One Page Wednesday

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Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired. Our host is the one and only, Emme Lund. The featured reader for February is Karen Russell. NEW LOCATION: One Page Wednesday, along with all of our @Literary Arts free events, will now be taking place in the community space and bookstore at Literary Arts’ Central Eastside headquarters located at 716 SE Grand Avenue. Emme Lund is an author living and writing in Portland. She has an MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, TIME Magazine, The Rumpus, Romper, the Portland Mercury, and Autostraddle, among many other venues. In 2019, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction. Her debut novel, The Boy with a Bird in His Chest(Atria Books, 2022) was longlisted for the First Novel Prize from the Center For Fiction, was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award, named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed and The Portland Mercury, and was included on lists in The Washington Post, USA Today, People Magazine, The Advocate, Cosmopolitan, and Shondaland. Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the NYT bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the recipient of two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, and selected for the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” award and the New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list. (She is now decisively over 40.) She has taught literature and creative writing at many places, including the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Williams College, and the University of California-Irvine. She's a board member and volunteer for Street Books, a mobile-library for people living outdoors and a network of care built around a shared love of books. Born and raised in Miami, FL, she lives in Portland, OR with her husband and their amazing kids. Her new novel, The Antidote, is forthcoming from Knopf / Penguin Random House in March, 2025.