EVENTS + WORKSHOPS + READINGS
COMING UP!
READING: Works in Progress at Le Salon Rouge. From the Gong Show Writers Group with Holly Goodman, Doug Chase, Gigi Little, and Special Guests: Steve Arndt, Kerry Cohen, and Liz Asch. September 28th, 7 pm. DM for address
PAST
QUEER WRITERS READ: INCITE May 8th 7:00-8:30 pm Literary Arts.
PARADE/READING/CELEBRATION: A Sensous Earth Day Stroll and Poetry Affair. Join in an eco-sexy Earth Day event with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens and a variety of poets and artists. Bernal Heights Front, San Francisco. April 21st, 1:00-4:00 pm
READING: Saturday, Feb 17th, 6:30 pm. Bishop and Wilde Bookstore. 2601 NW Thurman. I’m hosting a Queer Hearts Salon with Martha Shelley, Sara Jaffe, Patrick Dundon, Joni Whitworth, and Donal Mosher. We will be reading steamy stories and our favorite sex scenes and love letters — of our own and by our queer forewriters. Please join us! Signed books will be available for purchase.
READING: Sunday, Feb 25th, 4 pm, Camas Gallery in the Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, Oreogn. Closing out the Queer Love visual art show with a special sensual, erotic, and honorary reading! Please RSVP (linked here).
VISUAL ART SHOW: February 2-25, 2024 Queer Love exhibition at the Salem Art Association. Visual Art in group show, opening Feb 2nd at the Camas Gallery in the Bush Barn Art Center.
COLLABORATIVE ART SHOW: Art/Lab Jewish Artists, June 1, Eastside Jewish Commons. Work will be on display May 22-June 29.
COHORT: Art/Lab Portland Jewish Artist for 9 months 2022-2023
PARTICIPANT: COALESCE Artists committed to Anti-Racism 2020-present
TALK: LEARNING LAB, HOPE: TELLING STORIES - 2/15/23 6:30 pm
Join Rabbi Josh and artist Liz Asch Greenhill as we delve into the power of narrative and changed perspective to generate hope. We will begin with a little text study (in English) and then a discussion about the profound power of narrative to help us reframe negative experience and generate hope. Drinks and snacks served. Please buy tickets in advance here.
WORKSHOP: The Opposite of Anxiety: Visualizations for Self-Regulation, with the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaboration, free, register here, Jan 17th, 2023, 6:00-7:30 PST, online on Zoom
READING: with LA Warman, Callum Angus, and Liz Asch at NATIONALE (SE 22nd/Burnside) THURS Dec 8th, 7 pm, RSVP @ Nationale
AUTHOR EVENTS: Orcas Island Literary Festival Panelist: “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” with Dao Strom, Frances Badalamenti, Danielle Frandina, and Emily Kendal Frey, 12:30 pm, June 4, 2022
WORKSHOP: Embodied Eros at Corporeal Writing Jan 11 and 18th, 2022, virtual
WORKSHOP: Embodied Metaphors at Corporeal Writing Feb 1st and 8th, 2022, virtual
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Big Queer Book Club
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Girl Boner Radio
INSTAGRAM LIVESTREAM CONVERSATION: with Lidia Yuknavitch and Stella Harris, Aug. 10, 2021 5:30 PST / 8:30 EST
READING: Nov 6, 2020 Virtual Reading with So To Speak: a feminist journal of language and art: 4:30 PST / 7:30 pm EST RSVP HERE.
READING: Coffee + Grief Series: group Zoom reading / May 14, 2020 / 7 pm PST / Find on Facebook to join
GUEST INSTRUCTOR: Eastern Oregon University MFA class / Embodied Creativity lecture / May 7th, 2020
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Mind Body Radio podcast, March 25, 2020
READING: On Thirst at Lilla Lit, February 2, 2020, Leach Botanical Garden, 4-6 pm, suggested $10 donation at the door
GUEST INSTRUCTOR: PSU Creative Writing MFA Program, 1/3/20, on bringing embodiment into the Creative Process
WORKSHOP: BUST: Breaking Up Stuckness Together @ Corporeal Writing, Portland, OR AUGUST 25th, 2019 10 am - 2 pm. Sign up HERE.
WORKSHOP: Creativity and Embodiment at the Sou’Wester Lodge // April 20th / 12-3 pm
WORKSHOP: Embodied Creativity at Corporeal Writing // A two-part workshop on Tuesdays January 22 + 29th, 2019 // 6:30-9:00 pm
WORKSHOP: Creative Embodiment: a Tool for Art, Self-Care, and Resistance // October 16, 2018 // Northwest Narrative Medicine Community Series / Lucky Labrador / 6-8 pm
READING: Collected Writers on Stephen O’Donell’s The Untold Gaze // Sunday November 4, 2018 // Legion Post 134
READING: PLONK / October 3, 2018 / 7 pm / Corkscrew Wine bar / a reading devoted to food / with Tabitha Blankenbiller and Kristin Berger
WORKSHOP: Embodied Creativity / July 12, 2018 / Golden Hour / 5-7 pm
PRESENTATION: Self-Care Now: Experiencing the Poetics of Embodied Lyric Language / Feminist Poetics & Emerging Pedagogies Conference / Los Angeles / May 12, 2018
READING: STORY BEAT LIVE! / Northwest Narrative Medicine Conference / Oct 21, 2017 / OHSU Center for Health & Healing 1st floor Atrium /5:00 – 8:00 p.m. / Light dinner & cash bar, tickets $25 at the door.
PARTICIPATION: SHARE / March 15, 2017 / SHARE is a bi-monthly event inPortland, Oregon that brings a small group of artists together to create in a shared space. Artists have two hours to create from a one-word prompt.
READING: GET NERVOUS
Ford Food + Drink // February 11, 2017 // 7 pm // Portland, OR / Get Nervous is a reading and performance series for folks with neuroses; anxiety, depression, that voice inside you saying you can't. Get Nervous thinks you can. And we're here to help you do it. Reading at Get Nervous #7 is Amanda Blizter, Bealleka Makau, Kate Gray, Liz Asch, Devon Malone, Melissa Dodson, Kate Aguilar
CLASS: EMBODIED CREATIVITY COURSE at PUGSPDX / Tuesdays 11/08-11/29 / SE Uplift // Link HERE.
ART SHOW: THRIVE MASSAGE & YOGA REFUGE / Artwork up October 1 - December 15, 2016 / 7831 SE Stark, Portland, OR
ART: SIREN NATION / Celebration! 10th Annual Festival Visual Art Show / November 3rd, 2016 / Portland 5 // 5 pm
READING: GRIEF RITES / October 3, 2016 // Legion Post 134 // Portland, OR / A monthly readers showcase about grief, loss, death and dying. Come ready to cry, laugh, listen and talk openly about grief and death. Storyellers: Mary Wysong-Haeri, Sarah Grubbs, Danielle Frandina, Amanda Cochran Helstrom-White, Jess Byers, Celeste Gurevich, Lesley Harper, Liz Asch, Leanne Grabel, Leslie Kimiko Ward.
READING: EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY / MFA cohort graduation
June 13, 2016 // Alumni Room // 7:30 pm / La Grande, OR
READING: UNCHASTE WRITERS
Literary Arts // November 18, 2015 // 7 pm / Portland, OR
DREAM CLOSET BOOK LAUNCH
Friday, November 13, 2015
NYC
READING: OREGON EAST
Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
Oct. 6, 2015 // Alumni Room // 7:30 pm
READING: TIMBRE: One night, Nine Writers
Sept. 9, 2015 // Legion Post 134, Alberta St. Portland // 7 pm
Featuring Hobie Bender, Matty Byloos, Holly Goodman, Tracy Grammer, Margaret Malone, Michael Sage Ricci, Bradley K. Rosen, Liz Fischer Greenhill, and more.
Admission is free. Donations accepted for Open Road Learning Community for Teens. These writers are veterans on the Portland literary scene except for Tracy Grammer, folksinger, stepping out here for her first public reading.
READING: EOU MFA STUDENTS
Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
Friday Oct. 18, 2014 // Alumni Room // 7:30 pm
READING: WORDS WE LOVE
Sunday Oct. 26th // Floyd's Coffee NW Couch // 6 pm
Join us for a unique kind of reading featuring an stellar lineup of local writers... who won't be reading THEIR words. Instead, they'd like to introduce you to other Oregon authors they think you should know (if you don't already!).Reading will be Doug Chase, Sean Davis, Emily Kendal Frey, Liz Fischer Greenhill, Amy Temple Harper, Kathleen Lane, Gigi Little, Margaret Malone, Liz Prato, Matthew Robinson, Edie Rylander, Domi J Shoemaker, Davis Slater and Suzy Vitello Soulé. Hosted by Stephen O'Donnell.
PERCEPTIONS JOURNAL RELEASE
McMenamin's Troutdale, May 22, 6-9 pm
READING: PORTLAND AT HEART
Portland at Heart is a literary reading event featuring writers that were born in Portland and left, were born an army brat before they ran away and called Portland home, were the many that came from Minnesota, Los Angeles, New York and all the places between but call Portland home.
Featuring authors Kathleen Lane, Margaret Malone, Colin Farstad, Charles Dye, Kevin Meyer, Brad Rosen, Liz Greenhill, Edie Rylander, Matthew Robinson and Michael Sage Ricci. Hosted by Gigi Little and Stephen O'Donnell.
April 6, 2014 // The Blue Monk // 5 pm
STORYTELLING: TALES OF UNCERTAINTY
An Evening of Storytelling, Beer, and Bluegrass Music.
Featuring storytellers: Brian Benson, Kerry Cohen, Liz Fischer Greenhill, Gloria Harrison, Joshua Kingsley, and Melea Seward. Music provided by the TaborGrass band
All proceeds from ticket sales benefit Rahab's Sisters.
March 8, 2014 // 2800 SE Harrison St. // 7:30 pm
STOREYTELLING: THE MYSTERY BOX SHOW
Portland’s only live storytelling series dedicated to featuring stories of sex and sexuality.
Feb 8, 2014 // Mississippi Studios // 7 pm
READING: BURNT TONGUE 7
Burnt Tongue is a quarterly literary event, created to honor the incredible writing teacher and literary patriarch, Tom Spanbauer, who founded Dangerous Writers.
Featuring writers Doug Chase, Emily Bingham, Domi J Shoemaker, Emily Bingham, Doug Chase, Jenny Forrester, Holly Goodman, Gigi Little, Michael Sage Ricci, Kevin Sampsell, Rv Branham, and Tom Spanbauer. (Liz Greenhill pinched hit for Lidia Yuknavitch.) Hoseted by Kevin Meyer.
Feb 15, 2014 // Crush // 5 pm
READING: AN EVENING OF LITERATURE
with the students of Lee Montgomery and guests
Emerging writers and students of Lee Montgomery, Melea Seward and Sterling Farris will read from their new book-length works in progress. They will be joined by poet David Melville and writer and artist Liz Fischer Greenhill.
Jan 14, 2014 // The Spare Room // 7 pm
ART: SIREN NATION
Group visual art show
Albina Press Hawthorne // Portland, OR
READING: BURNT TONGUE 5
Burnt Tongue is a quarterly literary event, created by Domi Shoemaker to honor the incredible writing teacher and literary patriarch, Tom Spanbauer, who founded Dangerous Writers.
Featuring Dena Rash Guzman, Suzy Vitello Soulé, Melea Seward, Matty Byloos, Trevor Dodge, Colin Farstad, Doug Chase, Liz Fischer Greenhill, David Ciminello, Domi Shoemaker, and Tom Spannbauer. Hosted by Michael Sage Ricci.
Aug 10, 2013 // Crush // 5 pm
READING: FOUL WEATHER WRITERS
Join us for fiction and poetry from Portland's Foul Weather Writers group and friends. Zach Ellis, Jo Ann Hongslo, Matthew Robinson, Edie Rylander, Courtney Sherwood, Davis Slater, Valerie Wagner, Doug Chase, Liz Fischer Greenhill, Kathleen Lane, and Jason Squamata.
June 24, 2013 // Backspace // 6 pm
READING: BURNT TONGUE 3
Featuring writers Adam Strong, Michael Sage Ricci, Elva Redwood, Jason Maurer, Margaret Malone, Liz Fischer Greenhill, Holly Goodman, Charles Dye, Doug Chase, Domi Shoemaker, Vanessa Veselka, and Tom Spanbauer. Hosted by Kevin Meyer and Colin Farstad.
Feb 23, 2013 // Crush // 5 pm
ART: REED OFF THE CLOCK
Group visual art show
Reed College, Portland, OR // Feb. 201