All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Call for Submissions Deadline of May 28 for Hombre Lobo Online
Announcement by Viva Padilla of Call for Submissions: real stories about spooky experiences for online zine HOMBRE LOBO dryland.org/hombre-lobo.
Send these goths your story about your real spooky experiences to be published in on online zine. Link for submissions is given at FB site below.
Where: Online deadline/event
Date: May submissions period ends this week
Time: Present – May 28 at 1am
Address: Submissions announcement/event (see website link for information)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/233703604712555/
Encyclopedia Brown Chapter Read Alouds by HBPL – Kids Event
Join us for Facebook Live readings of Encyclopedia Brown mysteries from the series by author Donald Sobol, read by Miss Barbara of HBPL. Will you be able to solve the mystery before he does?
This series is offered Mondays & Wednesdays, and ends May 27th.
Where: Library Facebook Online
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Library Facebook Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1303006029890408/
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Jessica Dolby focuses on generating creativity and writing fiction, including narrative technique, language, characterization, plot, POV, and the realization of an idea. Bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction for critique and discussion.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/
Creativity Unleashed – Artist’s Way Workshop
This ongoing 8-week workshop based on Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way, will tap into the source of your creative nature in a comfortable, playful, and communal environment.
These are Tuesday Mornings and Evenings series, April 21 – June 9
NOTE: Registration costs, tickets, and details available at website.
Where: Playful Art Studio
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 10:30 pm – 1:30 pm or 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online Studio
Website: https://facebook.com/evetns/451427435759693/
Studio City Library Author Scoop: Jennifer Brody
Studio City Branch Library, LAPL will be serving up an afternoon treat on the Instagram Live account every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 3pm for bite-sized interviews with authors. On Tuesdays we talk to adult or YA authors, and on Thursdays we chat with children’s authors.
Today we talk with author Jennifer Brody to discuss her book, The Continuum Trilogy, Spectre Deep 6.
Where: Library Instagram Live online
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Library Instagram Live
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/577999996162570/
Ginger Gaffney & Pam Houston at Vroman’s Live Online – YA Event
Authors Ginger Gaffney & Pam Houston, will present their latest releases, Half Broke: A Memoir and Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country.
Gaffney’s life—affirming memoir, Half Broke, is about a top-ranked horse trainer’s profound insight into the fascinating ways both horses and humans seek relationships to survive.
Houston’s collection of essays, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, is about learning what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. She asks how ”…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.”.
NOTE: Check with site/bookstore re online platform and registration details.
Where: Vroman’s Live, Crowdcast Online
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
Online Workshop: Zines 101 by Women’s Center for Creative Work
Join WCCW’s Education Coordinator Lindsey Lee Eichenberger for a free, fun, easy zine workshop! You’ll learn a little bit about the history of radical self-publishing, learn to fold a mini-zine using just one sheet of paper, and will follow a fun prompt to produce a completed zine by the end of the activity.
Where: Crowdcast online
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Crowdcast online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2528690267460040
HPBL Virtual Book Club
In this Virtual Book Club we will have a different theme or specific book to discuss every Tuesday. Join for one event or for all!
This week’s theme will be to read a book that has been on your bookshelf that you have been meaning to read but never got around to it. Now’s the time!
Register using the link provided at website.
NOTE: Check website link for details.
Where: Huntington Beach Public Library Online
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: ZOOM Online (check online link for details)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/535235583846049/
Gothic Book Club & Discovering Griffith Park on Last Bookstore Zoom Online
The Last Bookstore’s Gothic Book Club, with John Palisano, will read and discuss the book, The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters, which is a modern classic in the “decrepit family in a decrepit mansion, filled with ghosts” tradition.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: Zoom Online
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/672833656621939
Branding 101 for Artists and Arts Organizations Online Event
Branding 101 is the third in a series of free workshops designed to support the creative careers of and connect artists, project leaders, and arts organizations and businesses in San Bernardino and elsewhere. Learn from artist, storyteller, organizer and activist Michael Segura of Holy Cat Designs. Accommodations (audio and visual) can be made upon request in registration form).
NOTE: Registration, tickets, and details available at website.
Where: Arts Council of San Bernardino Online
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (check details at website link)
Website: https://facebook.com/evetns/226193172015443/
Family Fun Zoom Meeting – Kids Event
Family Fun Zone is a virtual event full of kid-friendly activities and offering storytime, crafts, and more for children ages 0-5.
NOTE: Registration is FREE ticket for this event.
Where: Westside Infant Family Network (WIN)
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 11 am
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818076744896424/
Japanese Storytime by SMPL Online: Live Virtual Event – Kids Event
Join us for stories and songs in this live bilingual English/Japanese story time with language educator and mom Hiromi Lathrop, as part of the Library’s Asian American Heritage month celebration. This event is for families and children ages 0-5.
Where: Santa Monica Library Virtual Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 3 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: SMPL Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/231732474718285/
Red Hen Press Spring Book Tour Online: Gaylord Brewer & Danielle Vogel
The RHP Spring Book Tour is a Virtual Reading & Conversation Series held on Wednesday nights at 4 pm.
Today’s event features Gaylord Brewer, author of Worship the Pig, and Danielle Vogel, author of The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity, who will discuss their work, poetry, and process.
NOTE: Check with site/bookstore re online platforms and details. (Books are available for 30% off.)
Where: Red Hen Press Online
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online at Facebook or YouTube or linkedin.com (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/233934991043168
Katie Orphan, & Read Me Los Angeles Book Discussion at Vroman’s Live Online
Vroman’s Live Online presents Read Me Los Angeles: Exploring L.A.’s Book Culture, by Katie Orphan. We have moved online to meet on Crowdcast for this event.
This is a colorful, lively, and informed celebrarion of all things bookish in L.A. past and present, including interviews with current L.A. writers: day trips in search of favorite fictional characters, from Marlowe to Weetzie Bat; author quotes galore; curated lists of must-read L.A. books; a look at where writers have lived and worked; and an insight into the city’s book festivals, bookstores, publishers, literary nonprofits, libraries, and more. It’s also rich with photos, images and vintage maps. (Prospect Park Books)
NOTE: To RSVP and for details, check website link.
Where: Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
Casey Schreiner, with Alissa Walker & Discovering Griffith Park on Crowdcast Online
In this Online event Book Soup presents Casey Schreiner, in conversation with Alissa Walker, to discuss her book, Discovering Griffith Park: A Local’s Guide, which is visited by more than 10 million people each year, more than Yosemite and Grand Canyon National Park combined.
This book uses the park’s extensive trail network as an anchor to explore the park in full, and readers will learn the best views, where they can catch free Shakespeare productions on summer evenings, how to attend legendary breakfast club meetings, and much more.
NOTE: Check website link for details.
Where: Crowdcast Online
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
HPBL Storytime LIVE! Online – Kids Event
In this Virtual Live Storytime every Thursday morning, Miss Kari will host a preschool storytime!
Register using the link provided at website.
NOTE: Check website link for details.
Where: Huntington Beach Public Library Online
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 10 am – 10:30 am
Address: Library Online (check online link for details)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1122265108118758/
Love in the Time of Corona: A Talk with Ayelet Gundar-Goshen via Zoom Online
Please join us to hear a live online webinar by acclaimed clinical psychologist and award-winning Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on Jewish mythology and contemporary Jewish literature.
Gundar-Goshen is the author of three novels: One Night, Markovitch (2012), Walking Lions (2017), and The Liar (2019). She has lectured at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, UCLA, and Carlton College, among other institutions. Books are available at Diesel Bookstore link online.
Where: UCLA & Diesel Bookstore Online event (Registration required)
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: ZoomOnline event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2343899455916363 or
Studio City Library Author Scoop: Kitty Felde – Kids Event
Studio City Branch Library, LAPL will be serving up an afternoon treat on the Instagram Live account every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 3pm for bite-sized interviews with authors. On Tuesdays we talk to adult or YA authors, and on Thursdays we chat with children’s authors.
Today we talk with author Kitty Felde to discuss her book, Welcome to Washington, Fina Mendoza.
Where: Library Instagram Live online
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 3 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Library Instagram Live
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/577999996162570/
Tea and a Tale at Studio City Branch Library, LAPL Online
Brew some tea and relax and listen to a live reading of a short story or book! You can dial in by regular phone or use video conference. You can also volunteer to be one of our readers. We are currently reading stories from PG Wodehouse’s My Man Jeeves.
Email Emily at link provided at website to learn how to access the reading, or if you’re interested in being a reader yourself.
Where: LAPL Online
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/663608744420120/
Live Author Chats with Upland Public Library Online
Join us on Instagram live every Thursday for Live Author Chats moderated by Molly Ondich from Molly’s Mail and Taryn!
On May 28th there will be a live author discussion with Marisa Kanter, author of The Handsome Girl and Beautiful Boy.
Where: Instagram Online
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Instagram Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2515838991998782
Joanna Hershon, with Adam Novey, & St. Ivo at Vroman’s Live Online
Author Joanna Hershon will discuss her new book, St. Ivo, in conversation with Adam Novey, a powerful investigation into the meaning of choice and family, whether we ever know the people closest to us, and how, when someone goes missing from our lives, we can ever let them go.
St. Ivo presents a story of two couples who try to reconnect over the course of three hot September days, to try to find out how they ended up who they are.
NOTE: Check with site/bookstore re online platform and details.
Where: Vroman’s Live, Crowdcast Online
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
Poetry Night with Jenny Zhang, Tommy Pico, Morgan Parker & Adijah Queen at Skylight Bookstore Online
This best poetry reading will present the authors and poets of Tin House, who will read their work:
Jenny Zhang’s debut story collection, Sour Heart, conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City. Her latest collection is Baby’s First Birthday.
Tommy Pico is the author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and myriad tweets. Originally from the Viejas Indian Reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he is contributing editor at Literary Hub.
Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her collection Magical Negro won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Adijah Queen. is the author of five books, most recently I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017).
This event is free but you must RSVP online.
Where: Skylight Bookstore Zoom Online
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Children’s Storytime Event LIVE! Online – Hosted by End Epilepsy- Greater LA
Children of all ages are invited to gather around the screen for a story sure to inspire you in the fight to END EPILEPSY.
We’ll be reading the following books:
Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine by Janet Quin-Harkin
Itty Bitty by Cece Bell
The Polite Elephant by Richard Scarry
NOTE: Check website link for details.
Where: Facebook online event
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 7:15 pm
Address: Facebook Online (check online link for details)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/230803454874959
Book Buzz Online Adult Book Club
Join us twice monthly on Fridays at noon on Instagram Live to get the buzz.
Book Buzz is unlike traditional book clubs as you get to choose what you read according to the current theme. Contact Upland Public Library for resources or to suggest themes.
We will be reading Like Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
Where: Upland Public Library Online
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 12 pm – 12:30 pm
Address: Instagram Livecast
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1962356520574717/
TED Circles: Life at Its Fullest at Studio Library Online
Join us online when we watch and discuss a short TED talk. Participant space is limited.
Where: Studio City Branch Library Online (Register with Emily at link provided)
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/2825699447665142/
Poetry & Rhyme Virtual Writing Workshop with Katherine Zaun on Zoom
Join us for a poetry workshop with our Artist-in-Residence Katherine Zaun in which we focus on all manner of rhymes. As always come ready to have fun and don’t worry about getting it right.
All you’ll need is a pen and paper, the Zoom link, and a good sense of humor.
Where: Online information and link at website
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online link at website
Website: Zoom link online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9162362697
TDSB Zoom OpenMic: Kito Fortune & Bri Gowdy
The Definitive Soap Box Open Mic is back!
Join us in celebration of Kito Fortune and the release of his nee book, The Zoo.We will also have a sign-up sheet for the Open Mic asap.
Where: Online information and link at website
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Zoom online link at website.
Website: https://m/facebook.com/events/689607358525829?
Introvert’s Guide to the Workplace & Thea Orozco: Virtual Event Online
Join Flintridge Bookstore and author/entrepreneur Thea Orozco for a virtual discussion on Zoom. Tap into your natural introvert strengths in the office with actionable tips and advice. The author bust the myths that only outgoing personalities succeed, based on natural strengths and innate skills possessed by introverts. She discusses introvert anxiety, making meaningful connections, how to be heard, the imposter syndrome, and more.
Where: Zoom online
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/244207176648928
Let’s Write! Writers Workshop at Buena Vista/Burbank Library Online
The Writers Workshop is going virtual! Join us on Facebook Live from the Quill & Pint Facebook page at our usual time, 11 am – 1 pm.
Only two more meetings left!
Where: Buena Vista Library Online event
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: Quill & Pint Facebook Online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/693263864471201/
Cuentitos con Crafts at Café con Libros Press – Online
Join us every Saturday for a live reading of a favorite book.
We miss you!
Where: Café con Libros Press – Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 2 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: Café con Libros Press – Online (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/547334466220159/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry with Pasadena Public Library
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry online at Zoom for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Special Edition: Schooldaze by emailing us by June 13th at link provided at site.
Where: Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Jennifer Steil, with Janet Fitch, & Exile Music at Vroman’s Live Online
Author Jennifer Steil will discuss her new novel, Exile Music, in conversation with Janet Fitch.
As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music, and only vaguely aware of Hitler’s rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family’s identity. But in 1938 her peaceful life is shattered, her family flees for La Paz in the Andes. At war’s end Orly must decide if the new life in La Paz defines home, or if it is the pull of her past in Europe.
NOTE: Check with site/bookstore re online platform and details.
Where: Vroman’s Live, Crowdcast Online
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
Witching: The Art of Words – Creating Writing Workshop with Scarlett Amaris –Online
Join screen and television writer Scarlett Amaris to learn about using witchcraft to strengthen your creative writing. Amaris is co-writer of Color Out of Space and Theatre Bizarre.
Where: The Crooked Path Occult Apothecary Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 4 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2618987091689699
Sam Maggs & The Unstoppable Wasp at Skylight Bookstore – YA Event
YA author Sam Maggs, in conversation with author Maurene Goo, will read and discuss her new YA novel, The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope.
This original YA novel is based on the world of the Unstoppable Wasp Marvel comics series. Nadia is new to being a super hero, as well as new to a lot of things. She discovers that when she teams up with the people who love her most, they are totally Unstoppable.
Where: Skylight Bookstore (Check to see if this is an online or live event)
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Check to see if this is an online or live event
Sunday Power Hour Workshop on Zoom Meeting
Join Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble for a one hour writing workshop, followed by social time. See website for details.
Where: Zoom online event (RSVP)
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Address: Zoom online (free via Eventbrite).
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/859321397886680/
AI LA Book Club on Zoom Online
Join the new AI LA book Club on the 4th Sunday of every month on Zoom. We are new to this and need your help to make it special. At this first meeting we will discuss our format and decide on a book to read together in June.
Please browse our new reading list, and add your recommendations, so we can discuss them at our first meeting. An overview will be provided by Todd Terrrazas at the start, at 1pm. Register on Zoom at the link provided.
Where: Online (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 1 pm – 3pm
Address: Zoom online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/723339954874819/
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Chapter Readings with Huntington Beach Library – Kids Event
Listen to Miss Barbara read a different chapter-cure from the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series by Betty MacDonald each Sunday online.
Who is Mrs. Piggle Wiggle? What is the radish cure and the Won’t Pick Up Toys Cure? Why is her house upside down?
Where: HBPL Facebook (register online)
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 2 pm
Address: Facebook online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2589372364637573/
Diana Goetsch Reads at Katonah Poetry Series via Zoom
Diana Goetsch is an American poet and author of eight collections, including: In America (2017, Rattle Chapbook Prize selection), Nameless Boy (2015), and The Job of Being Everybody (2004). She is also a nonfiction writer and columnist, and from 2015-16 wrote the Life in Transition blog at The American Scholar, where she chronicled her gender transition. Her honors include fellowships from the NEA and a Pushcart Prize.
Where: Zoom online (email link to reserve a space)
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Facebook online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/202327264344249
Backstory Online: An Inconvenient Truth by the Victory Theatre Center
In our Zoom Meeting Room, guest writers will address the themes form An Inconvenient Truth through their own poetry and voices, featuring:
Francesca Bell, Augustus Britton, Rashim Cannad, Hannah Logan, Robert McDowell, Hannah Sussman.
Hosted by Carl Weintraub.
NOTE: This event is ticketed, so check website for details. $10 suggested donation.
Where: Zoom online event with Victory Theatre Centre
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Zoom online event.
Los Angeles Literature 