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Join Miriam Gershow at the downtown Eugene Public Library for this popular monthly reading series. She will be joined 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 Miriam with fellow Oregon Book Award 2025 finalist, Becky Ellis (Little Avalanches), for reading, conversation & book signing at Bold Coffee & Books in Portland.
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Join Miriam in conversation with Oregon writers Scott Nadelson and Nancy Townsley, as all three talk about their real and imagined versions of Oregon in their fiction.
This fundraising event for the Fern Ridge Library will celebrate its 13th year on Sunday, October 19 from 3:30-6:00 p.m. at the Fern Ridge Library. Mark your calendars and join in this celebration of books, wine, and community. Miriam will be reading, talking about her love of libraries, and signing books. A copy of Closer is included in the ticket.
More details from the Fern Ridge Library Foundation:
Join in a fun afternoon of inspiration and celebration of the literary arts highlighted by a reading by Miriam Gershow, your copy of her newest book—Closer, wine from Sarver Winery, tasty appetizers and dessert from Broadway Grill, and raffle prize drawings.
Admission to the 2025 event includes remarks and a reading by our author, catering by Broadway Grill, a copy of Closer, Gershow’s newest book, and a free glass of wine from Sarver Winery, beer, or other beverage. One raffle ticket will be entered in your name for the “Getaway” raffle.
Admission is $65 per person, $100 per couple.
Purchase tickets online here. Tickets may also be purchased at the Fern Ridge Library using cash or check.
If you can’t join us, don’t miss out. Purchase a Gift Bag! A $60 purchase will win you a copy of Gershow’s book and a bottle of red or white wine of your choice. Pick up at the library after Oct. 20.
Raffle ticket purchases may be made independently from event tickets. Purchase as many as you wish, no limits! Purchase event and raffle tickets online using your debit or credit card or by check or cash at the Fern Ridge Library.
The popular Getaway raffle prize is a $400 gift certificate to Overleaf Lodge and Spa in Yachats on the Oregon coast. With each admission event ticket purchased, one ticket will be entered in your name. Purchase additional raffle tickets to increase your chances!
Tickets cost $10 each.
The Fun Raffle prizes include tickets to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, gift certificates and packages from local shops, wineries, restaurants, and artists. Multiple drawings will be held for the Fun Raffle prizes.
Tickets cost $5 each.
Raffle ticket purchases may be made independently from event tickets. Purchase as many as you wish, no limits! Purchase event and raffle tickets online using your debit or credit card or by check or cash at the Fern Ridge Library.
Join Miriam in River Road’s first annual book fair. It’s Scholastic for grownups! Music, food, gifts, and books. Miriam will be signing and selling her books. They make great gifts.
Join Miriam at the northern Oregon coast for a reading at the Cannon Beach Library.
Through its NW Authors Speaker Series, the Cannon Beach Library hosts events that showcase writers of the Pacific Northwest. Authors read from their works and participate in discussions with the audience. Join us to meet award-winning and bestselling authors from the region. These events are free and open to the public.
Speaker events are at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoons September through May. Authors present in-person at the library while simultaneously being live streamed. Viewers may join us at the library, or watch from home. NW Authors titles are available to check out at the library.
Join Miriam for her return to the Southwest Washington Writers Conference on September 12 and 13, 2025 in Centralia, WA
Miriam will be teaching a three-hour master class on Friday: Successful Revision: Principles and Practices to Drive the Process
More details to come.
Conference details and registration: https://southwestwashingtonwriters.com/
Join Miriam in one of Lane County’s newest — and cutest — local bookstores for a reading and book signing.
Revision is the most important – and least explained – part of the writing process. In this workshop, learn about the principles that drive successful revision, see examples, and then take actionable steps toward revision in your own work. Bring a 5-10 page story or chapter draft.
Join Miriam at the downtown Bend Public Library for a reading from Closer, Q&A, and book signing.
Join Miriam as she welcomes Willy to Tsunami Books. Miriam will read a little, then Willy will read and play some tunes and tell some stories. Miriam is the Olivia Rodrigo to Willy’s Taylor Swift.
Join Miriam at Manzanita’s wonderful bookstore, Cloud and Leaf, for casual after-hours browsing, reading, book-signing, light snacks, and wine!
Join Miriam at the coast! She’ll be signing copies of Survival Tips at the wonderful Beach Books.
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.
More details TC.
Celebrate the Portland Launch of Closer at Broadway Books, where Miriam will be in conversation with kick-ass novelist, folklorist, and Executive Director of Willamette Writers, Kate Ristau. Reading, conversation, Q&A and book signing.
Join Miriam for a reading, conversation with longtime local legend, Debra Gwartney, Q&A, and book signing for the launch of Closer. There will be drinks and snacks and merriment!
Join Miriam and Melissa Hart at the new Cottage Groove Books & Music in Cottage Grove for Independent Bookstore Day. We will be hand selling books we love to customers! Celebrate indie bookstores by coming to shop at one of the newest in our area.
Join the five Oregon Book Award fiction finalists for a reading in Corvallis. Brought to you by Literary Arts.
Miriam Gershow of Eugene, Survival Tips: Stories (Propeller Books)
Victor Lodato of Ashland, Honey (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers)
Kimberly King Parsons of Portland, We Were the Universe (Knopf/Penguin Random House)
Charlie J. Stephens of Port Orford, A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest (Torrey House Press)
Willy Vlautin of Scappoose, The Horse (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers)
Join Oregon Book Award Finalists in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction for a reading at Literary Arts’ new bookstore and event space in Portland.
Miriam Gershow - Fiction
Kimberly King Parsons - Fiction
Charity Yoro - Poetry
Valerie Witte - Poetry
Becky Ellis - Creative Nonfiction
Tim Palmer - Creative Nonfiction
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
