Each year in July, local publisher Tin House hosts its Summer Workshop at Reed College, bringing writers from around the country to Portland for a week of workshops and lectures. While much of the week requires an application and tuition, the evening readings from the workshop’s faculty are free and open to the public. Tin House’s curation is always remarkable, and this year is no exception: Authors such as Lauren Groff, Alexander Chee, and Portland’s Lidia Yuknavitch will take the stage at Reed’s outdoor Cerf Amphitheater. Every night of the reading series looks so promising—and so packed with some of the best, newest, and most established voices in literature—that you really can’t go wrong. But here are a few you should be sure not to miss.