip hop mix, Slayer and Carcass, or a hilarious play about genocide.

Willamette Week

Most Read