Find Write around portland anthologies on the shelves of your favorite bookstores For two decades, Write Around Portland has teamed up with some of the best Portland bookstores to diversify Oregon’s literary arts. Our free creative writing workshops bring in Portland writers from all walks of life – many of whom have never written in …
At Write Around Portland, we LOVE getting started.
We love putting our pens to paper and keeping them moving. But sometimes, a rewrite can be equally enriching.
That’s why, in 2023, we’re launching a revamped set of newsletters!
Our spring season of writing is underway.
Bryan Zentz’s speedy artwork and in-kind donation make our publishing program possible
We’re celebrating these friendly (and COVID-safe!) faces who accomplished a BIG milestone with us. They are newly minted volunteer Write Around facilitators, who completed 27 hours of training last month!
We’re cheering for Lora Lafayette, a writer from one of our very first workshops! Lora’s memoir, Possums Run Amok: A True Tale Told Slant was published to great acclaim and is now nominated for an Oregon Book Award!
We are thrilled to share our agency partners for Spring 2023!
We are so happy to share that Chris McDonald has accepted the role as Write Around Portland’s new Executive Director.
As you may have heard, we are currently searching for our next Executive Director! This is a rare opportunity to work with a warm and well-established nonprofit of 23 years that brings their values of respect, writing, and community into every action.
Change is in the air. We are excited to welcome two new positions to help us achieve our mission of respect, writing, and community even more profoundly.
