Romantasy Bookclub!

Blood Oath by Megan B Lee

Where: Parallel Worlds Bookshop

When: 630pm

SF+F Bookclub - Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le’Guin

When: Thurs Oct 1 @ 630pm

Where: PW!

Speculative Poetry: Weavings and Unweavings

Featuring readings by Brian U. Garrison, Katherine Quevedo & Haley Bossé

📅 October 6
⏰ 6:30–8:00 PM
🎟️ Free

Join us for an evening of speculative poetry featuring three local poets whose work explores imagined futures, fantastical worlds, identity, ecology, resistance, and everything that poetry can make strange and luminous.

Brian U. Garrison, Katherine Quevedo, and Haley Bossé will each take the floor for a featured reading, with their books available for purchase throughout the evening.

Come discover poetry from the speculative edges. 🔮📚

About the Poets

Brian U. Garrison (he/him) writes poetry for children, adults, and grand adults. His latest book, The Future is Antifascist, channels rage while pointing toward hope. His homage to Pluto and friends, Micropoetry for Microplanets, earned third place in the Elgin Awards. He serves as President of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and Managing Editor for Eye to the Telescope.

Katherine Quevedo was born and raised in Beaverton, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. She is the author of the Elgin Award-winning poetry chapbook The Inca Weaver’s Tales, the fantasy novella Thrice Petrified, and the forthcoming video game poetry chapbook Extra Lives in Verse, as well as a forthcoming full-length poetry collection. She is a Rhysling Award finalist and Pushcart Prize nominee whose poetry and short fiction have appeared in Asimov’s, Nightmare Magazine, Best of Utopian Speculative Fiction, and elsewhere.

Haley Bossé (they/them) is a queer writer and image artist concerned with ecological, bodily, social, and planetary systems. They are a founding editor of the Monarch Queer Literary Awards, editor of Eye to the Telescope: (non)binaries, and founder of the Eugene-based Mycelial Writers Workshop. Their writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Genrepunk’s Haunting Award, the Dwarf Stars Award, and the Rhysling Award. In 2026, they placed third in Passionfruit Review’s Being in Bodies Contest. Their first book, Aurora Comes Online, is available now from Game Over Books.

CRAFTERNOON: TWILIGHT BOOK BEDAZZLE

Our monthly Crafternoon just got a little more hoa hoa hoa. Join us for a Twilight-themed book bedazzling afternoon and glitz your favorite book into something even Edward Cullen would sparkle next to.

Bring a book to bedazzle, pick your sparkle, and make it aggressively Forks-coded.

🐀 Twilight vibes encouraged
✨ Bedazzling supplies provided
📚 Bring your own bookm (anybook, doesn’t need to be twilight hehe)
💎 $10 to participate

This is the skin of a killer, Bella... or the cover of a very sparkly book…..

Romantasy Bookclub

Author Talk: Tyler Jones x Wendy N. Wagner

Join us in celebrating Tyler Jone’s debut novel Depth Charge in conversation with Wendy N Wagner.

Books for both authors will be available for purchase and signing!