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Presented as an official part of the Literary Arts Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program. Literary Arts is a non-profit literary center with the mission to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature. https://pdxbookfest.org/

See what happens when the written word meets improvised comedy! Kickstand Comedy teams up with the Portland Book Festival and local authors. Watch the city's best improvisers as they take inspiration from written works and the author's insights to create a fun and unique night of comedy. $0-20 sliding scale admission

Featuring readings by local authors Zaji Cox and Joshua James Amberson!

A writer since age nine, Zaji Cox’s work can be found in Pathos Literary Magazine, Entropy Magazine, Cultural Daily, CARE Covid Art REsource, the print anthology 2020: The Year of the Asterisk (University of Hell Press), and others. She has been invited to participate at several events including the PDX Poetry Festival, Survival of the Feminist reading series, Corporeal Writing’s LOOP, the 50th annual Northwest Folklife Festival, XRAY FM’s Amplify Women teach-in for International Women’s Day, and more. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English. Her hybrid-genre memoir, Plums for Months, was released in May of 2023 by Forest Avenue Press. http://zajitheartist.com/

Joshua James Amberson is a Portland, Oregon-based writer and creative writing instructor. He’s the author of Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes (Perfect Day Publishing), How to Forget Almost Everything: A Novel (Korza Books), a series of chapbooks on Two Plum Press, as well as the long-running Basic Paper Airplane zine series. https://www.joshuajamesamberson.com/

WHEN: Saturday 11/4 at 8:30pm / Doors at 8:00pm

WHERE: 1006 se Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214

COST: $15 tickets presale and $20 at the door. 

**Kickstand Comedy strives to eliminate barriers from comedy - a portion of seats at every Kickstand show are pay-what-you-want at the door.