Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
2021 MLK Day Celebration via California African American Museum (CAAM) – Online
Celebrate Marin Luther King Jr. Day immersed in music, culture, and community. This year’s virtual festival highlights MLK’s dedication to labor and workers’ rights, and these movements’ continued importance today.
See site for complete schedule, including a 2:30 pm event: Family Storytime and Poetry Workshop with author Alice Faye Duncan reading her children’s book, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop, followed by a haiku writing workshop.
Where: CAAM – Online Facebook event (see site)
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 10 am – 3:30 pm
Address: CAAM – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/190941376010094/
Author Autumn Bardot with Beth Wordsdell via Witty Writers – Online Event
Join Beth Wordsdell and historical fiction novelist Autumn Bardot in conversation about her work, including her most recent novel, Confessions of a Sheba Queen. Bardot writes historical fiction and more about fearless women and dangerous passions. She has taught literature and writing for more than 16 years and has an article on writing erotica in BooksbyWomen.org, and is featured in several podcasts. She lives in Southern California with her husband and family.
Where: The Witty Writers – Interviews – Online Facebook event (see site)
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Witty Writers – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/4951912178216056
Maker Mondays with Rachel Kann: Realize Paradise via Facebook – Online Event
Join Rachel Kann for a weekly poetry-based generative creativity workshop for all levels and genres.
Where: Online Facebook event (see site)
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Rachel Kann – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3647950438624810
Dan Morain & Kamala’s Way: An American Life via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Join author Dan Morain, in conversation with Henry Weinstein, to discuss his book, Kamala’s Way: An American Life..
This is a revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this country’s most effective power players.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Chevalier’s – Online event
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7 pm (PST)
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/dan-morain
Santa Monica Main Library Book Group & Metamorphosis – Online Zoom Event
The Santa Monica Main Library Book Group alternates fiction and nonfiction each month, and January’s selected title is The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.
Email jeff.schwartz@smgov.net for the Zoom link.
Where: Main Library, SMPL – Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: SMPL – Online event
Website: https://http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33651
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing form Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She also has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Rise & Shine Workshop: Winter 2021 / Series of Odes via Surprise the Line – Online Facebook Event
This Winter 2021 workshop series led by poet and author Nancy Lynee Woo, will meet Tuesday mornings, from January 19 through March 9 (8 weeks) and the focus will be writing odes. An ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object of thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath.
Like all Surprise the Line workshops you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. Attend one, any, or all sessions, but register at Eventbrite link.
Note: Register at Eventbrite for this FREE/ or donation event and Zoom links, and details.
Where: Surprise the Line – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesdays for 8 weeks, starting the 19th (through Mar 9th)
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Address: Surprise the Line Poetry Workshops – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/148611067060132
Tea and a Tale Event via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Brew some tea and relax, and listen to a live reading of one of the humorous Jeeves short stories by P.G. Wodehouse. New day and time! You can dial in by phone or use video conference.
Email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for access details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/tea-and-tale
Tuesday Afternoon Book Club via Silver Lake Branch Library – Online Event
Join the Tuesday Afternoon Book Club for a literary discussion of great books, old and new. Download your digital copy with your library card at lapl.org.
Please RSVP to silver@lapl.org for participation details.
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/tuesday-afternoon-book-club
Peter Ames Carlin, with Robert Lloyd, & Sonic Boom via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join biographer and journalist Peter Ames Carlin, in conversation with Robert Lloyd, to discuss his new book, Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince.
In this book the author captures the rollicking story of of the most successful record label in the history of rock and roll, and the remarkable secret to its meteoric rise,
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 4 pm PST
Address: Book Soup – Online event
Vroman’s Live: Matt Coyle, with Gary Phillips, & Blind Vigil via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Matt Coyle, in conversation with author Gary Phillips, to hear them discuss his book, Blind Vigil.
In this next novel in his Rick Cahill series, a friend is arrested for murder, a vicious killer is lurking in the shadows, and all takes place in a world of darkness. After being blinded by a gunshot wound to the face, Rick Cahill is now sure of one thing: he has to start a new life. When a friend asks for his help with an interview on an old case, he goes against his gut and agrees, and then things turn deadly. Then his friend is implicated in a murder, and he knows a shadowy killer lurks in the darkness.
NOTE: Details and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/matt-coyle
Life Stories Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Come and share something that happened to you, or just listen and enjoy. The stories can be funny, sad, or simply slice-of-life. This is your opportunity to express yourself.
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic-0
E.J. Koh, with Alexander Chee, & The Magical Language of Othersvia Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
E.J. Koh, in conversation with author Alexander Chee, will discuss her memoir, The Magical Language of Others.
This profound book is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter, written after her parents returned to South Korea for work, leaving Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. She finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mother’s absence, which she cannot fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. As she translates the letters, written in Korean, she looks to history, to poetry, and to her own lived experience to answer questions inside all of us: where do the stories of our ancestors end and ours begin? How do we find words –in any language—to articulate the ways that distance can shape love?
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
AfroFuturism Book Club via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
The AfroFuturism Book Club, hosted by Tyree Boyd-Pates, spans art, music, theory –everything-and reads new fiction which is discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, a harrowing story on Yetu, memory-holder for her people; the underwater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African American women murdered by slave traders.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court Theatre Is Now Virtual – Online
DPL events at the Greenway Court Theatre are postponed until further notice.
But some events are offered via livestream, so check the calendar for information on events offered via the wonderly app link.
We have an open mic every Tuesday night except for the third Tuesday, when we have a poetry slam. There is a sign-up procedure and a three-minute time limit per performer. The event is open to all ages.
Where: Online event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar
Coffee Time Book Club & Monogamy via Pages Bookstore – Online Virtual Event
Join the Coffee Time Book Club, which tends to read new literary fiction. At each meeting we discuss and vote on what we will read and discuss the following month. The meetings are facilitated by Linda McLoughlin Figel.
This month’s book selection is Sue Miller’s new novel, Monogamy, in which the widow of a bookstore owner husband learns secrets from her husband’s prior life that cause her to question all she thought she knew. Her daughter and stepson help her through her grief, but anger is harder to leave behind.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-virtual-meeting-7
Middle Grade Book Club & The Beast and the Bethany via Pages Bookstore – Online Virtual Event
Join the Middle Grade Book Club, which reads new releases of middle grade fiction. Book selection is done by voting prior to each meeting so the following month’s book will be available at the preceding month’s meeting. The meetings are facilitated by Pam.
This month’s book selection is The Beast and the Bethany, by Jack Megitt-Phillips and Isabelle Follath,about a hungry beast, a vain immortal man, and a not-so-charming little girl who doesn’t know she’s about to be eaten.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 4:30 am
Address: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting-7
Paper Hearts Romance Book Club & You Had Me at Hola via Santa Clarita Public Library – Online Virtual Event
Join the Paper Heart Romance Book Club, when we’ll be discussing Alexis Daira’s book, You Had Me at Hola.
Check out your curbside or digital copy today and let’s get talking!
NOTE: See details at site. More info and Zoom registration link available at site.
Where: Santa Clarita Public Library – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 5:30 am
Address: Santa Clarita Public Library – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1345686895780782
Sharpen Your Pencil Workshop: Elements of a Poem in Revision (B) via Surprise the Line – Online Facebook Event
This 8-week craft writing workshop led by Nancy Lynee Woo, will focus on writing more sweetly, resonating more deeply, and reading more beautifully. You will learn structured techniques for writing and revising poems in a small group setting. Each week we will focus on one specific elements in poetry, and use that topic as a guiding principle for revising our work.
***Advance registration is required***
Note: Register, see full schedule, and details at site.
Where: Surprise the Line – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesdays for 8 weeks, starting the 20th (through Mar11th)
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: Surprise the Line Poetry Workshops – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/242725790583293
Adult Book Club & Happiness via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Join our Book Club for Adults on the third Wednesday of every month. Our book selection for January is Happiness, by Aminatta Forna.
Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for Zoom access details.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/adult-book-club-2
Emily Rap Black, with Sarah Sentilles, & Sanctuary via Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Emily Rapp Black, in conversation with author Sarah Sentilles, will discuss her new memoir, Sanctuary.
From the author of the bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World comes an incisive memoir about how she came to question and redefine the concept of resilience after the trauma of her first child’s death. Sanctuary follows the aftermath of her first child Ronan’s death for Tay-Sachs disease before age three: after her marriage fractured under the weight of her son’s illness, her remarriage to a man she fell in love with while her son was dying, a flourishing career, and the birth of her healthy baby girl. The author examines various notions of resilience, within the complex stories of loss and healing we encounter.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Niki Billingslea Launch & Supple Verse & Mind Candy for the Sunken Place via The World Stage Press– Online Event
Join us for the virtual book release event for Supple Verse & Mind Candy for the Sunken Place, by Niki Billingslea.
This book is a testament of resiliency to remain human and inhuman circumstances. It is poetry that testifies to the will and determination to be human and have dignity in the midst of a barrage of aggressive systemic attacks on mind, body, spirit. It provides respite during a time in history when few can claim freedom for PTSD.
NOTE: RSVP on Eventbrite in advance to receive Zoom details within 24 hours of event.
Where: Online event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/409888116889362/
Feminist Book Club & She Came By It Natural via The Last Bookstore– Zoom Event
The Feminist Book Club, hosted by Julia Callahan, reads an intersectional variety of feminist lit – fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, etc.– and discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is She Came By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs, by Sarah Smarsh, is a collection of essays examining her music, roots, legacy, brilliance, and grit.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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 Beth Ruscio.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and infromation.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Janna Ireland & Regarding Paul Williams via LA Made, LAPL – Online Event
Join photographer and author Janna Ireland, as she discusses famed LA architect Paul R. Williams, and her project to photograph many of his built works around Southern California. 280 photos were recently published in her book, Regarding Paul R, Williams: A Photographer’s View.
NOTE: This event will stream live on YouTube and Facebook.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Thursdaythe 21st
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://whats-on/events/regarding-paul-r-williams-author-janna-ireland
I Learn for You: Creative Writing Class with Luis Antonio Pichardo via LAPL – Online Event
I Learn for You is a four-part free creative writing series for all, led by Luis Antonio Pichardo. This class is geared towards giving you a starting point for writing your stories – specifically writing pieces about why, who, and what you are learning for. Luis also helped host our Summer Reading Challenge Reading Series, so if you enjoyed that class, you’ll love this one.
Please email literacy@lapl.org for the Zoom link and log-in information.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 21st (second of four meetings)
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/i-learn-you-creative-writing-luis
Joshua Goldstein & Remains of the Everyday via USC China Institute – Online Event
Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recycling in Beijing traces the changing material culture and industrial technology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing’s economic functioning and cultural identity, and such acts figure centrally in the ideological imagination of modernity and citizenship.
Author Joshua Goldstein argues that as a result, the repeatedly re-inscribed exclusion of waste workers from formations of modern urban citizenship as well as the intrinsic liminality of recycling itself is an economic process.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for Zoom instructions.
Where: USC China Institute – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 4 pmPST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1275174672848709
Young Authors Club Panel via Thousand Oaks Library – Online Facebook Event–Young Adult Event
Young aspiring writers are welcome and invited to the Young Authors Club!
Interested in becoming an author? You can ask our guest speakers your questions about writing and publishing:
Olivia Bell is the author of the poetry chapbook What Makes Honey Dark, She has been an editor of two literary magazines, one at her high school, and will begin her undergraduate degree at Yale University this fall.
Rishab Borah is the author of The Door to Inferna, and started creating the world of “Elkloria” when he was 11. Besides writing he is an accomplished artist, and has a keen interest in linguistics and programming—recently teaching himself Python and Java in order to create his own video games. He lives with his parents in the Silicon Valley, California area.
Anthony E, Zuiker is the Co-Founder, Publisher, and Creative Director of Zuiker Press, which produces graphic novels based on Teens and their personal stories. It is an “issues-based” literary house for young authors, who share their pain and heroics to find hope, change, and happiness in their own lives. He is also creator of TV’s hugely successful CSI franchise.
NOTE: See site to Register and for Zoom instructions.
Where: Thousand Oaks Library – Online Facebook event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 5 pm– 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/447772913269954
Ellie Eaton, with Rufi Thorpe, & The Divines via Book Soup – Online Event
Join debut novelist Ellie Eaton, in conversation with Rufi Thorpe, to hear them discuss her book, The Devines. Moderated by Karah Preiss.
Can we ever really escape our past? Moving between present-day Los Angeles and 1990s Britain, and a scandal that occurred at St John the Dive School, this novel is a scorching examination of the power of adolescent sexuality, female identity, and the destructive class divide. Exposing the tension between the lives we lead as adults and the experiences that form us, the author probes us to consider how our memories as adults compel us to reexamine our pasts.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Book Soup Live – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/ellie-eaton-conversation-rufi-thorpe-discusses-divines
South Asian Writers Resist via Beyond Baroque Arts Center – Online Event
South Asian Writers Resist is a reading hosted by Sehba Sarwar and presented by Beyond Baroque in partnership with LA Poet Society, Tia Chucha Press, and the Tuesday Night Project.
Join South Asia writers at a reading in which they respond to urgent global issues, including rising walls and closed borders, the Black Lives Matter movement, and immigration rights. The gathering—held 18 months after the Indian government stripped the province of Kashmir of its special status and just one day after the transfer of power in the U. S.—will create space for writers to forge connections across local and global borders.
Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller and artist who creates at the intersection of counter-narratives and culture-shifting, and recorded her #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast at the White House. Her essays are published in anthologies, she served as Activist-in-Residence at UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy, and received an award form President Obama’s White House as a Champion of Change.
Neelanjana Banerjee’s writing has appeared widely and she is Managing Editor of Kaya Press, and teaches at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Torsa Ghosai is the author of an experimental novella, Open Couplets (Yoda Press, India), and her short fiction and essays appear widely She serves as assistant professor of literature and creative writing at CSU Sacramento and tweets @TorsaG.
Arshia Fatima Haq works across film, visual art, performance text, and sound. She is founder of Discostan, a decolonial performance/club space and record label engaged with the SWANA region. She also co-produces a monthly radio show for NTS.
Sorayya Khan is the author of the novels, Noor, Five Queens Road, and the prize-winning City of Spies. her work has appeared in several anthologies and publicaitons, and she is at work on a memoir. www.sorayyakhan.com.
Mahmud Rahman is a writer and translator. His book Killing the Water: Stories, published in 2010 by Penguin Books India, was followed by a translation of Bangaldeshi writer Mahmudul Haque’s novel Black Ice, published in 2012 by Harper Collins India. His work has been published in magazines, anthologies and other publications.
Sehba Sarwar creates text and art that tackle displacement, migration, and women’s isssues. The second edition of her novel Black Wings was released in 2019 (Veliz Books), her essays and poems published widely, and her short stories anthologized in Feminist Press, Akashic Books, and Harper Collins India.
Shreerekha Subramanian is an Associate Professor of Humanities who teaches literary and philosophical texts from around the world at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. She just completed her first monograph, Women Writing Violence: The Novel and Radical Feminist Imaginaries (Sage 2021).
Where: Beyond Baroque Arts Center (see costs &details at eventbrite link)
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/south-asian-writers-resist-tickets-133012270281
Thunderwing Studios & The Library of Esoterica via Skylight Bookstore– Crowdcast Event
Trace the hidden history of tarot in Library of Esoterica, with three volumes:
Jessica Hundley is the author of the first volume: Tarot, Andrea Richards is the author of the second volume: Astrology. Thunderwing is a L.A.-based multi-disciplinary studio co-founded in 2007 by Nic & J.B. Taylor.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
True Crime Book Club & The Bone Garden via The Last Bookstore– Zoom Event
The True Crime Book Club, hosted by James Bartlett, is an exploration of our dark side. which is discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is The Bone Garden, by William P. Wood, in which ex-deputy DA Wood writes about a cold-hearted serial killer, Dorothea Montalvo Puente..
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Sabor y Cultura: fos_thursdays Open Mic– Instagram Event
Please enjoy the Sabor y Cultura Open Mic on Instagram Live on Thursdays at 8pm PST.
This is an Instagram online event.
NOTE: Sign-ups open on Wednesday at 3 pm.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
NoHo Book Club & The Round House via North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the NoHo Book Club which meets twice monthly and virtually. This meeting we will be discussing the NEA Big Read Selection, The Round House: A Novel, by Louise Erdrich, part of her “justice trilogy” of novels, with Plague of Doves (2008) and LaRose (2016). This book transports readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, were a boy on the cusp of manhood seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that forever transforms his family.
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 22nd
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club/
Story Time Live Video 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 brand new 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 22nd
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/929035901196779
Your Author Series: Matthew Cordell via LAPL – Online Facebook Event
Come meet Matthew Cordell, on the library’s YouTube channel or Facebook page.
Matthew Cordell has received the 2018 Caldecott Medal and a 2017 Horn Book honor for his work, among other accolades.
Those attending this virtual program will have an opportunity to win a free book.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: LAPL – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/vents/your-author-series-matthew-cordell
In Conversation: Radical California Historians Jon Weiner & Daniel Widener via Flintridge Bookstore– Online Event
California-based historians and authors Jon Wiener & Daniel Widener will discuss their books dealing with timely topics of race, culture and social justice.
Jon Wiener wrote Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven (2006), reprinted to coincide with the release of Aaron Sorkin’s Netflix film it provides the political background of this infamous trial. His book Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (2020) covers this hotbed of political and social upheaval. From being a lunchpad of Black Power to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, to the birthplace of Asian American as a political identity, it was a locus of many movements and the California counter-culture.
Daniel Widener’s books include Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles 1942-1992. He tells how Black cultural politics changed over time, and how altered political realities generated new forms of artistic and cultural expression.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Facebook online (see site)
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 5:30 pm – 10 pm (4hr 30 min)
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1103552540089145
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. This is a FREE writing technique, performance training and confidence building workshop for poets of all experience levels, ages 13-19.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 9 am – 12 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 23rd
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events//1256929491349157/
Mystery Book Club & Hit and Run via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Mystery Book Club via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL online when we read and discuss Hit and Run, by Lawrence Block.
To receive a Zoom incitation,, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 23th
Time: 11 am
Address: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-19
3rd Anniversary Literary Arts Festival via LibroMobile Literary Arts – Online Event
LibroMobile’s 3rd Anniversary Literary Arts Festival will be offered online, presents in and beyond Santa Ana. This tiny bookstore will be collaborating with local and diverse guest artists in presenting FREE live readings, workshops and literary arts in the alley, and culminate with the presentation of the Modesta Avila Award!
See below for tentative schedule: (See site for full schedule)
12pm- 2pm: Tiny Bookstore Virtual Opening
2pm: Drag Queen Story Time with performer Elektra Wolfe.
3:30pm: SanTana Poets y Mas: Donato Martinez, Jenise Miller, Tamara Hattis, Fei Hernandez & Sheila J. Sadr.
4:30pm: VAALA & Friends
5:30pm: OC Prose Writers: Ernesto Cisneros, Gabriel San Roman, Charlene Pham, Luis Humberto Navejas & Sarah Rafael Garcia.
6pm: Modesta Avila Award & Keynote Speaker: David Lopez.
6:30pm: Apollo Bepop
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!
NOTE: Details & event link available at website.
Where: LibroMobile – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 23th
Time: 12 pm – 8 pm
Address: Instagram – Online event
Website: https://www..facebook.com/events/114649570371343/
Writers Present: Maryrose Wood & Hit and Run via Mission Viejo Library – Online Kids Facebook Event
Mission Viejo Library and Warwick’s Books present a live virtual event with children’s author Maryrose Wood, best known for her book, The Incorrigble Chldren of Ashton Place series.
The author will discuss her latest novel. Alice’s Farm. Registration is required, so email the address at site, and Zoom information will be sent to you.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Mission Viejo Library – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 23th
Time: 1 pm – 1:45 pm
Address: Mission Viejo Library – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-19
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Four Feathers Press Poets Reading via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a reading by Four Feathers Press poets: Jackie Chou, Matt Mauldin, Cindy Rinne, Ken Scott.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Cahuenga Book Club & Nobody’s Fool via Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Cahuenga Book Club via Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL online when we read and discuss Nobody’s Fool, by Richard Russo. Books are available for contactless pick-up at our 26 libraries through site.
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact hstgeorge@lapl.org.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 23th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/eventscahuenga-book-club /
Sunday Series Workshop with Sheila J. Sadr via The Poetry Lab – Virtual Event
Join The Poetry Lab for a Sunday Series Writing Workshop led by Sheila J. Sadr, a generative craft workshop.
Learn craft while creating new work in an exciting collaborative setting. Sunday Series offers a new workshop on the 3rd Sunday of every month from 1 pm- 3:30 pm PST. All people of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome.
Sheila J; Sadr is a first generation Iranian-American poet, journalist, educator and writes about love, her family, her communities, flowers, and her whole heart. She is a two-time finalist for the Not a Cult Poetry Book Competition, and has facilitated many workshops in Orange County, as well as The Definitive Soapbox Family, one of LB’s longest running Open Mic events.. She is now cultivating The Workshop, a collaborative writing space in Orange County.
NOTE: Details and costs information at event link. All events are ticketed..
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/sunday-series
Fourth Sundays Poetry: Chad Sweeney & Anders Carlson-Wee via Claremont Llibrary – Online Facebook Event
Join Fourth Sundays at the Claremont Library for our first poetry reading of 2021, featuring poets Chad Sweeney & Anders Carlson-Wee.
Chad Sweeney is the author of six books of poetry, including Little Million Doors (2019), Parable of Hide and Seek, and Arranging the Blaze, and two books of translation. He is an Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at CSU San Bernardino. He lives in Southern California with his family.
Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of The Low Passions (2019), a New York Public Library Book Group selection. His work has appeared in many publications, and his debut chapbook, Dynamite, won the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. He is winner of the 2017 Poetry international Prize and his work has been translated into Chinese. He lives in Cincinnati.
NOTE: See site for author’s bio, details and registration.
Where: Online Facebook event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/2725583537658551/
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club & The Bone Garden via The Last Bookstore– Zoom Event
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club, hosted by Kathryn E. McGee, is a horror book club offered via Zoom.
This month’s selection is Antioch, by Jessica Leonard, in which small town book nerd Bess might be able to uncover the local ultra-violent serial killer, if she can avoid becoming a victim herself.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events or https://www.facebook.com/events/162315678953173
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