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Contributors to Literary Namjooning, issues 1 and 2, including Miriam, will share their work over Zoom.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hBI3hnH3TrahmS4hklDWQQ
Join Miriam for food, drink, and celebration of the late, great Cai Emmons and her posthumous novel, THE BELLS. Miriam and Cai’s husband, Paul Calandrino, will be reading excerpts.
Here’s what Miriam has to say about the book:
“If you are new to the work of Cai Emmons, prepare to be awed by her sentences and immersed in her world of ideas, as she grapples with goodness, faith, and forgiveness in The Bells. If you are a longtime fan of Cai’s, you will marvel at the gift she left us, a feat of generosity and imagination. What begins as a story about Niall, a lapsed monk now corralling a classroom of rowdy teenagers, soon transforms into an examination of making oneself whole in the face of a troubled past. Remarkably, though, The Bells, a book Cai finished on the day she died, is a story of life: how to live fully, embrace our messy complications, and swim toward love.”
Oregonian Dede Montgomery, Author of "A Map of Her Own," in Conversation with Miriam Gershow: Meet and Greet, Reading, Signing
Saturday, November 1, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Tsunami Books (2585 Willamette St Eugene, OR, 97405)
A free event
Books Available for Purchase
Join Miriam in River Road’s first annual book fair. It’s Scholastic for grownups! Music, food, gifts, and books. Miriam will be signing and selling her books. They make great gifts.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Join the Oregon Historical Society Sunday, December 7, 2025, as we kick off the holiday season with our annual celebration of Oregon’s literary talents. Chat with local authors and make a dent in your holiday shopping by picking up the perfect, personally signed book for every reader on your list. Get into the spirit of the season while you sip on hot cocoa, listen to holiday tunes from The Dickens Carolers, and enjoy being a part of this festive community tradition at the Oregon Historical Society!
Join Miriam at the northern Oregon coast for a reading at the Cannon Beach Library.
Through its NW Authors Speaker Series, the Cannon Beach Library hosts events that showcase writers of the Pacific Northwest. Authors read from their works and participate in discussions with the audience. Join us to meet award-winning and bestselling authors from the region. These events are free and open to the public.
Speaker events are at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoons September through May. Authors present in-person at the library while simultaneously being live streamed. Viewers may join us at the library, or watch from home. NW Authors titles are available to check out at the library.
This fundraising event for the Fern Ridge Library will celebrate its 13th year on Sunday, October 19 from 3:30-6:00 p.m. at the Fern Ridge Library. Mark your calendars and join in this celebration of books, wine, and community. Miriam will be reading, talking about her love of libraries, and signing books. A copy of Closer is included in the ticket.
More details from the Fern Ridge Library Foundation:
Join in a fun afternoon of inspiration and celebration of the literary arts highlighted by a reading by Miriam Gershow, your copy of her newest book—Closer, wine from Sarver Winery, tasty appetizers and dessert from Broadway Grill, and raffle prize drawings.
Admission to the 2025 event includes remarks and a reading by our author, catering by Broadway Grill, a copy of Closer, Gershow’s newest book, and a free glass of wine from Sarver Winery, beer, or other beverage. One raffle ticket will be entered in your name for the “Getaway” raffle.
Admission is $65 per person, $100 per couple.
Purchase tickets online here. Tickets may also be purchased at the Fern Ridge Library using cash or check.
If you can’t join us, don’t miss out. Purchase a Gift Bag! A $60 purchase will win you a copy of Gershow’s book and a bottle of red or white wine of your choice. Pick up at the library after Oct. 20.
Raffle ticket purchases may be made independently from event tickets. Purchase as many as you wish, no limits! Purchase event and raffle tickets online using your debit or credit card or by check or cash at the Fern Ridge Library.
The popular Getaway raffle prize is a $400 gift certificate to Overleaf Lodge and Spa in Yachats on the Oregon coast. With each admission event ticket purchased, one ticket will be entered in your name. Purchase additional raffle tickets to increase your chances!
Tickets cost $10 each.
The Fun Raffle prizes include tickets to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, gift certificates and packages from local shops, wineries, restaurants, and artists. Multiple drawings will be held for the Fun Raffle prizes.
Tickets cost $5 each.
Raffle ticket purchases may be made independently from event tickets. Purchase as many as you wish, no limits! Purchase event and raffle tickets online using your debit or credit card or by check or cash at the Fern Ridge Library.
Miriam will be visiting the Northwest Academy in Portland OR to discuss Closer.
Author bios are required as soon as you start submitting your work. This can be especially daunting early in a writing career. Learn best practices for writing your bio and draft several for a variety of purposes, including submissions, query letters, and websites.
The Southern Oregon chapter of Willamette Writers will meet at the Grants Pass branch of the Josephine Community Library on Saturday, October 11, from 1:00 - 2:30 PM.
Register here to join on Zoom
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event is postponed. Check back for updates.
Join Miriam with fellow Oregon Book Award 2025 finalist, Becky Ellis (Little Avalanches), for reading, conversation & book signing at Bold Coffee & Books in Portland.
Miriam talks about crafting multiple points of view in Closer with the wonderful Brown Bag Lit’s cohort of Lunch Break Writers, a weekly accountability group that Miriam has been a part of since 2024.
This event is over Zoom. Take part by joining Lunch Break Writers* (highly recommended for all writers of all genres) or email miriam [at] miriamgershow [dot] com for a one-time link.
*From Brown Bag Lit: “Lunch Break Writers is a weekly accountability group. The concept is simple: we’ll gather together once a week on Zoom for 90 minutes (every Wednesday, 12pm-1:30pm EST). We’ll spend the first fifteen minutes setting goals and sharing updates, then we’ll spend one hour writing in silence together (cameras off or on - the choice is yours but most people turn their camera off) before checking back in with each other for the final fifteen minutes. You can come for the entire 90 minutes or pop in late and leave early if you need to.”
Join Miriam Gershow at the downtown Eugene Public Library for this popular monthly reading series. She will be joined by the wonderful Mary Rechner.
Join Miriam for her return to the Southwest Washington Writers Conference on September 12 and 13, 2025 in Centralia, WA
Miriam will be teaching a three-hour master class on Friday: Successful Revision: Principles and Practices to Drive the Process
More details to come.
Conference details and registration: https://southwestwashingtonwriters.com/
Join Miriam in one of Lane County’s newest — and cutest — local bookstores for a reading and book signing.
Revision is the most important – and least explained – part of the writing process. In this workshop, learn about the principles that drive successful revision, see examples, and then take actionable steps toward revision in your own work. Bring a 5-10 page story or chapter draft.
Join Miriam at the downtown Bend Public Library for a reading from Closer, Q&A, and book signing.
Join Miriam as she welcomes Willy to Tsunami Books. Miriam will read a little, then Willy will read and play some tunes and tell some stories. Miriam is the Olivia Rodrigo to Willy’s Taylor Swift.
Join Miriam at Manzanita’s wonderful bookstore, Cloud and Leaf, for casual after-hours browsing, reading, book-signing, light snacks, and wine!
Join Miriam at the coast! She’ll be signing copies of Survival Tips at the wonderful Beach Books.
Join Miriam for a day of intensive writing and a crash course in publishing your flash fiction. Expect to come away with a handful of new stories and an overview of the ever-growing market for placing your work.
More details TC.
Celebrate the Portland Launch of Closer at Broadway Books, where Miriam will be in conversation with kick-ass novelist, folklorist, and Executive Director of Willamette Writers, Kate Ristau. Reading, conversation, Q&A and book signing.
Join Miriam for a reading, conversation with longtime local legend, Debra Gwartney, Q&A, and book signing for the launch of Closer. There will be drinks and snacks and merriment!
Join Miriam and Melissa Hart at the new Cottage Groove Books & Music in Cottage Grove for Independent Bookstore Day. We will be hand selling books we love to customers! Celebrate indie bookstores by coming to shop at one of the newest in our area.
Join the five Oregon Book Award fiction finalists for a reading in Corvallis. Brought to you by Literary Arts.
Miriam Gershow of Eugene, Survival Tips: Stories (Propeller Books)
Victor Lodato of Ashland, Honey (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers)
Kimberly King Parsons of Portland, We Were the Universe (Knopf/Penguin Random House)
Charlie J. Stephens of Port Orford, A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest (Torrey House Press)
Willy Vlautin of Scappoose, The Horse (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers)
Join Oregon Book Award Finalists in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction for a reading at Literary Arts’ new bookstore and event space in Portland.
Miriam Gershow - Fiction
Kimberly King Parsons - Fiction
Charity Yoro - Poetry
Valerie Witte - Poetry
Becky Ellis - Creative Nonfiction
Tim Palmer - Creative Nonfiction
Join the Oregon Historical Society Sunday, December 8, 2024, as we kick off the holiday season with our annual celebration of Oregon’s literary talents. Chat with local authors and make a dent in your holiday shopping by picking up the perfect, personally signed book for every reader on your list. Get into the spirit of the season while you sip on hot cocoa, listen to holiday tunes from The Dickens Carolers, and enjoy being a part of this festive community tradition at the Oregon Historical Society!
Due to the date of the Thanksgiving holiday, please note that Holiday Cheer will take place on the second Sunday in December!
Join Miriam and the other winners of Fractured Lit’s annual anthology. Judge Morgan Talty will read from his work.
Zoom link TC
Join Willamette Writers in Eugene as Miriam Gershow (Survival Tips: Stories) and Annie Gudger (The Fifth Chamber) discuss approaching book publicity as a way toward community building. They will share strategies - participating in online and in-person conversations with other authors, cultivating a reading series, courting area book stores, planning house parties, and creating public and private Facebook groups - that have helped spread the word about their books while also putting them in community of readers, writers, and book lovers.
Miriam will be heading north to Centralia, teaching classes two classes: 1. Writing flash to jump start your creative practice. 2. Figuring out your publishing path.
Do you feel stuck? Are you missing that spark? In this workshop, we will read and write several pieces of flash fiction as a way to loosen up your creative muscle, get ideas on the page quickly, and find the spark in your writing. This workshop is for new and experienced writers.
Registration through Deschutes Libraries.
Do you feel stuck? Are you missing that spark? In this workshop, we will read and write several pieces of flash fiction as a way to loosen up your creative muscle, get ideas on the page quickly, and find the spark in your writing. This workshop is for new and experienced writers.
Registration through Deschutes Libraries.
Join Miriam at Up Up Books for 90 minutes of reading and writing micro-fiction. You’ll come away with several new drafts of tiny stories!
$25 per person. Limit: 12. Register here!
Miriam Gershow and Stephanie Austin will discuss the messy intimacies at the heart of their recent books, Miriam’s short story collection, Survival Tips (Propeller Books) and Stephanie's nonfiction chapbook, Something I Might Say (WTAW Press). Whether it is the bonds between family, friends, or near strangers, they will examine how the muddle of contradictory feelings is often what reveals the truth.
Miriam will present on Survival Tips: Stories. The Works in Print series is open-to-the-public presentations by UO English faculty on their recently published books.
Diamond Lake Room in the EMU.
After you get your copy of Survival TIps signed 2-4pm at Beach Books, join Miriam for a 5:30pm reading at Seaside Public Library!
