Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Denise Hamilton & Contributors & Speculative Los Angeles via Beverly Hills Public Library, BHPL – Virtual Event
Editor and author Denise Hamilton, with contributors Francesca Lia Block, Lisa Morton, and Luis J. Rodriguez, will presents selections of their new work from the debut title in a new city-based anthology series, Speculative Los Angeles.
L.A. native Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels, and is editor of Speculative Los Angeles (2021), She is editor of the bestselling Los Angeles Noir 2, and is a former LA Times journalist. Her next novel is a work of speculative fiction set in Los Angeles.
Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than 25 acclaimed and widely translated books, as well as short stories, essays and poems. She lives, writes, and teaches creative writing in Los Angeles.
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of nonfiction books, and prose writer, and a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. She is the author of four novels, and over 150 short stories.
Luis J. Rodriguez has published 16 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and essays. Best-known for his memoir Always Running, he has also been a print and radio journalist, written plays and movie scripts, and worked as a script consultant on three TV shows. He served as Los Angeles’s official Poet Laureate for two terms.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link instructions available at event link.
Where: BHPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles/storage/files/19881747621935143177/SpeculativeLA2.0.pdf
William Deverell & Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed the Nation via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Crowdcast Event
Join author and historian William Deverell to hear him discuss his book, Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed the Nation.
William Deverell’s book, Kathy Fiscus, recounts the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well—a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year-old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family’s home in Southern California. Throughout more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown, as many community resources and rescue workers rushed to the scene to tunnel across to the old well shaft to rescue her. This was the first such event to be broadcast on live TV, and it transfixed the public until it reached its sad conclusion.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/mar-22-william-deverell
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 22nd
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Philippe Sands, with Maria Stone, & The Ratline via Diesel’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Join us to hear author Philippe Sands, in conversation with Maria Stone, present and discuss The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive, part of The Righteous Conversations Project at IKAR.
Baron Otto von Wachter was an Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, Senior SS officer, and creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto. After the war he was indicted for the mass murder of over 100,000 Poles, and hunted and on the run ofr three years until his mysterious death in 1948. this book is part historical detective story, part love story, part memoir, and part thriller, and the author pieced it together from a multitude of sources, including his correspondence with his wife..
NOTE: Details, RSVP link are available at website.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 11 am
Address: Online (see site)
Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham & Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn Book Launch via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Zoom Event
Join us to hear authors Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham present and discuss their launch of their new children’s book Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn
This new picture book is an explosion of cute and friendship magic between a kitty and a unicorn.
Note: To register and receive a Zoom invitation, please see site.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: – Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/itty-bitty-kitty-corn
REDCAT & CALARTS MFA Present: Joy Harjo & American Sunrise via Skylight Books
Join us for an evening with author and third term U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo to discuss her work. She is the author of nine books of poetry, several plays and children’s books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. Her latest book is An American Sunrise: Poems.
Harjo’s approach to writing as inseparable from orality, memory, culture and performance invigorates her creation of an ever-unfolding cross-genre literary form. Her acclaimed writings map a rich cosmology, where time, body, heart and knowing shape her compassionate dedication to a poetics that empowers Native American voices in tribal history, struggle and everyday life. Her national bestseller, An American Sunrise, threads her personal experiences and tribal histories to reflect on the blessings of her homeland and confront the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 5 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/redcat-and-calarts-present-joy-harjo
Cleo Wade, with Nicole Richie & Cameron Diaz, & What the Road Said via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Cleo Wade, in conversation with Nicole Richie & Cameron Diaz, to hear them discuss her new book What the Road Said.
Cleo Wade’s book, What the Road Said, tells us it’s okay ot be afraid or sometimes wander down the wrong path. It features illustrations by Lucie de Moyencourt and encourages us to lead with kindness and curiosity, remembering that the most important thing we can do in life is to keep going.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Chris Whitaker, with Naomi Hirahara, & We Begin at the End via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Chris Whitaker, in conversation with author Naomi Hirahara, to hear them discuss his book, We Begin at the End, an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life gives them. A forty-something-year-old sheriff and a thirteen-year-old girl may not seem to have a lot in common, but they both expect people will disappoint you. So when trouble arrives, they both welcome it in, arms wide closed. However, this book is ultimately an inspiring tale about how in the end love—in all its guises—wins.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/chris-whitaker
Nonfiction Book Club & The Secret Life of Groceries via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join our Nonfiction Book Club, in which each month we select the book for the following month. This month’s selection for discussion is The Secret Life of Groceries, by Benjamin Lorr. Our discussion facilitator is Mark Polak.
In this page-turning expose, the author pulls back the curtain on the grocery industry, asking what it takes to run a supermarket. And who suffers for our increasing demands for convenience and efficiency? This book is the product of five years of research and interviews across every level of the business.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club-virtual-meeting-4
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Linda Singer & Open Mic – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature poet Linda Singer, plus an open reading.
Linda Singer is a Southern California poet and actress who has been published in several journals, and is the author of the collection Wingless (Los Nietos Press, 2017). She is a storyteller who persuades us that all poems are love poems.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
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 23rd
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar
Mystery Book Group & The Legacy via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
The Mystery Book Group meets at America’s oldest Children’s Bookstore, and you may join us whether you have finished the book or not.
At this meeting we will read and discuss Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s book,The Legacy: A Thriller (Children’s House #1) available in paperback..This book is the first in a stunning new series about the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar, from the author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel. In this book the only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim’s seven-year-old daughter, found hiding in the room where her mother died. And she’s not talking.
NOTE: See site for event details, and book purchase.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 9 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-legacy-yrsa-sigurdardottir
Young Adult Book Club & Concrete Rose via Pages Bookstore – Online YA Event
Join our first ever meeting of our Young Adult Book Club, in which we will read and discuss YA novels. It’s facilitated by Charlotte Estrin and Sloan Shevin.
This month’s selection for discussion is Concrete Rose, by Angie Thomas, the author of The Hate You Give.
In this book the author revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of her first book, in a searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/young-adult-book-club
Open Mic Poetry Night via Thousand Oaks Library – Online Zoom Event
Please join the Thousand Oaks Library to enjoy an Open Mic Poetry Night event.
This is a joint program betwee the Thousand Oaks Library and Ventura County Poet Project. Join us to listen to local poets and share your own work every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. On every fourth Wednesday we also will feature a reading from a guest reader. This event will be held via Zoom.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Thousand Oaks Library – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website:https://www.facebook.com/events/226166755871530/ .
Alexander Nemerov, with Helen Molesworth, & Fierce Poise via Diesel’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Join us to hear author Alexander Nmerov, in conversation with Helen Molesworth, present and discuss Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York.
This book is a dazzling biography of one of the 20th century’s most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York. Her story is brought to life by acclaimed art historian Nemerov, and it’s an exhilarating ride through the 1950s art scene and a brilliant portrait of the artist through the moments that shaped her.
NOTE: Details, RSVP link are available at website.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
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 24th
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 information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading with Mindy Nettifee, PhD via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and host Ben Trigg presents weekly poetry readings at the Ugly Mug and the events are now virtual.
This week’s feature is poet, storyteller, artist, educator Mindy Nettifee, PhD.
Mindy Nettifee is the author of three full-length collections of poems: Sleepyhead Assassins (Moon tide Press), Rise of the Trust Fall (Write Bloody Press), and Open Your Mouth Like a Bell (Write Bloody Press), as well as a collection of essays on writing, Glitter in the Blood.
Mindy Nettifee performed and taught in hundreds of venues, colleges and universities across America and Europe, and headlined national poetry tours. She is director of the creative services firm Free Delivery, coaches writer, speakers and organizations, and co-created with Amber Tamblyn the Write Poetry Now Society.
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.
Where: Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/5897546496937877
Kim Gordon & No Icon, with Isabelle Graw & Another World, via Goethe Institut & Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Kim Gordon & Isabelle Graw will discuss their new books, No Icon and Another World: Notes, 2014-2017, respectively.
Kim Gordon’s No Icon is a personally curated scrapbook in an edgy and evocative portrait of her life, art and style, spanning her childhood on California beaches with her adulthood in the New York music scene where Sonic Youth was born.
Isabelle Graw’s Another World:: Notes, 2014-2017, merges memoir and social criticism in an original fashion, with the experiences and thoughts that don’t flow into her art-historical texts. In elegantly written miniatures she captures radical political, social, and cultural changes that occurred between 204 and 2017, analyzing how these macro-shifts reach into her on life.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Scripps Presents: Decoding Despacito, with Leila Cobo, via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Scripps Presents features author Leila Cobo, who will discuss her book, Decoding Despacito: The History (and Future) of Latin Music.
What made the 2019 Grammys different? It was the first time a trio—singing both in Spanish and English—graced the stage. For Leitia Cobo, vice president and and Latin industry lead at Billboard, it was long overdue. This book is a singular oral history from the players who have created this vibrant musical lineage, and an insight into the genre’s future.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Scripps Presents & Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/scripps-presents-decoding-despacito-leila-cobo
Cover to Cover Book Club & Long Bright River via Mid-Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Join our Cover to Cover Book Club this month to read and discuss the book Long Bright River, by Liz Moore. This is a genre-defying novel that is topical, yet timeless. It wrestles with the fissures and wreckage that addiction can inflict on a family, through the lives of two sisters.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Mid-Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/cover-cover-book-club-0
Courtney Zoffness, with Edan Lepucki, & Spilt Milk via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join author Courtney Zoffness, in conversation with author Edan Lepucki, to hear them discuss her book, Spilt Milk..
In this book explores what role a mother plays in raising thoughtful, generous children. In her literary debut the author considers in her essays what we inherit from generations past—biologically, culturally, spiritually—and what we pass on to our children.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/courtney-zoffness
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 25th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
NoHo Book Club via North Hollywood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the NoHo Book Club twice a month to discuss a selected title and a book of your choice, in an alternating schedule pattern
At this meeting we will discuss Educated, by Tara Westover.
RSVP to nohlwd@lapl.org at least two days in advance to receive the link.
NOTE: Pre-REGISTER in advance to receive the link.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club-discuss-book-your-choice
Story Time Live with a Museum Educator 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 Museum Educator 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 & link.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 12 pm – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/201279901559682
Images & Stories of Cesar Chavez with Oscar Castillo via LA Plaza y Cultura – Online Zoom Event
Join us to share Images & Stories of Ceasar Chavez with photographer Oscar Castillo on Zoom and FB live. Since the late 1960s, Oscar Castillo has documented the Chicano community in California and Texas. He will present a selection of images of the renowned labor leader, community organizer, and civil rights activist, and tell the stories behind them.
NOTE: Details available at site.
Where: LAPCA – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 7pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/193419312576419
The Definitive Soapbox Open Mic (TDSB) via Fox Coffee House, Long Beach – Online Event
TDSB is a FREE Open Mic in Long Beach, CA offered every last Friday of the month, from 7pm- 9:30 pm.
Can you believe we have been online for a year?!? CRAZY!
Join us this Friday February 26th, 2021, for a SURPRISING OPEN MIC!
Zoom link will be posted an hour before the event. See you there!
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Online (see site)
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/thedefinitivesoapbox or https://www.facebook.com/events/906135583532775
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 27th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129862607389180/
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 27th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785633795185/
Mystery Book Club & Your House Will Pay via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Mystery Book Club to discuss Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha.
This novel is a sensitive portrait of racial tension, buried memory, and the difficulty of reconciliation, based on the a dark moment in L.A.’s history and events surrounding the 1992 riots and civil unrest.
Register to attend this program by emailing link below.
NOTE: Email wwood@lapl for a Zoom invitation & for participation details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-19
Get Lit’s Emerging Writers Fellowship via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Event
Get Lit’s FREE 15-week Emerging Writers Fellowship is an online publishing course held for teens 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 27th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997705979819/
These Hands: Digital Storytelling Workshop via Monrovia Public Library– Online
In this three-hour virtual workshop hosted by StoryCenter, we invite you, through the use of a special writing prompt, to create a short one-minute digital story. Please have an object that has meaning or sentimental value to share, and learn the basics of digital video expression!
This event is open to adults 18 years and older.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Monrovia Public Library – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 1:30 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/940842626720698
Eat Joy: A Conversation with Natalie Eve Garrett via Santa Clarita Public Library – Online Zoom Event
Please join us for a Conversation with editor Natalie Eve Garrett, as we explore the 2021 One Story One City book selection, Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers.
This book is a collection of essays and recipes by a diverse group of writers, that reveal our deep connection to a recipe or to certain comfort food
NOTE: Register in advance to attend this program by contacting link at site.
Where: Santa Clarita Public Library – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/206108041199217
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Open Reading via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop with TBA and Spectrum Online Edition: Lucky Ducks publication reading.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Burning Issues Book Club & Pressure Cooker via Bel Canto Bookstore – Virtual Event
The Burning Issues Book Club will have a virtual discussion of the book, Pressure Cooker, by Bowern, Brenton & Elliott.
Based on extensive interviews and field research in the homes and kitchens of a diverse group of American families, Pressure Cooker challenges the logic of the most popular foodie mantras of our time, showing how the miss the mark and create a fiction that does little to fix the problems with the food system, including inequalities of access to better and healthier food choices for all.
See site for access to book purchase link or audiobook purchase link.
NOTE: See website link for details. Zoom details will be sent when you RSVP.
Where: Burning Issues Book Club (online)
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs or https://www.meetup.com/Bel-Canto-Books-Book-Lovers-Meetup-Group/events/276717841/
VCP SoCal Poets: Brian Sonia Wallace, Linda Ravenswood & Bryn Wickerd – Virtual Event
Brian Sonia Wallace is the 4th Poet Laureate of the City of West Hollywood. He has written poems for over 10,000 strangers based on their stories since 2012 and is the author of The Poetry of Strangers.
Linda Ravenswood is a poet and performance artist form Los Angeles and founder and editor The Los Angeles Press. She was sort-listed for Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2017.
Bryn Wickerd is a twentry-four-year-old Gender-Tender, Poet, and Domestic Violence Advocate, special education instructor, and San Fernando valet rat. Their poetry has been displayed in the L.A. Poet Society’s recent anthology Queer Uprising.
NOTE: See website link for details. Zoom details will be sent when you RSVP.
Where: VCP SoCal Poets (online)
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.https://www.facebook.com/events/445518620227338/
Claire Cox, with Kaitlyn Greenridge, & Silver Beach via Flintridge Bookstore
Join us for a conversation celebrating Claire Cox’s debut novel Silver Beach, with Kaitlyn Greenridge, the award-winning author of We Love You Charlie Freeman and the upcoming Libertie.
Claire Cox is a writer and high school teacher originally from San Diego, and her first novel, Silver Beach, won the 2020 Juniper Prize for fiction. It’s about the mystifying ties of family, the extravagant mess of addiction, and what it means to actually live inside your own life.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Roar Shack Presents “Virtual March” Reading Event via Zoom Online Event
Join host David Rocklin for the next presentation of the Roar Shack Reading Series to welcome an amazing group of featured guests:
Kate Maruyama is a writer and teacher, and the author of Harrowgate (2013) and a new novella, Family Solstice She is affiliate faculty with Antioch University Los Angeles nad is available to consult on manuscripts.
Maggie Downs is an award-winning journalist and the author of the memoir Braver Than You Think. She is based in Palm Springs and hosts a podcast called Open Book with her friend Tod in which they interview authors, artist, and other creatives about their work.
Ed Lin is a Taiwanese-American writer, actor, and novelist, and his debut novel YA novel, David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets into an Ivy League College, is published by Kaya Press.
Neelanjana Banerjee’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, She is managing editor of Kaya Press, and teaches writing and publishing in the Asian American Studies Department at UCLA and through private writing workshops.
bridgette bianca is a poet and professor from South Central Los Angeles, and has performed her poetry around Southern California, She is on-half of the curating team, Making Room for Black Women, with Sanura Williams, and co-host of the quarterly reading series at the Women’s Center for Creative Work, with Nina Rota. Her first book of poetry, be/trouble, was released by Writ Large Press in 2020.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Roar Shack – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1112949849118344
Beatnik Café Poetry Night – Online Zoom Event
The Beatnik Café presents another night of hearing truth from lesser heard perspectives! The schedule is as follows:
6:40 – 7 pm – Open Mic Sign-up
7 – 7:15 pm – Poetry Open Mic
7:15 – 7:30 pm – Arthur Kayzakian Reading
7:30 – 9 pm – Poetry Open Mic
NOTE: See site for event details, Zoom link, and open mic guidelines.
Where: Beatnik Café – Online event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
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