Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Glennon Doyle & Unfinished via LiveTalks-LA – Online Event
Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event to hear Priyanka Chopra Jonas, in conversation with author Glennon Doyle (Love Warrior). discuss her memoir, Unfinished.
Award-winning actor and producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas, wife of musician Nick Jonas, offers a thoughtful and revealing memoir reflecting on her journey of self-discovery. This remarkable life story rooted in two different worlds covers her nomadic early years, her Miss World pageant, her 20-year career as an actor and producer, and her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, to her marriage and family life.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event, so check site ofr details.
Where: LiveTalks-LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/priyanka-chopra-jonas/
Yxta Maya Murray & Ellen Hagan Discuss Their New Books via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join authors Yxta Maya Murray & Ellen Hagan to hear themdiscuss their new books.
Yxta Maya Murray will present and discuss her new novel, Art Is Everything. a funny, idiosyncratic, and propulsive portrait of a Chicana artist as a woman on the margins. What happens to an artist when her emotional support vanishes along with her feeling of safety and the state of her finances. Written as a series of web posts, Instagram essays, Snapchat freak-outs, rejected Yelp reviews, Facebook screeds, etc, we see what happens when her world implodes just as she has a breakthrough.
Ellen Hagan will present and discuss her new book, Blooming Fiascoes. This book is a collection of verse that deconstructs identity. We are beautiful and monstrous, and live in a beautiful and monstrous world. The author mirrors these metaphoric adversaries, and plumbs origins in history, body and living to question how we reckon our whole selves in the catacombs of a world gone mad.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
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 8th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club & La illusion de los mamiferos via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club, hosted by Dan Lopez reads fiction in Spanish, and these selections are discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is La illusion de los mamiferos, by Julian Lopez. This is an aching story of two-part time lovers in Buenos Aires.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Rise & Shine Workshop: Winter 2021 / Series of Odes via Surprise the Line – Online Facebook Event
This is the 4th workshop in a 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: Tuesday the 9th (through Mar 9th)
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Address: Surprise the Line Poetry Workshops – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/822080928636619
We’re Better Than This with Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings & James Dale via ALOUD Reading Series – Online Event
Join us for a discussion with Elijah Cummings’ wife Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and collaborator James Dale for a discussion of Congressman Elijah Cummings’ service for 23 years in the US Congress, his unique legacy, and recent posthumously published memoir, We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy.
Where: ALOUD, LFLA – Online event (see details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 3 pm PST
Address: ALOUD, LFLA – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/408554770369081
Fiction Book Club & News of the World via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Author Paulette Jiles’ novel, News of the World, is the selection of the Fiction Book Club this meeting. A book to screen choice, this is the story of a Civil War veteran who agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will. they travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for home.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/fiction-book-club-2
Literary Uprising with Four Writers/Kate Maruyamavia Antioch University – Online Zoom Event
Two Hawks Literary Journal and Antioch University present a quarterly Virtual Literary Uprising Reading, featuring:
Hayley Hunter, writer and actor from Jim Krusoe’s SMC Advanced Fiction Class.
Shonda Buchanan, MFA Alum reader and author of the memoir Black Indian and Equipose: Poems from Goddess Country.
Jessica Abughattas, MFA akum reader and author of the poetry collection Strip.
Kate Maruyama, BA faculty member and author of the novella Family Solstice and the novel Harrowgate.
Where: Antioch University – Online event (see site for details)
Date: Tuesday the 9th (see site)
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2903030229930881
TePing Chen, with Jiayang Fan, & Land of Big Numbers: Stories via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Te-Ping Chen, in conversation with Jiauang Fan, to discuss her new book, Land of Big Numbers: Stories.
In this gripping and compassionate book, the author traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. With acute social insight she layers years of reporting on the ground in China with incantatory prose in this taught, surprising debut, proving herself both a remarkable cultural critic and an astonishingly accomplished new literary voice.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online event
Adam Grant, with Ashton Kutcher, & Think Again via LiveTalks-LA – Online Event
Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event to hear Adam Grant, in conversation with actor, investor and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher, discuss his book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know.
The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals, Adam Grant, examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people’s minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event, so check site ofr details.
Where: LiveTalks-LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/adam-grant/
Vroman’s Live &Group Reading of ZYZZYVA’s LA Issuevia Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join Vroman’s Live for a group reading by contributors to ZYZZYVA’s L.A. Issue, and hear about the work of Wanda Coleman, including:
David Ulin is the author and editor of several books, most recently the library of America’s volumes on Joan Didion.
Mary Otis is the author of the story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries (Tin House Books). She is fiction professor in the UCR Palm Desert Low residency MFA Program.
Dana Johnson is the author of the story collections In the Not Quite Dark and Break Any Woman Down, and the novel Elsewhere, California. She is a Professor of English at USC.
Steve Ryfle is co-author of Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film from Godzilla to Kurosawa, and of Godzilla vs. the World: The Politics of Japan’s Disaster Monster, forthcoming from University of Texas Press.
Joe Donnelly is an award-winning journalist, writer, and editor-in-chief of Red Canary Magazine. He is the author of L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World, and is Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at Whittier College.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/group-reading-zyzzyva-la-issue
John C. Fremont Book Club & The Yellow House via John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The John C. Fremont Book Club will discuss The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom.
NOTE: To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact jcfrmt@lapl.org .
Where: John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/john-c-fremont-book-club-1
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Virtual Event
The Expressions LA Poetry Reading Series is presented via Zoom online and features poetry readings and an Open Mic poetry reading.
Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/expressions-la-virtual-poetry-readings-and-open-mic
Lauren Oyler, with Naomi Fry, & Fake Accounts via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Lauren Oyler, in conversation with Naomi Fry, discuss her new novel, Fake Accounts.
On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and discovers he’s an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. She plots to end their relationship on a trip to a Woman’s March in DC, but this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Adult Book Club & The Women of Copper Country via Once Upon a Time Books – Online Event
Join the Adult Book Club that has been meeting every second Tuesday of each month for 40 years. this month’s selection for discussion via Zoom is The Women of Copper Country, by Mary Doria Russell. This historical fiction novel highlights the tensions between wealthy landowners and lower socio=economic people, including immigrants, who end up working for almost nothing.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Zoom event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-women-copper-country-mary-doria-russell
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 9th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar
Scripps Presents: Mary O’Hara & The Shame Game via Scripps College IDEA Initiative – Online Event
Join award-winning journalist and author Mary O’Hara to discuss her book, The Shame Game, where she discusses the question: What does it mean to be poor in Britain and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it’s caused by personal flaws or “bad life decisions” rather than policy choices or economic inequality. The author’s book, The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative asks how we can overturn this portrayal once and for all.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Scripps Presents – CBW Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 10 am PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1433807650291800
Israeli Poetry in Modern Western Thought via UCLA Center for Israel Studies – Online Event
Join Dr. Nilli Alon Amit, author of On Happy Souls, to focus on two prominent poetesses of the Israeli pre-state and early- state periods—Rachel Bluwstein (1890-1931) and Leah Goldberg (1911-1970)—and on celebrated singer-songwriter-composer Naomi Shemer (1930-2004), as we explore the place of their work in the development of modern Western thought on well-being, life, and love. She will also discuss excerpts from her new book, On Happy Souls: The History of Happiness In Western Culture, as well as her original translations of Rachel’s Hebrew poetry.
NOTE: See site for event details and to register.
Where: UCLA Presents – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 12 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/454662995698638
Rituals During Turbulent Times via American Jewish University – Online Event
Join Erica Keswin, author of Rituals Roadmap, as she uncovers how rituals will become even morer important as our work places transform and the boundaries of our personal and professional lives blur..
NOTE: See site for event details and to register at Eventbrite link.
Where: AJU Presents – Online Facebook event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 12 pm PST – 12:45 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/409188880308702
African American Heritage Month& Thank You Omu via Woods-Watts Branch Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
In celebration of African American Heritage month we will read Thank You Omu, which contains John Steptoe’s award-winning artwork. This book takes kids to Omu’s kitchen and shows how her traditional African red stew transforms a neighborhood. Learn where you can enjoy Nigerian cooking in Los Angeles and explore your family’s traditions through the art of collage.
Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 3 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/taste-africa
African American Heritage Month Workshop via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Teens Event
In celebration of African American Heritage month we will present a Narrative as Resistance workshop for teens to build an understanding of the current terms and concepts around diversity, equity, and inclusion. These concepts include race/class/gender, identity, invisible identity, intersectionality, privilege, whiteness, white fragility, and using storytelling in pursuit of social justice.
Please email tortiz@lapl.org for Zoom link.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 3 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/african-american-history-month-narrative-resistance
Express Yourself with Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Kids Virtual Event
Join our children’s librarians as they share some of the Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners titles, focusing on artistic expression in many forms.
This program will feature read-alouds of several books, and activities you can do at home.
NOTE: See details at site. More info and Facebook & YouTube link available at site.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library – Online Facebook and YouTube event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/coretta-scott-king-book-award-winners
Online Black History Resources for Teens via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Virtual Event
Explore the online Black history and heritage resources from the Los Angeles Public Library, and other institutions, including Black newspapers, photography collections, resources for researching African American family histories, and more.
NOTE: See details at site. Please email teens@lapl.org from your school email address at least one hour prior to event.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/online-black-history-resources-teens
Sharpen Your Pencil Workshop: Elements of a Poem in Revision (B) via Surprise the Line – Online Facebook Event
This is the 4th meeting in an 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 element 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: Wednesday the 10th (through Mar11th)
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: Surprise the Line Poetry Workshops – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/242725790583293
Richard Thompson Ford, with Ariela Gross & Dress Codes via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author and law professor Richard Thompson Ford, in discussion with USC law professor and historian Ariela Gross, for a discussion of the book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History.
Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For Centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol, but dress codes evolved along with social and political ideals of the day, and always reflected struggles for power and status. This book presents an insightful and entertaining history of the laws of fashion, from the middle ages to the present day.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Melissa Broder, with Ryan O’Connell, & Milk Fed via Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Mellissa Broder will discuss her new book, Milk Fed, in conversation with writer Ryan O’Connell.
This book is a scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. This book tells a tale of all kinds of appetites, and it is a tender and funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we’re all being fed,
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Griffith Park in Conversation: Casey Schreiner & Beth Pratt via Chevalier’s Books – Online Zoom Event
Griffith Park turns 125 this year!
Casey Shreiner is the author of the first-ever in-depth guidebook for the park, Discovering Griffith Park. hHe will be in conversation with Beth Pratt, author and Regional Executive Director of the California Regional Center of the National Wildlife Federation and a driving force behind the annual P-22 Day celebrations.
This event will also feature slides and a Q&A session for participants.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Modern Hiker & Chevalier’s Books – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1108019999627361
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop via The World Stage – Online Event
Join this weekly community workshop founded in 1990, and following a three-part format, by joining in via Zoom every Wednesday night at 7:30 pm.
In its 30th year, the Anansi Writers Workshop is a whop and open mic performance featuring L.A.’s freshest, most inspiring voices speaking their truth in poetry and prose.
Suggested: $5.00 Donation via PayPal: The World Stage Gallery. Check website for Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule due to holidays. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AnansiVirtual Workshop/
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 10th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading & Danny Solis via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Danny Solis is a Poetry Slam Champion on multiple levels, including eight city championships, two regional championships, Southwestern and Southeastern, two national championships, and two international championships, both team and individual.
Solis was one of three American poets chosen by the U.S> State Department to go to Nepal and Botswana to perform, teach, and organize poetry slam with local artists. He has served as an event organizer, MC and curator, among many pursuits.
You can join in at the Zoom event via link provided, and sign up to read via Google Sheets at site.
NOTE: See site for further details on this free event.
Where: Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/twoidiotspeddlingpoetry/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/123802039526045
NoHo Book Club & Book of Your Choice via North Hollywood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the NoHo Book Club twice a month, on the second and fourth Fridays, except February, when we will meet the Second Thursday and second Friday.
Tonight we will discuss any book of your choice. At our next meeting, on the 26th, we will discuss Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club-discuss-book-your-choice
Catherine Adel West & Saving Ruby King via Santa Monica Public Library – Online Event
Author Catherine Adel West will join the Santa Monica community for a book reading and conversation about her debut novel, Saving Ruby King, which explores trauma, friendships, and secrets that intertwine families for generations. Digital and print copies of the book are available through the library.
NOTE: See site for details and to RSVP.
Where: SMPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 12 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33712 or https://www.facebook.com/events/337473884036759
Anais Duplan, Kelly Schirmann & Stacey Tran Poetry Collections via Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Three poets will present and discuss their new collections via Skylight Bookstore online.
Anais Duplan will discuss her new collection, Blackspace: On the Poetics of An Afrofuture, about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. She argues that true freedom is impossible without considering all three lenses for thinking about liberation: the personal, the social, and the existential.
Kelly Schirmann will discuss her collection, The New World, a hybrid collection of poetry and prose that follows the attempts and failures, and re-attempts at understanding and articulating an era of immense social upheaval, political corruption, and environmental consequence.
Stacey Tran will discuss her collection, Soap for the Dogs, in poems that navigate the complicated nature of memory. This is her first full length collection and it is never nostalgic, yet always charged.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Tommy Orange in Conversation via Pomona College Humanities Studio – Online Event
Join award-winning author Tommy Orange in conversation and to discuss his Pulitzer Prize finalist novel, There There.
This event is the fifth episode in the 2020-21 Indigeneities Speakers Series. Orange’s novel is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. The author is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, CA.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for Zoom link instructions.
Where: Pomona College Humanities Studio – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 4:30 pmPST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/167183661440797
Ian Rosenberg, with Lesley Blume, & The Fight for Free Speech via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Ian Rosenberg, in discussion with Lesley Blume, for a discussion of his book, The Fight For Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms.
This book answers the call for an answer to what is the extent of our American First Amendment rights. These fascinating stories help us to understand our protections, how they originated and how they can develop in the future.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Andromeda Romano-Lax, with Gayle Brandeis, & Annie and the Wolves via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join authors Andromeda Romano-Lax, with Gayle Brandeis, to hear them discuss her book, Annie and the Wolves.
Ruth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. After studying her for more than a decade, with the help of Reese, a tech savvy senior at the local high school, she finds a journal of Oakley’s midlife struggles and attempts to establish its provenance. But she’s begun to have jarring out-of-body episodes parallel to Annie’s own lived experiences, and finds as she solves Annie’s mysteries, she must confront her own life’s truths, including an impending tragedy she can still prevent.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/andromeda-romano-lax
Authors Reading & Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology via Diesel’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join authors Liz Astrof, Zibby Owens, Janelle Brown & Evangeline Lilly, to hear them discuss the anthology, Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology.
Zibby Owens is host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, and a mother of four. She organized these profound pieces into bucket of things moms don’t have time to do, especially during quarantine, into an anthology of original essays,
Liz Astrof is an executive producer and sitcom writer on many TV shows, including The Conners, The King of Queens, 2 Broke Girls, Last Man Standing, and more.
Janelle Brown is the author of Watch Me Disappear, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, and This Is Where We Live. An essayist and journalist she has written for Vogue, The New York Times, Elle, Wired, Self, Salon, The Los Angeles Times and others.
Evangeline Lilly made her debut with The Squickenwonkers in 2014, Though better known for her portrayal of iconic characters in film and TV (LOST, The Hurt Locker, Real Steel, The Hobbit, Antman,,,), the Canadian actress spends all her down time creating worlds of her own.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Shout! The Open Mic Poetry Night at Half Off Books – Zoom Online Edition
Join Eric Moraaga for the Zoom online version of SHOUT The Open Mic Poetry Night, which meets every second Thursday of the month. You’ll be signed in to read once the Zoom meeting starts, and we’ll try to add latecomers so everyone has a chance to share. So, dust off your poems, stories, comedy, magic,…whatever floats your heart.
Where: Zoom online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/HOBRF
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 11th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
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 12th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1276279692743747
Maisy Card & Those Ghosts Are Family via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author and librarian Maisy Card for a discussion of her book, Those Ghosts Are Family.
Stanford Solomon’s shocking 30-year-old-secret is about change the lives of everyone around him. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend, so Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley. Now, near the end of his life, he is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead. This is a layered story of identity, lost love, trauma, and regret.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/maisy-card-discusses-these-ghosts-are-family
Get Lit Saturday Class via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Join the 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 13th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785677128514/
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 13th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929494682490/
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 13th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-1
Women Who Submit February Workshop via Zoom Online
Join us for WWS”s February Workshop and New Member Orientation, which begins at 10 am with the panel “Building Community with LA Presses and Journals,” featuring Neelanjana Banerjee with Kaya Press, Olivia Taylor Smith with Unnamed Press, Viva Padilla with Dryland Lit, and CD Eskilson with Exposition Review. The panel is moderated by Alternative Field Founder, Jessica Ceballos y Campbell.
This panel event is followed by breakout group meetings at 11 am and a Submission Party on the afternoon.
Where: Women Who Submit – Online event (see details at website link. Free via registration)
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 10 am & 2 pm – 5 pm
Address: WWS online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/161601895744223
Virtual Chinese New Year Storytime with Benson Shum via Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Join author and illustrator Benson Shum in a celebration of the Chinese New Year and reading of his newest children’s book, Alex’s Good Fortune, live on our CBW YouTube page.
The author is also an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he was part of such films as Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, etc.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 10:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.childrensbookworld.com/event/virtual-chinese-new-year-storytime-benson-shum
Rachel Ignotofsky & What’s Inside a Flower via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Kids Event
Join a special storytime with author Rachel Ignotofsky to hear her present and discuss her book, What’s Inside a Flower.
From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science, comes a new nonfiction picture book series ready to grow young scientists by nurturing their curiosity about the natural world–starting with what’s inside a flower.
Budding backyard scientists can start exploring their world with this stunning introduction to these flowery show-stoppers–from seeds to roots to blooms. Learning how flowers grow gives kids beautiful building blocks of science and inquiry.
NOTE: Details and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 11 am
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/rachel-ignotofsky
Get Lit’s Emerging Writers Fellowship via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Get Lit’s FREE 15-week Emerging Writers Fellowship is an online publishing course held on Saturdays from 1-3pm PST.
The course is designated for youth (ages 13-19) who are interested in creating their own poetry chapbooks, as well as learning more about submission and media marketing. No previous experience necessary! Priority to LA youth but all are welcome.
Contact Raul@getlit.org with any questions.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997735979816 /
2021 UCR Writers Week Pre-Festival Events with Francisco Aragon, Stephen Graham Jones, LeAnne Howe & James M. Fortier via UC Riverside – Online Events
Join us for Pre-Festival events for the 44th Annual Writers Week Conference at UC Riverside, featuring renowned authors of the day alongside those at the start of their publishing careers. Tom Lutz is Writers Week director.
Francisco Aragon is a writer and Director of Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at Notre Dame, which strives to enhance the visibility, appreciation, and study of Latinx literature both on and off the campus of the University of Notre Dame. This is a Special Presentation for UCR’s Puente Connection Project, and his book, After Ruben: Poems-Prose, from Red Hen Press, 2020.
Session 1: 1:00 pm PST
Stephen Graham Jones is an award-winning author and the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author most recently of the novel, The Only Good Indians (Simon and Schuster, 2020),which blends classic horror, revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition, This is a Special Presentation for the Native American Students Programs (NASP).
Session 2: 2:00 pm PST
LeAnne Howe and James M. Fortier, cinematographer, offer a Special Presentation on Documentary Film, “Searching for Sequouah,” for the Native American Students Programs. (NASP).
Session 3: 6:30 pm PST
NOTE: Details available at website. Register for these free events online.
Where: UC Riverside – Online Events
Date: Saturday the 11th (1pm, 2 pm, & 6:30 pm)
Time: 1 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Writing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Deep Critique Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
The Quartet Reading Series Returns via Moon Tide Press – Zoom Online
Moon Tide Press is back with its Quartet Reading Series and we’re excited to introduce the incredible past and future authors who will be reading. Each author will be sharing a selection of their incredible poetry, from Moon Tide and other works.
Daniel McGinn is the author of five chapbooks and a full-length collection, 1000 Black Umbrellas (Write Bloody Press).
Alexandra Umlas is the author of At the Table of the Unknown (Moon Tide Press).
Ellen Webre is the author of both written and recorded poetry, and her first publication of 2021 is her poem “Metaphores for My Body in Midwinter,” in Spirited Muse Press’ anthology Celebration of Winter.
Aruni Wijesinghe is the author most recently of the poem “Cardamom Vowels,” appearing in Angels Flight Literary West this month, a tribute to Vice President Kamala Harris and to girls and women like her with names that are hard to pronounce and mean so much.
Where: Moon Tide Press – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website: https://wwwfacebook,com/events/884686318963315
Be Mine! Slime Valentine! Get Slimy Valentines’ Workshop via Online Kids Event
Kids Ages 2 – 14 are invited to join a special edition of a Valentines’ Get Slimy Workshop offered online. Tickets are available at website link, so see site re costs, etc.
Join the club and Slime Your Style!
Where: Kids Slime Club – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/218680033137827
Joanna Angel, with Asa Akira, & Club 42 via Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Joanna Angel, in conversation with Asa Akira, will discuss her new novel, Club 42.
Naomi, a proud Brooklyn hipster, finds her life forever changed when she gets fired from her barista job and wanders into a strip club called Club 42. Then she auditions to become a dancer…
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club & Wool via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club, hosted by Peter Clines, explores dystopia and the post-apocalypse in their bewildering array of forms, and these selections are discussed via Zoom. Yes, we’re doomed, but we’re doomed together.
This month’s selection is Wool,by Hugh Howrey. This book is about a post-apocalyptic community that lives in an underground silo, until someone makes a discovery that may threaten their survival.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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