Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Dig Deep: Virtual Storytime via South Pasadena Library Online – Kids Event
Join us as Children’s Librarians read stories, share finger-plays, songs and flannel-board stories. Each week this event will be available for viewing from Monday through Thursday of that week. For more information about the Summer Reading Program, visit the library website.
Where: South Pasadena Library Online (see event site)
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 10:30 am – 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/697708884358392/
Japanese Storytime via Little Tokyo Branch Library Instagram Online – Kids Event
Join us on Little Tokyo Branch Library’s Instagram for Japanese Storytime for children, to enjoy books and activities, such as singing and learning origami, in Japanese.
Where: Little Tokyo Branch Library, LAPL Instagram online
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 10:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/japanese-storytime
CalArts CAP Creative Writing Class Online via LAPL Zoom Online – Teen Event
Sign up for a free 6-session, 2-week Creative Writing course offered in partnership with the CalArts Community Arts Project. You will learn about poetry, fiction writing, zines, word-building, spoken word, and more! Eligible participants should reside in L.A. County and be a current high school student. All class meetings will take place via Zoom. Additional materials will be available by email and on Google Sites.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library, Zoom online (Register at site link)
Date: Monday the 20th (4th meeting) through July 24th
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/calarts-cap-creates-online-library-creative-writing
Nobody Reads Short Stories Event via YouTube Online
The Nobody Reads Short Stories event hosted by Meghan Morrison features her apocalyptic horror piece “Plug In” on YouTube.
Where: YouTube online
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/610091849819240
Vromans Live: Susan Priver & Dancer Interrupted – Online Event
Author Susan Priver, in conversation with Lian Dolan, will discuss her book, Dancer Interrupted.
The author began her career as a young ballerina at age 14, blew her chance at become part of the NYC Ballet at age 17 when she succumbed to a bout of depression, then was fired by the Cleveland Ballet at age 24. Only after hitting rock bottom did she find the courage to reconnect to her love for the stage. This is her personal story fo finding meaning without the veil of ballet, and learning how to live in the real world.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Jon Wiener & Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the 1960s via Chevalier’s Books Virtual Online Event
Jon Wiener presents and discusses his book with author Mike Davis, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the 1960s, in conversation with Brenda Stevenson.
Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval, and the Launchpad for: Black Power, the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, Asian American political identity, the California counterculture, and the many movements surrounding antiwar, gay liberation and women’s issues.
Where: Chevalier’s Books Online event (see site for link)
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/jon-wiener
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 20th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/
Brett Edwards & Sacred Land via The Open Book, Canyon Country – Online Event
The Open Book in Canyon Country presents an author interview with Brett Edwards, who will read and discuss neo-western crime novel, Sacred Land. Descendants of Custer and Crazy Horse battle over land in this modern day reimagining of Little Bighorn. This story has a breakneck plot in which destitute cowboys, casino-rich Natives, a manic politician, and a morally sound sheriff all collide.
Where: The Open Book, Canyon Country – Online (Register at site link)
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 10 apm – 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/686273258884255
Tuesday Afternoon Book Club & Dear Life via Silver Lake Branch Library – Online Event
The Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL Tuesday Afternoon Book Club will read and discuss Dear Life by acclaimed award-winning author Alice Munro. Books are available for download with your library card at lapl.org.
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library Book Club, LAPL – Online (Register at site link)
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tuesday-afternoon-book-club
Tuesday Evening Book Club & The Other Americans via Calabasas Library – Online Event
The Calabasas Library’s Tuesday Evening Book Club will read and discuss The Other Americans by acclaimed author Laila Lalami. For the Zoom link and more information contact Barbara Lockwood at blockwood@calabasaslibrary.org.
Where: Calabasas Library – Zoom Online (Register at site link)
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/281104313135123
Damien Echols & Angels and Archangels: A Magician’s Guide at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join Damien Echols, in conversation with Seane Corn, to discuss his book, Angels and Archangels: A Magician’s Guide, about the magickal practices available through angels, and how you can invoke their power in your life.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Kendra Atleework, with Luis Alberto Urrea, & Miracle Country via Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online Event
Join us to hear author Kendra Atleework, in conversation with acclaimed author Luis Alberto Urrea, discuss her book, Miracle Country.
The author grew up in Swall Meadows in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where her parents taught their children how to thrive in this beautiful, but harsh landscape. After her mother’s death, that world came to feel empty and hostile, the family fell apart and she escaped to Minneapolis. After years of avoiding her hometown, she realized she need to come to terms with it and had to go back. This is a moving memoir of flight and return, emptiness and bounty, and the true meaning of home.
Where: Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Poetry Night with Tin House & 4 Authors via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear Poetry Night with Tin House, a Diesel Bookstore online event, featuring:
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist and cultural critic whose collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Until They Kill Us, was named a best book of 2017 by Buzzfeed, Esquite, NPR, Oprah, Pitchfork, among others. In his follow-up to The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, he writes about creating a mirror, inside of which every angle presents anew possibility.
Destiny O. Birdsong is a fiction writer and essayist, writes about What makes a self? in her debut collection of poems.
Megan Fernandes is the author of Good Boys, her second book of poetry, which was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize (2018). She is an assistant professor of English at Lafayette College.
Ariana Reines is a poet, Obie award-winning playwright, and performing artist. Her works include: A Sand Book, the play Telephone, The Origin of the World, Mercury, Coeur de Lion, and The Cow. A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts, her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and ssatisfying.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2600176626866628
Skylight Books Presents: Ben Ehrenreich & Desert Notebooks & Anthony McCann & Shadowlands – Crowdcast Online Event
Authors Ben Ehrenreich & Anthony McCann , will read and discuss their new books:
Desert Notebooks and Shadowlands, respectively.
Desert Notebooks: A Roadmap for the End of Time is The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich’s layering of climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experience into a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with our literal and figurative end of time.
Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff, is Anthony McCann’s nonfiction prose work investigating the 2016 armed right-wing occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, and is a finalist for the California Book Award.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Miriam Feldman, with Janet Fitch, & He Came In With It via Chevalier’s Books Virtual Online Event
He Came with It is the memoir of Miriam Feldman’s family experience when her teenage son Nick is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the tumultuous decade which ensues. She will discuss the book in conversation with acclaimed author Janet Fitch (White Oleander).
Like the ten Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another—against a backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal of artmaking and drugs, as their home becomes a battlefield. When she discovers a cache of drawings and journals in a closet she begins a solitary forensic journey into the lonely labyrinth of his mind. This is the story of how mental illness unspools an entire family.
Where: Chevalier’s Books Online event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/miriam-feldman or https://www.facebook.com/events/333084681418473
Middle Grade Book Club & Black Brother via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join the Pages Middle Grade Book Club, led by Pam Page, to read and discuss the book, Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewel Parker Rhodes.
Where: Pages Bookstore Zoom – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 10 am
Address: Free Zoom Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting-1
CalArts CAP Creative Writing Class Online via LAPL Zoom Online – Teen Event
Sign up for a free 6-session, 2-week Creative Writing course offered in partnership with the CalArts Community Arts Project. You will learn about poetry, fiction writing, zines, word-building, spoken word, and more! Eligible participants should reside in L.A. County and be a current high school student. All class meetings will take place via Zoom. Additional materials will be available by email and on Google Sites.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library, Zoom online (Register at site link)
Date: Wednesday the 22nd (5th meeting) through July 24th
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/calarts-cap-creates-online-library-creative-writing
Classics Book Club Discussion via Granada Hills Branch Library – Online Event
Join our Classics Book Club discussion via Zoom, on the fourth Wednesday of each month. In July, we’ll discuss Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Email grnhls@lapl.org for information on how to join.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/classics-book-club-discussion
Weekly Story Time via Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley FB Page – Kids Event
Join us for a weekly story time with Teresa, held every Wednesday afternoon on Facebook Live.
Where: Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Velley – FB Page Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 3 pm
Address: FB Page Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1120979411603333/
Cal Baptist University Languages & Literature Department’s Summer 2020 Book Club – Online Event
Join CBU’s Department of Modern Languages & Literature for the 2020 Summer Book Club readings and discussions. July’s selection will be Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. More details to follow.
Where: CBU Summer 2020 Book Club – Online Event (register at site)
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/2591096411164475
Bring Your Own Book Club via Beverly Hills Public Library – Online Tween Event
Join our Bring Your Own Book Club for Tweens & Teens (4th grade and up), where you can talk about your favorite book or discover new books to read. Register at the website link to get your Zoom link.
Where: Beverly Hills Library – Zoom Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1715937325242321
Chuck Klosterman & Raised in Captivity at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Chuck Klosterman to discuss his book, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
Fair warning; This collection does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. Funny, wise, and weird in equal measure it is one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, reflecting our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears, and preoccupations.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/chuck-klosterman-discusses-raised-captivity-fictional-nonfiction
Danica McKeller & The Times Machine via Vroman’s Live – Online Kids Event
Join us for a discussion with actress and author Danica KcKeller about her book, The Times Machine!: Learn Multiplication and Division…Like, Yesterday!.
Learn at home with help from Wonder Years/Hallmark actress, math whiz, and bestselling author Danica McKeller a FUN way for 2nd to 5th graders to memorize multiplication facts outside of the classroom.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast Live
James McBride, with LeVar Burton, & Deacon King Kongs – Online Event
Join Pages Bookstore and Eso Won Books online to meet and discuss Deacon King Kong: A Novel, by acclaimed bestselling author James McBride, in conversation with LeVar Burton.
The author will be joined in conversation with his friend author Steven Rowley (The Editor), so the conversation should be lively. The author has written for Salon and The Advocate, and this is is a juicy summer read. It is a fascinating window into the life of extreme privilege, and a powerful story of self-acceptance.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Register Online – Webinar event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Free Online event, but book may be purchased form bookstores online,
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/bestselling-author-james-mcbride-conversation-levar-burton
David Adjmi, with Mona Simpson, & Lot Six – Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online Event
Author David Adjmi, in conversation with acclaimed author Mona Simpson, will read and discuss his new memoir, Lot Six.
In this grandly entertaining memoir, playwright David Adjmi explores how artists make their lives into art. Born in the ruins of a Syrian Jewish family that once had it all, the author moves from the glamour and sybaritic materialism of 1970s Brooklyn to post-9/11 New York, and offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Book to Action Event & Garbology via Santa Clarita Library Online
Our Book to Action event features a panel discussion on Garbology by Edward Humes. Pick up a free copy at your nearest branch of the library, while supplies last. The discussion is led by Dianne Hellrigel, Dennis Young, and Jeannie Chart. Register in advance for this Zoom online meeting at site.
Where: Online event (See site)
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/301321597905072
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 22nd
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/581076052510382/
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 22nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
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 23rd
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 23rd
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/881416712341302/
Author Innosanto Nagara & Discussing Stories via UCLA Zoom Online
Join the Association for Indonesian Americans, in collaboration with the UCLA Center of Southeast Asia Studies on Zoom online for the Summer Speaker Series: Exploring Indonesian American Stories.
Innosanto Nagara is the author of two children’s books, an activist, a graphic designer, and founder of the Design Action Collective. His two books, My Night in the Planetarium and M is for Movement, are both set in Indonesia under the Suharto regime.
This is a free event. Details are available at site.
Where: Zoom Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/586003158772950
First Meeting of Antiracist Book Club & White Fragility via Pages Bookstore Online
Join us online live for Pages’ First Meeting of its Antiracist Book Club, hosted by former bookseller Mackenna Greenberg. We will be discussing the book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin Diangelo. The author wrote this book to educate others on how to best counter racist thoughts.
The group discussion will attempt to transform the thinking of our own, and others’ defensive and wary reactions when the subject of race is brought up. We will discuss racial hierarchies, so that we can actively assist in dismantling oppressive structures.
This is a free event. Details are available at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/first-meeting-antiracist-book-club
Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest Celebration via JANM Zoom – Online Event
The Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest winners will be celebrated online, for three categories of writing (adult, youth, Japanese language) that showcases familiarity with the neighborhood and people in it. Each winner receives a cash prize and publication in The Rafu Shimpo and on the Discover Nikkei website. Actors Tamlyn Tomita, Derek Mio, and Eljiro Ozaki will perform dramatic readings of the wiing stories and the winners themselves will share brief reflections.
Where: Little Tokyo Historical Society & JANM – Zoom Online (Tickets and info at site link)
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/569806013705839
Joe R. Lansdale & More Better Deals at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Joe R. Lansdale to discuss his book, More Better Deals.
Ed Edwards is in the used car business, but ready to get out of the game. When his boss sends him to repossess a Cadillac, he seizes a chance to escape his miserable life. But does he have what it takes to see the plan through? This book is a gripping tale of the strange characters and odd dealings that define 1960s East Texas.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/joe-r-lansdale-discusses-more-better-deals
Amity Gaige & Sea Wife: A Novel – Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Amity Gaige, in conversation with Susan Choi, will read and discuss her new book, Sea Wife: A Novel.
Sea Wife is a sophisticated literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all their lives. It is told in gripping dual perspectives, a dialogue that reveals the fault lines created by personal history and political divisions. It’s a transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, and is perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-amity-gaige-conversation-susan-choi
Electrical Currents Through Language: A Poetry Workshop Series & Margaret Rhee – Beyond Baroque Zoom Event
Join Beyond Baroque Workshops online at Zoom for Electrical Currents Through Language: A Poetry Workshop Series, led by Margaret Rhee.
In this exploratory workshop, we’ll ask and write through a series of questions at the intersection of poetry and technology. While the two seem disparate, we’ll explore how technology is intimate, poetic and humanized, and how the poetic is technologized and transformed in everyday life.
Each two-hour workshop in the series will begin with a reading and discussion of text, followed by a writing prompt for generating writing and sharing, then a workshopping of poems. By the end of each session, poets should have a rough draft of a poem, and a completed poem based on weekly prompts.
Margaret Rhee is the author of Love, Robot (2017), and her new media art project The Kimchi Poetry Machine. She is assistant professor in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo.
NOTE: See website link for costs and details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 23rd (2nd meeting) through August 6th
Time: 6:30 pam – 8:30 pm
Address: Zoom online event (see site)
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 23rd
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/2417958271829432/
Summer Seminar: What Literature Can Teach Us via Harvey Mudd College – Online Event
Ambereen Dadabhoy, assistant professor of literature researches the role of identity and difference in literature. She pursues lines of inquiry directed at uncovering culturally-fraught representations of difference, which include gender, race, and religion. She is interested in the strategies and mechanisms through which different cultures accommodate and (often) conflict with each other.
NOTE: Check site for Zoom meeting information and details.
Where: Harvey Mudd College – Zoom Online event
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/2942607009183582
CalArts CAP Creative Writing Class Online via LAPL Zoom Online – Teen Event
Sign up for a free 6-session, 2-week Creative Writing course offered in partnership with the CalArts Community Arts Project. You will learn about poetry, fiction writing, zines, word-building, spoken word, and more! Eligible participants should reside in L.A. County and be a current high school student. All class meetings will take place via Zoom. Additional materials will be available by email and on Google Sites.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library, Zoom online (Register at site link)
Date: Friday the 24th (6th & final meeting)
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/calarts-cap-creates-online-library-creative-writing
Virtual Spotlight Café by MOAH Cedar – Online Event
All performance art is welcome at the Virtual Spotlight Café Online event every Friday. Claim a spot at our site.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Instagram Live online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: Live online event
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/895683244269034/
Writing Ekphrasis Workshop with John Brantingham – Zoom Online Event
This is the third 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 24th (4th of 5 meetings)
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Zoom Online event
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/304594597365046
Maike Wetzel & Elly at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Maike Wetzel, in conversation with Lisa Nappoli, to discuss her book, Elly
Eleven-year old Elly is missing. After an extensive police search, she is presumed dead, and her family is torn apart by grief. Then, four years later, Elly reappears. Her strange behavior is is initially put down to the trauma of what happened to her, but soon her family is plagued by doubts. Is this dark eyed stranger really the same little girl who went missing? And if not, who is she? This is a literary novel with all the best qualities of a great thriller.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/maike-wetzel-conversation-lisa-napoli-discusses-elly
Jeff Sweat & Scorpion at Vroman’s Live – YA Online Event
Join us for a discussion with author Jeff Sweat to discuss his book, Scorpion, the sequel to his futuristic thriller Mayfly.
Jemma, Lady and Pico all left the Holy Wood to seek answers to the End, and when they find the Old Guys—the only adults to have survived the original wipeout of everyone over the age of seventeen—they think they’ve found help at last. But there’s a lot the Old Guys aren’t telling them. Meanwhile, war is brewing among the tribes of the rest of the children, and it won’t be long before the fighting reaches them.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Zoom Online Event (register in advance)
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Live 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 the 25th
Time: 9:30 am – 10 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/271628437425975/
Creative Writing Workshop via LAwritersgroup.com – Online Event
Get words on the page and meet other writers in this online creative writing workshop.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1129862607389180/
HOME: Lullabies and Stories from Around the World via SAWUBONA – Online Event
What is home and how has its context and meaning shifted in our recent digital decade?
Explore layers of audio and visuals that relate to what home is through lullabies and stories from people around the world.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/637962810146066
Mystery Book Club & Motherless Brooklyn via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL Online Event
Join the Mystery Book Club on Zoom for our discussion of Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem. Check the site for our full schedule of mysteries through the fall.
NOTE: See website for Online link and further details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (register in advance at website link)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-15
CAMERAderie Act One: Developing the Short Virtual Seminar – Women in Media – Online Event
Please join us for a two part virtual seminar for writers and filmmakers, designed to realize the practicalities of transforming their vision from script to screen.
Producer Allison Vanore and Professor Idit Ovir will present and discuss how the elements on the page translate to the producer and the budget, and how story structure and formatting come together with the other elements.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Women in Film online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 12:30 pm – 2 pm
Address: Women in Film online event
Website: https://www.faceboo.com/events/596202151295621
Author Talk: Susan Orlean & The Library Book via Santa Monica Public Library – Online
Join Susan Orlean for an author talk on her bestselling book, The Library Book, in which she reopens the unsolved mystery of the Los Angeles Central Library fire, and pays homage to public libraries and their impact on individuals, communities, and society.
Access to the program live via BlueJeans; no registration required.
NOTE: See website link for costs and details.
Where: Online event (see site to register)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://facebook.com/events/573374633369909
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Event & Workshop at Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry online via Zoom for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop, led by Joshua Corwin + SPECTRUM SPECIAL EDITION SUMMERTIME PUBLICATION reading.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
“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 25th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958426782020/
Black Swan Book Club via Gatsby’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for the Black Swan Book Club: Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times.
We will be reading and discussing Rachel Kadish’s book, The Weight of Ink.
NOTE: Check website to purchase book, and for further details.
Where: Check website to register and get link online
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://gatsbybooks.com/black-swan-book-club
Book Lovers Meetup Group: Burning Issues Book Club via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join us for our Burning Issues Book Club, when we read and discuss How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi.,
NOTE: Check website to purchase book, and for further details.
Where: Bel Canto Books, Long Beach (check site to register and get link online)
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.meetup.com/Brl-Canto-Books-Book-Lovers-Meetup-Group/
Virtual Book Pitch Party via Friends of the Altadena Library – Online Event
Join us for a Virtual Book Pitch Party to pitch on eof your favorite books to the group—to win a prize and encourage others to read it too. Everyone can also join in with our fun book quiz.
NOTE: Check website to purchase book, and for further details.
Where: Altadena Library (check site to register and get link online)
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/564461667571126/
La Palabra Reading Series Goes Virtual: 10 Poets in 10 Weeks – Zoom Online Event
La Palabra Reading Series presents 10 Poets in 10 Weeks, from July 11th through September 13th, in which a poetry reading will go live each Sunday at 2pm for 20 minutes.
The first event on July 11th featured Gabriel Cortez, and the 2nd on July 18th featured Jenise Miller. Stay tuned for more information!
Where: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Date: Sunday the 26th (July 11th through September 13
Time: 2 pm – 2:20 pm
Address: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/413256312967460/
Sisters in Crime Monthly Meeting & Ellie Alexander – Sisters in Crime Online Event
The Sisters in Crime Monthly Meeting presents A Reader’s Forum at 2pm, followed by a conversation with author Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley) at 3pm. The author will talk about her work and writing a mystery series. She comes from the Pacific Northwest and all of her books are set in that region and other outdoor locales, which also tend to serve as another character in each series.
NOTE: RSVP at site and to receive the Zoom login.
Where: Sisters in Crime – Online event
Date: Sunday the 26th (July 11th through September 13th)
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm
Address: Sisters in Crime – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/970435253402527/
Roar Shack Reading Event with David Rocklin – Online Event
Roar Shack and author Laura Warrell bring you a very special virtual show. We are coming at this moment form many places—anger, fear, helplessness, courage. Join us, and host David Rocklin, as we bring our voices together and welcome these writers: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Laura Warrell, Regie Gibson, Lynne Thompson, and Chris Terry!
Where: Online event
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online event.
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/957708354667969/
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club & The Good House via Zoom Online
Join us for the Thing in the Labyrinth Horror Book Club, led by Katherine E. McGee..
This month we will read and discuss The Good House, by Tananarive Due, a haunted house story with themes of racial and inter-generational suffering.
NOTE: All book club events are ticketed so check site for details.
Where: Zoom online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom online event.
Website; https://lastbookstorelaq.com/#events
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