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. Registration link TC.

Workshop: Creating Memorable Characters 

In this hands-on writing workshop, we will practice creating complex, believable characters that will hook readers and keep them turning pages. Please bring your preferred way to write—a laptop or pen and paper—and be ready to jump into a number of short, creative exercises to bring your characters to life. 

Join Miriam and four other writers for a virtual reading on grief. This is Miriam’s second time on Coffee Talk so she knows this reading is not to be missed. Wonderful writers with great glimpses into a universal topic. Miriam will be reading a short excerpt from Survival Tips.

Brought to you by Coffee, Grief & Gratitude hosts, and mother/daughter dynamo pair, Annie Gudger and Maria Gibson: “Come hear 5 wonderful writers read their grief words. This zoom event lasts about an hour and is guaranteed to be the best heart medicine.”

Zoom registration: Register here

It’s the Portland launch of Survival Tips at Up, Up Books in the Buckman neighborhood! Come for the reading and book signing. There will be wine!

Join the party for the launch of SURVIVAL TIPS (Propeller Books)! Eat some finger food, drink some wine (or non-alcoholic beverages), and celebrate this story collection 20 years in the making! At the gorgeous Wordcrafters headquarters minutes from downtown Eugene.

Come for the party! Stay for the reading, Q&A, and book signing!

Join us for readings from current and forthcoming Propeller titles, along with drinks, snacks, mingling, and Propeller literary trivia. Featuring Miriam Gershow (Survival Tips), Mary Rechner (Marrying Friends), Evan P. Schneider (A Simple Machine, Like the Lever), and Dan DeWeese (Soft Rock).

Started in 1999, and organized by writer Willa Schneberg, this annual event features readings by prominent Oregon Jewish poets and writers. The writers, who span a range of genres including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and essays, will share selections from their work. 

This year’s featured authors:

• Kerry Cohen

• William Deresiewicz

• Miriam Gershow

• Marvin Lurie

• Willa Schneberg

Buy tickets here

Join Miriam Gershow and Willamette Writers for a workshop on "The Joy of Flash: How Short Writing Can Jump Start Your Creative Practice."  This event will be held in person at the Downtown Library. To join by Zoom instead, register in advance here. 

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.

Miriam Gershow’s debut novel, "The Local News," was hailed as “unusually credible and precise” and “deftly heartbreaking” by The New York Times, as well as “an accomplished debut” (Publisher’s Weekly) with a “disarmingly unsentimental narrative voice,” (Kirkus Reviews). Her debut short story collection, "Survival Tips," is forthcoming in 2024.

The Eugene chapter of Willamette Writers holds a workshop or presentation at the Downtown Library on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. from September through May, except for December.