Lilla Lit

10/05/2025

Starts tomorrow - would love to see some familiar Portland writer faces there

2 SPOTS LEFT • 20% OFF • 8 sessions $556 • BE LIKE THE TERMITES

10/05/2025

Starts tomorrow - would love to see some familiar PDX faces there!

2 SPOTS LEFT • 20% OFF • 8 sessions $556 • BE LIKE THE TERMITES

04/27/2024

The Content Bureau is growing, and we're looking to add a B2B editor with experience editing marcom and thought leadership content for C-level tech, business, and finance audiences. Part-time W2 with some benefits, competitive hourly rates, 5-25 hours/week as fits your schedule. Smart, sane, talented teammates. Enviable levels of flexibility.

Do you rewrite complex sentences in your head for fun? Got strong feelings about the serial comma? Defensible opinions on hyphenation? Finish the Sunday NYT crossword in under 45 minutes? Write me.

04/07/2024

* BE YOUR OWN MUSE *

Poetry Revision Intensive is back. Starts this Tuesday – weekly 4/9-5/21, via Zoom Writing Salon.

One of my favorite classes to teach. Join us!
Info and signup link in comments –>

12/19/2021

UPDATE: EVENT CANCELED

This evening's reading and Solstice celebration at Leach Botanical Garden has been canceled due to weather, Omicron, and {waves hands around} ... all this.

Stay safe and warm, everyone. Wishing you peace, comfort, and your choice of hot drinks, good books, and inspiring views.

12/18/2021

For everyone following along at home: The line after the cute little book emoji in today's email should read:

📚 Signed books make great gifts

NOT

📚 Signed books meat great gifts

11/12/2021

Saturday, , Booth 32. Be there.

Author signings:
9 AM: Katie Grindeland, Sara Tangerine Rivara
10 AM: Chelsea Biondolillo, Katie Grindeland, Sara Quinn Rivara
11 AM: Mary Rechner, Katie Grindeland
12 PM: Jackie Shannon Hollis, Mary Rechner
1 PM: Jennifer Perrine, Chelsea Biondolillo, Mary Rechner
2 PM: Armin Tolentino, Margaret Malone, Jennifer Perrine
3 PM: Rachel King, Armin Tolentino, Sara Quinn Rivara
4 PM: Jackie Shannon Hollis, Rachel King, Armin Tolentino



* Lilla Lit is supported by the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition and the Oregon Cultural Trust *

11/11/2021

Lilla is vaxxed, masked, and back at ! Stop by Booth 32 to say hi and pick up a signed copy from Lilla and Literary Bingo alums Chelsea Biondolillo, Katie Grindeland , Jackie Shannon Hollis, Rachel King, Margaret Malone, Jennifer Perrine, Mary Rechner, Sara Tangerine Rivara, and Armin Tolentino (author signing schedule in comments).

* Lilla Lit is supported by the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition and the Oregon Cultural Trust *

04/15/2021

Bon voyage to (Lilla alums) the Kates – Kate Gray and Kate Carroll De Gutes – and congratulations to new Incite: Q***r Writers Read hosts (Lilla alum) Jennifer Perrine and Vinnie Kinsella!

After three years of hosting and curating Incite: Q***r Writers Read, the beloved duo Kate Gray (tall Kate) and Kate Caroll de Gutes (bowtie Kate) will hand over the reigns of the series to poet, Jennifer Perrine, and author and publisher, Vinnie Kinsella.  Incite is a bimonthly reading series for ...

12/14/2020

Moss Rock Retreat has a few open days for your writing retreat in January. A perfect way to start the new year!

Moss Rock Retreat: Winter Special for Writers!

Looking for the perfect present for that special writer in your life? Or maybe you’re the one craving a few days alone to focus on your writing?

Welcome to Moss Rock Retreat, a tiny house created specifically for the solo writer's retreat. Hidden away in nearly an acre of garden, surrounded by majestic trees, Moss Rock provides the privacy and quiet so essential for writing.

Writing amenities include a comfortable office chair and desk, a library of writing reference titles and local authors, and a printer, if requested. In addition to the office nook, the tiny house has a full kitchen, a tiny bathroom, and a treehouse-like loft bedroom.

Best of all, for this writer’s special we’ve extended check-in and check-out times to give you the most writing for your stay: arrive as early as 8am, depart as late as 8pm!

Specifics of this Special:

Quick Revision Retreat: 3 full days and 2 nights, $100 + $25 cleaning fee ($125)

Deep Dive Retreat: 5 full days, 4 nights, $200 + $25 cleaning fee ($225)

Dates open for this special include:

January 1 - 8 (depart on the 8th)
January 20 - 30 (depart on the 30th)

Reserve by Sunday, December 20 to receive this special rate and make a creative start to your new year!

For more information, or to book your retreat, message Virginia directly.

10/01/2020

Congratulations to Perrine!

2020 -21 Guest Editor: Jennifer Perrine

09/24/2020

Got a novel idea or novel-in-progress? Are you a woman of color? Great opportunity for feedback, community, access:

Enroll in a 10-week college-level novel writing workshop via Zoom for 6-8 writers of color. ​ White people and people of privilege hold most of the power in publishing. I broke in a few years ago,...