By Brian Dunlap

LitFest Pasadena returns for another year, to celebrate the Southern California literary community. However, the 2021 edition is virtual. LITFEST spans two days, Saturday and Sunday, May 15-16. Noon to 6pm. The livestreamed LITFEST will broadcast 12 50-minute panel discussions as well as 10-minute interludes between each panel with pre-recorded readings and short films.

LitFest Pasadena programming will be accessible through the LitFest Pasadena Facebook page, the event producer Light Bringer Project’s YouTube channel and LitFestPasadena.org. No registration is required. Just show up.

Check out the 2021 LITFEST PASADENA
PROGRAM and SCHEDULE – HERE

Panel discussions run the range of social justice, cultural equity, race relations, and author activists; inclusivity in graphic novels, writing the SoCal experience, writing complicated families, speculative fiction, true crime, podcasting and 2020, Middle Grade authors, the “new unionism,” publishing and publishers, foodie LA and more!