Readers & Writers

Join us every other Thursday at noon in Congress Square Park for Blurb Club, the book club where you might just find your new favorite book!

Are you unsure of what to read next? Our Reader’s Advisory staff is here to help! We’re ready to put our professional book-matching skills to work for adults, teens, and children.

Looking for creative inspiration? Join fellow writers for prompt-based writing time on the first and third Thursdays of every month. All experience levels are welcome. No registration required.

This is a writing group that meets each Saturday morning! This is for anyone who likes to write or would like to start. All skill levels, beginners to experienced, are welcome.

Signature MiMi (she/siya/they) is a poetic being, creative expressionista, nomadic sorcerer, and the eighth Portland Poet Laureate.

Yashaswini (Yashu) Derisala (she/her) is a young, brown, first-generation South Indian Telugu immigrant woman who is going to be a rising senior at Scarborough High School. She is the first Portland Youth Poet Laureate.

2024 will mark Portland Public Library’s Second Annual Scary Story Writing Contest! Time to get scary and enter for a chance to win a prize and showcase your story on our website. We want to be extra scared this Halloween, so send us your most bone-chilling story!

The seventh annual Reading Challenge is here! 24 books in 12 months: will you accept the challenge?

What happens on PPL’s 2×2 Tuesday? Poetry meets poetry, art meets art, mysteries meet mysteries, gardens meet gardens, how to make amazing pizza meets how to make amazing pizza, and more! On 2×2 Tuesday, we’ll highlight two books from two authors on one scintillating subject for your reading enjoyment.

The Portland Poet Laureate is an honorary position given every three years to a poet who resides in the Greater Portland area and wishes to connect our shared community to the wonderful world of poetry. Portland’s current eighth Poet Laureate is Signature MiMi, and the first Portland Youth Poet Laureate is Yashaswini Derisala.