Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
NaNoWriMo Workshop Series via Simi Valley Public Library – Online Event
Join us for a Virtual NaNoWriMo Workshop series, with session #1, “Getting Started,” and start brainstorming your new novel!
This annual event is a creative writing project in which participants attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript during the month of November, to jump start their project. Join our virtual workshops to collaborate with others, for feedback and fun.
To register for this event, email Stephanie Erbe @ simivalleylibrary.org.
NOTE: Other libraries also offer November novel writing events, so check listings.
Where: Simi Valley Public Library – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Simi Valley Public Library – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1128883287514193
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Fiction Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program features a Current Interest: Politics Panel and a discussion between three insightful and provocative chroniclers of the current state of the American political scene, who will discuss economics, nationalism, racism, the two-party system, where America is now and where it is going. LA Times Editorial Page Editor Sewell Chan will moderate and discuss their books with them. The panel features:
Kurt Anderson’s latest book Evil Geniuses is the story of how our economy and society were re-engineered to serve big business and the well-to-do at the expense of everyone else. It’s prize-winning companion volume is Fantasyland (2017). He is also the author of four critically acclaimed novels; co-created and hosted the NPR program Studio 360; co-founded Spy Magazine; was a columnist for The New Yorker; and was editor-in-chief of New York.
Jean Guerro is an investigative journalist contributing to NPR, PBS Newshour, and more. She is the author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda (HarperCollins). Her first book, Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir, won a PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize. Her work has been widely published.
Stuart Stevens is the author of even previous books, and his current book is titled, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. For 25 years he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nation’s toughest political campaigns. He is a former fellow of the American Film Institute and has written extensively for several TV shows.
Bookseller: Skylight Bookstore (limited quantity of bookplates available now)
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books-stories-and-ideas-2020-tickets-121490518411 or https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/
Adventures in Writing Workshop: Found Voices with Carolyn Ziel – Online Event
Join writer, coach, and teacher Carolyn Ziel for a six-week Writing Workshop, Adventures in Writing: Found Voices.
All levels are welcome, and you will become a better writer as you focus on the process and learn how to get out of your own way, through a variety of writing exercises.
For registration and details email Carolyn Ziel at Carolyn@carolynziel.com or visit her website.
NOTE: Details and costs available at website.
Where: Online Event
Date: Monday the 2nd (through December 7th)
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/347948536452675
Queer Book Club & Lord of the Butterflies via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Queer Book Club, led by CB Lee, reads Queer authors, books, and topics across genres (mostly fiction), and this month will read and discuss the book Lord of the Butterflies, a collection by spoken word artist Andrea Gibson.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so see details at site.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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 2nd
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
NAWBO Books + Coffee Book Club via National Association of Women Business Owners -OC – Online Event
The monthly Books + Coffee Book Club hosted by NAWBO-OC will meet and discuss the selection for November, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Where: NAWBO – Orange County Zoom event
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 8:30am – 10 am
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://facebook.com/events/2581590878757353
PLVD Virtual Book Club via Palos Verdes Library District – Online Event
The monthly Palos Verdes Virtual Book Club will meet to discuss and share an award-winning book you read in October.
Register in advance at the link, and afterward you will receive a confirming email.
Where: PVLD – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 10 am – 11:15 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://facebook.com/events/3355815111141094
Book Club at the Sperber & The Last Interview via American Jewish University– Online Event
The monthly AJI Book Club will meet to discuss the book The Last Interview, by Eshkol Nevo, with facilitator Lori Sagarin.
In this book a writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website editor. At first, they stick to the standard fare. But this time, when his heart is about to break and his life is about to crumble, he finds he must tell the truth. That is, the naked, funny, sad, scandalous, and politically incorrect truth.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: AJI – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://facebook.com/events/320326209252384
Random Reads Book Club via Santa Clarita Public Library – Online Event
The Random Reads Book Club will meet to discuss whatever it is you’re reading in a fun group. It’s the perfect chance to find new authors and genres based on the recommendations of others. NO requirements are necessary to join this book club.
Register in advance at the link, and afterward you will receive a confirming email.
Where: Santa Clarita Public Library – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://facebook.com/events/3840353782663887
Native American Heritage Month Story Time Special via Santa Monica Public Library – Kids Online Event
To commemorate Native American Heritage Month, a Story Time Special for children will feature the book Bowwow Powwow, by Brenda J. Child.
Benay Child, daughter of the author, Brenda J. Child, will read her mother’s book. In the story, Windy Girl imagines a powwow where all the dancers are dogs.
Register in advance at the link at the site.
Where: Santa Monica Public Library – Facebook Online event
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://facebook.com/events/2034447630022887
Man of Change: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden via California African American Museum – Zoom Online Event
Romare Bearden isjustone of the many dynamic men profiled in the topic: Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. Listen in as Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of Spelman College and author of An American Odyssey: The Life of Romare Bearden, and Robert G. O’Meally, the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Director for the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, discuss the life and work of one of the 20th century’s most creative and original artists.
NOTE: Tickets available at Eventbrite link at site.
Where: CAAM – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Address: CAAM – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3357159164353019
Mystery Book Club & Blindsighted via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The monthly Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss and share a book by Karin Slaughter, Blindsighted (2001).
Register in advance at the link, and afterward you will receive a confirming email.
Where: Palms Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-16
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Audible Panel Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program features a Memoir Panel in which Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks will moderate a discussion of Memoirs of the Black Experience. Featured panelists include:
Emily Bernard is the Julian Lindsey Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont. Her essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The Yale Review, and O Magazine. Her recent book, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mothers’ Time, and Mine, won the 2020 LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose. She is a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Morgan Jerkins is the author of Wandering in Strange Lands and the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing, and is the senior editor at ZORA, and a visiting professor at Columbia University. Her short from work has been featured in many journals, and her first novel, CAUL BABY, is forthcoming form Harper in 2021. She is based in Harlem.
Frank Wilderson is an American writer, dramatist, filmmaker, and critic, and a full professor of Drama and African American Studies at UC Irvine.
Bookseller: Book Soup
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Facilitators are rotated quarterly, and the current facilitator is James Maverick.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Nicole Strauss & To Be a Man via American Jewish University– Online Event
Author Nicole Strauss is one of the most influential literary voices today. Her new release, To Be a Man, is a collection of short fiction and very likely her strongest work yet.
AJI invites you to this book launch for To Be a Man, where the author will be in conversation with Rabbi Sherre Hirsch. They will discuss the struggle to understand what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, and how these struggles have connected the author to her own experiences in the world.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: AJI – Online event
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://facebook.com/events/976218529527495
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Fiction Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program features a Romance Fiction Panel titled All Hail Contemporary Romance! Moderated by author Elissa Sussman, the author of the upcoming YA novel Drawn That Way, as well as her adult debut, Funny You Should Ask and the YA fairy tales, STRAY and BURN, the panel also includes:
Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date, The Proposal, The Wedding Party, Royal Holiday, and the upcoming Party of Two. Her work has appeared in many magazines. She lives in Oakland.
Casey McQuiston is the author of Red, White & Royal Blue, as well as a pie enthusiast. she writes books about smart people with bad manners falling in love. She lives in New York City.
Rebekah Weatherspoon is a multiple award-winning romance author, the author of If the Boot Fits, and the creator of WOCinRomance.com. Raised on the campus of Philips Exeter Academy in Southern New Hampshire, she now lives in Southern California.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Felicia Luna Lemus & Lynell George Discuss Their Releases: Particulate Matter & The World of Octavia Butler via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join authors Lynell George & Felicia Luna Lemus, to hear them discuss their new books.
A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler is Lynell George’s latest and long-awaited release, and it offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” author Octavia E. Butler. The author not only engages the world that shaped Butler, she also explores the specific processes through which Butler shaped herself. It’s about creating a life with what little you have. Highly visual and packed with photos, it draws the reader into Butler’s world, creating a sense of unmatched intimacy with the deeply private writer.
Particulate Matter is Felicia Luna Lemus’s story of a year in her marriage when the world turned upside down. It’s about love and crisis, loss and grief, the city and the ocean, ancestral ghosts and history haunting. Fires raged and covered their house in in ash. Everything crystalized. It was a challenging and terrifying time, yet a time of sublime beauty, power and presence.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Barbara Abercrombie & Jaqueline Winspear Discuss Their New Books via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join authors Barbara Abercrombie & Jacqueline Winspear, in conversation with Monica Holloway, to discuss their new books.
The Language of Loss, by author Barbara Abercrombie, is her account of how she perceived, handled, and healed after her husband died. She yearned for words that acknowledged the reality of death, and spoke about sorrow and loneliness, and found those words in the writings here.
This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing, is author Jacqueline Winspear’s memoir about the hardships and joys of her family history. It captures her grandparents and parents experiences during World War II and her own childhood picking hops and fruit on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. The author created the Maisie Dobbs series of sixteen novels.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/barbara-abercrombie-and-jacqueline-winspear
Be the Change Series: Walter R. Echo-Hawk & In the Courts of the Conqueror via Glendale Public Library, PLVD & Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Author and attorney Walter R. Echo-Hawk will discuss his book In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Laws Ever Decided, in conversation with Autry Museum President W. Richard West, Jr. as part of the “Be the Change” series.
The author explains how these cases and their decisions adversely affected the cultural survival of Native people to this day. This event honors Native American Heritage Month in November.
NOTE: See site to register and for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3430219402809118478 or http://shoponceuponatime.com/event/be-change-series-featuring-courts-conqueror-walter-r-echo-hawk-presented-glendale-library-arts or https://facebook.com/events/2761847100746447
NoHo Book Club & Any Book of Your Choice via North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us twice a month to discuss a selected title and a book of your choice. New Members are welcome. We meet on the second and fourth Friday of the month. In November and December the first Friday is an Any Book of Your Choice meeting.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: North Hollywood Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club-discuss-book-your-choice
Story Time Live with a Gallery Interpreter via Natural History Museum of L.A. County – Facebook Online Kids Event
Please enjoy a family event from the L.A. County Natural History, which hosts a Gallery Interpreter reading event for the little ones, to share a story in a live reading of 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 6th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/977481202718787
Portals in Prose & Verse Anthology Launch via Paris in a Cup Tea Salon & Café & 3 Others – Facebook Online Event
Join us to celebrate the Portals in Prose & Verse anthology, joining friends far and near.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Parisin a Cup Teas Salon & Cafe – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/370546301022038
Simi Valley Library Pop-Up via Streathearn Historical Park & Museum – In-Person Park Event
Please join the Simi Valley Library at their Pop-Up event at Streathearn Historical Park- from 1pm to 3pm, with books, movies, and more for all ages! You can come by and sign up for a library card, check out items, or just say HI!
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: In-Person Park event (see site)
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: 137 Strathearn Pl., Simi Valley, CA 93065
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/350677106007818
Your Author Series with Kelly Starling- Lyons via LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join us as we talk with author Kelly Starling-Lyons about her work.
KellyStarling-Lyons is the author of 17 children’s books, and creates inspiring books that center on Black heroes, celebrate family and heritage, and show children the storyteller they hold inside.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-kelly-starling-lyons
Claudia Rankine & Just Us: A Virtual Reading and Conversation – Online Live Event
Join host Terrance Hayes, with introductions by Deborah Landau, to hear Claudia Rankine in a reading, conversation and Q&A about her new release, Just Us.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: WatchLive – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/4462931433748183
Vroman’s Live: Ed Lin, with Naomi Hirahara, & David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend via Vroman’s Bookstore – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author and novelist Ed Lin, in conversation with writer Naomi Hirahara, to hear him discuss his new book, David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College.
In this playful and wryly observant YA debut, the author explores coming-of-age in the Asian diaspora while navigating relationships through race, class, and young love. David Tung is our nerd hero, a Chinese-American high school student who works in his family‘s restaurant, competes for top grades, and attends weekend Chinese school in NYC’s working class Chinatown. He fears he will die alone whether he gets into Harvard or not.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/ed-lin-with-naomi-hirahara
ASI Literature Slam at Long Beach Shakespeare Company – In-Person Event
Join our host, the Long Beach Shakespeare Company for a new way to interact with the community and language. With open eyes and hearts, the LBSC’s ASI Literature Slam will showcase the beauty of poetry and literature through the medium of American Sign Language.
For performer submissions, check site,
Where: Long Beach Shakespeare Company – In-Person event (see site)
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 8pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 4250 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90807
Website: https://www.facebook.co/events/121338482549386/
Rapp Saloon Reading Series & Open Mic via Virtual Zoom Event– Online Event
The Rapp Saloon Reading Series hosted by Cynthia Alessandra Briano on the first Friday of the month will feature three guest readers::
Peter J. Harris is co-curator of this event, and is an award-winning poet, and author of Bless the Ashes (Tia Chucha Press, 2015), The Black Man of Happiness: In Pursuit of My Inalienable Right (2015 American Book Award-winner), and the forthcoming Safe Arms: 20 Love &Erotic Poems. He has published his work in a wide variety of publications and anthologies, and writes the blog WREAKING HAPPINESS, among other activist and literary projects.
Beth Marquez is a poet from Altadena who has published in anthologies from Moon Tide Press and Lucid Moose Press. Her poems have appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, and the Darnfino literary journals, She is a 2017 Pink Door Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee.
Arianna Gouveia is a musician who began singing in a gospel church choir at age 17, and has pursued projects in a variety of arts projects ever since.
Plus an Open Mic!
NOTE: See website for online link, open mic guidelines, and further details.
Where: Rapp Saloon Zoom – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 8:15 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3396819330407025/
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 9 am to 1 pm via Zoom.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785633798185/
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 7th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862607389180/
Ocean Park Book Group via Santa Monica Library – Online Event
Join the monthly meeting of the Ocean Park Book Group, open to all, which will read and discuss Olive Again, by Elizabeth Strout.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=31950
Rebecca Gordon Glum & The Trouble with Penguins – Online Kids Event
Join debut author/illustrator Rebecca Gordon Glum and hear her introduce her picture book, The Trouble with Penguins. This fun book for children ages 3 is a delightful winter time read-aloud. If you pre-order your book from our store you will receive a festive swag pack.
NOTE: See website for further details and to RSVP.
Where: One Upon a Time Bookstore– Zoom online
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 1pm – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/trouble-penguins-book-launch-rebecca-jordan-glum
Love Poem to MPTF: A Reading with Harry Northrup via Beyond Baroque Online Event
Join Beyond Baroque on Zoom online to hear legendary LA poet Harry Northrup read from his brand new collection, Love Poem to MPTF (Cahuenga Press).
In this beautifully written and stunningly structured collection, the author fills his poetry with compassion and gratitude, and love for his wife and the cherished details of their life together. It is a radiant, celebratory book, a love poem to the world.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Free Online Event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: Beyond Baroque – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1008121196280085 or
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Writing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell. Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Special Edition: What’s Next?
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
SHHH…SAY NOTHING Book Signing & Art Event via Neon Moon Art Studio – In-Person & Video Event
Join us for a book signing and art event with words from artist and author Suzanne Gibbs. Shhh…Say Nothing is a collection of stories form women who have been silenced or who choose self-silencing. This event is paired with paintings from the book, and is an honest look at silenced voices.
NOTE: Details at event link available at website.
Where: Neon Moon Art Supply *& Studio – IN-Person &Virtual Event
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 4 pm – 9 pm
Address: 317 W. First St., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/780297592734012/
LiveTalks LA: Janet Evanovich & Fortune and Glory: A Stephanie Plum Novel – Online Event
Author Janet Evanovich, will discuss the writing life and her new novel Fortune: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven, A Stephanie Plum Novel.
In this book in her long-running series, Stephanie’s beloved Grandma Mazur’s new husband dies on their wedding night, and the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair…and the keys to a life-changing fortune. As Stphanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli’s treasure, they discover they’re not the only ones on the hunt. She may be in over her head, but her unbreakable bond with her family and her stubborn streak will never let her quit. Her own deepest feelings will be teasted—and she might finally be forced to choose between Joe Morelli and Ranger.
NOTE: Event is available to register and watch, and book itself may be purchased when you RSVP at site link.
Where: LiveTalks LA – YouTube and Facebook Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm PST
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/janet-evanvich
“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 7th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958493448680/
ESWA’s Coffee & Poets, Second Saturday Afternoons via Online Event
Join this new ESWA discussion group where we select a poet to read throughout the month, explore their work independently, then meet on Zoom for coffee, share our favorite poems by that poet, and discuss their work.
Our first discussion focuses on the work of 2020 Nobel award-winning poet, Louise Gluck.
Where: ESWA – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 10 am– 11:30 am
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/1491736601012224
Drive-Thru Book Signing of Super Torta, by Eric Ramos, hosted by Lil’ Libros Press
Join us for a Drive-Thru Book Signing and meet author Eric Ramos, author of the children’s book Super Torta. Purchase the book form the safety of your car and get it signed by the author. Click at site link to register and get your FREE vehicle pass.
NOTE: Advanced ticket purchases are required.
Where: Drive-Thru – In-Person Li’ Libros event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 11 am– 1 pm
Address: 1960 Hawkins Circle, Los Angeles, CA 90001-2255
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/358322538927333/
LA History Book Club: The Library Book, by Susan Orlean, via Zoom Online Event
Join us on this interactive Book Club event as we discuss The Library Book by Susan Orlean, by framing her account around the 1986 fire at the LA Central Library through a history of libraries and how libraries have evolved.
NOTE: Advanced ticket purchases are required.
Where: LA Walking Tours – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 1 pm– 2:30 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/1184461781955433
What Books Press Authors & Books Launch 2020 via Skylight Books – Online Event
What Books Press presents its 2020 launch of five authors and their books, featuring:
Daniel Takeshi Krause’s first novel, Remembering Dismembrance, is quirky, cerebral, and exquisitely tortuous. it takes the form of a compendium of critical responses to a novel titled Dismembrance, and advertises itself as a “second synchronic snapshot of discourse in action…”
Stella Hayes is a Russian American poet and the debut author of the poetry collection One Strange Country. In it she maps a an origin story of identity, exile, and loss.
Elena Katrina Byrne is the author of the chapbook NO, DON’T, which offers a restless portrait of identity that reflects the shifting terrains of desire and gender, of personal loss and punishing empowerment, and of political and cultural abuse. She is the author of five books, including If This Makes You Nervous. and is a former 12-year director of the Poetry Society of America.
Andrew Tonkovich is the author of Keeping Tahoe Blue and Other Provocations, consisting of eight short stories and a novella, in which characters resist fate whole risking more self-determined realities or unrealities, often funny or absurd. These situations are fact-fables about fathers and sons, citizenship, faith, addiction, and imagination.
C.P. Rosenthal is a novelist and the author of 17 previous books. His latest book is The Hammer, The Sickle, and the Heart: Trotsky and Kahlo in Mexico. Amidst threats on Trotsky’s life by the henchmen of Stalin, and the murders of his sons in Europe, Trotsky begins an affair with Frida Kahlo. When Sedova discovers the affair, she leaves him, and begins an affair with a Soviet double agent. Trotsky and Sedova reconcile before Trotsky’s assassination.
NOTE: Event details and book purchase available at site link.
Where: Skylight Books – Cowdcast Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Skylight Books – Online Event
Website: https://skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-what-books-press-authors-books-launch-2020
Sahronkingworldwide Book Club & Author Gerald D. Johnson & Alabama Sunrise – Online Event
Author Gerald D. Johnson is theauthor of Alabama Sunrise, and there will be a discussion of his work.
NOTE: See site link.
Where: Sharon King Worldwide – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm PST
Address: Zoom – Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/sharonkingworldwide/photos/gm.941252869715290/2792871594277044
Chair, Chocolate, and Chat with author Marla Frazee and Bookstore Staff – Online Family & Kids Event
Join our bookstore staff, and special guest author/illustrator and Caldecott Honor creative Marla Frazee. We will share our favorite picks of the gift-giving season and information on upcoming events.
NOTE: See website for further details and to RSVP.
Where: One Upon a Time Bookstore– Zoom online
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/eventchair-chocolate-and-chat-once-upon-time-staff /
Ekphrastric with the Classics: a Workshop with Jessica M. Wilson via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This is the 2nd meeting of an Ekphrastic Writing Workshop series led by Jessica M. Wilson which will focus on art history while relaying our investigation through poetry. We will use poetry as a way to tell the tale of some of the best visual art throughout history. It’s art history meets poetry meets YOUR poetic eye!
Jessica M. Wilson is an author and Beat poet, founder of the LA Poet Society, leader of the Sunday Open Reading event series at Beyond Baroque, and writing workshop instructor.
NOTE: Details and costs for this ticketed series of workshops are available at site.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Sunday the 8th (through Sunday November 29th)
Time: 4 pm –6 pm
Address: Zoom Online
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