Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
UNMUTE! is a month-long generative workshop for writers at all levels. Each week, participants will meet LIVE with poet and writer Brendan Constantine for ninety minutes, to discuss and explore approaches to poetry and discover ways to practice perpetual astonishment. Each class will end with at least one “no pressure” assignment, designed to liberate your own style. Dates of workshop: Sept. 14th, 21st, 28th, and Oct, 5th.
NOTE: See course details and costs at: https://awfulgoodwriters.com/courses/brendan-constantine-unmute/?fbclid=IwAR3DL0iNNdBJCoFn5KrMZw6_L3ua3DBb-NuEOn9miK12vaX1bD0BC-np7DE
Where: Buddy Wakefield & Awful Good Writers – Online event
Date: Monday the 14th (1st of four sessions)
Time: 6 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1601165923386604
Rob Bell, with Preston Bell, & Everything Is Spiritual at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Rob Bell, in conversation with Preston Bell, to discuss his book, Everything Is Spiritual: Who We Are and What We’re Doing Here.
The author explores the concept that what people really want is to understand their purpose, in order to gain an understanding of the universe, since it’s all one connected whole, and ultimately rigged in favor of your growth,, expansion, and joy.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
LiveTalks LA: Jane Fonda, with Eva Longoria, & What Can I Do? – Online Event
Author and actor Jane Fonda, in conversation with actor and activist Eva Longoria, will present and discuss her book, What Can I Do?: My Path From Climate Despair to Action. This book is a call to action from one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest.
NOTE: Event is available to register and watch, and book itself may be purchased when you RSVP at site link.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 6 pm – 7:15 pm
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/jane-fonda//
Jacqueline Suskin & The Edge of the Continent: The Desert at Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Jacqueline Suskin to discuss her book, The Edge of the Continent: The Desert.
This book is about California. Specifically, this third volume is about Joshua Tree—the dry, sparsely populated landscape noted for its strange topography and spiritual pull. The author spent many winters on a ranch here, and invites readers into the often unseen magic of the desert, a place where silence and open space bring gifts of potent healing and ancient insight.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://skylightbooks.com/event/event/live-crowdcast-jacqueline-suskin-reads-edge-continent-desert
Adventures in Writing Workshop with Carolyn Ziel via – Online Event
Adventures in Writing is a six-week workshop with Carolyn Ziel, designed for all levels, in which you can have some fun while you dig in, find your voice, and use language to make a difference in our lives.
There will also be a workshop offered on Tuesday afternoons from 1 pm – 2:30 pm.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com./events/955197084998620
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 14th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club & El Juego del Angel at The Last Bookstore Online
The Ficcion en Espanol Book Club, led by Dan Lopez, reads fiction in Spanish. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s book El Juego del Angel, a gothic tale of mystery, love and danger, set in the same world as La sombra del viento,
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7:30pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Sonia Levitin & Journey to America via Museum of Tolerance – Online Event
Join award-winning author Sonia Levitin, inconversationwith Liebe Geft, director of the Museum of Tolerance, to discuss Journey to America: Escaping the Holocaust to Freedom, a book inspired by the author’s own experience of fleeing Germany as a child with her mother and two sisters.
NOTE: Please register and see details at site.
Where: Museum of Tolerance – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 11 am- 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/764180200819140
Celebrating the Life of Tomie DePaola with Society of Children’s Book Writers (SCBWI) – Online Event
Join us to celebrate the life of children’s book author Tomie DePola. He was the award-winning author and illustrator of more than 260 children’s books, such as the beloved Strega Nona.This memorial is open to the public and no registration is required.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: SCBWI – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 2:30 pm- 3:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/739077346650654
The 1619 Project Learning Circle Series (5th of 6 sessions) & Sidebars viaLAPL – Online Event
Please join the 1619 Project Learning Circle, created for the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery by Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, to detail the history of slavery, its last effects in our culture, and to celebrate those formerly enslaved peoples making American democracy manifest.
Week 5 will focus on the book, Mass Incarceration, by Bryan Stevenson. See site for books discussed at all six meetings in series.
You may link to the project and a tutorial at website, and must sign in at least 72 hours prior to each weekly event. See site for further details.
Where: Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event (RSVP and details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/1619-project-learning-circle
HH@Home: Sebastian Matthews and Vievee Francis via RHP Fall Book Tour – Online Event
Red Hen Press will host the RHP Virtual Fall Book Tour series, a virtual reading and conversation series, celebrating the releases of the RHP Fall 2020 season. Check site for details.
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books ofpoetry, We Generous and Miracle Day.
Vievee Francis istheauthorof Blue Tail Fly, Horse in the Dark, and Forest Primeval, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. She is an associate professor at Dartmouth /College and an associate editor for Callaloo.
Where: Red Hen Press Facebook – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 4pm – 5 pm
Address: Four Platforms – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1136065716788709
Duncan Swan & TheMakingof Monstre Vol. 1 – Launch Day Event – Online Event
Join author Duncan Swan, and his team of editors, creatives, and marketing pros, to celebrate the release of debut novel, Monstre Vol. I
To challenge the conventional system and help self-publishing become a career option, the event will feature six live and pre-recorded sessions. See site for details.
Where: Facebook Live and Periscope – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/235103907834864
Roya Marsh & “It’s Your Poem, You Can Cry If You Want To” – Online Writing Workshop
Join author Roya Marsh, for a writing workshop titled, It’s Your Poem, You Can Cry If You Want To: Writing with Vulnerability.
In this 4-week workshop participants will use poetry as a way to take risks and challenge oneself to be courageous and brave. It is heavily based on respective emotional and historical experiences, and is suitable for all writing levels.
Sessions will be offered on Sept, 15, 22, 29, and Oct. 5, from 5:30-7pm. See site for cost information.
Where: Awful Good Writers & Buddy Wakefield – Online event (RSVP & tickets at site)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/783624352207392
Raven Leilani, with Glory Edim, & Luster at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Raven Leilani, in conversation with Well Read Black Girl Founder Glory Edim, to discuss her book, Luster: A Novel.
The author explores how we know what we want, and how do we know we’re ready to take it? Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties, and when she becomes unemployed, finds herself invited into an open marriage and acting as a role model to a young child. This absorbing sexually-charged tale explores the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Jacob Soboroff, with Ahilan Arulanatham, & Separated: Inside an American Tragedy – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Jacob Soboroff, in discussion with Ahilan Arulanatham, senior council at the ACLU, will discuss his new book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, in a Crowdcast online event.
This book is a deeply reported, critical account of the humanitarian crisis of our time by the journalist who has been at the center of the story: MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, winner of the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award, offers a chilling expose of the human cost of the Trump administration’s border and immigration policies.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 6pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Sara Mirk and Contributors & Guantanamo Voices Comicvia Skylight Books – Online
Join author and journalist Sara Mirk, with contributors Tracy Chahwan, Gerardo Alba, and Alexandra Beguez, to discuss the new nonfiction comic, Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Famous Prison.
This team of diverse, talented graphic novel artists, will tell the stories of ten people whose lives have been shaped and affected by the prison, and view this complicated, partisan issue through a new lens.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Mystery Book Club & Open Season at Santa Monica Public Library – Online Event
The Mystery Book Club discusses the latest authors in the mystery genre, and meets every third Tuesday of the month. This month we are reading Open Season, by C.J. Box, in which a Wyoming game warden races against time to save an endangered species and finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery.
All are welcome. To register for this program, email Karen.reits@smgov.net.
Where: Santa Monica Public Library – SMPL online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=31960
Coffee Time Book Club & The Death of Vivek Oji via Pages Bookstore Online Event
Join the Coffee Time Book Club, where we read new release literary fiction. This month’s selection is The Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emezi. The meeting will be facilitated by Linda McLoughlin Figel.
NOTE: Please register and see details at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-virtual-meeting-3
Middle Grade Book Club & The Last Kids on Earth via Pages Bookstore Online Kids Event
Join the Middle Grade Book Club, which meets monthly, generally on the second Monday of each month at 4 pm.
In September, the book club will overlap with the Max Braillier and Doug Holgate event on September 16th at 5 pm. The selection is The Last Kids on Earth and Skeleton Road, by Max Brallier, .illustrated by Doug Holgate.
NOTE: Please register and see details at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-5pm
Vroman’s Live: Meredith Hall & Beneficence – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Meredith Hall, in conversation with Lily Brooks-Dalton, will discuss her book, Benificence: A Novel.
This book is the story of a strong, loving family touched by tragedy when their family of five becomes a family of four, their gratitude is turned to tragedy, and the family is consumed by grief and guilt. In this radiant debut novel is a study of love—both its gifts and its obligations, and it illuminates the heart’s enduring covenants and compromises.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 6pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Lan Cao & Harlan Margaret Van Cao & Family in Six Tones – Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Authors Lan Cao & Harlan Margaret Van Cao, in conversation with Robert Olen Butler, will read and discuss their new book, Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
In this book the author explores how information can make us happy or miserable, and why we sometimes avoid it and sometimes seek it out. He argues that the focus should be on human well-being and what information contributes to it.
Where: Chevalier’s Books – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Chevalier’s Books – Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/;an-cao
Montana Branch Book Discussion & Where the Crawdads Sing at Santa Monica Public Library – Online Event
The Montana Branch Book Discussion Group selection for this month is the national bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens, which follow two timelines which slowly intertwine. One is the life and adventures of Kya as she grows up isolated in the march of North Carolina from 1952-1969. The second is a murder investigation of Chase Andrews, a local celebrity of Barkley Cove, a fictional coastal town of North Carolina. The initial suspect is Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say.
All are welcome. To register for this program, email Karen.reits@smgov.net.
Where: Santa Monica Public Library – SMPL online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 7pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33511
Feminist Book Club & Cantoras at The Last Bookstore Online
The Feminist Book Club, led by Julia Callahan, reads an intersectional variety of feminist literature. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Carolina de Robertis’s book Cantoras: A Novel, which follows the friendships of a group of queer women through several decades of a South American dictatorship.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 7:30pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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 16th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Vroman’s Live: Janna Ireland & Regarding Paul L. Williams – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Janna Ireland will discuss her book, Regarding Paul L. Williams: A Photographer’s View.
This book is a photographic exploration of the work of the first AIA-certified African American architect west of the Mississippi River. Known as “Hollywood’s Architect.” Paul Revere Williams was a Los Angeles native who built a wildly successful career, decades before the Civil Rights Movement. He designed municipal buildings, private homes, public housing and more. The book contains intimate photographs, as well as architectural photos.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 12:45pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Cartography of Poets Workshop – USC Visions and Voices – Livestreamed Event
JoinCaliforniapoets Dana Gioia, Garrett Hongo, Robin Coste Lewis, Luis J. Rodriguez, David St. John, and Gail Wronsky for an evening of intrepid explorations of historical and contemporary California poets and poetry, followed by a conversation about how history and place—literal and figurative—shape the poetic experience.
Dana Gioia was Poet Laureate of California from 2015-2018, and is the author of five collections. He has also written three opera libretti and edited twenty literary anthologies. He served as NEA chairman from 2003-2009.
Garrett Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawai’i. and has written three books of poetry, three anthologies, and among his honors was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. His two new books, The Ocean of Clouds and The Perfect Sound: An Autobiography in Stereo, are forthcoming.
Robin Coste Lewis is the current Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, and her 2015 debut poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus, won the National Book Award in poetry. She is working on two new collections: To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness and Prosthetic.
Luis J. Rodriguez sees poetry as prayer in motion. He has written sixteen books in all genres, and is best known for his memoir, Always Running. and its sequel, It Calls You Back. He is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press, served as Los Angeles Poet Laureate from 2014-2016, and his latest book is From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys & Imaginings of a Native Xicanx Writer.
David St. John is the prize winning author of twelve collections of poetry, as well as a volume of essays, interviews, and reviews titled Where Angels Come Toward Us. He is University Professor and Chair of English at USC.
Gail Wronsky is the author, coauthor, and translator of twelve books, and is the Daum Professor at Loyola Marymount University.
NOTE: Admission is free, but you must RSVP at site.
Where: USC – Online livestreamed event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 5:30pm
Address: USC Visions and Voices – Online event
Website: https://http://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/eventdetails/?event_id=30388925443081&s_type=&s_genre= or
https://www.facebook.com/events/211064533277952
W.J.T. Mitchell, with Bill Ayers, & Mental Traveler at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author W.J.T. Mitchell, in conversation with Bill Ayers, to discuss his book, Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia.
The author relates how a parent tries to make sense of a child’s severe mental illness, to meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and limits of psychiatry. This memoir tells the story of one family’s encounter with mental illness and tries to turn a curse into a learning experience.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Peter Lunenfeld & City at the Edge of Forever – Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Author Peter Lunenfeld, in conversationwith Lawrence Weschler, will read and discuss his new book, City at the Edge of Forever.
In this book the author presents an engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los Angeles. He weaves together the city’s art, architecture, and design, and juxtaposes its entertainment and literary histories, and moves through its studios and labs to reimagine Los Angeles as simultaneously an exemplar and cautionary tale for the 21st Century.
Where: Chevalier’s Books – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6pm
Address: Chevalier’s Books – Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/peter-lunenfeld
Miah Jeffra, with Guests & The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! at Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Miah Jeffra, in conversation with Alanna Lin Ramage, Cheryl Klein, Claudia Rodriguez, Seth Fischer & Linda Ravenswood, to discuss their book, The Fabulous EkohrasticFantastic!
This book explores the nature of gender, sexuality, aesthetics, and love, and is about forgiveness, family, and the truths we find in “the Lightness of a door,” the probability of a radio,” and the long line between one story and another.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Rock ‘N Roll Pajama Storytime via HBPL Facebook Page – Kids Event
Put on your comfiest pajamas, snuggle up with a blanket and you favorite stuffed animal, and tune in to Facebook Live for Rock ‘N Roll storytime on the library Facebook page. We will sing, dance and read stories every Thursday night at 7 pm.
Where: Huntington Beach Public Library – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Facebook Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/736581520432505/
True Crime Book Club & Jack the Ripper at The Last Bookstore Online
The True Crime Book Club, led by James T. Bartlett, reads literature about our dark sides. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Robert House’s book Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard’s Prime Suspect.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 7:30pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Story Time Live with a Gallery Interpreter via Natural History Museum of L.A. County – Facebook Online Kids Event
The L.A. County Natural History Museum hosts a Gallery Interpreter reading event for the little ones, to share a story in a live reading of o favorite books, every Friday morning!
This is a Facebook online event.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/4957534204272458
Author Talk with Tori Eldridge via Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library – Zoom Online Event
The Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library hosts local author Tori Eldridge, who will discuss the second installment of the Ninja Daughter series, Ninja Blade, a mystery thriller.
This is a Zoom online event.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Muckenthaler Cultural Center – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/231267331623355
Teen Writing Group (Grades 9-12) via Thousand Oaks Library – Online Teen Event
The Teen Writing Group hosts: Rewrite a Fairy Tale, for teens in Grades 9-12 only. Sign up for all sessions to get Zoom Video Conference details. This will be an introduction to the writing group, to focus our guidelines and our choice of fairy tales and conflicts.
NOTE: See website link for details. Subsequent meetings scheduled for October 16, November 20, and December 4 & 18.
Where: Thousand Oaks Library – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2802832609963922
Voice the Vote Event: Art Saves the Vote Reading & Fundraiser via Skylight Bookstore – Instagram Online Event
Poets and writers Bridgette Bianca, Jessica Ceballos y Campbell, Jose Olivarez, Amir Rabiyah & Christopher Rivas arefeatured in this Art Save The Vote event, a collective of artists creating content to educate and inspire young people driving votes to the 2020 election.
Brigette Bianca is a poet and professor from South Central Los Angeles who co-curated two literary series: Making Room for Black Women and the Women’s Center for Creative Work Reading Series. She is the author of be/trouble (Writ Large Press), her debut collection of poetry.
Jessica Ceballos y Campbell is a curator, community organizer, writer, editor, publisher, designer, and tenants’ rights activist in northeast Los Angeles. She has published three chapbooks, and is currently working on the collection, Happiest Place on Earth.
Jose Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal was a PEN finalist and winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. He is co-editor of the anthology The BreakBeat Poets Vol.4: LatiNEXT, and has received numerous awards.
Amir Rabiyah is a trans and two-spirit disabled queer femme poet and writing coach, exploring life on the margins and at the intersections of multiple identities. Amir’s first full collection, Prayers for My 17th Chromosome, is available through Rivalry Press.
Christopher Rivas is an award-winning storyteller essayist, actor, teacher, speaker and creator of “The Real James Bond…Was Dominican.” He has worked with organizations all over the world, and is currently a PhD candidate in Expressive Arts for Global Health & Peace Building from the European Graduate School.
NOTE: RSVP and donation at site.
Where: Skylight Books – Instagram Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 5pm
Address: Skylight Books Instagram – Online event
Creating Conversations: Natasha Lester & Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell via Livestream Online Event
Creating Conversations is a partner of Mysterious Galaxy, an independent bookstore serving southern California for over 21 years.
We invite you to hear international bestselling author Natasha Lester in conversation with fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell to discuss Dior, the attire and attitudes of the female pilots in the Air Transport Auxiliary, and more insights into Natasha’s latest novel, The Paris Secret!
NOTE: Check site for details.
Where: Creating Conversations Bookstore – Online event
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/302539747510211
UNITY: Bridging the Gap Open Mic via Hot and Cool Café – Check Site re In-Person or Online Event
Join host Project Africa for a curated Open Mic night bridging the gap between generations, cultures, genres, and modes of creatie expression, featuring vegan cuisine.
NOTE: Details and evntbrite ticket information available at website.
Where: Hot and Cool Café
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2405438262916640/
Get Lit Saturday Class via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Join Get Lit Saturday Class, a weekly poetry workshop that is free and open to all teens!
Learn writing techniques, performance training, and confidence-building every Saturday morning, from 10 am to 12 pm via Zoom.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite and Kelly Grace Thomas – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785633795185/
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 19th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862734055834/
Fiction Winners Book Group Discussion & White Noise via Santa Monica Library – Online Event
This monthly Book Group Discussion meets every 3rd Saturday of the month, and reads and discusses prize-winning fiction. This month we will read and discuss White Noise by Don De Lillo. In this book a Midwestern family navigates the rocky passages of family life while a lethal cloud from an industrial accident hovers over them.
NOTE: To register for the program, email karen.reitz@smgov.net for participation details.
Where: Santa Monica Library, LAPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=31972
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Event & Open Mic at Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a reading by four featured chapbook poets from Four Feathers Press: Radomir Vojtech Luza, Bruce Niedt, Meri Tumanyan, and Alicia Viguer-Espert. Plus, there will be an Open Mic.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 19th
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 19th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Los Angeles Literature 