Portland Book Week starts today!
Here’s the overview from the Portland Book Week website:
Spend a week exploring 60+ independent booksellers in the Portland and Vancouver areas.
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Bookstore Crawl – Visit as many local, independent bookstores as you can. Pick up a bingo card at any one of the participating bookstores.
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Literary Events – Check out the many literary events happening across town at various bookstore locations.
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Rose City Book and Paper Fair – Stop by the Rose City Book and Paper Fair at the end of this year’s book week.
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Raffles and Giveaways – Complete bingos for a chance to win prizes! Giveaways and discounts at select bookstores, too!
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Exclusive merchandise – Pick up an exclusive PBW 2025 tote bag at participating stores!
Here’s a message from Broadway Books‘ store owner, Kim Bissell:
We are gearing up for the second annual Portland Book Week celebrations from June 6th-15th! Grab a Bookstore Bingo card from us then visit some of the new, wonderful bookstores all over the city. We had a blast celebrating with you all during last year’s festivities and can’t wait for round two this year. Join us for one of our three literary events that week, the launch of the 2025 Broadway Books Summer Reading Challenge, as well as some fun give-aways and prize drawings. We feel blessed to be part of such a thriving local literary scene and are grateful for your commitment to shopping local for your books!
Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232
The Portland Book Week website has the list of participating stores and an event schedule. Print your own BINGO card or pick one up at a participating bookstore.
Booksellers from around the country will be in Portland during Portland Book Week for the American Booksellers Association Children’s Institute, too, so if you feel a powerful surge in the Book Force this week, you’re not imagining it.
