"It was the first Wednesday of December and the last One-Page Wednesday of 2025. Hosted by Portland novelist Emme Lund (The Boy with a Bird in His Chest) at the Literary Arts bookstore, the free monthly event is an open mic that functions more like a public writers' group. Students, aspiring writers, and National Book Award-winning authors hang out and read aloud one page from a work in progress."
"Lund helped relaunch One-Page in person in 2022 after lockdown and soon became its host and public face. She liked the vulnerability it encouraged, and how watching accomplished writers share rough-hewn works pulled back the curtain for newcomers. (At Portland State University, Lund requires her students attend a live reading.) Her presence has an effect, too. She kicks off each gathering by reading a page of her own unfinished prose-lately, bits of her next novel."
One-Page Wednesday is a free monthly open-mic in a bookstore where participants read one page of a work in progress. The event gathers students, aspiring writers, and award-winning authors who share short excerpts aloud, creating a communal writers' group atmosphere. Hosts relaunched the in-person series in 2022 and now open each session with the host reading a page of unfinished prose. The format encourages vulnerability, peer learning, and permission to continue projects. Attendance ranges from two dozen people to a smaller audience, and featured readers sometimes include recognized literary names alongside newcomers.
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