Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Benjamin Rosenbaum, with Cory Doctorow, & The Unraveling via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Benjamin Rosenbaum, in conversation with author Cory Doctorow, discuss his book, The Unraveling.
In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a world has evolved where each person has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success are reliant upon instantaneous evaluations of how well each family member conforms to the rigid social system. Then two new friends of two gendered types unintentionally wind up at the center of a scandalous art spectacle, which turns into a multilayered Unraveling of society, and a test of personal crises having global significance.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/benjamin-rosenbaum-conversation-cory-doctorow-discusses-unraveling
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 event (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for featured poetry readings and an Open Mic with Expressions LA on every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.
Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to participate.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this event.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online via Zoom
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Where: LAPL – Onlline event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
LA Times Book Club: Billie Jean King & All In via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join the LA Times Book Club & Pages Bookstore for a virtual event featuring tennis and sports icon, and author Billie Jean King, in conversation with Times executive sports editor, Christian Stone, to discuss her memoir, All In.
This memoir covers the author’s childhood growing up in Long Beach, competing across Southern California in an era before sports scholarships for women, and embarking on a lifelong journey to find herself. It’ set in the backdrop of the women’s movement, civil rights movement, and later the fight for LGBTQ rights. For six years she was the world’s No. 1 woman’s tennis player, and she beat Bobby Riggs on live TV in the 1973 “Battle for the Sexes.”
NOTE: See site for details, signed books sales, and to register for this event.
Where: Pages Bookstore & LA Times – Online (FB, YouTube, Twitter)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/la-times-billie-jean-king
Tao Lin, with Brad Phillips, & Leave Society via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Tao LIn, in conversation with Brad Phillips, discuss his book, Leave Society: A Novel.
In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. Soon his life will begin to deepen and grow in complexity on this trip, and as he flies between these two worlds each year, over four years, he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, loneliness, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. How to fit these pieces of his life together? Or, should he leave society altogether?
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/tao-lin-discusses-leave-society
Tom Nichols & Our Own Worst Enemy via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us to hear author Tom Nichols discuss his book, Our Own Worst enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy.
Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble—but who is really to blame?
Ordinary citizens, laden with grievances, have joined forces with political entrepreneurs who thrive on the creation of rage rather than on the encouragement of civic virtue and democratic cooperation. While it may be difficult, he argues we need to defend democracy by resurrecting the virtues of altruism, compromise, stoicism, and cooperation—and by recognizing how good we’ve actually had it in the modern world.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site) .
Rachael Cerrotti, with Lisa Hofheimer, & We Share the Same Sky via Chevalier’s Bookstore & USC Shoah Foundation – Online Event
Join us to hear author Rachael Cerrotti, in conversation with Lisa Hofheimer, discuss her new book. We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration.
This book weaves together the stories of two young women. Hana, a refugee who remains one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and Rachael, whose insatiable curiosity to touch the past guides her into the lives of countless strangers, bringing her love and tragic loss. Throughout the course of her twenties, Hana’s story became a guidebook for Rachael, the author, on how to live a life empowered by grief.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/rachael-cerrotti
Nonfiction Book Club & The Body via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join our Nonfiction Book Club at the Pages Bookstore Courtyard, for an in-person event with facilitator Mark Polak, to discuss this month’s selection, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, by authorBill Bryson.
This new edition is full of facts and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, and it will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracles that make up life in general, and you in particular.
NOTE: See site for details, signed books sales, and to register for this event.
Where: Pages Bookstore Courtyard – In-Person Event
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Where: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/nonfiction-book-club
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Kendall Hoeft – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Kendall Hoeft.
Kendall Hoeft is a Creative Writing MFA graduate of the University of Tampa, and currently teaches writing online for Florida International University. She facilitates “Poetry in Movement” classes at the Arts Center in Troy, NY, where she can combine her passions of dance and words.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 24th
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 24th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar (Confirm at site, which is now under reconstruction)
Mystery Book Club & Raven Black via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for the Mystery Book Club, which meets monthly, on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 9 am. We think talking about books is the best way to start a morning!
This month’s selection is Ann Cleeves’ book, Black Raven: Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries, and the basis for the hit series Shetland, now airing on PBS.
This novel begins on New Year’s Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors, who never comes. But the next morning the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered nearby, and suspicion falls on Mangus.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this event.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 9 am
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-raven-black-ann-cleeves-discussion-email
Classics Book Club Discussion & One Writer’s Beginnings via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Join the Granada Hills Branch Library Book Club for a virtual discussion of Eudora Welty’s book, One Writer’s Beginnings.
This memoir is a continuous thread of revelation, an autobiography which tells us how the author’s family and surroundings shaped not only her personality, but her writing.
Please email grnhls@lapl.org to receive a meeting invitation link.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/classics-book-club-discussion
Tina M. Campt, with Leigh Raiford, & A Black Gaze via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Tina M. Campt, in conversation with Leigh Raiford, will present her book A Black Gaze.
This book is examining the work of contemporary Black contemporary artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding we see Blackness anew. By shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze, these artists require viewers to do more than simply look. This book solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 4 pm
Address: See Site
Middle Grade Book Club & Millionaires for the Month via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join our Middle Grade Book Club at the Pages Bookstore Courtyard, for an in-person eventto discuss this month’s selection, Millionaires for the Month, by authorStacy McAulty.
How would you spend five million dollars in 30 days?
This book is about a billionaire’s wallet, a bizarre challenge, and an unlikely friendship which sends two kids on a wild adventure.
NOTE: See site for details, signed books sales, and to register for this event.
Where: Pages Bookstore Courtyard – In-Person Event
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 4:30 pm
Where: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club
Rare Bird Books Presents: Natascia Mallin, with Scott Caan, & The First 50 via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Natascia Mallin, in conversation with Scott Caan, will present her book The First 50.
This book is a proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the city of Los Angeles. A chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that takes place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three, it chronicles Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War, and The Great Recession, all as a young woman navigates the decadence that has long defined L.A.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/rare-bird-presents-natascia-mallin-conversation-scott-caan
Writing Workshop with Matt Sedillo via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us for a writing workshop, hosted by Chicano Political Poet, Matt Sedillo.
Matt Sedillo is the author of the collection, Mowing Leaves of Grass:
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte centro literio – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
OPEN MIC: Grito de Boyle Heights with Sammy Quetzalli via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month we offer an OPEN MIC, hosted by Sammy Quetzalli. Sign-ups at 6:45pm.
Come early at 6pm for a writers workshop guided byChicano Political Poet, Matt Sedillo.
Matt Sedillo is the author of the collection, Mowing Leaves of Grass:
NOTE: See site for details. Donations are accepted.
Where: Re/Arte centro literio – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6:45 pm – 9:15 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop via The World Stage – In-Person 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.
We return to the building after a 15-month, Covid-19 imposed exile, where the faithful met weekly via Zoom online. We are currently working on the process to continue to include our online community each session. WELCOME HOME!
In its 30th year, the Anansi Writers Workshop is a workshop 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.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: The World Stage (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Dengan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html or https://www.facebook.com/events/2956323657961143/
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 25th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Skylight Tree House & LAPL Present: Divya Srinivasan What I Am via Skylight & LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join our Crowdcast interactive event with author Divya Srinivasan, to share and enjoy her book, What I Am.
This event is presented in partnership with Punk Rock Marthas!
The creator of Little Owl’s Night explores and celebrates the complexities of what makes us who we are in this comforting and thoughtful picture book. As a young narrator describes herself as being made up of many things, the author shows what makes us human and proud to be who we are.
NOTE: See site for further event details.
Where: LAPL & Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Zoom Event
Big Read Discussion: Explore the Science of Fuzzy Mud via West Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Kids, Teen & Adult Event
Join our Big Read discussion of Fuzzy Mud, by Louis Sachar. Our children’s librarian, Brooke Sheets, will lead a fun and informative discussion via Zoom, exploring the themes of the book.
NOTE: See site for further event details.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/putrvjjt
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-fuzzy-mud-louis-sachar
Cover to Cover Book Club & The Light Between Oceans via Mid-Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Cover to Cover Book club to discuss the book, The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman.
This debut novel is about a couple living in solitude at a lighthouse, who one day see a small dinghy with an infant and a man inside floating in the ocean. They rush to rescue them only to find the man is dead. This tragic story involves their decision to raise the child as their own, and the terrible consequences that follow. This story was made into a film released in 2016.
NOTE: See details & RSVP at site.
Where: LAPL – Online Event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 6 pm
Address: (See site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/cover-cover-book-club-0
Braintrust Writing Workshop with Kelsey Bryan-Zwick via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Join us for a free Braintrust Poetry Writing Workshop, led by Kelsey Bryan-Zwick. She is a genderqueer, disabled, bilingual author, and her fourth chapbook of poems. Bone Water, will be published by Moon Tide Press in 2022.
This generative series of workshops is curated by Danielle Mitchell, and each is an intermixed session of lessons and original topics. Everyone is welcome!
NOTE: See site for details and RSVP.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: The Poetry Lab (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/braintrust
Three Idiots Shouting Poetry Presents: Marty McConnell & OPEN MIC – Online Event
This is the premiere event of the merger of the Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and SHOUT Open Mic events into a joint launch of a new Open Mic & poetry event offered online every Thursday of each month.
This month’s featured guest is poet, writer and performer Marty McConnell, who blurs the delineations between literary and oral poetry, and autobiography and personae, to comment and illuminate what it means to live and love outside the lines in 21st century America.
Marty McConnell’s second collection, “when they say you can’t go home again. what they mean is you were never there,” from Indiana Review Press, won the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her first nonfiction book, Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop, was recently published by Yes Yes Books. She is co-creator and co-editor of underbelly, a web site focused on the art and magic of poetry revision.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Three Idiots Shouting Poetry – Online event
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/533596424560039
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 26th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
Your Author Series: Ernesto Cisneros & Eferen Divided via L.A. Public Library – Online Kids & Teens Event
Join us to meet author and teacher Ernesto Cisneros as he presents his book, Efren Divided.
The author’s work has been praised by Lilliam Rivera and Sandra Cisneros, and he is a multiple prize-winner in 2021. He also is a 20-year teaching veteran of the city of Santa Ana, where he teaches reading and writing at an intermediate school.
Those attending this program will have an opportunity to receive a free book!
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: LAPL – Online Kids & Teens Event
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-ernesto-cisneros
Gary Goldstein, with Ken Pisani, & The Last Birthday Party via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Gary Goldstein, in conversation with Ken Pisani, discuss his novel. The Last Birthday Party.
There’s nothing fabulous about 50 for LA. film critic Jeremy Lerner, who loses his marriage, his job, the use of his right arm, just days after the party he begged his now ex-wife not to throw him. But fate is a sly devil, Days after his string of calamities he has a game-changing emotional and creative rebirth when he meets Annabelle, a beguiling widow with matching baggage. Can it last?
NOTE: See site for registration & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 6 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/gary-goldstein-discusses-last-birthday-party
Quarantine Memoirs & Open Mic, Presented by Floasis Spoken Word Poetry – In-Person Event
The featured guests for Quarantine Memoirs & Open Mic by Floasis Spoken Word Poetry are DJ Lynx, Lit Vibes & Concrete Rose.
The Open Mic section is for poetry only. See site for details.
NOTE: See website link for costs & details.
Where: Life Arts Center, Riverside
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 3485 Univeristy Ave., Riverside, CA 92501
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 28th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929601349146/
Children’s Bilingual Storytime for Kids via Re/Arte – In-Person Event – Kids Event
Join us for a new weekly event, Chlldren’s Bilingual Storytime, offered on Saturday mornings, in English & Spanish.
NOTE: See website for registration and further details.
Where: Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 10 am – 11:30 am
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos/
Middle Grade Book Clubs via Brentwood & Palisades Branch Libraries, LAPL – Online Events
Two LAPL Branch libraries host Middle Grade Book Clubs on Saturdays at 10:30 am.
Brentwood Branch Library participants discuss their favorite books each month.
Palisades Branch Library participants will discuss Wild Robot by Peter Brown.
NOTE: See websites for online links and further details.
Where: Online events (see details at website links)
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-middle-grade-readers-0 or https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-middle-grade-readers-wild-robot-peter-brown
Write What I Want: A Workshop with Sehba Sarwar via Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – Online Zoom Event
Sehba Sarwar offers a multi-generational writing workshop for writers to explore voice through multiple genres— poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid—with Sehba Sarwar.
Join us as we transfer life’s surprises onto our pages to create new work. When we ive a moment of loss, joy, or the humdrum of day-to-day living, we may be inspired to write a story, create a poem, and pen flash fiction. Here we will open pathways for creative expression through the exploration of inspirational works and moments, and tackle larger projects.
NOTE: See details, cost, & RSVP at site.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online Event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: Online via Zoom
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/write-what-i-want-a-multi-genre-writing-workshop-with-sehba-sarwar-tickets-165030112509
Storytime with Cinco Paul & Gladys Jose & Clayton Parker Really Really Has to Pee via Book Soup – Online Kids Event
Join us to hear Cinco Paul & Gladys Jose, discuss their children’s book, Clayton Parker Really Really Has to Pee.
From the screenwriter behind family favorites like Despicable Me, comes a hilarious, rhyming picture book romp about knowing WHEN to go! It’s a cautionary tale for the procrastinator in us all.
NOTE: See site for registration & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Kids Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 11 am
Address: See site
Vroman’s Special Storytime with Kevin Cornell & New in Town via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us to hear Kevin Cornell discuss his children’s book, New In Town.
This is a whimsical yet timely picture book allegory about what new people with new ideas can bring to communities.
NOTE: See site for registration & event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 11 am
Address: See site
Writer’s Workshop with Viva Padilla via Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Join us for an introduction to submitting your writing to journals and magazines. Incudes career advice, and writing feedback. Bring your work and a notebook.
NOTE: See website for registration, donation, and further details.
Where: Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos/
Inaugural 2021 Orange Country Poet Laureates Reading: Tina Mai & Natalie J. Graham via LibroMobile – In-Person & IG Online
Join us, either in-person or on IG online to celebrate the appointment of local poets to be Orange County’s first Youth Poet Laureate and First Poet Laureate:
Tina Mai is the first Orange County Youth Poet Laureate, and she will read her work. She is a 16-year-old writer and student in Newport Coast, CA, and now is developing an app to aid writing accessibility through spoken word stories.
Natalie J. Graham is the first Orange County Poet Laureate, and she will read her work. She resides in Buena Park, CA and is currently chair of African American Studies and a professor at California State University, Fullerton. Her debut collection is titled Begin with a Failed Body. She also coordinates art-centered community events, workshops and readings.
Where: Hybrid Event: Live at Libromobile &at IG Online
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 220 E. 4th S., # 107, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/events or https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/oc-poet-laureates-inaugural-reading-tina-mai-natalie-j-graham
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Matt Sedillo, with a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop, & Poets in Spectrum Online Edition: Coming Home – via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print and Internet Publishing Workshop, led by Matt Sedillo, author of Mowing Leaves of Grass, and readings by poets published in Spectrum Online Edition: Coming Home.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online Zoom Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Untold Horror Book Signings via Dark Delicacies – In-Person Event
Join us in-person at Dark Delicacies for an Untold Horror Book Signing, with special guest authors:
Joe Dante is a series of nine suspense, mystery and detective fiction books written by Christopher Newman.
William Malone is a retired police officer, author and speaker and can be found at Medium.com.
David J. Skal is best known as author of The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror.
Steve Johnson is the author of twelve books, including Enemy of All Mankind, Where Good Ideas Come From, and The Ghost Map.
William Lustig is an American film director and producer who has worked in the horror film genre, including his debut work, Maniac.
Jared Rivet is an actor and screenwriter specializing in underrated horror works.
Brian Yuzna is a Filipino American producer, director, and writer, best known for his work in science fiction and horror film genres, including Re-Animator, From Beyond, and Society.
Where: Dark Delicacies – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 822 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1252415748494407
Picture Book Storytime at The Book Jewel with Thera Pitts via The Book Jewel – In-Person Kids Event
Join us for an in-person children’s event, Picture Book Storytime with Thera Pitts, every 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 11:30 am
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045 (in Westchester)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore
Burning Issues Book Club & Hood Feminism via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join our BIBC participants to discuss Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, by Mikki Kendall.
This book is a critical feminist text that interrogates the failings of the mainstream feminist movement, and gives us the necessary expertise of Black women. The author skillfully illuminates the many intersections of identity and shows us the beauty and power of anger.
NOTE: See website for RSVP & further details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/events or https://bookshop.org/books/hood-feminism-notes-from-the-women-that-a-movement-forgot/9780525560562
Fifth Sunday: Gustavo Hernandez & Nocturne Poetry Workshop via The Poetry Salon – Online Event
Join us for a Fifth Sunday event, Nocturne Poetry, a writing workshop presented by poet, author and guest facilitator Gustavo Hernandez. He is the author of the collection Flower Grand First (2021).
NOTE: See site for sliding scale donation costs ($1-$50), details and link.
Where: The Poetry Salon – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/thepoetrysalon
Womxn’s Read Inn presented by Womxn’s Write Inn via Online Zoom Event
Join us for online readings from the Womxn’s Write Inn, a collective with a rotating membership of women poets and fiction and creative nonfiction writers who have met weekly to write via Zoom since April 2020. We are featuring:
liz gonzalez is a poet and writer born and raised in the San Bernardino Valley. She is the author of Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected (Los Nietos Press, 2018).
Stephanie Berbe Hammer is a Pushcart Prize nominee in nonfiction, fiction and poetry. Her writing has appeared in The Bellevue Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry, Pearl, The James Franco Review, Isthmus, Cultural Weekly and Cafe Irreal.
Ruthie Marlenee is a California native living in Los Angeles. She is a James Kirkwood Literary Award nominee for “Curse of the Ninth,” and earned her Writer’s Certificate with Distinction from UCLA. She is the author of several novels: Isabel’s Island and Agave.
Mary Camarillo is the author of a debut novel, The Lockhart Women, published by She Writes Press in 2021. She also writes short fiction and poetry and a newsletter, “Life with Riley.”
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Womxn’s Write Inn – Online Zoom event
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/385420169668714/
Francine Rodriguez & A Woman’s Story at The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Francine Rodriguez, who will read and present her short story anthology, A Woman’s Story, in which she explores the depths of Latina women’s will power in the face of their struggles.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045 (in Westchester triangle)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore or https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/photos/551454096269732
Roar Shack Readings for August with David Rocklin & Guests via Online Zoom Event
Join us for Roar Shack online readings hosted and curated by David Rocklin, and featuring:
Briana Munoz is a poet, writer and storyteller, and the author of Loose Lips (2019) and Everything Returns to the Soil / Todo Vuelve a la Tierra, a bilingual book (2021)
Iris DeAnda is a poet, writer and activist, and the author of Codeswitch: Fires From Mi Corazon (2014). This book is constructed of four sections: Rage/Coraje, Love/Amor. Revolutio/Revolucion, and Evolution/Evolucion.
Ivan Salinas is a poet based in the San Fernando Valley experimenting with words, images, and sound. His work has been published in numerous journals and magazines.
Brian Strauss is the author of Maybe a Miracle. He was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, and now lives in Silver Lake, California.
Kristen Baum DeBeast was raised in a strict religion, which provides fodder for a lifetime of stories, poems, and music. Her work has been published in Contrary, among other journals.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Roar Shack – Online Zoom event
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3871687466269585/
Gina Hamadey & I Want to Thank You via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Please join us at the Pages Bookstore Courtyard, for an in-person eventto meet author Gina Hamadey and hear her present her book, I Want to Thank You: How a Year of Gratitude Can Bring Joy and Meaning in a Disconnected World.
This book is an inspiring guide to offering gratitude, by saying thank you, one heartfelt note at a time. Once you get going on this path, cultivating an active gratitude process, you too might find that it grows beyond your expectations.
NOTE: See site for details, signed books sales, and to register for this event.
Where: Pages Bookstore Courtyard – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 5:30 pm
Where: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/gina-hamadey-i-want-thank-you
QueerLand Open Mic @ Spoke & Weal WeHo – In-Person Event (see site)
QueerLand is hosting another open mic for an evening of spoken word, music and comedy at the Spoke & Weal space.
This event is hosted by QueerLand, and arts-focused, youth community center empowering LGBTQIA young adults (14-25) by providing opportunities in the arts through free workshops, performance opportunities, and social events.
NOTE: All events are ticketed so check site for details.
Where: Spoke and Weal – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: See site for details
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