All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Learning Circle: The 1619 Project via John C. Fremont Branch Library – Online Event
A Learning Circle is an opportunity to learn together. Join us as we study The 1619 Project, an ambitious undertaking by The New York Times to reexamine the legacy of slavery and the repercussions that exist to this day.
Email jcfrmt@lapl.org for participation details and related book list.
Where: John C, Fremont Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/learning-circle-1619-project
Teen National Novel Writing Month via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Join the NaNoWriMo Teen Writers Group for an Editing & Self-Publishing Panel as we explore different parts of a novel, plotting& characterization, editing your novel, and how publishing works. We will learn from a panel of agents, editors, and publishers and you will be able to ask questions through the comments section. The conversation is open to all ages!
Please email teens@lapl.org if you have any questions.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-teen-writers-group-wrap-and-celebration
NaNoWriMo Workshop Series via Simi Valley Public Library – Online Adult Event
Join the NaNoWriMo Workshop Series for a Story Slam! This week’s final meeting will celebrate the end of the series with participants reading a short excerpt from their new novel.
Please email Stephanie Erbe @simivalleyllibrary.org to register for this event.
Where: Simi Valley Public Library – Online event
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/263407101735834
Children’s Book Club: Children Chatting with Author Julie Berry via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
Children are invited to join the Children Chatting with Authors Podcast recording with Julie Berry, author of Wishes and Wellingtons. This program is for children and teens ages 9 to 13 years old. Copies of this book are available for checkout digitally via Hoopla at lapl.org.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 5 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/childrens-book-club-children-chatting-author-julie-berry
Vroman’s Live: Diana Peterson-More, with Julie Winkle-Giulioni, & Consequential Communication in Turbulent Times: A Practical Guide to Leadership via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Diana Peterson-More, in conversation with Julie Winkle-Giulioni, to hear them discuss her book, Consequential Communication in Turbulent Times: A Practical Guide to Leadership.
In this age of fake news, diverse audiences, and speedy technology, clear, concise, and intentional communication is vital to successful human interaction. In this book the author seeks to answer the age-old leadership question: how do we get the best out of ourselves and others on the job? She has developed actionable, easy-to-implement, practical steps to successful communication, which is the key, and presents real-world solutions.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/diana-peterson-more
Be the Change Book Club & Winter Counts via Glendale Public Library – Online Event
Join the Be the Change Book Club for a conversation with author David Heska Wanbli Weiden. an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota nation and winner of the 2020 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, to discuss his new mystery novel, Winter Counts, with author Marcie Rendon. This book is a Native thriller that examines the broken criminal justice system on reservations, and a meditation on Native identity.
Where: Glendale Public Library – Online event
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 6:30 pm– 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2765356816120955662 or https://www.facebook.com/events/665195134387914
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 30th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Books + Coffee Book Club via National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) – Orange County
Join the Books + Coffee Book Club to discuss the December book selection, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, opened up an opportunity for the future author to find the humor in the strange shame spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. This is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.
Where: NAWBO OC – Zoom Online event (see details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook/events/1002576680192613
Vroman’s Live: Melissa De La Cruz & Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Middle Grade Event
Join author Melissa De La Cruz, in conversation with authors Soman Chainani & Sarah Mlynowski, to hear them discuss her middle grade book, Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy.
In this book real life and fairy tales collide in book one of the new middle grade Never After series, from the author of The Descendants series.
Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho’s sleepy little town of North Pasadena, until one day, while walking home alone, something strange happens. She is followed by Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in The Thirteenth Fairy, a series of books she loves about a brave girl and her friends who save their world form an evil enchantress. Soon she is thrust into another world, and she must find the truth behind fairy tales and set the world back to rights before the cycle of sleep and destruction begins once more.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 5 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/melissa-de-la-cruz
Jim Peterson & The Horse Who Bears Me Away via Rattlecast # 69 – Online Event
Join Rattlecast #69 to hear poet and writer Jim Peterson present his latest collection, The Horse Who Bears Me Away. He is the author of six poetry collections, three chapbooks, a novel, Paper Crown published by Red Hen Press and recently made available on Audible.
Where: Rattlecast – Online event (see details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook/events390672662351244 /
Julie Buxbaum, with E. Lockhart, & Admisssion via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Julie Buxbaum reads from and discusses her new novel, Admission, with E. Lockhart.
This of-the-moment novel peeks inside the private lives of the hypercompetitive and the hyper-privileged, and takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the country. Through the life of Chloe Wynn Berringer, the author asks the questions that followed the investigations of the FBI and others into these events, and asks what it means to be complicit when examining everything you have taken for granted.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Tanya Acker, with KALPANA Srinivasan, & Make Your Case via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join Tanya Acker, co-star of Hot Bench,to hear her discuss her book, Make Your Case: Finding Your Way in Civil Court, with KALPANA Srinivasan.
This book demystifies civil litigation and lays out an expert’s guide to legal proceedings inside the courtroom and out.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/tanya-acker
Non-Fiction Book Club & Eat the Buddha via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
The Non-Fiction Book Club select’s each month’s selection via email prior to each meeting. The group is facilitated by Mark Polak.
This month’s book selection is Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, by author Barbara Demick.
This is a gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy. It illuminates a culture long romanticized by Westerners as deeply spiritual and peaceful, but reveals what it’s like for the people of Tibet in the 21st century to try to preserve one’s culture, faith, and language against the depredations of a seemingly unstoppable, technologically all-seeing superpower. It is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking.
Register in advance at the link at the site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club-virtual-meeting-2
Christopher Nolan, Tom Shone & Kenneth Branagh & The Nolan Variations via Chevalier’s Bookstore & Writers Bloc – Online Event
Join film critic Tom Shone, in discussion with Christopher Nolan & Kenneth Branagh, to hear them discuss his book, The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan.
This book is a deep dive into Nolan’s extraordinary imagination, his creativity, his process, and helps explain how his films strike a nerve. Nolan’s deeply personal themes turn into critically acclaimed and audience pleasing blockbusters one after another.
NOTE: Details of this FREE event are available at website.
Where: Writers Bloc – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://writersblocpresents.com/main/christopher-nolan/
Good Trouble Reading Group & Born a Crime via Edendale Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The Good Trouble Reading Group with Dr. Andrea Liss, will read and discuss comedian and TV personality Trevor Noah’s book, Born a Crime: Stories form a South African Childhood (2016). Hailed as one of the best memoirs of recent decades, this book recounts the author’s difficult childhood during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Edendale Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/good-trouble-reading-group-trevor-noah-born-crime
New Book Salon: Dating Beowulf via UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies – Online Event
Erica Weaver, Assistant Professor of English at UCLA, and co-editor Daniel C. Remein, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will discuss their book. Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy.
This book playfully redeploys the word ‘dating’ into a provocative set of new relationships with an Old English poem. It argues for the relevance of the early Middle Ages to effect studies and vice versa, and opens avenues for future works in the history of emotions, literary theorists, students and scholars alike,
The UCLA-CMRS New Book Salons are aimed at fostering intellectual community by engaging faculty authors about their recently published works.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/781464842435546
Philip Gefter, with Charlotte Cotton, & What Becomes a Legend Most via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join award-winning photography critic and author Philip Gefter, in conversation with Charlotte Cotton, to hear him discuss his book, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon.
This book is the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer who captured iconic figures of the 20th century in his acclaimed portraits. When his fashion work was exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 1970s he soon became a household name.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 2d
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Year by Year Poems: a Reading by Lynne Sachs via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Acclaimed filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs will read from her debut collection, Year by Year Poems, and will share some of her recent short films.
When the author turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for each year of her life, so far. Each poem investigates the relationship between a singular event in her life and the swirl of events beyond her domestic universe, i.e. 1961 to 2011.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30pm – 8 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3563509133736901
Felicia Luna Lemus & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Present Booksvia Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Authors Felicia Luna Lemus & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore will present and discuss their new books.
Felica Luna Lemus will present her book, Particulate Matter, the story of a year in her marriage when the world turned upside down. Set in Los Angeles, when fires raged and they were covered in ash, it’s about love and crisis, loss and grief, ancestral ghosts and history haunting.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore will present her book, The Freezer Door, which records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle, the author exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams, the hypocritical allure of gay male social culture, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (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 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Open Mic at the (Virtual) Ugly Mug via Zoom Online
Join Two Idiots Peddling Poetry’s online version of The Ugly Mug series, for a Virtual Open Mic. Join us to share poetry and to support Black and POC poets in resistance to injustice.
Sign up to read via Group Sheets.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/304486270700364
Innovative Arts Futures Conference via CSUF African American Studies Department – Zoom Online Event
The Institute of Black Intellectual Innovation hosts its first annual, signature Fall conference in a virtual format, and celebrates the culmination of semester-long series workshops, performances, and interactive conversations among students, faculty, artists, scholars, and art institutions. Join us in celebration!
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 11 am – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2824764171102521
UCI Great Big Read Presents Tommy Orange & There There via UC Irvine Libraries- Online Event
Join us to hear author Tommy Orange discuss his book, There There, the current program selection for reading for our Great Big Read event.
Where: UC Irvine – Online Event (see site for link and further details)
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 12pm – 1 pm
Address: UC Irvine Libraries – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/127620485559915
Lynell George, with John Szabo, & A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky via Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us to hear author Lynell George, in conversation with City Librarian John F. Szabo, discuss her book, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler.
This book is not only a look at the world of the acclaimed science-fiction author Butler and her story, it’s a collection of ideas about how to look, listen, breathe — and how to be— as a process of shaping oneself as a full human being, with what skills and abilities one may have at hand.
Where: LAPL – Online Event streamed live on Facebook and YouTube (see site for further details)
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 3:30pm
Address: Central Library, LAPL – Online event
Authors Daniel Riley & Stan Parish via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Authors Daniel Riley & Stan Parish will discuss their books and their personal connections to Manhattan Beach.
Barcelona Days by Daniel Riley is a captivating novel. When an erupting Icelandic volcano grounds all flights in and out of Europe, four vacationing American s are forced to reckon with the problems they thought they left behind in Barcelona.
Love Theft by Stan Parish is a kaleidoscopic set piece worthy of a James Bond movie. When two people meet at a party in Princeton, New Jersey, the chemistry is instant and undeniable. But they don’t realize their lives have overlapped before, and that their shared history will threaten everyone they love.
Register in advance at the link at the site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Jen Sincero Workshop/Q&A & Badass Habits via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Jen Sincero as she leads a workshop to get at the core of the topics in her book, Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick.
Submit your question when you purchase your ticket and you may be picked to join the author during the event for a live workshop.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Sabaa Tahir, with Nicola Yoon & Megan McClusky, & A Sky Beyond the Storm via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Sabaa Tahir, in conversation to discuss her new book in An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series, A Sky Beyond the Storm.
In this conclusion to the series fans can discover: Who will survive the storm? The Soul Catcher seeks only to forget the life he left behind, but he must now look beyond the borders of his own land and take on a mission that could save—or destroy—all that he knows.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/sabaa-tahir-with-nicola-yoon-and-megan-mccluskey
Cover to Cover Book Club & The Inheritance via Mid-Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Our next Cover to Cover Book Club discussion via Zoom will be on the book The Inheritance, by Dani Shapiro. Please join us by sending an email to npholana@lapl.org for the link.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Mid-Valley Regional Library – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/cover-cover-book-club-0
Poetry Stage Redux Part II: 2020 L.A. Times Festival of Books Poets & New Writers via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online Event
Beyond Baroque presents the second installment of The Poetry Stage Redux, a series of readings by nationally acclaimed poets form the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Poetry Stage.
Featured readers include:
Francisco Aragon is the author most recently of After Ruben (Red Hen Press 2020) and he is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies.
Sarah Arvio is the acclaimed author of Poet in Spain: New Translations of the Poetry of Garcia Lorca
Shonda Buchanan is the author of five books, including her memoir Black Indian. She is a literary activist and teaching artist.
Maxine Chernoff isprofessor and former chair of the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. She has edited the long running journal New American Writing and is the author of six books of fiction and fourteen books of poetry.
Tiana Clark is the author of the collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (2018).
Timothy Donnelly is the author of the prize-winning book, The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019), among others. He is Director of Poetry in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
Karen Kevorkin is the author of three collections of poetry, the newest being Quivira (2020)She teaches at UCLA.
Judith Pacht is the author of the new book of poems, Infirmary for a Private Soul (Tebot Bach). and her chapbook A Cumulous Fiction were published in 2019. A three-time Pushcart nominee, her work appears in numerous anthologies.
Arthur Sze’s tenth book of poetry, Sight Lines, received the 2019 National Book Award and his next collection, The Glass Constellation, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2021.
Imani Toliver is an award-winning poet, educator, and artist. She has also been recognized by the City of Los Angeles for her work as a promoter, host, and publicist in support of literary arts in Southern Californis.
Mariano Zaro is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Decoding Sparrows and Padre Tierra. his work has appeared in many anthologies, in Spain,, Mexico, and the U.S., and he is a professor at Rio Hondo Community College.
The full series will take place over four weeks in November and December and will feature over 40 poets. Future installments will be streamed on December 10, and 17.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details on this live streamed event.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast online event (see site)
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Sandra Cisneros & Luis J. Rodriguez: Conversation & Fundraiser via Tia Chucha Centro Cultural & Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear iconic author Sandra Cisneros in conversation with Tia Chucha’s own iconic author and activist Luis J. Rodriguez, on Facebook or YouTube.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for tickets and details.
Where: Tia Chucha’s YouTube or Facebook – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/luijrodriguez3
Book Club & Book of Your Choice Discussion via North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the NoHo Book Club twice a month to discuss a selected title and a book of your choice. New members are always welcome. This meeting will be focused on sharing a book of your choice.
RSVP to nohlwd@lapl.org at least two days in advance to receive the link.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 10 am
Address: Zoom Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club-discuss-book-your-choice
Library Pop-Up via Simis Valley Public Library at Rancho Santa Susanna Community Park – In-Person Event (see site)
Please join Simi Valley Public Library for its Library Pop-Up at Simi Valley Community Park on Friday afternoon. There will be books, movies, and more for all ages. You can sign up for a library card, check out items, or just say Hi.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Santa Susanna Community Park, 1765 Royal Ave., Simi Valley, CA 93063 – (see site)
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/209131160838544
In Conversation: Craig Alanson & B.V. Larson via Criag Alanson Page – Online Event
Please join authors Craig Alanson and B.V. Larson in conversation about their careers with moderator Victoria Gerken (Podium Audio).
Craig Alanson is the author of The Expeditionary Force series of books.
B.V. Larson is the author of more than 60 books, and writes in several genres, but most of his work is science fiction. He is the author of the Star Force series, among others.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Authors site – online (see site)
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/410343236680945
Your Author Series: Ashlyn Anstee via LAPL YouTube channel or Facebook – Online Teen Event
Please join the LAPL online for Your Author Series, to hear author Ashlyn Anstee discuss her work. She has worked with numerous high-profile entertainment companies, such as Disney, Netflix, and Dreamworks. Her latest book is, Hedge Hog.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: LAPL online – Facebook or YouTube (see site)
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 4 pm
Address: YouTube or Facebook – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/ypur-author-series-ashlyn-anstee
Vroman’s Live: Jane Smiley & Perestroika in Paris: A Novel via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join acclaimed prize-winning author Jane Smiley, in conversation with Elaine Szewczyk, to discuss her new book, Perestroika in Paris: A Novel.
In this novel, Paras, short for Perestroika, is a spirited racehorse at a track west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and—she’s a curios filly—wanders all the way to the City of Light. She’s dazzled and mystified by the experience, but she isn’t afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, and they keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. But then she meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris, where he and his nearly one-hundred year old grandmother live in seclusion, and the unlikeliest friendships bloom. But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris?
This beguiling new novel is an adventure itself, and celebrates the desire of all creatures fo true love and freedom.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/jane-smiley
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Poetry Open Mic with Cynthia Alessandra Briano – Virtual Event
The First Fridays Rapp Saloon Open Mic events have been offered virtually recently. Check posts for updates and details.
NOTE: See website link for details. (TBA)
Where: First Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/rappsaloon
Western Edge Writers Workshop via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Writers and aspiring writers, join us for a group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs. Share your work and receive constructive criticism.
NOTE: Email shannah@lapl.org for Zoom participation details.
Where: Eagle Rock Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-01
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, 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 5th
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 5th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862687389172/
Black Book Chat & Dr. Bettina Love via CSUF African American Studies Department – Zoom Online Event
AFAM continues to host the Black Book Chat (BBC@CSUF) virtually every first Saturday of the month form 10 am – 11:30 am. This conversation series provides space for the community to come together and talk about a variety of anti-racist books that inform and inspire. We incorporate poetry, fiction, and non-fiction selections by Black authors.
Dr. Bettina Love will host our final selection of the semester: WE WANT TO DO MORE THAN SURVIVE: ABOLITIONIST TEACHING AND THE PUSUIT OF EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM. Drs. Mei Malone, Vita Jones, and Benika Kressler will share their thoughts and help guide the conversation as well.
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 5th
Time: 10 am – 11:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/422163658958251
Sebastian Copeland & Antarctica: The Waking Giant via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join National Geographic photographer and author Sebastian Copeland, and his guests, to discuss his book, Antarctica: The Waking Giant.
This book demonstrates that Antarctica’s ice sheet is a powerful entity, alive and dynamic. Until recently, scientists thought it had remained almost untouched by climate change. But these images tell the real story and what the images implicate.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/sebastian-copeland
Daniel H. Inouye & Distant Islands: The Japanese American Community in New York City via Japanese American National Museum – Online
Join author-historian and attorney Daniel H. Inouye, in conversation with award-winning journalist Fred Katayama, to discuss his book, Distant Lands: The Japanese American Community in New York City and the unique stories and rich history of a divided community before World War II.
Where: JANM – Zoom Online event (see details & RSVP at website link)
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 2 pm– 4 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/791497491408499
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Writing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Camp bell. (Submit up to three poems totalling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Special Edition: Looking Back by emailing line at site.)
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Beth Ruscio’s Virtual Book Launch & Speaking Parts via Zoom Online
Join host Jerry Garcia of VCP to welcome actress and poet Beth Rocio to launch her her debut collection, Speaking Parts, the winner of the Brick Road Poetry Prize. With introduction by Laurel Ann Bogen.
NOTE: Please RSVP to vcpsocal@gmail.com to receive a link to event.
Where: Zoom online (see site)
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 3 pm– 4:30 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/411283526719077
Chelsea G. Summers, with Laurie Penny, & A Certain Hunger via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Author Chelsea G. Summers will present and discuss her debut novel, A Certain Hunger, in conversation with author Laurie Penny.
Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does, and she has a clear mastery of the culinary. And she loves sex as much as she loves food. This is a satire of early foodie-ism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling. The author is an exciting new voice in fiction.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 4 am
Address: Online event (see site)Website: https://www.skylightbooks,com/event/live-crowdcast-chelsea-g-summers-reads-her-debut-novel-certain-hunger-laurie-penny
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