What we’re about
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 (4+)
See all- Author Reading: Hillary Tiefer, The Secret RanchBOLD Coffee & Books, Portland, OR
BOLD is thrilled to host a reading with Hillary Tiefer, author of The Secret Ranch.
Hillary Tiefer will discuss her novel, The Secret Ranch, and the historical background of the story. She will share photos of real women in the Women’s Army Corps who intercepted enemy code during World War II at Two Rock Ranch near Petaluma, California. She will also focus on her main character, who reflects back to her experience of the war, which was painful but also offered her important insights. Hillary will do a short reading from the novel.
Hillary Tiefer has a PhD in English and has taught at various colleges in the Pacific Northwest. Several of her short stories have been published in literary journals. She has a short story forthcoming in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Sept./Oct. 2025). She lives in Portland with her husband.
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.
- Children’s Storytime with Zoey Abbott, This Year, A Witch!BOLD Coffee & Books, Portland, OR
BOLD is thrilled to host a special children’s storytime with Zoey Abbott, author of This Year, A Witch!
Join Zoey Abbott in reading her most recent book. This Year, A Witch! is a story about a girl who is tired of being adorable every Halloween, so she hatches a plan to be terrifying.
Zoey Abbott is the author/illustrator of six picture books and the illustrator of a handful of others. She loves writing and illustrating for children and their adults. Zoey lives in Portland, Oregon with her family and a big, shaggy dog named Carrots.
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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.
- Launch Party for FrizzLit Editions and Nobuko by Trisha ReadyBOLD Coffee & Books, Portland, OR
BOLD is thrilled to host a launch party for FrizzLit Editions and Nobuko by Trisha Ready.
Celebrate Trisha Ready’s groundbreaking Nobuko with FrizzLit Editions founder and editor Christopher Frizzelle and managing editor Audrey Van Buskirk.
Nobuko is the first release of FrizzLit Editions, a new independent publishing venture. It’s also the debut novel for Ready, a psychologist, essayist, fiction writer, and poet. Nobuko tells the story of a young American English teacher in the 1980s in Japan. She falls in love with a woman named Nobuko, who lives in a rustic cabin and makes teeth. There are subplots involving the yakuza, food, art, adventure, samurai swords, and various kinds of love.
Author Trisha Ready is a former managing director of Hugo House, where she founded a writing program for homeless youth.
Christopher Frizzelle was editor-in-chief of Seattle’s The Stranger from 2007 to 2016. Under his leadership, The Stranger won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. In 2020, he founded FrizzLit.
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.
