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Tuesday, September 15

Tue · Sep 15 · 5:30 PM

The Stories Behind Resurgam

Portland Public Library · Portland

Tuesday, September 22

Tue · Sep 22 · 6:00 PM

Living in Community Book Club: Y2K

Back Cove Books · Portland

Saturday, September 26

Sat · Sep 26 · 6:30 PM

Noir at the Bar

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Tuesday, September 29

Tue · Sep 29 · 6:30 PM

Making a Mystery

Portland Public Library · Portland

Wednesday, September 30

Wed · Sep 30 · 5:30 PM

Sustainable Neighborhoods with Troy Moon

Portland Public Library · Portland

Wed · Sep 30 · 7:00 PM

SONGS OF NO PROVENANCE: An Evening of Literary Conversation and Live Music with Lydi Conklin & Special Guests

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Thursday, October 1

Thu · Oct 1 · 5:00 PM

All Genres Book Club

Portland Public Library · Portland

Thu · Oct 1 · 6:00 PM

I Possess One Compass: A Reading in Community with Ladan Osman and Maine Poets

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Friday, October 2

Fri · Oct 2 · 5:00 PM

An Evening with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Saturday, October 3

Sat · Oct 3 · 6:00 PM

IN THE NEWS: You Can't Build What You Can't Imagine: adrienne maree brown on Movements, Power, and Political Possibility

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Sat · Oct 3 · 7:00 PM

An Evening with Min Jin Lee

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Sunday, October 4

Sun · Oct 4 · 5:30 PM

Food & Land: Writing from Rural Places

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Tuesday, October 6

Tue · Oct 6 · 5:00 PM

Book Bans: A Conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Tue · Oct 6 · 6:00 PM

Book Club: Other Minds

Back Cove Books · Portland

Wednesday, October 7

Wed · Oct 7 · 5:30 PM

A Reading and Conversation with Patrick deWitt

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Wed · Oct 7 · 5:30 PM

reWorks: A Collaborative Literary Art Project

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Thursday, October 8

Thu · Oct 8 · 5:00 PM

What Came Down in the Smoke: The 2026 Peggy L. Osher Visiting Artist Fellow Lecture with Summer J. Hart

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Friday, October 9

Fri · Oct 9 · 7:00 PM

Stories of Our Times: A Conversation with Justin Ellis and Virginia Eubanks

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Sunday, October 11

Sun · Oct 11 · 7:00 PM

Storytelling in Magazines

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Monday, October 12

Mon · Oct 12 · 5:15 PM

Author Reception

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Mon · Oct 12 · 7:00 PM

An Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Tuesday, October 13

Tue · Oct 13 · 7:00 PM

The Magic of the Spoken Word: Maine Authors and Their Audiobook Narrators

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Tue · Oct 13 · 7:00 PM

Booked: From Idea to Bookshelf

Back Cove Books · Portland

Thursday, October 15

Thu · Oct 15 · 5:00 PM

Creating Hattie and Hudson

Portland Public Library · Portland

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Thu · Oct 15 · 7:00 PM

Maine Chapbook Series Launch Party & Reading

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Wednesday, October 21

Wed · Oct 21 · 7:00 PM

In Relation: Poets & Writers on the Traditions that Shaped Them

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Tuesday, October 27

Tue · Oct 27 · 6:00 PM

Living in Community Book Club: Just Action

Back Cove Books · Portland

Wednesday, October 28

Wed · Oct 28 · 6:00 PM

A Celebration of Sarah Braunstein in The Best American Short Stories 2025

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Thursday, October 29

Thu · Oct 29 · 6:30 PM

We, the Missing Book Launch

Portland Public Library · Portland

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Thu · Oct 29 · 7:00 PM

Maine Chapbook Series Launch Party & Reading

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Thursday, November 12

Thu · Nov 12 · 5:30 PM

Portland Greendrinks Features MWPA

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland

Wednesday, November 18

Wed · Nov 18 · 7:00 PM

Universe, Vast Universe: A Fall of Freedom Event

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland