Curling up with a good book on a rainy day sounds perfect, right? But you’re thinking, “I don’t know what I want to read!!”
Enter Wordstock, Portland’s annual festival of books, writers, and storytelling. Now in its fourth year, the festival starts tonight with a poetry slam at the Bagdad Theatre in SE Portland as well as a graphic comic novel First Thursday event at the Fuzzy Glamour Gallery in NW Portland.
A list of nearly 200 authors who will be in town participating on panels and in the exhibition halls through the weekend is available on the Wordstock site. Panel discussion topics include publishing your first book, Queer Portland, and food writing. The panels as well as the exhibition will take place on Saturday and Sunday at the Oregon Convention Center.
Details such as where and how to buy tickets, schedule of events, that impressive list of authors and much more can be found on WordstockFestival.com.
This festival has something for just about everyone, so go forth and find that curling-up-worthy book!
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What are words for? How about expressing my annoyance that a website about a festival about words is trapped in a flash-based site on which I can’t turn off the background music?
Le sigh.
When I open the site, the music bar pops up on each slide along with a pause button to stop it. That said, I’m not a big fan of sites that auto-start, especially when the volume is pre-set.
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