Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Bilingual Storytime / Hora de cuentos bilingue via Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library Instagram Online – Kids Event
Join us on Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library’s Instagram for Bilingual Storytime for children, to enjoy stories, rhymes, and songs in Spanish and English.
Where: Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library, LAPL Instagram online
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/bilingual=storytimela-hora-de-cuentas-binlingue
Tracy Anne Hart & Nalle Colt & Seeing Stevie Ray at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join us for a discussion with music photographer Tracy Anne Hart, in conversation with Nalle Colt, to discuss Seeing Stevie Ray.
It may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. What others have portrayed in prose, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. Forom 1983 – 1990, she captured him and his music through his passion, technique, and love and respect for the music. This visual portrait offers his genius and legacy in a new way.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vromans Live: Susan Wiggs & The Lost & Found Bookshop – Online Event
Author Susan Wiggs, in conversation with Garth Stein and Erica Bauermeister, will discuss her book, The Lost & Found Bookshop.
In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative—not counting her scoundrel father. She loves the store and it its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief. But this journey dissipates her grief as she discovers artifacts, new truths about her family, her future, and her heart.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Skylight Books Presents: Wayne Koestenbaum & Figure It Out – Crowdcas Online Event
Author Wayne Koestenbaum, in conversation with author Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts), will read and discuss his book of essays, Figure It Out.
In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts 26 ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. This is a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practice of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
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 6th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/
Queer Book Club at The Last Bookstore Online
The Queer Book Club, led by CB Lee, focuses on queer authors, books and topics across genres (mostly fiction). This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Laura Pohl’s The Last 8, a post-apocalyptic tale pitting the last 8 teenagers against an alien invasion.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events or https://www.facebook.com/event/386818188906243
Virtual Book Club via Palos Verdes Library – Online Event
Read something you consider a classic, and be prepared to talk about why you find it to be a classic. One of Calvino’s definitions of a “classic” is “those books which come to us bearing the aura of previous interpretations, and trailing behind them the traces they have left in the culture or cultures…through which they have passed.”
Skipped the classic read, but read something you’d really like to share? Or want to listen in on what others are reading? Join us. Registration is required. You will receive an email confirmation with login information.
Where: Palos Verdes Library – Online
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/983525808768318
Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join host Wyatt Underwood on the library’s Zoom site as he presents the monthly Poetry Open Mic. Share a poem you wrote or one you love on Zoom! To receive an invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Library online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Library online event
Website: http://lapl.org/whats-on/eventspoetry-open-mic /
LiveTalks: Colson Whitehead & The Nickle Boys, with Mary Karr – Online Event
Acclaimed author Colson Whitehead, in conversation with author Mary Karr (The Liars Club), will discuss the writing life and his novel, The Nickle Boys, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize.
The author brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, this book is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist at the height of his powers.
Where: LiveTalks – Online event through Facebook or YouTube (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6 pm – 7:15 pm
Address: Online (register in advance online)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/602773443679621
Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan & The Heir Affair via Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online Event
Join us for an author talk with Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan, to discuss The Heir Affair.
After a scandalous secret turns their wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry, the Queen is even angrier, and the press is salivating. Escaping the world’s judgmental eyes feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance—until a crisis forces them back to London. There they must deal with family secrets and emotional wreckage left behind.
Where: Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-heather-cocks-jessica-morgan-discuss-heir-affair
Virtual Reading of Writing for Life Anthology via Espresso Mi Cultura – Online Event
Join a Virtual Reading by the contributing writers to the anthology Writing for Life on YouTube Live at the link posted at the site. Purchase the book online at emcbookscoffee.com or at Nervous Ghost Press. Book proceeds benefit Espresso mi Cultura books coffee art in Monrovia.
Where: Espress Mi Cultura – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Free Zoom Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1527711660723528/
Backroom Book Club & The Last Flight via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join the Pages Backroom Book Club online with author Julie Clark to read and discuss her book, The Last Flight. Check out a video with the author at a link at the site.
Where: Pages Bookstore Zoom – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Free Zoom Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/backroom-book-club-julie-clark-discussing-last-flight
Skylight Books Presents: Brandy Colbert & The Voting Booth – Crowdcast Online YA Event
Stonewall Award-winning uthor Brandy Colbert, in conversation with Nina Lacour (We Are Okay), will read and discuss her YA novel, The Voting Booth.
This is an all-in-one-day love story which takes place on an election day, between two people who have different outlooks, but join forces and form a bond to beat a rigged system and vote.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Random Reads Book Club via Santa Clarita Library – Online Event
What are you reading this summer? Let’s discuss them in our Random Reads Book Club via Zoom online. Register in advance at link at site, and then receive a confirmation email with connection information.
Where: Santa Clarita Library – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Santa Clarita Library – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/696596177789471/
Chapbook Workshop with Lynne Thompson via Beyond Baroque – Online
Join Beyond Baroque online for a Writing Workshop on The Art of the Chapbook, with Lynne Thompson. Over the course of two successive sessions, you will learn about thematic/non-thematic organization, and other publication issues. You may also submit one or two questions upon registration that may be used to guide the discussion.
Lynne Thompson’s most recent collection of poems, Fretwork, was selected by Jane Hirschfield for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize in 2019.
NOTE: Tickets available at Eventbrite link at site.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html
Pages Bookstore Middle Grade Book Club & Take Me Apart: A Novel – Online Kids Event
Join the Pages Bookstore Middle Grade Book Club online to read and discuss A Wish in the Dark, by Christina Soontornvat. This event is facilitated by Pam Page.
Where: Pages Bookstore Zoom Online event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 10 am
Address: Free Zoom Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting
Virtual Book Club via Simi Valley Public Library – Online Event
Join our Virtual Book Club or start your own. Discussion questions will be posted on our Instagram and Facebook page for you to use. July’s book is The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey. This title is available on RB Digital and CloudLibrary. If you’d like to participate, email Stephanie ERbe@simivalleylibrary.org for the Zoom link. You may also email her for help in how to use Zoom or to get started.
Where: Simi Valley Library – Instagram & Facebook & Zoom Online
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/191390022290249
Writers Blok: Online Writing Sprint – Online Event
Join Writers Blok online for help so you can carve out an hour of writing into your day!
Before the sprint you’ll log a goal, then write for 50 minutes. Afterward we’ll get you chatting with fellow writers about how you did. All of this happens on the free Discord server.
Where: Writers Blok – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1699231383568572
ALTA Asks Live: Alex Espinoza & Cruising – Online Event
Join an Alta Asks Live event for a Virtual Q&A by host Heather Scott Partington with author Alex Espinoza, to discuss the connections and inspiration found at a 50-year-old California writers’ community, his historical look at the radical pastime of cruising, and so much more.
Alex Espinoza is the author of Still Water Saints, The Five Acts of Diego Leon, and Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. He is the Tomas Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside.
NOTE: Register at site to participate in this virtual event.
Where: Alta Asks Live – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 12:30 pm – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://altaonline.com/books/alta-asks-live/events
Thabile Makne & mamaseko via Book Soup Crowdcast – Online Event
Join us for an author talk with poet, healer and writer Thabile Makne, in conversation with Valyelwa Maluleke, to discuss mamaseko..
Named after the poet’s mother, this book is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. In her poems she looks for shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/thabile-makue-conversation-valyelwa-maluleke-discusses-‘mamaseko
Book Club & American Dirt via Pacoima Branch Library Online Zoom
Join us for a virtual Book Club event and email us in advance for the Zoom link. This meeting will read and discuss the controversial best seller American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins.
Where: Pacoima Branch Library, LAPL online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-26
Online Book Chat via Studio City Branch Library Online Zoom
Join us for an online Book Chat event and email us in advance for the Zoom link. Come ready to talk about any book you want, or just listen to others as they tell about books they have enjoyed. We meet the first and second Wednesday of the month.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/online book-chat
Gail Tuskiyama & The Color of Air via Chevalier’s Books Virtual Online Event
Join the author of The Color of Air, Gail Tuskiyama, to hear her discuss online her latest novel, The Color of Air.
Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawaii. His Uncle Koji lives with memories of Daniel’s mother, Mariko, the love of his life, and the scars of a life hard-lived. He knows the time has come to tell Daniel the truth about his mother and father, but his arrival coincides with the awakening of the Mauna Loa volcano, and its dangerous path toward their village stirs both new and long ago passions in their community.
Alternating between past and present, this book weaves together the stories of Daniel, Koji, and Mariko to create a rich, vibrant, bittersweet chorus that celebrates their livelong bond and their immigrant community. Secrets simmering beneath the surface reveal a path forward for them all.
Where: Chevalier’s Books Online event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/405341833694042
Pajama Storytime Event Online – Kids Event
Welcome to Miss Christina’s Pajama Storytime! We’ll read bedtime books, sing bedtime rhymes, and have fun stretching. This event is held on Facebook Live.
Where: Online event (See site)
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/581076052510382/
Paws & Pages Before Bedtime Event Online
Join us for a special live streaming Paws & Pages story session before bedtime!
Sponsored by: Wallis Annenberg – PetSpace.
Where: Online event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1474760152726673/
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Liz Gonzalez via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome summer facilitator Liz Gonzalez, author of the collection Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected (2018). An instructive video is offered at the site for sharing documents via Zoom.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Bus Stop Prophet’s Story Circle – Zoom Online Kids Event
Street Poets, Inc. hosts an online event: Bus Stop Prophet’s Story Circle, an adventure of the imagination for children of all ages. The is an interactive experience that will give young people the opportunity to stretch their creativity and participate in different literary activities, such as stories, songs, rhymes, and poems.
Where: Zoom Online event
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: Zoom Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/188842752562543
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: Thursday the 9th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818076744896424/
Online Kids Storytime with Actor Kevin Sussman
Join us on Zoom online live every Thursday for a Kids Storytime with actor Kevin Sussman (Big Bang Theory, Ugly Betty).
This is a free event. Details are available at site.
Where: Zoom Online
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/881416712341302/
Author Scoop Event via Studio City Branch Library Online
Join us online every Tuesday and Thursday for Author Scoop! Today our bite-sized author interview will be with Romina Garber, author of Lobizona.
This is a free event. Details are available at site.
Where: Studio City Branch Library LAPL – Online
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: .https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/studio-city-author-scoop
Kathy Gunst & Katherine Alford & Rage Baking via Chevalier’s Books Virtual Online Event
The authors of Rage Baking, Kathy Gunst & Katherine Alford, will discuss their book.
Rage Baking offers 50+ recipes, short essays, and quotes from some of the best bakers, activists, and outspoken women in our country today—this book encourages women to use sugar and sass as a way to defend, resist, and protest.
Where: Chevalier’s Books Online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 4 pm – 5:15 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/3286141834771080
Sameer Pandya, with Jade Chang, & Members Only at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join us for a discussion with author Sameer Pandya, in conversation with Jade Chang, to discuss his book, Members Only.
Raj Bhatt is often unsure where he belongs, having moved to America from Bombay as a child. His white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, but he’s cautiously come to love their tennis club. But one week his life unravels, starting at a meeting for new members Heartfelt, humorous, and hard-hitting, this book explores what membership and belonging mean.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/sameer-pandya-conversation-jade-chang-discusses-members-only
Richard Farrell & Hey, The Falling Women at Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Author Richard Farrell, in conversation with Robin Oliveira, will discuss his book, The Falling Women: A Novel..
First, it’s just a barely believable rumor: one person may have survived the midair explosion of a passenger jet on course form Washington D.C. to San Francisco. But soon she becomes a media sensation, when she disappears from a Wichita hospital. A dedicated NTSB agent is drawn to keep her secret, at the risk of his own career.
NOTE: Register at website for Online link and further details.
Where: Crowdcast Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online (see website)
Skylight Books Presents: Robin Wasserman & Mother Daughter Widow Wife – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Robin Wasserman, in conversation with Leslie Jamison (Make It Scream, Make It Burn), will read and discuss her novel, Mother Daughter Widow Wife.
Who is Wendy Doe? The woman found on a bus to Philadelphia has no money, no ID, and no memory. She’s assigned a name and diagnosis by the state: Dissociative fugue, a temporary amnesia that could lift at any moment, or not at all. To her doctors, she is an object of fascination. To the daughter she left behind, she is an absence that threatens to tear her world apart. This is a multi-voiced journey of discovery, reckoning, and reclamation.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Rock ‘n’ Roll Pajama Storytime via Huntington Beach Public Library Online – Kids Event
Put on your PJs, snuggle up with a blanket and your favorite stuffed animal, and join us on Facebook Live for Rock ‘n’ Roll storytime with Mr. Brian. We’ll be reading favorite silly stories, singing songs, and getting ready for dreamland every Thursday during the closure.
NOTE: Check with library for online platform and details.
Where: HBPL Facebook Live Online
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/2417958271829432/
Your Author Series: Andrea Loney – Online Kids Event
Please join author Andrea Loney on the library’s YouTube channel or Facebook page as she presents her book, Double Bass Blues. Andrea did something really crazy after joining the Big Apple Circus. She went to Hollywood and worked for studios such as Disney before starting her writing career.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Library online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Library online event
Website: http://lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-authro-series-andrea-loney
Writing Ekphrasis Workshop with John Brantingham – Zoom Online Event
This is the second meeting in a free five-week class, John Brantingham will discuss public forms of art in the Inland Empire, and teach you how to engage with them as a writer and a poet. These free classes will meet on the next five Fridays from 5-6pm. All are welcome.
In Writing Ekphrasis about Public Art in the Inland Empire, we will supercharge an ongoing cultural conversation and extend the narrative to reflect our new understanding of the world, presenting our vision and voices.
Each session will focus on different aspects of art at the California Imagism Gallery, including: exploring the poetic form and public art, murals and flash fiction, sculpture and fiction vignettes, political statement and poetry, touring the city and the lyric flash essay.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: California Imagism Gallery – Online event
Date: Friday the 10th (2nd of 5 meetings)
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Zoom Online event
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/304594597365046
Gabriel Bump, with Jaquira Diax, & Everywhere You Don’t Belong at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join us for a discussion with author Gabriel Bump, in conversation with Jaquira Diax, to discuss his book, Everywhere You Don’t Belong.
In this ultimately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, the author gives us protagonist Claude McKay Love, an average kid seeking a place where he can fit in. Born on the South Side of Chicago, he’s raised by his civil rights-era grandmother who ties to shape him into a principled actor for change. He decides to escape Chicago for a college elsewhere, but finds there is no safe haven for him in present America.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Skylight Books Presents: Rose Anderson & The Heart and Other Monsters – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Rose Anderson, in conversation with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (Make It Scream, Make It Burn), will read and discuss her debut memoir, The Heart and Other Monsters.
In November 2013 the author’s younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s home in a small town with one of the highest rates of opioid use in the state. This isa n intimate exploration of the opioid epidemic through one dysfunctional American family, reminiscent of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body, or Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder. This is a profoundly moving journey into and out of loss, and a picture of the drug rehabilitation industry in America.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Chapter Book Read-Aloud via Simi Valley Library – Facebook Online -Kids Event
Writers and aspiring writers are invited to join the Eagle Rock Branch Library of LAPL at their Zoom site for a group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs. Email us for the link for the event.
NOTE: See website for Online link and further details.
Where: Simi Valley Library – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the11th
Time: 9:30 am – 10 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/271628437425975/
Western Edge Writers: Self-Directed Writing Workshop via Eagle Rock Library Online
Writers and aspiring writers are invited to join the Eagle Rock Branch Library of LAPL at their Zoom site for a group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs. Email us for the link for the event.
NOTE: See website for Online link and further details.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the11th
Time: 10 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: .https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-0
Westwood Branch Library Book Club & The Girl on the Velvet Swing – Online Event
Join the Westwood Branch Library Book Club online at Zoom to discuss author Simon Baatz’s book, The Girl on the Velvet Swing.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 11 am
Address: Library online event (see site)
Website: http://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-27
Strangers Within Us Writing Workshop & Elena Karina Byrne – Beyond Baroque Zoom Event
Join Beyond Baroque Workshops online at Zoom for Strangers Within Us: Reality & “The Remote” Control, led by Elena Karina Byrne.
In this workshop we’ll explore how poetry accepts or embraces the “fictions of being,” the partners of paradox, those inherited archetypes and stereotypes that contradict our individual understanding of who we are.
Elena Katrina Byrne will release her fourth book, Phantom Fields with Omnidawn in 2021, and a separate chapbook, No, Don’t with What Books Press in 2020.
NOTE: See website link for costs and details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 11 am – 3 pm
Address: Zoom online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2791571994285750/
Gabrielle Union & Welcome to the Party at Vroman’s Live – Online Kids Event
Actress and author Gabrielle Union will present and read from her book, Welcome to the Party.
Inspired by the eagerly awaited birth of her daughter, Kaavia James Union Wade, Gabrielle Union has written a festive picture book and universal love letter from parents to little ones, perfect for reading over and over.
NOTE: Register at website for Online link and further details.
Where: Crowdcast Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 11 am
Address: Crowdcast Online (see website)
CIG Book Club & White Fragility Event at CIG Online
Join California Imagism Gallery (CIG) for a discussion of the book White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo. Join us even if you haven’t finished reading the book.
Where: California Imagism Gallery Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: CIG online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/797360024131799
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Event at Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry online via Zoom for a Deep Critique Poetry Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Your Author Series: Andrea Loney – Online Kids Event
Please join author Andrea Loney on the library’s YouTube channel or Facebook page as she presents her book, Double Bass Blues. Andrea did something really crazy after joining the Big Apple Circus. She went to Hollywood and worked for studios such as Disney before starting her writing career.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Library online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Library online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-andrea-loney
“Birthing Out the Writer in You” Writing Workshop – Zoom Online
Join this free class to know what is needed to write your book, and start writing it.
Event hosted by Lady T Gourmet Popcorn.
NOTE: Check website for further details.
Where: Check website to register and get zoom link online
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958426782020/
LA History Book Club: Susan Orleans’ The Library Book – Online Event
In this LA History Book Club we will discuss Susan Orleans’ bestseller, The Library Book, which is framed around the 1986 fire at the LA Central Library, but takes us through a history of libraries in and outside Los Angeles and explores their place in our society.
NOTE: This is a “pay-as-you-can” event offered during the pandemic by LA Walking Tours.
Where: Downtown LA Walking Tours – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 11:30 am – 1 pm
Address: – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/629358901017590
Skylight Books Presents: Leigh Stein & Self Care– Crowdcast Online Event
Author Leigh Stein, in conversation with Jessie Gaskell (Conan), will read and discuss her book, Self- Care.
In this story the female co-founders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and doing good business, while trying to stay BFFs.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
We’re All Gonna Die Dystopian Book Club at The Last Bookstore Online
The Dystopian Book Club, led by Peter Clines, explores dystopia and the post-apocalypse, in all their forms. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Bob Proehl’s The Nobody People, which reflects our own dystopian moment as violent prejudices against people who are different (in this case, born with super-hero-type powers) rage to the surface of an already fragile society.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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