Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Raakhee Mirchandani & Holly Hataam: Hair Twins Storytime & Book Signing via Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Author Raakhee Mirchandani and illustrator Holly Hatam, will read and discuss their new book, Hair Twins.
Hair Twins is the story of a Sikh father and daughter with a special bond. They proudly celebrate and share a family tradition concerning how they care for their hair and their choices of hairstyles they select from each morning. In this charming picture book we learn that the daughter’s favorite style is the tight bun on the top of her head, which is like the joora her father wears ev3ery day under his turban. They call this their hair twin look!
You may sign up as an individual or as a class or school to attend with a book pre-purchase.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online event
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 9:30 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.childrensbookworld.com/event/exclusive-hair-twins-storytime-and-book-signing
Ramadan Resistance: Poetry as Process in Islamophobic Times Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Poetry as Process in Islamophobic Times is the 2nd meeting of an intensive two-session writing workshop led by Tanzila Ahmed, a political strategist, storyteller, and artist based in Los Angeles.
The month of Ramadan for Muslins is a holy month of fasting daily, spirituality, and community. What began as a program for Poetry-A-day for Ramadan has turned into a group project of 70 participants grappling with increased attacks on the Muslim American Community.
Ahmed creates at the intersection of counter-narratives and culture-shifting as a South Asian American Muslim 2nd generation woman. See site for further details.
NOTE: See site for details and ticket information.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 10th (2nd meeting)
Time: 5pm – 7 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Ronald Brownstein, with Jennifer Armstrong, & Rock Me on the Water via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein, in conversation with Jennifer Armstrong, tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked Los Angeles’ creative peak, when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become: 1974.
In his book, Rock Me on the Water, he traces the confluence of movies, music, television studios, and the demographic, social and cultural changes in America that transformative year. Today we are again witnessing a cultural divide and a generation intent on change.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom event
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/ronald-brownstein
Ronald C. White & Lincoln in Private via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Ronald C. White will present and discuss her book. Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President.
Author and historian Ronald C, White’s new book reflects on a deeply private man, shut off even to those who worked closely with him. Abraham Lincoln often captured “his best thoughts,” as he called them in short notes to himself. The profound importance of these notes has been overlooked because the originals are scattered across several different archives, and are now considered as a coherent whole. Here, we focus on twelve of Lincoln’s most important private notes, showcasing his brilliance and empathy, as well as his very human anxieti4es and ambitions. Also, all 111 Lincoln notes are transcribed in the appendix.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event
Where: Vroman’s Books – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Seth Rogan, with Evan Goldberg, & Yearbook via Live Talks LA – Zoom Online
Join LiveTalks Los Angeles to hear actor, writer, and producer Seth Rogan, in conversation with Evan Goldberg, discuss his new book of personal essays, Yearbook.
NOTE: This is a ticked event so check site for details.
Where: LiveTalks LA -Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/seth-rogen/
Geoff Dyer, with Rachel Cohen, & See/Saw via Skylight Books – Crowdast Online
Join us to hear author Geoff Dyer, in conversation with Rachel Cohen, discuss his new book, See/Saw. The author has been writing about photography for thirty years, and this tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade.
See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. By examining top artists from early in the last century to present day, Dyer offers a series of witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate encounters with images. He shows how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, in this paean to art and art writing.
NOTE: This is a ticked event so check site for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-geoff-dyer-discusses-seesaw-rachel-cohen
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 10th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club with Dan Lopez via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
The Ficcion en Espanol Book Club led by Dan Lopez reads and discusses contemporary fiction writers and their works in Spanish, their native language.
This month’s book selection, Pilar Quintana’s Caperucita, her famous collection of short stories, can be ordered online at the store’s online site.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/ficcion-en-espanol-book-club-with-dan-lopez-5 or https://www.facebook.com/events/836317923626227
John Freeman & Guests & The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story via ALOUD Reading Series – Online Event
Join us to hear author and editor John Freeman present and discuss The Penguin Book of the Modern Short Story, with special guests Sandra Cisneros, Manuel Munoz, and George Saunders.
Over the last half-century, the American short story has changed dramatically. In this new anthology, the best and most contemporary authors are celebrated for their thrilling range of voice, form, and talent. This wide-reaching collection brings astonishing work to a new light and includes rarely anthologized genre writers and overlooked tales, as well the often-taught geniuses of the form. A few of the authors included in the book will join Freeman for a special reading and conversation.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series – Online
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://lfla.org/event/the-penguin-book-of-the-modern-american-short-story/
Politics of the Invisible Man Group Discussion #3 via the Hammer Museum – Online Event
The Hammer Museum is offering a series of programs celebrating the literary, cultural, and social legacies of Ralph Ellison’s groundbreaking work, Invisible Man. Explore this classic American novel with three group discussion, followed by a culminating discussion
Politics of the Invisible Man is an intimate seminar following the protagonist’s journey from South to North, and focusing on the protagonist’s tumultuous rise within—and disillusionment from—the leftist organization of the Brotherhood, and will be led by Ellison’s literary executor, John Callahan, Participants will be encouraged to engage in active discussion moderated by UCLA professor and Ellison expert Adam Bradley,
The next readings and discussions will be held on May 18.
NOTE: Reservations required for this ticketed event at Eventbrite site.
Where: Hammer Museum – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2021/politics-invisible-man-group-discussion
Literary Uprising Reading via Antioch University – Online FB Event
Join Two Hawks Literary Journal and Antioch University Los Angeles for a Virtual Literary Uprising quarterly reading, featuring:
Stephanie Guerrero is a BA student in creative writing at Antioch University.
Tamla Whittley is a reader from the 30B Los Angeles Writer’s Group.
Daniel McClary is a UCLA Extension Writers Program reader.
Anna Scotti is MFA alum reader and the author of the new collection, Bewildered by All this Broken Sky.
Jaswinder Bolina is MFA faculty reader and is author of the collection The 44th of July and the essay collection Of Color,
NOTE: See site for details for this free event.
Where: Antioch University – Online FB event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3011623732456333/
Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Share a poem you wrote or a poem you love, or just listen and enjoy. This monthly Open Mic is hosted by Wyatt Underwood.
To receive a Zoo invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
NOTE: See site for details for this free event.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-2
Jean Hanff Korelitz, with Megan Daum, & The Plot: A Novel via Book Soup – Online Event
Jean Hanff Korelitz, in conversation with Megan Daum, will present and discuss her book, The Plot: A Novel.
Author Jean Hanff Korelitz’s new novel is about a once promising young novelist with a respectably published first book who is now teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain his self-respect. When he braces himself for the publication of his student’s supernova publication of his first novel, it never comes. Then he learns that his student has died, and takes advantage of the situation. In a few short years he is wealthy and praised, but then he receives an email accusing him of being a thief, the first salvo in a terrifying anonymous campaign. What is the real story on this “sure thing” of a novel, and who stole what from whom?
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/jean-hanff-korelitz-discusses-plot
Niall Ferguson, with Rana Foroohar, & Doom via Live Talks LA – Zoom Online
Join LiveTalks Los Angeles to hear Niall Ferguson, in conversation with Rana Foroohar, to discuss his book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.
Niall Ferguson, historian and author of sixteen books, in conversation with CNN’s global economic analyst Rana Forhoohar, will present and discuss his latest, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.
Although all disasters are in some sense man-made, Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Setting the annus horribilis of the year 2020 in perspective, he explores why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling the increasing numbers of disasters, and why we should do better to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.
NOTE: This is a ticked event so check site for details.
Where: LiveTalks LA -Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/niall-ferguson/
Backroom Book Club with Chris Whitaker & We Begin at the End via Pages Bookstore – Zoom Online
Join our Backroom Book Club to hear debut author Chris Whitaker, in conversation with Julie Clark (The Last Flight), to discuss his book, We Begin at the End.
This novel is about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. There are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. At times devastating, with flashes of humor and hope throughout, this is ultimately an inspiring tale of how the human spirit prevails and how, in the end, love—in all its guises—wins.
NOTE: This is a ticked event so check site for details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/pages-backroom-book-club-chris-whitaker-julie-clark
Loren Stephens, with Jonathan Kirsch, & All Sorrows Can Be Borne via Diesel’s Books – Online Event
Author Loren Stephens, in conversation with Jonathan Kirsch, will present and discuss her new book, All Sorrows Can Be Borne.
Inspired by true events, this book is the story of Noriko Ito, a Japanese woman who is forced to give up her son to save her husband. Set in Japan and the badlands of Montana, from WWII to 1982, this is a heartbreaking novel depicting how families are shaped by political and economic circumstances, tremendous loss and ultimately forgiveness.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Diesel’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Henry Hoke, with Lisa Locascio, & The Groundhog Forever via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Henry Hoke, in conversation with Lisa Locascio, to hear them discuss his new novel, The Groundhog Forever.
This novel is the queer sequel to the movie “Groundhog Day.” Today is the last day of your life.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Ronald C. White & Lincoln in Private via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Author and historian Ronald C. White will present and discuss his new book, Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President.
Author and historian Ronald C, White’s new book reflects on a deeply private man, shut off even to those who worked closely with him. Abraham Lincoln often captured “his best thoughts,” as he called them in short notes to himself. The profound importance of these notes has been overlooked because the originals are scattered across several different archives, and are now considered as a coherent whole. Here, we focus on twelve of Lincoln’s most important private notes, showcasing his brilliance and empathy, as well as his very human anxieti4es and ambitions. Also, all 111 Lincoln notes are transcribed in the appendix.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/ron-white
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Christopher T. George & Open Reading – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature poet Christopher T. George, plus an open reading.
Christopher T. George is the founding editor of The Journal of the War of 1812 and is the author of several books on the subject. His poetry has been published around the world, including Poets Gone Wild, An Internet Anthology, and he is also a lyricist.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
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 11th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar (Check site to confirm date)
Coffee Time Book Club & Of Women and Salt via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for Coffee Time Book Club and a discussion of the new novel by Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt, facilitated by Linda McLaughlin.
This gripping novel moves between modern day Miami and revolutionary and post-revolution Cuba to tell the stories of four generations of women whose past traumas continue to play out in current times. It’s a story of strength, immigration, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-virtual-meeting-9
Good Trouble Book Club & Breathe: A Letter to My Sons via Edendale Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join Dr. Andrea Liss to discuss author Imani Perry’s book, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (2019), in which the author reflects on her life and family history, and the precariousness of her world. While acknowledging the fear they face, she charts a path forward for her children, and ro overcome marginalization and find inspiration in the Black tradition of arts and achievement.
This book club engages themes of social justice in the books selected for discussion.
Email eden@lapl.org for the Zoom link to join the event.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/good-trouble-reading-group-breathe-letter-my-sons
Stuart Gibbs, with Sarah Mlynowski, & Bear Bottom via Chevalier’s Books – Online Kids Event
Author Stuart Gibbs, in conversation with Sarah Mlynowski, will share the return to his FunJungle series and its resident sleuth in his seventh novel, to solve the disappearances of endangered bison and an irreplaceable necklace..
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this Zoom event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Kids event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/stuart-gibbs
Joel Selvin & Hollywood Eden via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join us to hear author Joel Selvin present and discuss his book, Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise.
In this book acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the 1960s to invent the myth of the California paradise. He tells the story of a group of musicians—from the Beach Boys to the Mamas & the Papas and others—who tried to live out a dream, but who found deceit, intrigue, low comedy and high drama, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
WeHo Reads: Creating Hollywood Chinese: Arthur Dong & Charles Yu via WeHo Reads 2021 – Online Event
In celebration of Asian American History Month, WeHo Reads hosts a conversation on Creating Hollywood Chinese, featuring authors:
Arthur Dong is the author of Hollywood Chinese.
Charles Yu is the author of Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award.
These authors will go beyond the concept of representation in Hollywood to focus on the creative process for this craft talk and conversation.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for event details.
Where: WeHo Reads, City of West Hollywood – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/454355662645236
Maile Meloy, with Ann Patchett, & The Octopus Escapes via Diesel’s Books – Online Kids Event
Author Maile Meloy, in conversation with acclaimed author Ann Patchett, will present and discuss her new children’s book, The Octopus Escapes.
From the bestselling author of the idle-grade trilogy, The Apothecary, and many works written for adults, comes a poignant, lyrical tale about nature’s great escape artist. When an octopus living in an aquarium tires of his captive life, he makes a daring escape under cover of darkness.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Diesel’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Marisa Silver, with Laura Van Den Berg, & The Mysteries via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Marisa Silver, in conversation with Laura Van Den Berg, to hear them discuss her new novel, The Mysteries.
This novel, from the author of Mary Coin, is a masterful, intimate story of two young girls, joined in an unlikely friendship, whose lives are shattered in a single, unthinkable moment. This book limns the painful ambiguities of adulthood, and the intense perceptions of an indelibly drawn child to offer a profound exploration of how all of us, at every age, must reckon with life’s abundant and unsolvable mysteries.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Francisco Goldman, with Rachel Kushner, & Monkey Boy via Skirball Cultural Center – Online Event
Join us to hear author Francisco Goldman, in conversation with author Rachel Kushner (The Hard Crowd), to hear them discuss his latest novel, Monkey Boy.
This novel, Monkey Boy, is a n extraordinary coming-of-age story which follows Goldman’s alter ego as he confronts his past and the longstanding effects of straddling dual identities—whether American/Guatemalan, Jewish/Catholic, or white/brown—while living between Mexico City and New York.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Skirball Cultural Center – Online
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skirball.org/programs/words-and-ideas/francisco-goldman-conversation-rachel-kushner
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 12th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AnansiVirtual Workshop/ (Check site to confirm date)
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 Luivette Resto.
Luivettte Resto is a mother, teacher, and poet, and the author of two collections: Unfinished Portrait and Ascension, both published by Tia Chucha Press. Her third book is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading Neil Aitken 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 and author Neil Aitkin.
Neil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, Babbage’s Dream and The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philp Levine Prize for Poetry. His chapbook, Leviathan, won the 2017 Elgin Prize for Science Fiction Poetry. He is founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and his own poems have appeared widely. Trained as a computer programmer, he left that career to pursue creative writing and teaching. He has won prizes for his literary translations of contemporary Chinese poetry, wrote libretto for Edge of a Dream, commissioned by L.A. Opera and performed virtually in 2020, and now works as an online creative coach and manuscript editor from his home in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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 12th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/two-idiots-peddling-poetry or https://www.facebook.com/events/866583480591788/
Asian American Literary Voices via Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library – Zoom & YouTube Online
Join us for a virtual panel celebrating our local Asian American literary voices and the diverse stories they tell. In honor of AAPI Heritage Month we welcome San Gabriel Valley based authors:
CB Lee is a Lambda Literary Award nominated writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of “The Sidekick Squad” series, and hosts a monthly book club at The Last Bookstore in DTLA.
Julie Tieu is a Chinese-American contemporary romance author based in the Los Angeles area. Her debut novel, THE DONUT TRAP, is loosely inspired by the years she spent working at her family’s donut shop.
Eric Wat tells stories that challenge harmful mainstream narratives about race, gender, immigration, sex, and health. He alternates between fiction and non-fiction, but his first love is fiction. Wat is the author of SWIM.
Jess Ju was Born and raised in Los Angeles. She is the Director of Programs and Operations at CAPE, a non-profit organization that champions diversity by connecting, educating, and empowering Asian American and Pacific Islander artists and leaders in entertainment and media.Ju will be the moderator,
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/783863662500987/
Remy Lai & Pawcasso and Fly on the Wall Author Talk & Book Signing via Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Author Remy Lai, will read and discuss her new children’s books, Pawcasso and Fly on the Wall.
The author of the award-winning Pie in the Sky, makes her middle-grade graphic novel debut in Pawcasso, about the friendship between the loneliest girl in class and the coolest canine in town.
Fly on the Wall is a moving and hilarious diary-style illustrated novel about a twelve-year-old boy to goes on a (forbidden) solo adventure to prove his independence to his overprotective family.
You may sign up as an individual or as a class or school to attend with a book pre-purchase.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online public and multiple schools event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 12:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.childrensbookworld.com/event/exclusive-remy-lai-virtual-talk-and-book-signing
AAPI Author Talk: Yangsze Choo & The Night Tiger via LAPL LA Made – Online Event
Author Yangsze Choo will read and discuss her books, The Night Tiger and The Ghost Bride, which is now a Netflix original drama.
Those attending this virtual program will have the opportunity to win a free copy of The Night Tiger.
NOTE: See site for details of this free event.
Where: LAPL – Online FB & YouTube event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/conversation-author-yangsze-choo
Brown Motherhood: Readingsvia LibroMobile– Online Event
Join us for a conversation with 5 mothers and writers of South Asian descent who will read from their work and talk representation, identity, and intersectionality, and share what brownness and motherhood mean to them.
This event features:
Namrata Poddar writes fiction and nonfiction and serves as interviews editor for Kwell. her work explores the intersection of storytelling, race, class, gender place, and/or migration.
Sonora Jha is a novelist, critic, and essayist, and the author of the debut novel, FOREIGN and the memoir How to Raise a Feminist Son.
Usha Reena Rungoo is a professor ofliterature and French and post-colonial studies and writes nonfiction and essays on environmental and social justice issues.
Shilpa Agarwai is an acclaimed radio host and author of the book, Haunting Bombay.
Gayatri Sethi is a university educator, writer, mentor and consultant who teaches and writes about social justice, global studies, and comparative education,
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for event details.
Where: LibroMobile – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 4 pm– 5 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/brown-motherhood
Memoir Authors Panel: Mental Health Awareness Month via Flintridge Books – Online Event
Join us to hear three authors present and discuss their work in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month.
Paolina Milana is the author of Committed: A Memoir of Madness in the Family. This story is about being the family member charged with caring for both her mother and sister as they are each consumed by schizophrenia. She is founder of Magic to Madness, and her mission is to share stories that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit.
Deborah A. Lott is the author of Don’t Go Crazy without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir. This is the story of a girl who grew up in the seductive sway of her outrageously eccentric father, was disbelieved by her mother, and how she sought and found various forms of escape. She teaches at Antioch University and oversees Two Hawks Quarterly.
Susan Auerbach, PhD, is the author of I’ll Write Your Name on Every Beach and the blog, Walking the Mourner’s Path After a Child’s Suicide. A member of the advisory board of Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Survivors After Suicide, she is a speaker on suicide prevention, suicide loss, and grief.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Online
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online Event
Sugar Rodgers, with Johnny Temple, & They Better Call Me Sugar via Book Soup – Online Event
Sugar Rodgers, in conversation with Johnny Temple, will present and discuss her book, They Better Call Me Sugar: my Journey from the Hood to the Hardwood.
Author Sugar Rodgers’ new memoir is about growing up in dire poverty in Suffolk, Virginia, and never imagining she would become an all-star player in the WNBA. Her road to a successful career is fraught with sadness and death—but she would cling to basketball as a way to keep focused and sane.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Catherin McKenzie, with Rachel Stuhler, & Six Weeks to Live via Vroman’s Books – Online Event
Author Catherine McKenzie, in conversation with Rachel Stuhler, will present and discuss her new book, Six Weeks to Live.
This novel is about a woman who never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor’s appointment: she has a terminal brain tumor—and only six weeks to live. The stunned forty-eight year-old mother decides t make the most of the time left to her, but then realizes she might have been poisoned, and is determined to discover who did it before she’s gone for good.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Nikkei Uncovered: A Poetry Reading via JANM & Discover Nikkei– Online Event
Please join us for our 2nd annual Nikkei Uncovered virtual poetry reading, hosted by author, poet, and performer traci kato-kiriyama, and featuring three pairs of poets and artists, who will perform and be in conversation with each other:
Amy Uyematsu is a Sansei poet, columnist, and author of five collections, including the forthcoming That Old Blue TricksterTime (2022)
Miya Iwataki is a poet, writer, and East Wind Radio host/producer and a designer of diversity programs for L.A. County.
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Curtiss Takada Roots is a professor and program coordinator of Asian American Studies at LMU, and principal investigator of the Nippon Foundation.
Mariko Fujimoto Rooks is a mixed-race Japanese American and African American and rising senior at Yale University, where she studies public health and history of science and medicine. At Yale she writes for JookSongs, and Asian American spoken word group, and is an All American water polo player.
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Sho Tanaka is a Yonsei writer and wanderer, whose grandmother’s family immigrated to the L.A. area from Taminato in Northern Okinawa. He believes sharing food and story can heal legacies of violence accumulated in our bodies.
Paulette M. Moreno N/A
NOTE: See website link for costs and details.
Where: JANM – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/476957663502082/ or https://www.janm.org/events/2021-05-13/nikkei-uncovered-poetry-reading
Neil Gaiman, with Joe Hill, & The Monarch of the Glen & Black Dog via Live Talks LA – Zoom Online
Join LiveTalks Los Angeles to hear Neil Giaman, in conversation with Joe Hill, to celebrate the release of two novellas: Monarch of the Glen and Black Dog.
Two novellas se in the world of American Gods are now available as a vinyl box set First published in 2001, American Gods told the story of Shadow, In The Monarch of the Gods we follow Shadow to an isolated castle in Scotland where he becomes embroiled in an ongoing battle between men and monsters. And in Black God he travels to a small village in England and is befriended by a local couple with a dark past. Sir Derek Jacobi and an all-star cast perform in this recording.
NOTE: This is a ticked event so check site for details.
Where: LiveTalks LA -Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/neil-gaiman/
Ursula Pike, with Carolann Duro, & An American Indian Among Los Indigenas: A Native Travel Memoir via Diesel’s Books – Online Event
Author Ursula Pike, in conversation with Carolann Duro, will present and discuss her new book, An American Indian Among Los Indigenas: A Native Travel Memoir.
When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike traveled to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of the Karuk Tribe, she expected to make meaningful ocnnections with indigenous people there, since she considered herself “one of the good ones.” But her hopefulness turned to something else, as she found the Bolivians helped her far more than she helped them. This book upends a canon of travel memoirs dominated by white writers, and offers an examination of the shadows that colonial history casts over even the most well-intentioned attempts at cross-cultural solidarity.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Diesel’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Maggie Shipstead, with Sarah Ramos, & Great Circle via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Maggie Shipstead, in conversation with writer Sarah Ramos, to hear them discuss her new novel, Great Circle.
Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
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 13th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/HOBRF/events/?ref=page_internal or https://hobrf.com/events-open-mic-poetry-night/
Donna Stein, with Staci Gem Scheiwiller, & The Empress and I via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Event
Author Donna Stein, in conversation with Staci Gem Scheiwiller, will discuss her book, The Empress and I.
This is the story of how a unique alliance between two women in the 1970s led to the acquisition of a treasure trove of modern art now worth billions.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/donna-stein
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 13th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
Nora Zelevnasky, with Nicola Kraus, & Competitive Grieving via Book Soup – Online Event
Nora Zelevansky, in conversation with Nicola Kraus, will present and discuss her book, Competitive Grieving.
Author Nora Zelevnaksy’s new novel, Competitive Grieving, is about a woman who suddenly loses her best childhood friend to an aneurism, and now must help her friend’s lawyer with the task of disseminating his possessions. Since he was a rising TV star, she finds herself at the epicenter of world of which she wants no part, where everyone is competing for a piece of his memory. This book shines a light on the universal struggle to grieve amidst the noise.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/nora-zelevansky-discusses-competitive-grieving
Gian Sardar, with Meg Howrey, & Take What You Can Carry via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Gian Sardar, in conversation with Meg Howrey, will present and discuss her book, Take What You Can Carry, a novel about finding beauty, promise, and love amid the chaos of war-torn Kurdistan.
In 1979, aspiring photojournalist Olivia Murray accompanies her Kurdish boyfriend to norther Iraq for a family wedding. But the return home to Los Angeles proves less safe that they believed. And their lives are upended when she captures a tragic moment on film. She learns that true bravery begins with an open heart.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
David Brafman, with Stefano Bloch & David “Big Sleeps” Cavazos, & LA Graffiti Black Book via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Davis Brafman, in conversation with Stefano Bloch & “Big Sleeps,” to hear them discuss his book, LA Graffiti Black Book.
In this collection of unique works by 150 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists we find an unprecedented collaboration across the city’s diverse artistic landscape.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Skylight – Online event
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 15th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929588015814/
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 15th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785700461845/
Graphic Novel Book Club & Thi Bui’s & The Best We Could Do via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join Bel Cano Books; Graphic Novel Book Club for a discussion of Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. This is a beautiful story about the search for a better future and a longing for the past, and the lasting effects displacement has on a child and her family who escape Vietnam in the 1970s.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://bookshop.org/books/the-best-we-could-do-an-illustrated-memoir/9781419718786 or https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
Family Story Time: Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church via CAAM – Online Event
Join the Oakland Public Library, in celebration of CAAM’s exhibition, Enunciated Life, to share a reading of Tonya Bolden’s moving homage to the church, Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church, with illustrations by R. Gregory Christie.
NOTE: RSVP for Zoom information.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event
Cranky Right Now Storytime, with Julie Berry & Holly Hatam via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Author Julie Berry & illustrator Holly Hatam will host a Cranky Right Now Storytime.
Cranky Right Now is a book allows kids to work through the reasons we all can feel cranky and how to work through emotions. IT’s the perfect book for every preschool and kindergarten reader.
NOTE: RSVP for Zoom information.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/cranky-right-now
2021 Annual LitFest Pasadena Event via Light Bringer Project – Online FB & YouTube Event (Day 1 0f 2)
The annual LitFest Pasadena two-day event will be accessible online this year! This two-day event will be held from 12 pm – 6 pm.
Today’s Day 1 events are summarized below:
Noon – 12:50 pm: Stories of the New Unionism: Activists writers and educators offer inspiring social justice context for recent events. Featuring:
Arlene Inouye, Rafael Jaime, Carolina A. Miranda, Christine O’Connell, Lindsay Zafor, Todd Wolfson & Mia McIver, moderator.
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm: Our SoCal DNA: How location affects how, when, and what is written. Featuring: Ryka Aoki, Aimee Bender, Natashia Deon, Deborah A. Lott, Luis Rodriguez, Michael Torres, & Monica Fernandez, moderator.
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm: Our Culinary Table: The trends and traditions of SoCal food cultures. Featuring: Elisa Callow, Bill Esparza, & Val Zavala.
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm: Writing While Black: Featuring: Donnell Alexander, Rachel Harper, Keenan Norris, Kia Penso, Lisa Teasley & Jervy Tervalon.
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm: Graphic Description: A Comics and Graphic Novel panel discussion, featuring: Maria–Rose Marie, Amanda Meadows, Pamela Ribon, Josh Trujillo, Carly Usadin, Shannon Watters & Gary Phillips.
5:00 pm – 5:50 pm: Speculative Los Angeles: Discussion of sci-fi and fantasy fiction in a new short story anthology of the same name. Featuring: Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Kathleen Kaufman & Duane Swierezynaki.
10-Minute “Interludes” will be offered between each live stream panel, 10 minutes before the top of each hour:
12:50 pm – 1:00 pm: Julia Long, Mary Fitzpatrick, Londa Dove, Beverly Fontaine & Lois P. Jones are featured.
1:50 pm – 2:00 pm: Roundi Moore-Kondo, Arminee Iknadossian, Vroman’s Bookstore, Ron Kortege, Kim Dower & Alene Terzian-Zeitounian are featured.
2:50 pm – 3:00 pm: Gerda Govine Ituarte, Roundi Moore-Kondo, Ayb Morapao, Rainsford Stauffer, Jervy Tervalon & Rare Bird Books are featured.
3:50 pm – 4:00 pm: Lynne Thompson, 2021 LA Poet Laureate & Tim Stiles, 2021 Jonathan Gold Award Winner, are featured.
4:50 pm – 5:00 pm: Omega Sci Fi Awards Readings & Johnny Bender are featured.
5:50 pm- 6:00 pm: Johnny Bender, Cathie Sandstrom, and the film Negative Space are featured.
NOTE: No registration required. Just show up!
Where: LitFest Pasadena – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 12 pm – 6 pm (Check various times on event schedule)
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://litfestpasadena.org/schedule/
Emerging Writers Fellowship via Get Lit – Online Teen 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 15th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997722646484/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Reading & Open Mic via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for featured readings hosted Mehtab MOwgli. including poets: Mira Mataric, RA Ruadh & Alicia Viguer-Espert & an Open Reading.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Sh!t Men Say to Me: Virtual Release via Moon Tide Press– Online Zoom Event
Join Moon Tide Press for the virtual release of the 2021 anthology, Sh!t Men Say to Me: A Poetry Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity.
This anthology features over 70 poets in our effort to capture all the diverse voices possible who will sharing their powerful work.
Where: Moon Tide Press – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/282182510118052
2021 Annual LitFest Pasadena Event via Light Bringer Project – Online FB & YouTube Event (Day 2 0f 2)
The annual LitFest Pasadena two-day event will be accessible online this year! This two-day event will be held from 12 pm – 6 pm.
Today’s Day 2 events are summarized below:
Noon – 12:50 pm: The Twists and Turns of True Crime: A discussion of the changing narratives of true crime. Featuring:
Rabia Chaudry, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Rachel Monroe, Chip Jacobs & moderator Julia Callahan.
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm: Authors and Airwaves: A discussion with prominent authors and podcasters. Featuring: Tony Du Shane, Meghan Daum & Zibby Owens.
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm: Modern Kid Lit: Writing from the Heart: Featuring: Tracy Holczer, Rajani LaRocca, Mae Respicio & Dana Middleton, moderator
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm: Don’t Hit Repeat: An AAPI racism and violence discussion. Featuring: John Powers, Jinghuan Liu Tervalon & Myles Matsuno.
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm: Untangling the Family Story: A panel discussion on mining family relationships for storytelling, character, and universal truths, Featuring: J.Ryan Stradal, Steph Cha, Sergio Troncoso, Amy Meyerson & Colleeen Bates, moderator.
5:00 pm – 5:50 pm: Publishers Roundtable: A crash course discussion with local publishers. Featuring: Red Hen Press, Unnamed Press, Lil’ Libros, TSEHAI Publishers, Julia Callahan & Tim De Roache.
10-Minute “Interludes” will be offered between each live stream panel, 10 minutes before the top of each hour:
12:50 pm – 1:00 pm: Lena Garcia, Angelina Coppola, Alexis August & Aimee Bender are featured.
1:50 pm – 2:00 pm: Carol Ruth Silverstein, Claire Phillips & Jervy Tervalon are featured.
2:50 pm – 3:00 pm: “6th Grade Cannibals,” Carla Sameth,, Elline Lipkin & Jervy Tervalon are featured.
3:50 pm – 4:00 pm: Shahe Mankerian, Tersa Mei Chuc, Gerda Govine Ituarte & Dexter Booth are featured.
4:50 pm – 5:00 pm: “Dark Pasadena” with Jervy Tervalon & Tom Caston are featured.
5:50 pm- 6:00 pm: Kate Gale, Gerda Govine Ituarte & Tina Pasadena are featured.
NOTE: No registration required. Just show up!
Where: LitFest Pasadena – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 16th
Time: 12 pm – 6 pm (Check various times on event schedule)
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://litfestpasadena.org/schedule/
Sunday Series Workshop with Michael Torres via The Poetry Lab – Online
Join us the Sunday Series interactive workshop, for an opportunity to learn from and work with poet and writer Michael Torres.
Born and brought up in Pomona, where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist, Michael Torres is the author of the debut collection of poems, An Incomplete List of Names (Beacon Hill Press, 2020). Currently he’s an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
NOTE: See site for costs and details.
Where: The Poetry Lab Sunday Series – Online event
Date: Sunday the 16th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/sunday-series
Let’s Learn Our History Event via International Society of Black Latinos (ISBL) – Online
Join us for a fun and educational time discussing the book, Afro-Latin America 1800-2000, as we play trivia games while learning about history.
This is a fundraiser for ISBL and a book selling event.
Where: ISBL – Online event
Date: Sunday the 16th
Time: 3 pm– 4:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
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