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Join Miriam for a reading, Q&A, and book signing for the launch of Closer. There will be drinks and snacks and merriment!
Celebrate the Portland Launch of Closer at Broadway Books, where Miriam will be in conversation with kick-ass novelist and story writer Mary Rechner. Reading, conversation, Q&A and book signing.
Join Miriam as she sits down with the dazzling writer and teacher Susanna Daniel to discuss Closer. Reading, conversation, Q&A, book signing.
Join Miriam in conversation with novelist and story writer Laura Thomas. Reading, conversation, audience Q&A and book signing for Closer.
Join Miriam for a reading with award winning story writer and novelist, Dan Chaon. Reading, conversation, Q&A, and book signing. Hosted by the Coventry Village Library with the help of Mac’s Back’s bookstore.
Closer is the July 2025 book club pick from Up Up Books. Buy your copy there and then come discuss it with Miriam and other readers. Stick around for a generative workshop on creating complex characters. Open to all readers and writers at all levels and genres.
5:30-6:15 - Book Club
6:15-7:45 - Creating Complex Characters, a generative workshop
Join Miriam for a day of intensive writing and a crash course in publishing your flash fiction. Expect to come away with a handful of new stories and an overview of the ever-growing market for placing your work.
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Join Miriam at the coast! She’ll be signing copies of Survival Tips at the wonderful Beach Books.
Join Miriam Gershow at the downtown Eugene Public Library for this popular monthly reading series. She will be joined, once again, by the wonderful Mary Rechner.
Miriam talks about crafting multiple points of view in Closer with the wonderful Brown Bag Lit’s cohort of Lunch Break Writers, a weekly accountability group that Miriam has been a part of since 2024.
This event is over Zoom. Take part by joining Lunch Break Writers* (highly recommended for all writers of all genres) or email miriam [at] miriamgershow [dot] com for a one-time link.
*From Brown Bag Lit: “Lunch Break Writers is a weekly accountability group. The concept is simple: we’ll gather together once a week on Zoom for 90 minutes (every Wednesday, 12pm-1:30pm EST). We’ll spend the first fifteen minutes setting goals and sharing updates, then we’ll spend one hour writing in silence together (cameras off or on - the choice is yours but most people turn their camera off) before checking back in with each other for the final fifteen minutes. You can come for the entire 90 minutes or pop in late and leave early if you need to.”
Join the Oregon Historical Society Sunday, December 8, 2024, as we kick off the holiday season with our annual celebration of Oregon’s literary talents. Chat with local authors and make a dent in your holiday shopping by picking up the perfect, personally signed book for every reader on your list. Get into the spirit of the season while you sip on hot cocoa, listen to holiday tunes from The Dickens Carolers, and enjoy being a part of this festive community tradition at the Oregon Historical Society!
Due to the date of the Thanksgiving holiday, please note that Holiday Cheer will take place on the second Sunday in December!
Join Miriam and the other winners of Fractured Lit’s annual anthology. Judge Morgan Talty will read from his work.
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Join Willamette Writers in Eugene as Miriam Gershow (Survival Tips: Stories) and Annie Gudger (The Fifth Chamber) discuss approaching book publicity as a way toward community building. They will share strategies - participating in online and in-person conversations with other authors, cultivating a reading series, courting area book stores, planning house parties, and creating public and private Facebook groups - that have helped spread the word about their books while also putting them in community of readers, writers, and book lovers.
Miriam will be heading north to Centralia, teaching classes two classes: 1. Writing flash to jump start your creative practice. 2. Figuring out your publishing path.
Do you feel stuck? Are you missing that spark? In this workshop, we will read and write several pieces of flash fiction as a way to loosen up your creative muscle, get ideas on the page quickly, and find the spark in your writing. This workshop is for new and experienced writers.
Registration through Deschutes Libraries.
Do you feel stuck? Are you missing that spark? In this workshop, we will read and write several pieces of flash fiction as a way to loosen up your creative muscle, get ideas on the page quickly, and find the spark in your writing. This workshop is for new and experienced writers.
Registration through Deschutes Libraries.
Join Miriam at Up Up Books for 90 minutes of reading and writing micro-fiction. You’ll come away with several new drafts of tiny stories!
$25 per person. Limit: 12. Register here!
Miriam Gershow and Stephanie Austin will discuss the messy intimacies at the heart of their recent books, Miriam’s short story collection, Survival Tips (Propeller Books) and Stephanie's nonfiction chapbook, Something I Might Say (WTAW Press). Whether it is the bonds between family, friends, or near strangers, they will examine how the muddle of contradictory feelings is often what reveals the truth.
Miriam will present on Survival Tips: Stories. The Works in Print series is open-to-the-public presentations by UO English faculty on their recently published books.
Diamond Lake Room in the EMU.
After you get your copy of Survival TIps signed 2-4pm at Beach Books, join Miriam for a 5:30pm reading at Seaside Public Library!
Join Miriam in conversation with geologist-writer DJ Green, whose debut novel, NO MORE EMPTY SPACES, is out from She Writes Press, April 2024. Miriam and DJ will talk about writing characters ever in search of home, and also the circuitous paths they each took to make their homes in the literary and publishing worlds.
Workshop: Creating Memorable Characters
In this hands-on writing workshop, we will practice creating complex, believable characters that will hook readers and keep them turning pages. Please bring your preferred way to write—a laptop or pen and paper—and be ready to jump into a number of short, creative exercises to bring your characters to life.
Join Miriam and four other writers for a virtual reading on grief. This is Miriam’s second time on Coffee Talk so she knows this reading is not to be missed. Wonderful writers with great glimpses into a universal topic. Miriam will be reading a short excerpt from Survival Tips.
Brought to you by Coffee, Grief & Gratitude hosts, and mother/daughter dynamo pair, Annie Gudger and Maria Gibson: “Come hear 5 wonderful writers read their grief words. This zoom event lasts about an hour and is guaranteed to be the best heart medicine.”
Zoom registration: Register here
It’s the Portland launch of Survival Tips at Up, Up Books in the Buckman neighborhood! Come for the reading and book signing. There will be wine!
Join the party for the launch of SURVIVAL TIPS (Propeller Books)! Eat some finger food, drink some wine (or non-alcoholic beverages), and celebrate this story collection 20 years in the making! At the gorgeous Wordcrafters headquarters minutes from downtown Eugene.
Come for the party! Stay for the reading, Q&A, and book signing!
Join us for readings from current and forthcoming Propeller titles, along with drinks, snacks, mingling, and Propeller literary trivia. Featuring Miriam Gershow (Survival Tips), Mary Rechner (Marrying Friends), Evan P. Schneider (A Simple Machine, Like the Lever), and Dan DeWeese (Soft Rock).
Started in 1999, and organized by writer Willa Schneberg, this annual event features readings by prominent Oregon Jewish poets and writers. The writers, who span a range of genres including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and essays, will share selections from their work.
This year’s featured authors:
Kerry Cohen
William Deresiewicz
Miriam Gershow
Marvin Lurie
Willa Schneberg
Join Miriam Gershow and Willamette Writers for a workshop on "The Joy of Flash: How Short Writing Can Jump Start Your Creative Practice." This event will be held in person at the Downtown Library. To join by Zoom instead, register in advance here.
Do you feel stuck? Are you missing that spark? In this workshop, we will read and write several pieces of flash fiction as a way to loosen up your creative muscle, get ideas on the page quickly, and find the spark in your writing. This workshop is for new and experienced writers.
Miriam Gershow’s debut novel, "The Local News," was hailed as “unusually credible and precise” and “deftly heartbreaking” by The New York Times, as well as “an accomplished debut” (Publisher’s Weekly) with a “disarmingly unsentimental narrative voice,” (Kirkus Reviews). Her debut short story collection, "Survival Tips," is forthcoming in 2024.
The Eugene chapter of Willamette Writers holds a workshop or presentation at the Downtown Library on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. from September through May, except for December.
