Events

Do you love stories about kids or animals who save the day? Do you love to dance and color and play? We do too!

Come join Ali Shaw of Bold Coffee & Books for a fun storytime. Hear some stories, make some friends, and leave with art. What an amazing way to spend a Saturday!

Plus, 20% off children's books and $1 off hot chocolate on Saturday mornings.

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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

Monthly on every second Tuesday

Remember how great silent reading time was in elementary school? The melting away of distractions while you lost yourself in a great book? Now you can get that as an adult too!

Join us at BOLD for a silent reading party. Bring your book or buy one here. Grab a drink or pastry, and lose yourself in those pages.

Arrive around 5:00 if you want to meet other readers and share about the book you’re reading. The background music switches to classical and the reading begins at 5:30 p.m. More book talk afterwards, at 6:30.

Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

Wednesdays every week

Every Wednesday

No more procrastination! Bring your work in progress and join other writers for some dedicated time to get your words down.

Every Wednesday 5:00–5:30 Arrive, get comfortable, meet your fellow writers, and chat about your projects 5:30–6:30 Time to shut up and write!

Cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books (

https://boldcoffeeandbooks.com

) and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More (

https://www.indigoediting.com

). 

Thursdays every week

Do you love paper crafts? We do too!

This group is for people seeking consistent time to practice paper arts and crafts in a small, low-pressure group setting.

***Space is limited. Please RSVP on Meetup here.***

Every Friday

Join us for a writing/discussion group. This is a co-working meeting. If you are looking for feedback or critique, there are other meetings for that. The format is social chat for 15 minutes, silent write for an hour, chat for 15 minutes, repeat.

Hosted by Rose City Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at BOLD Coffee & Books.

BOLD is honored to host a reading with Brenda Miller, author of Love You, Bye: A Daughter's Journey in Essays and Poems, in conversation with Scott Nadelson, author of Trust Me. 

From award-winning writer Brenda Miller comes this stunning hybrid collection of essays, poems, and photographs about family, faith, and the art of saying goodbye. Essential reading for anyone navigating the complexities of aging parents, the mysteries of faith, or the simple courage required to keep loving in a world that often breaks our hearts. Join us for a reading and conversation. 

“Like light from a stained-glass window, this poignant reflection on daughterhood restores wonder to everything it touches. Miller sets her disparate shards of memory side by side, offering poems and lyric essays with a candid, generous hand until a shimmering portrait of hard-won adulthood emerges. Love You, Bye, honors not only her beloved parents, but the world as they taught her to observe it, with keen, unflinching, and joyous attention.” —Marjorie Sandor, author of Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime

Brenda Miller is the author of eight essay and poetry collections, and her work has received seven Pushcart prizes. She co-authored the popular textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, and The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World.

Scott Nadelson is the author of nine books, most recently the novel Trust Me, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction. He teaches at Willamette University and in the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 7:00 p.m.

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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

Do you love stories about kids or animals who save the day? Do you love to dance and color and play? We do too!

Come join Ali Shaw of Bold Coffee & Books for a fun storytime. Hear some stories, make some friends, and leave with art. What an amazing way to spend a Saturday!

Plus, 20% off children's books and $1 off hot chocolate on Saturday mornings.

*****

Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

Monthly on every third Tuesday

Join us for a monthly Q&A about all things publishing and books!

Join Ali Shaw—co-owner of BOLD Coffee & Books and owner of Indigo: Editing, Design, and More—for an in-person Q&A about the publishing process, the business of writing, and the book world in general. If you have questions about how to start your publishing journey, bring them! If you’ve always wondered about something more obscure, like how to tell if an antique book is a first edition or what librarians do at trade shows, bring those too!

Free and open to the public.

Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

BOLD is thrilled to host author, lay preacher, and activist Dr. Melissa Bird for a reading of her book, Leading from the Heart. 

During this event we will explore joyful activism and intuitive leadership and Melissa's call for all of us to engage our communities through love and compassion.

Leading from the Heart

We are at a precipice. And the old ways of leading, built on certainty, control, and the assumption that one person holds all the answers, are failing us.

Leading From the Heart is an invitation into what Dr. Melissa Bird calls the Graceful Revolution. Not the leadership of seven habits and five-step frameworks, but something older and more honest: the recognition that we are all grieving, that we do not have all the answers, and that the both/and is always richer than the either/or. Dr. Bird challenges leaders, CEOs, policymakers, and anyone in a position of influence to release binary thinking and lead from the soul outward.

This is leadership as a spiritual practice. As a collective act. What institutions are only now beginning to discover, communities have always known: that people do not want to be managed or assumed about. They want to be heard. They want connection. Sometimes, they just want hot lasagna.

Leading From the Heart is is a call for revolutionary compassion at the exact moment the world needs it most.

Dr. Melissa Bird is a descendant of the Shivwits Band of Paiutes and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. She is an internationally recognized lay preacher, author, healer, and podcaster who has spent nearly 3 decades teaching workshops on spiritual and social justice and revolution. She lives in Corvallis, OR with her family.

Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 7:00 p.m.

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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

BOLD is thrilled to host a reading with Clare Simons, author of To Be Here Is Immense.

A sensual, luminous book spanning continents, states of being, and the devastating cost of devotion, follows one woman's quest for love through art, activism, and spiritual surrender, and asks How do we go on in a world where nothing—not even the sacred—can be held?

Clare Simons was the press person for the terminally ill patients who defended the Oregon Death With Dignity Act against Federal attack at the U.S. Supreme Court. Simons’ essays have appeared in the magazines Parabola and Spirituality & Health as well as on the official Muhammad Ali website. 

Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 7:00 p.m.

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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

BOLD is thrilled to host a poetry showcase by the Attic Institute’s Poets Studio Cohort.

This poetry reading will showcase the work of 12 poets who recently completed the 2025-2026 season of "Poets Studio" at the Attic Institute of Arts & Letters in Portland, OR. Join us for a wide range of poetic styles and voices in celebration of these poets learning from one another and their instructor, David Biespiel (the Attic’s founder). 

Modeled after the famed Actors Studio, Poets Studio is a weekly workshop that runs for nine months, led by the Attic Institute’s founder, David Biespiel. Poets Studio provides a private place for poets to work together in the development, experimentation, and completion of new poems and sequences of poems. 

Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 7:00 p.m.

*****

Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

Monthly on every last Tuesday

Come meet other writers and enjoy a drink in this fun and informal setting to bond over the written (or still unwritten!) word.

5:00–7:00 p.m.

Drop in at your convenience. We'll be happy to see you and hear about your writing!

Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.

Monthly on every first Tuesday