Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Quantum Book Club & Laura Dean via The Book Jewel – In-person YA Event
Please join Quantum Book Club to discuss our November selection, the graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, by Mariko Tamki & Rosemary Verero-O’Connell.
This is a sweet, spirited tale of young love that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need. This graphic novel won several awards for excellence.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-person Event
Date: Monday the 29th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/events or https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/photos/595324735216001
Nora Guthrie & Robert Santelli, & Woody Guthrie via Book Soup – Online Event
Please join Guthrie’s daughter Nora Guthrie, in conversation with co-author Robert Santelli, to hear them discuss their biography Woody Guthrie: Songs & Art * Words and Wisdom.
The timely, passionate, and humanely political work of America’s greatest folk singer and songwriter is presented through his own words and art—and curated by Woody’s daughter—in this essential self-portrait. Woody Guthrie and his passionate social politics are as crucial today as they have ever been. This book includes never-before-published lyrics, personal diary entries, doodles, quips and jokes, and piercing insights into his life and work.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, tickets & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 29th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Book Club via Sherman Oaks Library Branch & Outlawed, by Anna North – Online Zoom Event
Please join this November LAPL Book Club event, to discuss Anna North’s book Outlawed. In this historical fiction novel set in 1984, Ada feels lucky and happy on her wedding day to start a life with her a strong bashful husband, and begin her job as an apprentice midwife. But her luck will not last in an atmosphere where all women are expected to have a child to replace those lost in the Great Flu, and barren women are hanged as witches. Soon she must decide whether to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Sherman Oaks Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Monday the 29th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sherman-oaks-book-club-outlawed
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This 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 to use 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 from 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 29th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Mike Roe & The 30 Rock Book at Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Please join us to hear Mike Roe present and discuss his book, THE 30 ROCK BOOK: Inside the Iconic Show, from Blerg to Egot.
Culture writer Mike Roe brings to life the history of the sitcom 30 ROCK, the history of the goofy shoe that became a classic. It contains more than fifty original interviews with cast, crew, critics and others to tell of the creative failures and successes along the way.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase & event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/november-30-mike-roe
Elle Cruz, with Sarah Echavarre Smith, & How to Survive a Modern Day Fairy Tale via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Online FB Event
Join us at our Live Stream Virtual Event with author Elle Cruz, in conversation with Sarah Echavarre Smith, to celebrate the launch of How to Survive a Modern Day Fairy Tale, and to discuss all things contemporary romance.
Claire Ventura is nothing like the poised and perfect heroines she reads about in her favorite novels. Then she is swept off her feet by Nate, a billionaire CEO of a tech company who tries to convince her he’s genuine.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Online FB Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Louis M. Jason, with Anne Perry, Literary Doodles Vol. 2 via Book Soup Bookstore – Online Event
Join us online when Louis M. Jason, in conversation with Anne Perry, will present and discuss Literary Doodles Vol. 2.
This collection of celebrity doodles form celebrities in the literary and pop culture space includes: Margaret Atwood, Bono, Guillermo Del Toro, Johnny Depp, Ed Hardy, Hulk Hogan, James Earl Jones, Martin Sheen, R.L. Stine, Barbara Streisand, Harper Lee, and many, many more.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Life Stories Open MIc via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Life Stories Open Mic event to share something that happened to you, or speak off the cuff, or just to listen.
The stories can be funny, sad, or simply slice-of-life. This is your time to express yourself.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details. Email wwood@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic-4
Dera White & Joe Bennett & I Will Not Die Alone via Vroman’s – Online Event
Author Dera White, and illustrator Joe Bennett, will present their book, I Wil Not Die Alone, a hilarious, feel-good story about the end of the world.
This is a story full of realistic self-love affirmations for all of us who are just trying to get by, until we die.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details. Email wwood@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/dera-white-joe-bennett-present-i-will-not-die-alone
AAPI Book Club & This Is Paradise via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Bel Canto’s AAPI Book Club is celebrating Native American Heritage Month by selecting the book, This Is Paradise, by author Kritistiana Kahahauwife.
This is a story is a breathtaking debut novel, elegant and brutal, and a stunning collection on the author’s travels through the islands of Hawaii. She explores the grit of modern Hawaii, the deep tensions between local and tourist tradition and expectation, between facade and authentic self.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, & event details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
Non-Fiction Book Club & Killers of the Flower Moon at Pages Bookstore – In-person Event
Please join us to discuss, with facilitator Mark Polak, this month’s selection, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by author David Grann.
This National Book Award Finalist is a twisting, haunting, true-life murder mystery about on of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Lost City of Z.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, after oil was discovered beneath their land. Then one by one they were killed off, and the newly created FBI took up the case, to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase & event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – In-person Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club-2
Nikole Hannah-Jones & The 1619 Project via CAAM & LA Times Ideas Exchange/Book Club – On-site Event
Please join CAAM and LA Times’ editor Kevin Merida, with reader Terry McMIllan, to welcome author and creator Nikole Hannah-Jones to discuss her acclaimed new book, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.
Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones will present an expanded version of her original essays as well as new fiction, poetry and photography that explores the legacy of slavery in present-day America. In August, after a battle for tenure at her alma mater, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the author moved to Howard University where she is establishing the Center for Journalism in Democracy
NOTE: See site for tickets, book purchase & details. Book sales by Eso Won.
Where: CAAM & LA Times – Hybrid Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online tickets available (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/929476301296160
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Hyran Charara – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Hayan Charara.
Hayan Charara is a poet, children’s author, essayist, and editor. His poetry books include the forthcoming These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit (Milkweed Editions, 2022). His children’s book, The Three Lucys (2016) received the New Voices Award Honor, and he edited Inclined to Speak (2008), an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry. He is also a series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 30th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Young Adult Book Club & Within These Wicked Walls at Pages Bookstore – On-site Event
Please join us to discuss, with facilitators Charlotte Estrin & Sloane Shevin, this month’s selection, Within These Wicked Walls, by authorLauren Blackwood.
This debut novel is a magical Ethiopian-inspired remix of Jane Eyre, claims Harper’s Bazaar. Stunningly romantic, this is an exciting new fantasy novel about an exorcist seeking a Patron and a handsome young heir hiding too many secrets.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase & event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – On-site Courtyard Event
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 5 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/young-adult-book-club-5
Tracy Andreen, with Tiffany Schmidt, & So This Is Christmas via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Online FB Event
Join us at our Live Stream Virtual Event with author Tracy Andreen, in conversation with Tiffany Schmidt, to celebrate the launch of So This Is Christmas, and to discuss all things contemporary romance.
Claire Ventura is nothing like the poised and perfect heroines she reads about in her favorite novels. Then she is swept off her feet by Nate, a billionaire CEO of a tech company who tries to convince her he’s genuine.
In this story, Finlay Brown returns to her hometown of Christmas, Oklahoma from boarding school to find thangs have changed everywhere and looks to find her own place at home.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Online FB Event
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Erika Schickel, with Claire Dederer, & The Big Hurt via Book Soup Bookstore – Online Event
Join us online when Erika Schickel, in conversation with Claire Dederer, will present and discuss her memoir The Big Hurt.
This memoir explores the Erika Schickel’s coming-of-age in the 1970s, as the progeny of two writers: Richard Schickel, the prominent film critic for TIME magazine, and Julia Whedon, a melancholy mid-list novelist. In the wake of their ugly divorce, Erika was packed off to a bohemian boarding school in the Berkshires, where she was lost in a predatory world. Later she recreates her past with a notorious LA crime novelist, blowing up her marriage and casting herself into the second exile of her life.
This book looks at the legacy of shame handed down through a maternal blood line and the cost of epigenetic trauma. It shines alight on the haute culture of 1970s Manhattan that made girls grow up too fast, and looks at the long shadow of self-absorbed literary lives and egos.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/erika-schickel
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 an El Sereno native, a political activist, speaker, and writer, and author of the poetry collection, Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019).
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-person event
Date: Wednesday the 1st
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
Join us every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month for an OPEN MIC hosted by poet and activist Sammy Quetzalli.
Sign-ups at 6:45 pm, and start time is 7 pm. Donations accepted at the door, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Come early at 6 pm for a writers workshop guided by Chicano political poet Matt Sedillo, author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (donations accepted).
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-person event
Date: Wednesday the 1st
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 1st
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/2956323624627813/
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 Joseph Rios.
Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn), winner of the American Book Award, and was named one of the notable debut poets by Poets & Writers Magazine for 2017. He is currently attending the low residency MFA program at Bennington College.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at The Ugly Mug – In-person Event
Join Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Nights.
See site for details and/or to verify.
$4 cover fee, cash only. Masks are required unless eating or drinking.
NOTE: See site for further details, guidelines & information.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange – In-person event
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry/ (Check to verify)
ALOUD Cooks: Naz Deravian, Andrea Nguyen, Bryant Terry via LFLA – Online Event
Food connects us to our past, to our family, our communities, and to each other. As we reflect on the last year, we see how food has brought us strength in the face of adversity. Cooking is an act of resilience, and cookbooks allow us to understand and pass on these rituals and recipes. Our panel of California-based cookbook authors will share stories of how diverse food traditions are foundational to our personal and collective histories and how we adapt to a changing world.
Please join us for ALOUD Cooks, curated by Leslie Jonah, author most recently of Feed Your People: Big Batch Big-hearted Recipes to Gather Around, and featuring:
Naz Deravian is the author of Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories, is a Los Angeles-based writer and frequent contributor to the New York Times food section.
Andrea Nguyen is one of the country’s leading voices on Asian cuisine, is the author of several impacting books: Vietnamese Kitchen, Asian Dumplings, Asian Tofu, the Banh Mi Handbook, The Pho Cookbook, and Vietnamese Food Any Day.
Bryant Terry is the founder and editor-in-chief of 4 Color books, and is renowned for his activism and efforts to create a healthy, equitable, and sustainable food system. He is also author of Afro-Vegan and Vegetable Kingdom. He is currently chef-in-residence at the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco where he creates its programming.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase & event details.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/young-adult-book-club-5
Chloe Neill, with Danielle Cohen, & A Swift & Savage Tide via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Online FB Event
Join us at our Live Stream Virtual Event with author Chloe Neill, in conversation with audiobook narrator Danielle Cohen, to celebrate the launch of A Swift & Savage Tide, and to discuss all things contemporary romance.
This is the second book in the Captain Kit Brightling swashbuckling fantasy series, full of high seas and high sorcery.
In this story, the former Gallic emperor and scourge of the continent George Rousseau, has escaped his island prison to renew his quest for the continent. Kit and crew are on their way are off to find him and stop him.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Online FB Event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Diana Campoamor, with Contributors, & If We Want to Win via Book Soup Bookstore – Online Event
Join us online when Diana Campoamor, in conversation with contributors Mary Skelton Roberts, Alexandra Aquino-Fike, Julio Marcial, and Olga Garay-English, will present and discuss her new book, If We Want to Win: A Latino Vision for a New American Democracy.
This book brings together twenty leading figures involved in issues that affect the Latinx community, to lay out a vision for the future of American democracy, drawing on their experience and expertise in various areas from the arts to human rights to philanthropy.
Each contributor tells their experience, debunks stereotyping and scapegoating, and seeks more accurate portrayal of them and their communities. This is an inspiring visionary collection.
Mary Skelton Roberts is the senior vice president of programs at the Energy Foundation.
Alexandra Aquino-Fike is vice president of development at the East Bay Community Foundation.
Julio Marcial is the vice president of strategic partnerships at the Liberty Hill Foundation.
Olga Garay-English is an independent arts consultant. She formerly served as executive director of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/erika-schickel
Lorne Buchman, with Tom Stern, & Make to Know via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us online to hear author Lorne Buchman, in conversation with Tom Stern, to discuss his book Make to Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery.
In this book, the author explores the creative process as involving uncertainty and improvising new paths to knowing. The president of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he guides us through the stories of a talented group of artists, innovators and designers, focusing on the revelatory nature of the creative journey itself.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/lorne-buchman-discusses-make-to-know
A Reading by Laraine Herring & Jim Natal via Beyond Baroque – Online Event
Join Beyond Baroque online for an online reading of new work from Laraine Herring and Jim Natal: A Celebration of Ravens and Crows, Life, Death, and Family. She has won prizes for her fiction and nonfiction and has been widely anthologized.
Larraine Herring is the author of A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens. She is the founder of Fierce Monkey Coaching, and is a writer, professor and therapist.She has won prizes for her fiction and nonfiction and has been widely anthologized.
Jim Natal is the author of a new poetry chapbook, Etude in the Form of a Crow. He is the author of five books of poems, among other writings. He is a multi-year Pushcart nominee and co-founder of indie publishing house Conflux Press.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom Event via Eventbrite
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online (see site)
FUTURE NOW Open Mic: via Dryland LA – Hybrid Event
Join us for a hybrid event, hosted by Dryland LA literary journal’s Nikolai Garcia, to hear featured poets and guest Open Mic artists present their work, every first Thursday of the month.
In this event we call on all Black & Brown poets and writers to join us for our Open Mic & Reading Series, which features three authors published in literary journal Dryland LA. This month; features include:
Josh Evans is a poet, storyteller, and educator whose poems and essays have been published in Café con Libros and Spectrum anthologies, Angel’s Flight, Altadena Poetry Review, and LAPS’s debut anthology Los Angeles Poets for Justice: A Document for the People. His short story collection, Aces Wild, can be purchased on Amazon.
Daniel Morales Leon (aka Chapulin) is a Oaxacan born, South Central raised Angelino poet who uses spoken word as a medium to promote critical literacy among his working class peers. His delivery style is most notable by its rhythmic cross between rhyme, prose, and subject matter.
Yelisa Ambriz was raised in Fresno, California, the daughter of Mexican immigrant parents and farm workers. She began writing her family’s stories, and her work can be found in Flies, Cockroaches and Poets Journal, Exist(ir), Pan(*)cha Zine, and the UC Berkeley Students of Color Emerging in English Zine.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Dryland LA – Online and In-Person Event; Zoom ID: 878 8950 0444
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://drylandla.org/future-now/ or https://drylandla.org/2021/11/22/dec-2nd-future-now-reading-josh-evans-daniel-morales-leon-yelisa-ambriz/
Tonalli Thursday Open Mic Event via L.A. Poet Society – Online Zoom Event
Join us at Tonalli Thursday Open Mic, offered every Thursday of the month by the Los Angeles Poet Society.
All artists are welcome. Featured readers TBA.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Tonalli Studio – Online Zoom Event: Zoom: 872 6657 0589
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events (Check to verify)
Your Author Series: Adriana Cuevas & Cuba in My Pocket via LAPL – Online MG & Teen Event
Your Author series presents Adriana Cuevas to present her YA book Cuba in My Pocket, a sweeping, emotional middle grade historical novel about a twelve-year-old boy who leaves his family in Cuba after the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 to immigrate to the U.S., by himself, based on the author’s family history.
The author has been honored with a Pura Belpre Award for her book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, and she is a former Spanish teacher. She is now working on a novel.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online FB Event
Date: Friday the 3rd
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-adrianna-cuevas
Steven Reigns, with Amy Gerstler, & A Quilt for David via Book Soup Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author and poet Steven Reigns, in conversation with author Amy Gerstler, who will present and discuss his new book, A Quilt of David.
This book is a haunting poetic narrative which recovers the life and death of a man who stands for so many lives destroyed not only by HIV, but a diseased society that used stigma against the most vulnerable through medical misinformation and cultural bias. In the 1990s, eight people living in a small conservative Florida town alleged that Dr. David Acer, their dentist, infected them with HIV, and turned him into the perfect scapegoat and victim of mob mentality.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Friday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/steven-reigns
Igeoma Oluo, with Jenny Lang, & Mediocre via Reparations Bookstore – Online Event
Rep Club presents Igeoma Oluo, in conversation with comedian Jenny Yang, to present her new book Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America.
From the author of the book So You Want to Talk About Race, Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free of racism and sexism.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Reparations Club – Online Event
Date: Friday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2701026423495232/
Brenda Vaca & Riot of Roses Release Event via Eventbrite Online Event – Online Event
Join us to hear author and poet Brenda Vaca, who will present and discuss her new book, Riot of Roses.
This book is a debut collection of poems that are at once a confrontation, a confession, an embrace.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Eventbrite – Online Event
Date: Friday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/riot-of-roses-book-release-event-tickets-207728640957
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series, with Cynthia Alessandra Briano via Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Join First Fridays at Rapp Saloon Open Mic & Featured Readers, offered every First Friday of the month by host Cynthia Alessandra Briano.
Share your voice at the Open Mic, where there is a time limit of 4 minutes max. Sign-ups are at 8:15 pm. Zoom ID posted 3 hours prior to event.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details. Features TBA.
Where: Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Date: Friday the 3rd
Time: 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom event
Creative Writing Workshop via LAwritersgroup.com – Online Zoom 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. Limited to 8 participants.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929634682476/
Western Edge Writers Workshop via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Writers and aspiring writers are invited to meet to support the writing endeavors of all genres. Join us via Zoom for prompted writing exercises and constructive critique of your work.
NOTE: Please email shannah@lapl.org, for the Zoom login information.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers
LAPL Book Club: & The Round House, by Louise Erdrich via Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for a reading and discussion of the Los Feliz Book Clubselection, Louise Erdrich’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Round House, to celebrate Native American Heritage month. This book is a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender tale of family, history and culture set on a reservation in North Dakota.
Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – Online
Date: Saturday the 4th
eTime: 11 am – 12 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-round-house
A Science Fiction Workshop with Ryka Aoki: How Would I Build My Universe via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque via Zoom online as we present a Writing Workshop led by poet Ryka Aoki: How Would I Build My Universe.
This workshop imagines that works of science fiction are all around us, from starships to superheroes, witches to Wookies. Whether you’ve never written science fiction or fantasy—or if that is all you write—let’s chat SFF how to master this genre.
One scholarship will be awarded to a QTPIC/BIPOC L.A.-residing individual who would like to join but does not have the means to do so. Please email us if interested at info@beyondbaroque.org.
Ryka Aoki’s first novel, He Mele a Hilo, was published by Topside Press in 2014. Her new book Light From Uncommon Stars (Tor, 2021) was published in September. She is a two-time Lambda Literary award finalist for her collections, Seasonal Velocities and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul. She has published her work widely, and has been honored by the California State Senate for “extraordinary commitment to the visibility and well-being of Transgender people.” She is currently a professor of English at Santa Monica College.
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Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-would-i-build-my-universe-a-science-fiction-workshop-with-ryka-aoki-tickets-206291382077
Louise Wannier & Tree Spirits at Flintridge Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Author/artist Louise Wannier will present her children’s book Tree Spirits, which is an interactive children’s book in rhyme about nature, and imagination, and observation that invites reader to look closely at the world around them. This book for children ages 4-8 is illustrated by April Tatiana.
NOTE: See website for further details & guidelines.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 11am
Address: 858 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Flintridge, CA 91011
A Special Storytime & A Bear to Share at Flintridge Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Artists Jessica Alba, Kelly Sawyer Patricof & Norah Weinstein, moderated by author Eva Chen, will present her children’s book A Bear to Share, which delivers the important message of giving back from an early age through this tender and delightful story. This endearing tale is brought to life by Alicia Mas’s imaginative illustrations.
NOTE: See website for further details & guidelines.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 11am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Writer’s Workshop with Viva Padilla via Re/Arte Centro Literario – 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 Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Local Authors: Home for the Holidays at Vroman’s – On-site Event
Please join local authors Mary Lea Carroll, Colleen Dunn Bates, Naomi Hirahara, Maria Frazee & Lian Dolan for a unique afternoon Book Signing event.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details. Don’t forget your mask!
Where: Vroman’s – On-site on Vroman’s Paseo
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 1 pm
Address: On-site (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/vromans-presents-local-authors-home-for-the-holidays
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Print & Internet Publishing Workshop & Spectrum Poets – Online Event
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell. Submit no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Online Edition: Miracle Experiment by emailing donkingfishercampbell at donkingfishercampbell@gmial.com by 11:59pm, December 18th.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online at Zoom ID: 759 9367 3202 (no spaces required); P/W: poetry.
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Pages on Stages: 2021 Poetry Class Performance & Open Mic at Sims Library of Poetry – In-person Event
Join Pages & Stages for the 2021 Poetry Class Performance & Open Mic, featuring:
Maria Duarte – received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside – Palm Desert. She has published poems in Verdad Magazine and The Good Grief Journal: A Journey Toward Healing. She is poetry editor for Kelp Journal.
Shaquan Lewis is a spoken word poet who has performed at Art Share LA.
Terry Robinson grew up in an under privileged area of Los Angeles, exposed to a life with many obstacles. But he managed to overcome them through the escape of poetry, hip-hop and education. He’s been published in Cultural Weekly and elsewhere.
Ravina Wadhwani is the author of Yellow (World Stage Press, 2021). She began writing poetry from young age, when she grew up in the US Virgin Islands. Post graduate school, Wadhwani moved to Southern California where she was introduced to Never Speak Long Beach, an open mic and poetry collective. She feels most like herself in L.Á.
Karina Aguilar Juice Mackins
EJ Bowman Ebony Morgan
Simone Dill Aujre Pittman
Andrea Lee Sydney Sonnier
Ruddy Lopez
Where: Sims Library of Poetry – In-person event
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 2702 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, Ca 90043
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/events
Devon Francis & Belle English & Baking Favorites at Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to welcomechefs Devon Francis & Belle English from Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen for a book signing of their newest book, Williams Sonoma Baking Favorites cookbook, which contains 100+ sweet and savory recipes form their test kitchen.
NOTE: See website for further details, tickets & guidelines.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Outdoor Courtyard
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/williams-sonoma-test-kitchen-dec-4
Codi Hall, with Danielle Cohen, & Nick and Noel’s Christmas Playlist via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Off-site Event
Join us at our Live Event with author Codi Hall, in conversationto discuss her book Nick and Noel’s Christmas Playlist, and to discuss all things contemporary romance.
In this audible original story, there’s a lot of holiday drama and fun.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Off-site Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: Media Park, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Missy Dunaway & The Traveling Artist at Diesel Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Missy Dunaway discuss and sign her new book, The Traveling Artist: A Visual Journal .
This debut book is inspired by vivid colors of impressionist art and infused with extraordinary love of life. It follows painter and writer Missy Dunaway’s voyages over five years, spanning four continents, and rendered by hand into her journals. She combines the hand and eye of an artist with the spirit of a poet.
NOTE: See website for further details & Guidelines.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood – On-site Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite # 33, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Open Words Open Reading at Ironbark! – On-site Event
Join us at Open Words Open Reading at Ironbark Ciderworks in Claremont, offered every first Sunday of the month, now at 3 pm.
This is an Open Mic reading event, and all are welcome to read their work or to listen to others do so. Enjoy some cider or food during your visit.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Ironbark Ciderworks, Pomona – On-site Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 1420 N. Claremont Blvd., #107B, Claremont, CA 91711
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1789075334616815
VCP SoCal Poets Presents: Rick Lupert, Daniel McGinn & Francisco Albert Salinas, with Jerry Garcia – Online Event
Join VCP Poets when host Jerry Garcia presents readings by three gentlemen and scholars:
Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry since 1990, creating PoetrySuperHighway.com and hosting the Cobalt Café reading series for almost 21 years, which now continues as a virtual series. His 25 collections of poetry include: God Wrestler and The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express. He edited several anthologies and works as a teacher and graphic designer in Los Angeles.
Daniel McGinn has given readings and hosted workshops, and has written poetry and music for The Orange County Weekly and Next Magazine. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, and he is the winner of the 2016 Wrightwood Literary Festival Haiku contest and the 2018 John Gardiner Poetry Contest. He is the author of 1,000 Black Umbrellas and The Moon, My Lover, My Mother & The Dog.
Francisco Albert Salinas is on the Board of Directors for California Poets in the Schools, The Ventura County Area Coordinator, and is a Master Poet Teacher. He is also Adjunct Professor of English at Ventura College and the Coordinator and coach for the California Art Council’s Poetry Out Loud Program, among his many other endeavors. He is the author most recently of a memoir, Toxic Masculinity.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: VCP SoCal Poets – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158742315394858&set=gm.1555990711422016
Library Girl & Roar Shack Year-End Event: Speaking of Now at Ruskin Theater Group – In-person Event
Join us at the Year-End Poetry Reading, presented by Susan Hayden of Library Girl, and David Rocklin of Roar Shack, and featuring:
Nana-Ama Danquah is a Ghananian-American writer, editor, journalist and public speaker, best known for her groundbreaking memoir Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression.
Nikolai Garcia grew up in South Central Los Angeles, and works with homeless youth in the city. He is assistant editor of Dryland LA Literary Journal and the author of the chapbook, Nuclear Shadows of Palm Trees.
Jeff Greenstein is an American TV writer, producer and director, showrunner of Will & Grace and Desperate Housewives, among others.
Toni Ann Johnson is a writer and author who won the 2015 NAACP Image Award for her debut novel, Remedy for a Broken Angel. Her novella Homegoing (2020) won Accents Publishing’s novella contest, and she won the Humanaitas Pirze in 1998 for her screenplay of Ruby Bridges. She transitioned into screenwriting with Gramercy Park Is Closed to the Public.
James Evert Jones is a prolific poet, Executive Director of Expressions LA, host of the monthly international reading Poetry Without Borders, and a curator of spoken word events for over 30 years. His work has been widely published, and runs from love poems to the American political landscape, as well as the adventures that comprise humanity.
David Rocklin is the author of The Luminist and The Night Language, and is founder of the Roar Shack reading series in LA. His forthcoming novel is titled The Electric Love Songs of Fleischl Berger.
Carla Sameth is a Los Angeles-based writer and teacher, has been widely published online and in print. Her debut memoir, One Day on the Gold Line was published in 2019. She is a member of the Pasadena Rose Poets.
Also joining us: Mason Summit & Irene Greene of the musical duo The Prickly Pair.
NOTE: See website for tickets, guidelines, & further details.
Where: Library Girl & Roar Shack at Ruskin Theater Group – In-person Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3000 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/479458806699955/
NOIR at the Bar Author Readings at the Mandrake Bar – On-site Event
Join host Eric Beetner for NOIR at the Bar, with readings from these authors:
Rachel Howzell is the author most recently of These Toxic Things. She is a creator of thriller, mystery and fiction, including the books in the Detective Eloise Norton novel series. She collaborated with author James Patterson on The Good Sister.
Lee Goldberg is the author most recently of The Bounty, a Kate O”Hare & Nicholas Fox novel, and Gated Prey, an Eve Ronin book. He is author or co-author of 40+ published novels, and is the older brother of New York Times Bestselling author Tod Goldberg.
Curtis Ippolito is the author of the debut novel, Burning the Newspaper Man, and his short fiction has been featured in Shotgun Honey, Yellow Mama, Bristol Noir, Ghost Parachute, and Mystery Tribune, as well as in several anthologies.
Aaron Philip Clark is a Los Angeles novelist and screenwriter, and his most recent novel, Under Color of Law, is inspired by his experiences in the LAPD.
Jo Perry is a mystery writer, praised by authors from Don DeLillo to Saul Bellow. She is the author most recently of Pure,from her DEAD series, a detective ghost series based on a dead man and his dog.
Thomas Perry is the bestselling author of more than twenty-nine novels, including the acclaimed Jane Whitefield series, Forty Thieves, and The Butcher Boy. He is the author most recently of Eddie’s Story.
Howard Gould is the author of three satirical crime novels, most recently one in the Charlie Waldo private eye saga, Pay or Play. He also wrote the upcoming film version of Last Looks, which will be released in 2022 as a film, starring Charlie Hunnam and Mel Gibson.
Matt Witten is the author most recently of The Necklace, a thriller with heart about one small-town woman’s quest for the most poignant kind of justice, for the innocent man convicted of her daughter’s murder.
Tori Eldridge is the author of the Lily Wong thrillers series, including The Ninja Betrayed. She also is the author of an upcoming Brazilian horror, Dance Among the Flames, about a desperate mother who rises form the slums of Brazil to become a powerful wielder of Quimbanda magic, forthcoming in May, 2022.
NOTE: See website for guidelines and further details.
Where: Mandrake Bar – On-site Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2692 S. La Cienega Los Angeles, CA
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