About us
Welcome! We are a coffee shop bookstore located in SW Portland featuring great coffee and diverse books. We host readings and book launches on Friday and Saturday evenings, and children's storytime on Saturday mornings. We also host recurring write-ins, writing contests, and open mics. https://boldcoffeeandbooks.com
Upcoming events
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Silent Reading Party
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, USRemember 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.
17 attendees
Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, USEvery Wednesday
No more procrastination! Bring your work in progress and join other writers for some dedicated time to get your words down.
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 and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.
6 attendees
Author Reading: Queer-pocalypse! Dystopian Books by LGBTQIA Authors
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, USBOLD is thrilled to host Queer-pocalypse!, an author reading of dystopian books by Adam Andrews Johnson and more LGBTQIA authors.
Join us at BOLD Coffee and Books as we take the plunge into dark worlds with local queer authors of apocalyptic and dystopian fiction. Hosted by award-winning writer, Adam Andrews Johnson, and featuring several other local authors whose imaginative worlds will send your mind on bizarre adventures into the unknown. Join us for Queer-pocalypse!
Featured authors include host Adam Andrews Johnson, R. Lindsay Carter, the Inmara Fenumera, Jillian Moody, J.M. Halloran, and Cay Fletcher.
Adam Andrews Johnson is a queer author, local to PDX, who has released eleven books featuring lots of LGBTQIA characters in queer-normative worlds. He writes in multiple genres: horror, sci-fi, fantasy, fairytale, erotica, romance.
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.
4 attendees
Children’s Storytime: Layne Maheu and Chris Satterlund, Go Spellfish Game
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, USOLD is thrilled to host a special children’s storytime with Layne Maheu and Chris Satterlund, cofounders of Go Spellfish.
This extra-special storytime will feature a brand-new game called Go Spellfish!
Dive into a sea of letters and fun with Go Spellfish! Perfect for the little wordsmiths. This traditional 52-card deck of playing cards also plays ANY card game! Ages 4 and up.
Promotes spelling and cognitive skills through engaging play.
Transform family game night with Go Spellfish, where learning meets laughter. Watch your kids excel and enjoy every spelling triumph.
Go Spellfish is published by Eye Write It, and we'll be joined by cofounders Layne Maheu and Chris Satterlund for some awesome activities. It will be fun for all ages!Layne Maheu is the author of two literary novels, Song of the Crow, 2006, Unbridled Books and Man of the World, 2021, Chatwin Books. After decades of working as a carpenter, he’s turned his love of books into the love of teaching, and now works in education.
Chris Satterlund has been in the bookselling and publishing business for forty years, twenty-six spent as an independent bookseller and owner in two stores and fifteen years with Scholastic as a field rep. Her passion has always been children’s books. It’s where a person learns who they are in the world, by reading.
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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.
1 attendee
Past events
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