Trick or Treat Event at Main Library, SMPL – In-Person Kids & Teens Event
Arrive in your Halloween costume at the library’s youth services desk for something fun and frightening! For kids and teens ages 0-17.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, and details.
Where: Main Library, SMPL
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=34301
Great Literature Discussion Group at Lamanda Park Branch Library, Pasadena Public Library – In-Person Event
The Great Literature Discussion Group meets weekly to discuss great works of literature.
Call (626) 744-7266 for the upcoming reading schedule.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Lamanda Park Branch Library Meeting Room, PPL
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 10:15 am – 11:15 am
Address: 140 S. Altadena Dr., Pasadena, CA 91107
Website: https://www.cityofpasadena.net/library/calendar/
Story Time with Amy at Pages Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Pages Bookstore presents Story Time with Amy every Monday morning to read a picture book together.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 10:30 am – 11 am
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/story-time-amy-mondays-1030-am-5
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online Event
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 has published poetry and nonfiction and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online (see site)
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-450499836137
Halloween Birthday Celebration of Legendary SoCal Poets with Don Kingfisher Campbell – Online Zoom Event
Don Kingfisher Campbell will celebrate his final Halloween Birthday in Southern California with the poets who have featured or published him over the years, on FB Live.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event; ID: 759 9367 3202 PW/poetry
Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10229588589241656&set=a.10206345445777596 or https://us02web.zoom.us/j
Come Write In! NANOWRIMO Eventat John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Do you NaNo? November is National Novel Writing Month.
If you’re looking for a place to work on your book, join us for silent writing sessions in our community room on Tuesday and Thursday evenings in November.
Note: There will be no event on Thursday, November 24.
Call (323) 962-3521 or email jcfrmt@lapl.org with questions about the event.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 5 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 6121 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/come-write
Literary Uprising Event: Quarterly Readings Online via Antioch University LA – Online Event
Come to ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES‘ FA Virtual Literary Uprising reading, hosted by MFA and UGS teaching Faculty Alistair MCartney! This quarter features 5 stellar readers: AULA BA alum Hannah Sward (author of the memoir Strip), PEN America Emerging Voices Alum Lilly U. Nguyen, Macondo Writers Workshop Alum Juanita E. Mantz (author of the YA memoir Tales of an Inland Empire Girl), MFA Alum and Visiting Faculty Toni Ann Johnson (author of the linked story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste and the novel Remedy For a Broken Angel), and MFA Core Faculty Victoria Chang (author of the poetry collections Trees Witness Everything, OBIT, and the nonfiction book Dear Memory).
Have a cup of tea or coffee or mocktail or cocktail at home and hear some amazing work!
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Where: Antioch University Los Angeles – Online
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm PDT
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.antioch.edu/event/literary-uprising-reading-aula-11-1-22/
Feminist Book Club: Conjure Women at Cellar Door Books – In-Person Event
The Feminist Book Club will discuss this month’s selection, Conjure Women: A Novel, by Afia Atakora.
In Conjure Women, the sweeping story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing, and for the conjuring of curses, brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife; and their master’s daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Riverside CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/feminist-book-club-conjure-women
Three Act Writing Workshop: Matt Sedillo at Eastside Café – In-Person Event
The Three Act Writing Workshop will be presented and led by Matt Sedillo.
All donations will go to the Eastside Café.
Matt Sedillo is an acclaimed political poet, writer and spoken word performer, and is the author of two books: Mowing Leaves of Grass and City on the Second Floor.
NOTE: See site for details. Check to verify.
Where: Eastside Café, El Sereno
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5469 Huntington Dr. North, Los Angeles, CA 90032
Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10162683988554522&set=a.212071394521
The Mic at Micky’s Open Mic, with Hosts Brian Sonia-Wallace & Nate Lovett at Micky’s Nightclub & Bar – In-Person Event
Join The Mic at Micky’s Open Mic and Literary Readings, hosted by West Hollywood Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace, Nate Lovett and Tony Moore.
This is a weekly event for creatives to collaborate and write something for the Mic and/or sign up for the Open Mic, limited to 3-5 minutes per person, and offering poems, stories and music.
Located in the heart of one of LA’s oldest gay clubs, this space promises connection and community for folks across the LGBTQ+ spectrum (and allies!) before the untz untz starts.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Micky’s Nightclub & Bar in West Hollywood (Upstairs)
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: 8857 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mic-mickys-tickets-383607940677?aff=erelpanelorg
Robert Crais & Racing the Light at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Robert Crais will discuss and sign his book, Racing the Light.
Adele Schumacher isn’t a typical worried mom. When she hires Elvis to find her missing son, a controversial podcaster named Josh Shoe, she brings a bag filled with cash, bizarre tales of government conspiracies, and a squad of professional bodyguards. Finding Josh should be simple, but Elvis quickly learns he isn’t alone in the hunt — a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find Josh and his adult film star girlfriend first. With dangerous secrets lurking behind every lead, Elvis needs his friend Joe Pike more than ever to uncover the truth about Josh, corrupt politicians, and the murderous business cartels rotting the heart of Los Angeles from within. And when Elvis’s estranged girlfriend Lucy Chenier and her son Ben return, he learns just how much he has to lose… if he survives.
Robert Crais, master of crime fiction and #1 New York Times bestselling returns with Racing the Light. Author of twenty-one previous novels, sixteen of them featuring private investigator Elvis Cole, and his laconic ex-cop partner, Joe Pike. Before writing his first novel, Crais spent several years writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice, and L.A. Law. He was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and has received multiple awards for his work. His novels have been translated into forty-two languages and are bestsellers around the world. A native of Louisiana, he lives in Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Robert-Crais-Author-signing
Joanna Margaret, with Dana Schwartz, & The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Joanna Margaret, in conversation with Dana Schwartz, will present and discuss her new book, The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller.
Fleeing a disastrous affair with a colleague in Boston, Isabel Henley moves to Scotland to begin a PhD with a renowned feminist professor–only to learn, upon arrival, that her advisor has suffered a deadly fall. Soon after, Isabel is informed that another scholar at the university is about to publish a book on her dissertation topic, leaving her disconcerted and in search of a new subject, all while struggling to acclimate to her new home abroad.
As Isabel follows a paper trail from Genoa to Florence and, finally, to Paris, she uncovers family secrets, the legend of an enormous cursed emerald, and a chain of betrayal and treason which parallels her own perilous present. If she can put the pieces together soon, she could solve a 400-year-old mystery–and save her and her friend’s lives in the process
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/joanna-margaret
Dia De La Muertos Writing Workshop with Jose Hernandez Diaz at Cerritos Public Library – In-Person Event
Jose Hernandez Diaz will lead a Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead Writing Workshop for teens and adults.
Diaz will first share celebrated Latinx poems, including Día de Los Muertos poems.
Following the instructor’s writing prompts, participants will write drafts of poems about Día de Los Muertos, ancestors and the Latinx experience.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is the author of the chapbook of prose poems The Fire Eater. His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, The Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, among others.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Cerritos Public Library, Skyline Room
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA 90703
An Evening with Natasha Trethewey & Memorial Drive at USC Visions & Voices – In-Person Event
The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation Distinguished Speakers Series presents an evening with poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and former U.S. Poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, the author of Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir. She will read form this memoir and form more recent work, and will be in conversation with USC professor Danzy Senna, esteemed novelist and essayist.
Natasha Trethewey is the author of the award-winning New York Times best seller Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir; a far-reaching book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast; and five acclaimed collections of poetry. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, served two terms as the nineteenth poet laureate of the United States, and received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry from the Library of Congress.
Describing the powerful introspection, investigation, and urgency of Memorial Drive, Hannah Giorgis of The Atlantic writes, “A former U.S. poet laureate’s new memoir reflects on the power of storytelling to help us grieve—and offers lessons for surviving the cataclysms of the present.”
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: USC Visons & Voices, Bovard Auditorium
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3551 Trousdale Parkway., Los Angeles, CA 90089
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-natasha-trethewey-registration-429991414897
Frances Anderton, with Alex Fisch, & Common Ground: A Discussion of Multifamily Housing at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
In Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, author Frances Anderton explores L.A.’s suburban housing history—from the bungalow courts and apartment-hotels of the 1910s, through the development of garden apartments, to contemporary mid-rise “urban villages” and co-living spaces. Common Ground features the work of the Zwebells, R.M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Ralph Vaughn, Koning Eizenberg, Sean Knibb, Michael Maltzan, Brooks + Scarpa, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Shin Shin, and many more. In a time of housing crisis, Frances Anderton makes the case that well-designed, equitable, connected living is tomorrow’s American dream.
Frances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print, podcasts, exhibitions, and at public events. For many years she hosted DnA: Design and Architecture, broadcast on KCRW, a public radio station. Her honors include the Esther McCoy Award, bestowed by the USC Architectural Guild at USC School of Architecture, for her work in educating the public about architecture and urbanism. Anderton resides in Santa Monica, California.
Alex Fisch, currently a Culver City Council Member (and Mayor from 2020-2021), is an avid proponent of and advocate for multifamily housing. A highly respected thought leader regionally and statewide—and on Twitter—he has a deep understanding of the intersectionality between housing, the environment, and mobility.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/21121
Jemele Hill & Uphill: A Memoir at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Author Jemele Hill will present and discuss her book, Uphill: A Memoir.
Jemele Hill’s world came crashing down when she called President Trump a “white supremacist”; the White House wanted her fired from ESPN, and she was deluged with death threats. But Hill had faced tougher adversaries growing up in Detroit than a tweeting president. Beneath the exterior of one of the most recognizable journalists in America was a need—a calling—to break her family’s cycle of intergenerational trauma.
Born in the middle of a lively routine Friday night Monopoly game to a teen mother and a heroin-addicted father, Hill constantly adjusted to the harsh realities of not only her own childhood but the inherited generational pain of her mother and grandmother. Her escape was writing.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/jemele-hill-discusses-uphill-memoir
The Virtual Cobalt Series & Open Mic with Eric DeVaughann – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest Eric DeVaughnn.
Eric DeVaughnn is a poet, writer, and co-host of the Poetry Out Loud Program at the Garcia Center for the Arts and a spoken word artist on a quest to uncover honesty in art. At an early age, he developed an almost reverent appreciation for all things creative. His mission is to seek and express truth, and to uphold the standard of excellence established well before him. He has been a featured reader and guest performer on many diverse stages and venues United States. Ever the proponent for critical thinking and challenging perception, Eric uses wordplay and storytelling to examine the higher truths of life under the moniker “Thought Requires Uncommon Effort,” or simply: T.R.U.E.
He is the author of the collection, Aggressive.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 1s
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
The Sunless Sea Open Mic: Poetry and Spoken Word Show – In-Person Event
The Sunless Sea Open Mic: Poetry and Spoken Word Show is offered every week at the Unurban Coffee House. Hosted by DeForest Wright, all are invited to attend.
NOTE: Details at event link.
Where: Unurban Coffee House
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica 90405
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1699147113818899
LiveTalks L.A. Presents: Jon Meacham, with Larry Wilmore, & And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle – In-Person Event
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham, in conversation with Larry Wilmore, chronicles in this new book the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America.
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. The Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of the New York Times bestsellers His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, The Soul of America, The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston..
Emmy Award winner Larry Wilmore has been a television producer, actor, comedian, and writer for more than 25 years. He can currently be heard as host of Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air on The Ringer Podcast Network. The show features Wilmore’s unique mix of humor and wit as he weighs in on the issues of the week and interviews guests in the worlds of politics, entertainment, culture, sports, and beyond. Larry can also be seen in the Paramount+ film Jerry and Margo Go Large, alongside Bryan Cranston and Annette Benning. He also serves as executive producer alongside Kerry Washington, in the upcoming legal drama Reasonable Doubt for Hulu’s Onyx Collective which premieres this Fall. He also appeared in and executive produced Netflix’s Amend: The Fight for America. Wilmore is perhaps best known for his role as host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, which debuted in January 2015 and ran for nearly two years. Wilmore serves as co-creator and consulting producer on HBO’s Insecure. He also helped to launch ABC’s black-ish as an executive producer and is a co-creator of the spin-off Grownish.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Glorya Kauffman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 8 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3200 Motor Ave., Los Angeles, 90034
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/jon-meacham-2/
Da Poetry Lounge Tuesday Open Mic at Greenway Court – In-Person Event
The nation’s largest weekly Open Mic event is 24 years strong. It takes place every Tuesday and is open to all ages. Third Tuesdays are SLAM NIGHTS! A slam is a poetry competition.
$10 donation. Do NOT lineup prior to 7:30 p.m. Free parking adjacent to theatre.
See sites for details.
Where: Greenway Court Theatre and YouTube Live Stream
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLUBSRPCFb/ or https://www.dapoetrylounge.com/admission
SOM Tuesdays Open Mic at Di Piazza’s Pizza, Long Beach – In-Person Event
SOM Open Mic Tuesdays at Di Piazza’s takes place in a casual setting with a lunch & dinner menu that includes pizzas, pastas, salads, sandwiches, burgers and more. Come and share music, comedy, and poetry with SOM and Di Pizza.
Where: Di Piazza’s Pizza (Check to verify)
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 9 pm – 12 am
Address: 5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, CA
Website: https://dipiazzas.com/tickets-%26-events
Barbara Kingsolver Live on YouTube Presents Demon Copperhead, with Beth Macy, via Skylight Bookstore – Online YouTube Event
Book Passage, Skylight Books and more indie bookstores are thrilled to present Barbara Kingsolver, author of DEMON COPPERHEAD, in conversation with Beth Macy!
The novel Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad
Beth Macy is a journalist who writes about outsiders and underdogs. Her writing has won more than two dozen national journalism awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard, a J. Anthony Lukas Prize for Factory Man, and an L.A. Times Book Prize for Dopesick, which was made into a Peabody Award-winning series for Hulu starring Michael Keaton. All three of her books, including her second book, Truevine, were instant New York Times bestsellers. Her fourth book with Little, Brown and Co., Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis, was published in August 2022.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 1 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
NANOWRIMO Write-In Eventat Venice Memorial Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
November is National Novel Writing Month.
Need time and space to write during NaNoWriMo? The Venice Library is providing two hours of weekly space, just for you! We may write straight through or do sprints of 25 minutes at a time.
Open to all. Refreshments will be provided.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-write
Monica Macansantos & Love and Other Rituals via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Bel Canto Books welcomes Pinay author Monica Macansantos for the virtual book launch of LOVE AND OTHER RITUALS! Monica will be joined in conversation by Grace Talusan, author of THE BODY PAPERS.
In this book a man imprisoned by taboo learns the price of love. A child visits the grave of a cousin she’s never met; another absorbs the fallout of her parents’ divorce. Friendships rupture beyond repair, and family members collide when it comes to caring for their ageing father. These vivid stories of yearning, loneliness and resilience navigate the naivety of childhood, the complications of young adulthood and the politics of marriage. Monica Macansantos is a powerful new voice bringing us the raw and darkly beautiful perspectives of characters lost both in and out of their homeland, the Philippines.
Monica Macansantos earned her MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, and her PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters in New Zealand. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Lunch Ticket, Lit Hub, and Electric Lit, among others. She has also been awarded residencies at Hedgebrook, the KHN Center for the Arts, the I-Park Foundation, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and Moriumius. Love and Other Rituals is her debut story collection, out from Grattan Street Press.
Grace Talusan is the author of THE BODY PAPERS, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant writing and the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. In 2022, she was awarded fellowships from United States Artists, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Brother Thomas Fund, and in the fall, will join the English Department at Brown University where she will teach nonfiction writing.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Bel Canto Books Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Event (sees site)
Website: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/monica-macansantos/register
Kristin Cashore, with EK Johnson, & Seasparrow at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
The Mystery Book Group will discuss this month’s selection, Bayou Book Thief, by Ellen Byron.
Kristin Cashore, in conversation with EK Johnson, introduces her newest book set in the Graceling Realm: Seasparrow.
This will be a one-of-a-kind virtual event with a special Graceling Games pre-event for fans starting at 4:30 pm PT/7:30 pm ET via Zoom. Then at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET Kristin will be joined in conversation with author E K Johnston to discuss her inspiration and writing process. Separate Zoom registrations for the pre-event and discussion are required.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, links, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm PT
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/seasparrow
Rafael Augustin & Illegally Yours at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Rafael Augustin will present and discuss his memoir, Illegally Yours.
As a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down.
Rafael Agustin was a writer on the award-winning The CW show Jane the Virgin, and he is the author of the recently published comedic memoir, Illegally Yours. He serves as CEO of the Latino Film Institute (LFI), and sits on the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/21053
History Book Club: Diamonds, Gold and War at Cellar Door Books – In-Person Event
The History Book Club will discuss its monthly selection, Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa, by Martin Meredith.
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world’s richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics.
Martin Meredith is a journalist, biographer, and historian who has written extensively on Africa and its recent history. His previous books include Mandela; Mugabe; Diamonds, Gold, and War; Born in Africa; and The Fate of Africa. He lives near Oxford, England.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Riverside CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/history-book-club-diamonds-gold-and-war
Rainbow Reads Teen Book Club & Cheer Up at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Teen Event
The Rainbow Reads Teen Book Group will discuss this month’s selection, Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms, by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise (illustrator).
This book is best for ages 13 and up, This event is a discussion-based club. Participants should come prepared to share their thoughts about that meeting’s book choice. We read books featuring various identities and stories. This will be a safe space welcome to teens of all identities and allies! Join Isabel and Apollo for our proud book club.
Club participation requires purchase of featured title from Once Upon A Time and registration during checkout. No drop-ins.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidleines, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm PT
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/rainbow-reads-book-club-cheer-crystal-frasier
NANOWRIMO Write-In Eventat the Fabulous Central Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
November is National Novel Writing Month.
Join us in person as we celebrate NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month) by offering weekly “Write In” sessions in our cool new study rooms! These small collaboration-friendly spaces feature wi-fi, outlets, comfy chairs, and whiteboards. Light refreshments will be served along with literary inspo. Attendees will also receive some library swag! What more could an aspiring novelist ask? Space is limited, so email fiction@lapl.org to register today.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL, Literature & Fiction Study Rooms
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-write-ins-fabulous-central-library
Live on Crowdcast: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, with Lilac Vylette Maldonado and Tasha Fierce, & The Future Is Disabled at Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, in conversation with Lilac Vylette Maldonado and Tasha Fierce, will discuss her book, The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs.
This book asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled―and what if that’s not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it’s possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation Building on the work of her game changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other―and the rest of the world―alive during Trump, fascism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a nonbinary femme autistic disabled writer, space creator and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent. They are the author or co-editor of ten books, including (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival; Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, Tonguebreaker, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, and Bodymap.
Lilac Vylette Maldonado (she/they) is a community organizer and culture worker who identifies as a disabled, Two-Spirit, intersex Chicanx femme who has been actively organizing for over a decade around many intersecting social justice issues such as racial, gender & disability justice, LGBTQIA+ issues, and more. https://linktr.ee/lilacvylette
Tasha Fierce (they/them/the divine feminine) is an infinite being, a sick & disabled queer Black femme artist, a writer, mystic, educator, and facilitator, and a transition doula, born and raised in the occupied Tongva/Kizh territory known as Los Angeles county and currently residing there in Pasadena, California. Their critical work has been published in Bitch Magazine, among other outlets, their poetry has been published in UCLA’s Westwind, and their fiction has been published in the anthology Nothing Without Us. You can learn more about their art and writing at tashafierce.com and their healing work at liberatedtransitions.org, and you can follow them on IG as @tashajfierce.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Dani Shapiro, with Jamie Lee Curtis, & Signal Fires at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Dani Shapiro, in conversation with Jamie Lee Curtis, will present and discuss her new novel, Signal Fires.
This book opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken.
On Division Street, time has moved on. When the Shenkmans arrive—a young couple expecting a baby boy—it is as if the accident never happened. But when Waldo, the Shenkmans’ brilliant, lonely son who marvels at the beauty of the world and has a native ability to find connections in everything, befriends Dr. Wilf, now retired and struggling with his wife’s decline, past events come hurtling back in ways no one could ever have foreseen.
Dani Shapiro is a best-selling novelist and memoirist and host of the podcast Family Secrets (now in its sixth season). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Time. She has taught at Columbia and New York University and is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference. She lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
Jamie Lee Curtis is an actress, producer, director, inventor and author. Films: Halloween, Trading Places, True Lies, Freaky Friday, A Fish Called Wanda, Halloween 2018, Knives Out, Halloween Kills, Halloween Ends and Everything Everywhere All At Once. TV: Anything But Love, The Heidi Chronicles, Nicholas’ Gift, NCIS, New Girl and Scream Queens. Author: 13 books for children Podcast: Letters From Camp – producer and star for Audible, GOOD FRIEND – host and producer for iHeartMedia.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore (in the Courtyard)
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/dani-shapiro-november-2-Author-signing
Olivia Harrison & Came the Lightening at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Olivia Harrison will present her book, Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George.
Olivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening, a book of twenty poems dedicated to her husband, George Harrison, marking the twentieth year since his passing.
As a contributor to the book Concert for George, the revised edition of I Me Mine, and George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Olivia is no stranger to writing beautiful words that have an ethereal connection to love.
These poems are accompanied by a selection of photographs and mementos curated by Olivia, including pictures of herself and George.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/olivia-harrison
Jonathan Masters & God Has Infinite Frequency at PATM Bookstore – In-Person Event
Jonathan Masters will present his book God Has Infinite Frequency.
In these especially chaotic and stressful times, this inspiring volume serves as a profound yet accessible guide to helping us reconcile our inward and outward journeys, creating balance between our individual and our communal selves, and to opening ourselves to becoming more humble, grounded, and wise human beings.
Jonathan Masters is a meditation teacher and business consultant specializing in international partnerships and technology development. While attending Dartmouth College he learned to meditate and later became a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique under the guidance of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He has also worked with a master healer who carried the vibration of Madhu-chhandas, or embodiment of bliss. He currently lives with his wife in Zurich, Switzerland.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Page Against the Machine
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 2714 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA
Steve Lopez & Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Steve Lopez will present and sign his new book, Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement: From Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will.
Four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez explores the meaning of work and how it defines us in this captivating book that combines memoir, investigatory interviews, and practical application.
Grappling with his own decision of whether to retire, Lopez uses his reporter skills not only to look inward but also to interview experts and peers to collect a variety of perspectives as he examines the true nature of a person’s time, identity, and ultimate life satisfaction.
In this book Lopez establishes a useful polemic for himself and others in planning ahead, as he also evaluates questions of identity, financial limitations, and ultimately what to do with your life when the obituary pages are no longer filled with strangers.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/steve-lopez-discusses-independence-day
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop at The World Stage – In-Person Event
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Our tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. For general information and booking, contact V. Kali, the Anansi Writers Workshop Coordinator, at vkaliflowers@gmail.com.
- 7:30p.m.–8:30p.m. — Formal workshop;
- 8:30p.m.–9:00p.m. — Featured reader;
- 9:05p.m.–10:00p.m. — Open mic.
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
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html
At Dynasty Typewriter: Kate Beaton, with Carina Chocano, & DUCKS at Skylight Books at Dynasty Typewriter– In-Person Event
Kat Beaton, in conversation with Carian Chocano, will present and discuss her graphic novel, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush—part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can’t find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed.
Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.
Kate Beaton was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. After graduating from Mount Allison University with a degree in anthropology, she moved to Alberta in search of work that would allow her to pay down her student loans. During the years she spent out West, Beaton began creating webcomics under the name Hark! A Vagrant!, quickly drawing a substantial following around the world. She has also published the picture books King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is her first full length graphic narrative. She lives in Cape Breton with her family.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Books at Dynasty Typewriter (The Hayworth)
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 2511 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/dynasty-typewriter-kate-beaton-presents-ducks-carina-chocano
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop a 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 Jose Hernandez Diaz.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology 2011. He teaches creative writing online and edits for Frontier Poetry.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets, and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesday-night-poetry-workshop-tickets-453031869517
Flight School Open Mic at Playground Hookah Lounge – In-Person Event
Flight School Open Mic is offered every Wednesday.
All arts are welcome: singing, dance, poetry, improv, comedy, music, and we learn to fly together, all balanced by host O. Smith and a full live band and DJ D-Major.
$10 entry at the door. $8 tickets at Eventbrite.
NOTE: Check site for further details, updates, and information.
Where: Flight School Open Mic at the Playground
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 12 am
Address: 630 N. La Brea Ave., Inglewood, CA 90302
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-school-open-mic-tickets-362733043297?aff=erelpanelorg
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry & Christina Brown at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Join Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Night for our Reading & Open Mic, featuring Christina Brown.
The format is to welcome a featured poet for a reading, and an Open Mic reading. Tonight’s featured reader is Christina Brown.
Christina Brown is a poet and educator living in Long Beach, CA. She is the managing editor at Pear Shaped Press and cohost of The Bi Pod: A Queer Podcast. In her free time, you’ll find her writing pop culture think pieces no one asked for, experiencing deep, short-lived obsessions, and trying not to kill her houseplants. Her first poetry collection, Girl Teeth, published by innateDIVINITYpress, is available now.
$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
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/639013757558734
NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month Write-Ins at Edendale Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
November is National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo.org is a nonprofit writing group that encourages writers worldwide to take the plunge and write the first 50,000 words of a novel in November. Join fellow writers from the community to discuss writing and work on your novel. Writers of all ages welcome!
We’ll be meeting in the library meeting room, 2011 Sunset Blvd. Enter through the parking lot on the Alvarado Street side.
Join fellow writers from the community as we write our novels. This is all about writing, so no reading or editing during the month.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Edendale Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: 2011 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/national-novel-writing-month-write-ins
NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month Write-In at Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL– In-Person Event
November is National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo’s challenge is to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. Are you ready to brave the page?
Join fellow writers from the community as we write our novels. This is all about writing, so no reading or editing during the month.
These Write-In events are all about giving you the time and space to write! Writers of all ages are welcome. We’ll be meeting in the library’s community room upstairs. We’ll have writing sprints (short, focused time to write) and plenty of encouragement for you.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Donald Bruce Kauffman – Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 11820 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-national-novel-writing-month-write-0
Come Write In: National Novel Writing Month Write-In at Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
November is National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo’s challenge is to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. Are you ready to brave the page?
If you’re looking for a place to work on your book, join us for silent writing sessions in our community room on Tuesday and Thursday evenings in November.
Note: There will be no event on Thursday, November 24.
Call (323) 962-3521 or email jcfrmt@lapl.org with questions about the event.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 6121 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/come-write
LibroMobile Open Mic at LibroMobile, Santa Ana – In-Person & IG Hybrid Event
Join an Open Mic at LibroMobile, in the spirit of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
LibroMobile Presents: Monthly Series Open Mic on the first Thursday of every month.
Join us virtually/in-person.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, link & information.
Where: LibroMobile
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1150 S. Bristol St., A3, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/libromobile-open-mic
Writer’s Workshop with Editor-in-Chief of Dryland Literary Journal, Viva Padilla at Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Join us for a Writer’s Workshop led by writer Viva Padilla to focus on getting your work published. Bring your work to get feedback. Donation of $15 minimum encouraged.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, further details, guidelines & information.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 2123 East Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Author Event: Alka Joshi & The Jaipur Trilogy at Bel Canto at The Hangout – In-Person Event
Bel Canto hosts an evening with author Alka Joshi to discuss The Jaipur Trilogy, and the books: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeoer of Jaipur, and the fothcoming The Perfumist of Paris.
Alka Joshi was born and raised in India until the age of 9, when her family moved to the United States for her father’s doctorate education. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. At age 62, Joshi published her debut novel, The Henna Artist, which immediately became a New York Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub pick, was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, was translated into 26 languages, and is being developed into a Netflix limited series. The sequel, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, released June 2021 is also being translated into several languages. The highly anticipated third book of The Jaipur Trilogy, The Perfumist of Paris, will be released in March 2023. Alka worked in advertising and marketing for 30 years prior to becoming a full-time author.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Bel Canto at The Hangout – in the Garden
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2122 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA
Website: https://shopthehangout.com/products/bcb-author-event-alka-joshi-11-3-7pm
Brian O’Hare & Surrender: Stories at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Brian O’Hare will present and discuss his new collection of stories, Surrender.
In the tradition of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Brian O’Hare’s Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines in the Persian Gulf and beyond. But what happens when the crowds stop cheering and the welcome home parades are over? Guilt, fear, and brutality collide with love and acceptance as a diverse cast of characters struggle to reconcile mythology with reality, and to find meaning in a uniquely American chaos.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/brian-o%E2%80hare
Writing Now Reading Series: Caribbean Fragoza at CalArts – In-Person Event
Caribbean Fragoza will present and discuss her work as part of Cal Arts’ Writing Now Series.
A graduate of CalArts MFA writing program, Carribean Fragoza’s first book is the story collection, Eat the Mouth that Feeds You, and her arts/culture reviews and essays have been published in online national and international magazines such as Aperture, Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, KCET, Culture Strike, and Tropics of Meta. She is also the founder and co-director of the South El Monte Art Posse (SEMAP), a multi-disciplinary arts collective.
Reading(s) will be streamed via the Creative Writing Program’s YouTube Channel.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Cal Arts
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Website: https://www.calarts.edu/about/news-and-events/events-calendar/event-details/writing-now-reading-series-carribean-fragoza
MOBAR Monthly Open Mic Night at Mobar Coffee Co. – In-Person Event
Mobar Open Mic Night is offered every 1st Thursday of the Month at Mobar Coffee Company.
Calling all Musicians, Authors, Poets, Stand Up Comedians and much more! Share your art with our local community and enjoy half off drinks!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Mobar Coffee Co.
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4884 Huntington Dr. S., Los Angeles, CA 90032
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobar-coffee-co-open-mic-tickets-399851395287
Sarah McClellan, with Sophia Benoit, & Heartbreaker at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
Sarah McClellan, in conversation with Sophia Benoit, will present and discuss her book, Heartbreaker and her Hells Bells Series.
There will be a book signing to follow.
Tickets must be purchased in advance and include a $10 store credit.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Main St. at Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
At Skylight: Helen Benedict, with David Noriega, & Map of Hope and Sorrow at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Helen Benedict, in conversation with David Noriega, will discuss her book, Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece.
Helen Benedict, award-winning British-American professor of journalism at Columbia University, teaed up with Syrian writer and refugee, Eyad Awwadawnan, to present the stories of five refugees who have endured long and dangerous journeys from the Middle East and Africa to Greece.
Hasan, Asmahan, Evans, Mursal and Calvin each tell their story, tracing the trajectory of their lives from homes and families in Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Cameroon to the brutal refugee camps, where they are trapped in a strange and hostile world.
Helen Benedict, who has been writing about refugees for over ten years, is a recipient of the 2021 PEN Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History and the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism. She is the author of seven novels and six books of nonfiction, including the award-winning The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women at War Serving in Iraq, and the novel, Wolf Season. Her writing inspired both a class action suit against the Pentagon on behalf of people sexually assaulted in the military and the 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary, The Invisible War. She is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, New York.
Eyad Awwadawnan, formerly a law student from Damascus, Syria, is a writer and poet currently living and working in Reykjavik, Iceland. During his four years in Greece, he worked as a cultural mediator, translator and interpreter for various NGOs. He also published a featured article in Slate Magazine detailing his escape from Syria.
David Noriega is a correspondent covering immigration, Latin America, international politics and Los Angeles Metro for VICE News. Before joining VICE News, Noriega was a national reporter for BuzzFeed News. At VICE News, Noriega has covered asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border, national elections in Brazil, the demobilization of the FARC in Colombia, and criminal justice and labor issues across the United States.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N, Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-helen-benedict-presents-map-hope-and-sorrow-david-noriega stories
At Zipper Hall: George Saunders & Liberation Day at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
George Saunders will present and discuss Liberation Day: Stories, which asks what it really means to know we’re not alone in the universe.
The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose, which is wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned, Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.
George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the Way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Books at Zipper Hall
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 200 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/zipper-hall-george-saunders-presents-liberation-day
Tonalli Thursdays Open Mic via Zoom – Online Event (Check to verify)
Tonalli Thursdays Open Mic is offered on Zoom online by L A Poet Society and Eastsdie Arts Collective every 1st Thursday of the month.
All artists are welcome at this Open Mic.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Tonalli & LAPS
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events
Small Town Secrets Tour: Jennifer Lynn Alvarez & Alexa Donne Present: Friends Like These and Pretty Dead Queens at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
In Jennifer Lynn Alvarez’s FRIENDS LIKE THESE, a camera live streams two drunk teenagers from the bedroom upstairs to the big TV downstairs where an end-of-summer party is lively. When a body is discovered at the beach later, friends start turning on friends, and lies start piling on lies. This book is a page-turning thriller which explores consent, jealousy, obsession, and fallen friendships within the microcosm of high school.
In Alexa Donne’s PRETTY DEAD QUEENS, Seaview High’s homecoming queen is dead . . . and she’s not the first. From the critically acclaimed author of The Ivies comes a nonstop thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killing, and the teen who won’t stop until she discovers the truth.
Jennifer Lynn Alvarez is the author of ten published novels, including the YA thriller Lies Like Wildfire and two middle-grade fantasy series.
Alexa Donne is the author of Brightly Burning and The Stars We Steal, sci-fi romance retellings of classics set in space, and the YA thriller The Ivies, which Kirkus Reviews called “a thrilling boarding school story with a satirical edge.”
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/21054
Margo Price & Maybe We’ll Make It at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Author Margo Price will present and discuss her memoir, Maybe We’ll Make It.
When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and
Maybe We’ll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the midst of the agony experienced by so many aspiring musicians: bad gigs and long tours, rejection and sexual harassment, too much drinking and barely enough money to live on. Price, though, refused to break, and turned her lowest moments into the classic country songs that eventually comprised the debut album that launched her career.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/margo-price-discusses-maybe-well-make-it
Fos–Thursday & FOST Artistic Collective Presents: Freedom of Speech Open Mic with Sabor y Cultura Café – In-Person & Online IG Event
Please help FOS’s in-person venue Sabor y Cultura with the link in the bio. Open Mic is currently only on IG Live at 8 pm, with sign-ups open on Wednesday at 3pm.
NOTE: See site for cost, event details.
Where: Freedom of Speech (FOS) Open Mic – In-Person & Online IG event
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Address: 665 N. Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
LiveTalks L.A. Presents: Geena Davis, with Rachel Lindsay, & Dying of Politeness at Glorya Kauffman Performing Arts Center – In-Person Event
From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her “journey to badassery”—from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood. Her new memoir is titled Dying of Politeness,
At three years old, Geena Davis announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under her belt, she has surpassed her childhood dream—but the path to finding yourself never did run smoothly. In this simultaneously hilarious and candid memoir, Davis regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent, her eccentric childhood, her relationships, and helping lead the way to gender parity in Hollywood—all while learning to be a little more badass, one role at a time. Dying of Politeness is a touching account of one woman’s journey to fight for herself, and ultimately fighting for women all around the globe.
Geena Davis, a two-time Academy Award winner, is one of Hollywood’s most respected actors, having appeared in several roles that became cultural landmarks, such as Thelma in Thelma & Louise, Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own, and Mackenzie Allen in Commander in Chief. She is also a world-class archer and is now recognized for her tireless advocacy of women and girls, as Founder and Chair of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
Extra correspondent Rachel Lindsay is an author, attorney, media personality, podcaster, and speaker. She cohosts The Ringer’s Higher Learning podcast and Morally Corrupt podcast. Prior to her media career, she practiced law at Cooper & Scully, P.C., in Dallas. Last year, Lindsay authored a collection of essays titled, Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths. Lindsay is also making her fiction debut with the recently announced novel Real Love, available March 2023. Lindsay is also an ambassador for the College Football Playoff Foundation and a member of the University of Texas at Austin College of Education Advisory Council. She lives in Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Glorya Kauffman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 8 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3200 Motor Ave., Los Angeles, 90034
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/geena-davis/
Spectacular Storytime for Children at Once Upon a Time – In-Person Kids Event
Spectacular Storytime is offered Friday morning at 9:30 am. Storytime is ready to delight and dazzle with troubadour Maddie, and it is geared for children ages 3-6.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 9:30 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/spectacular-story-time-11
John Muir Library 25th Reopening Anniversary Celebration at John Muir Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join the historic John Muir Library as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the branch’s reopening in 1997. Speakers Teri Clipps, Ph.D., and Daniela Martinez will be sharing stories of their experiences growing up as library kids and where they are today as a result. We also invite you to come out and meet your community representatives and neighbors as we mark this special milestone commemorating the branch’s anniversary.
Coffee and cake will be served.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: John Muir Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: 1005 W. 64th St., Los Angeles, CA 90044
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/john-muir-library-25th-reopening-anniversary-celebration7
LA MADE & Your Author Series: Seen and Unseen: What Three Photographers Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration at Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
The Los Angeles Public Library, in collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), is proud to present authors Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki as they discuss their latest work of nonfiction, Seen and Unseen – What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adam’s photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration.
Moderating this program will be Dr. Kristen Hayashi, Director of Collections Access and Management at JANM. Seen and Unseen features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers—Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams—along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history.
Those attending the virtual program will have an opportunity to win a free book.
Streaming live on the library’s YouTube channel.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Hechizera: Sus Sultry Spells with Diosa X. & Guests at Re/Arte Centro Literio – In-Person Event
Chigona Fest is coming to town to celebrate Hechizera: Sus Sultry Spells, with Diosa Xochiquetzalcioatl and her guests:
Viva Padilla is a poet and the founding editor of Dryland, an independent print literary journal founded in South Central Los Angeles and of Hombre Lobo. She is a first-generation Chicana, a daughter of immigrants who crossed the border from Colima, Mexico. She is currently working on a bilingual poetry collection.
Masiel M. Corona is a bilingual poet and community leader. She has published her poetry in literary journal VOICES (2019, 2020), Circulo Literario De Mujeres, Enpoli, De-Lirio, Femina, El Beisman, Alma AMÉRICA, Contraste Politico, La Coyol Revista Literaria, and has also published her writings in various anthologies.
Dr. Donny Jackson is a spoken word artist who has featured at dozens of venues throughout the United States, and Puerto Rico, throughout California, the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café, and, internationally, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Jackson’s poetry has been featured in multiple anthologies. His work as a poet explores subjects in and hidden from the headlines. He also appears in multiple spoken word videos, including for Da Poetry Lounge, and his play One Man Shown debuted in 2013.
Brenda Vaca is a Xicana poet, author, and independent publisher, and earned her B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley with a minor in Creative Writing. Later she went on to graduate school in Berkeley earning a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts in Biblical Languages from the Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union. She hosts the Instagram Live series Friday Fire, and a monthly open mic series. She is the author of the collection, Riot of Roses, the publisher of Riot of Roses Press, and has a children’s book forthcoming in 2023.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Litario
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 2123 East Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159425761519822&set=a.384948689821
At Skylight: Gabi Abrāo and Elena Salamanca, with Ryan Greene, Present Not a Cult Releases at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Authors Gabi Abrāo and Elena Salamanca, in conversation with Ryan Greene, will discuss their new books: Notes on Shapeshifting and Landsmoder, respectively.
Gabi Abrāo will discuss her new book, Notes on Shapeshifting, which is a reminder that we are agents of the change that we seek, Throughout this collection, you are invited to travel through various states; pure infatuation to heartbreak, confidence to defeat, from a skepticism for living to a full-on trust in it. And Notes on Shapeshifting yearns to soothe and arouse along the way.
Gabi Abrāo is an artist, writer, and digital creator that was born and raised in West Los Angeles. She is also known under her Internet username, sighswoon. All of her life’s work is devoted to developing a language with the invisible.
Elena Salamanca is the author of Landsmoder, a searing, and sometimes grotesque, exploration of the intersections between nationalism, dogma, patriarchy, and violence. Originally read aloud from the oldest standing monument in San Salvador’s centro hist rico, the performance poems in Landsmoder retool the laudatory pomp of patriotic ceremony to protest the weaponization of national myth as a mask for erasure, cruelty, and neglect at the hands of the state.
Elena Salamanca is a Salvadoran poet, writer, performance artist, and historian. She has published La familia o el olvido (2017 and 2018), Peces en la boca (2013 and 2011), Landsmoder (2012), and Último viernes (2017 and 2018). Her most recent books, Claudia Lars: La niña que vio una salamandra (2020) and Prudencia Ayala: La niña con pajaros en la cabeza (2021) are the first two volumes of her “Colección Siemprevivas” series dedicated to the stories of more than 40 women who were born or lived in El Salvador between the XVIII and XX centuries. Her work has been translated into English, French, German, and Swedish. Since 2009, she has combined literature, performance, memory, and politics in public space. She is a doctorate candidate in History from the Colegio de México, and her thesis investigates the relationships between Central American unity, citizenship, and exile.
Ryan Greene is a translator, poet, and book farmer from Phoenix, Arizona. He’s a co-conspirator at F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS [www.fiikbooks.org], and he’s translated collections by Elena Salamanca, Claudina Domingo, Ana Belén López, Giancarlo Huapaya, and Yaxkin Melchy, among others. Since 2018, he has facilitated the Cardboard House Press Cartonera Collective bookmaking workshops at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore.
NOTE: See site for book purchases, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Fierce Reads for Fall Tour: Judy I. Lin and Joan He Launch Books at Vroman’s Bookstore – In-Person YA Event
Authors Judy Lin and Joan He will present their latest YA releases on the Fierce Reads for Fall Tour, moderated by Marie Lu.
Judy Lin will present and discuss a Venom Dark and Sweet, the sequel to her debut YA breakout, A Magic Steeped in Poison. The story follows Ning a young girl who must use her tea-making magic to stop an evil darkness from spreading throughout her homeland.
Joan He will present and discuss Strike the Zither, a dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/fierce-reads-fall-tour
SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music Event & Open Mic by Lorenzo Frank at Park Hills Community Center – In-Person Event
Join us to hear a featured poet, plus an Open Mic, hosted by Lorenzo Frank on the first and third Friday of the month.
“Le’Ya Speaks will be in the building! Léya Speaks, aka Shaleya Anderson, is from Saint Louis, MO. She can be seen in ads, films & on stages nationwide. She’s an Actress, Poet, Spoken Word Artist, and an all-around entertainer. She’s been featured in the LA Times as a visual voice.
NOTE: See site for costs, guidelines, and details.
Where: Park Hills Community Center
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 8:30 pm
Address: 5245 Overdale Dr., View Park-Windsor Hills, Los Angeles, CA 90043
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swaam-spoken-word-art-music-tickets-427628888517?aff=ebdssbea
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series, with host Cynthia Alessandra Briano, via Rapp Saloon – Hybrid In-Person & Online Event
First Fridays at Rapp Saloon Open Mic & Featured Readers is an event offered every 1st Friday of the month by host Cynthia Alessandra Briano.
This is a HYBRID event, with a return to live in-person events while maintaining at HISUA Zoom option for our performers and guests.
All languages are welcome.
Featured guest poets and artists this month TBA
Share your voice at the Open Mic, where there is a time limit of 4 minutes max. Sign-ups are at 8 pm – 8:30 pm. Zoom ID posted 3 hours prior to event.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Rapp Saloon at HISUA
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: 1436 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Zoom link in bio @RappSaloon)
Website: https://m.facebook.com/events/rapp-saloon-reading-series/rapp-saloon-reading-series-first-fridays-open-mic or https://www.facebook.com/RappSaloonReadingSeries/photos/
TEDX Manhattan Beach: JUMPSTART Event at Mira Costa High School, with Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
TEDx is about ideas worth spreading, the concepts that change our community and change the world…We dream of fast breaks and breakthroughs—they create them. Hear from 12 of the best and brightest individuals from engineering, mental health, entrepreneurship, environmental science, education, branding, and comedy—and see what’s next. It’s time to JUMPSTART your curiosity, imagination and creativity. TEDx ManhattanBeach. Good for the mind.
We dream of fast breaks and breakthroughs—they create them. Hear from 12 of the best and brightest individuals from engineering, mental health, entrepreneurship, environmental science, education, branding and comedy—and see what’s next. It’s time to JUMPSTART your curiosity, imagination, and creativity.
(pages} is very pleased to once again be the bookselling partner at this year’s TEDxMB. We will have a selection of bestsellers as well as books recommended by speakers.
Limited number of tickets are available. SOLD OUT in 2014 – 2019! Get all the details on our website.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, costs, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Mira Costa High School (and Pages Bookstore)
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 8 am – 3:30 pm
Address: 1401 Artesia Blvd., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedxmanhattanbeach-jumpstart-tickets-387516892457 or https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/tedxmb-2022
Best Buddies Breakfast: Carter Higgins & Audrey L. and Audrey W. (chapter book series)at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Celebrate the special connection between best friends with author Carter Higgins as she shares the second book in her Audrey L and Audrey W chapter book series.
Light snacks will be provided. See if you can find (or bring!) your best friend with your same name! Best for ages 7+.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 9:30 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/audrey-l-and-audrey-w
Writing to Our Ancestors: Elegy Poems Workshop with Karo Ska at Sims Library of Poetry – Online Event
In this workshop titled Writing to our Ancestors: Elegy Poems, led by Karo Ska, we will listen to and discuss elegies, then write our own.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-to-our-ancestors-elegy-poems-tickets-42653679202
Beyond the Binding: Launch Meeting of Book Club with Dana Johnson, & Kindred – In-Person Event
In this first meeting of the Beyond Baroque Book Club, Beyond the Binding, the host, author and professor Dana Johnson, will lead a discussion of its first selection, Kindred, a novel by Octavia E, Butler.
In the second meeting, participants will discuss of A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler, by author Lynell George, on December 3, 2022.
Octavia Butler’s masterpiece remains deeply relevant more than 44 years since its original publication in 1979. In KIndred, she explores the legacy of slavery through her incomparable vision and imagination. Lynell George’s book beautifully illuminates how Butler’s life informed her craft and paints an intimate portrait of Butler’s creativity. These two California writers are a perfect pair to launch the inaugural book club of Beyond Baroque.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, discussion questions, and event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Voices of a New Generation: Dr. Christine Su & Voices of a New Generation: Cambodian Americans in the Creative Arts at Mark Twain Library, LBPL – In-Person Event
Dr. Christine Su will talk about her book Voices of a New Generation: Cambodian Americans in the Creative Arts. She invited composer PraCH Ly, film director Caylee So, and Chef Tarath Ouk, who are featured in her book, to share their stories in the creative arts. The artists featured in Dr. Su’s book are sons and daughters of refugees from the Khmer Rouge regime. A representative from Bel Canto books will be present to sell copies of Dr. Su’s book following the panel presentation.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Mark Twain Neighborhood Library, Long Beach Public Library
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 1401 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, CA 90813
Website: https://www.longbeach.gov/library/events/
Voices of a New Generation: Angela Aleiss & Voices of a New Generation: Cambodian Americans in the Creative Arts at Main Library, LBPL – Online Zoom Event
Anglea Aleiss will present and discuss her work, featuring research from her new book, HOLLYWOOD’S NATIVE AMERICANS: STORIES OF IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE. This presentation explores how the heritage and behind-the-scenes activities of Native American actors and filmmakers over the past 100 years helped shape their own movie images.
Dr. Aleiss received her PhD in Film Studies from Columbia University and taught at California State University, Long Beach. She’s a former Visiting Scholar at UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center and is also the author of MAKING THE WHITE MAN’S INDIAN: NATIVE AMERICANS AND HOLLYWOOD MOVIES.
To receive the Zoom link for this program, please register via the Sign Up link above by 4pm on Friday, November 4th at the latest.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Main Library, Long Beach Public Library
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event (see site)
Website: https://www.longbeach.gov/library/events/
NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month – Outlining at Palisades Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
November is National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo’s challenge is to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. Are you ready to brave the page?
Join writer Anne Louise Bannon as she shows you how to outline your ideas and story.
This program is made possible by a generous donation from the Friends of the Palisades Library.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Palisades Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 861 Alma Real Drive, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-national-novel-writing-month-outlining
Expressions LA Poetry Reading Series & Open Mic at Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Join us in-person or via Zoom for Expressions L.A. Poetry Reading Series, featuring poetry readings and open poetry mic.
Please email studio@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 12511 Moorpark St., Studio City, CA 91604
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/expressions-la-poetry-reading-series-and-open-mic
Candace Nelson & Sweet Success at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Candace Nelson will present and discuss her book, Sweet Success: A Simple Recipe to Turn Your Passion Into Profit.
Learn the recipe for starting a successful business.
For the first time ever, founder of Sprinkles cupcakes, Candace Nelson, is sharing the recipe for success. She will walk you through the steps she took to build a globally beloved brand, so you can do it too. Although she deals in frosting, there’s no sugarcoating here. Candace pushes back the kitchen door to reveal mistakes, misses, and lessons learned the hard way.
Sweet Success dispels the myth that entrepreneurship is reserved for an elite few and is a must-read for anyone with a passion needing a place to start or a push along the way.
Candace Nelson is the founder and pastry chef of Sprinkles Cupcakes. A former investment banker, she opened Sprinkles, the world’s first cupcake bakery, in Beverly Hills in 2005. Today, Sprinkles has 20 locations nationwide and has expanded to include ice cream and cookies. Candace was a judge on the hit Food Network show Cupcake Wars for 10 seasons, as well as a judge on Bobby Flay’s Cupcake Throwdown. She has appeared on Good Morning America and was profiled on the Today show, Nightline, and in People magazine. Candace is a graduate of Tante Marie’s Professional Pastry Program in San Francisco and Wesleyan University.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore (in the Courtyard)
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Candace-Nelson-Author-signing
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Writing Workshop Led by Don Kingfisher Campbell – Online Only Event
Saturday Afternoon Poetry presents a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
(Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum online edition: Open Window by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, November 12th)
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Saturday Afternoon Poetry
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event Only (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Book Launch: Susan Azim Boyer & Jasmine Zumideh Need a Win at Pages: A Bookstore– In-Person YA Event
Susan Azim Boyer, in conversation with YA author Amanda Glaze, will present and discuss her debut YA book, Jasmine Zumideh Needs A Win. Persian tea and pastries will be served. Pre-order Jasmine Zumideh today and receive a bookmark, a Jasmine sticker, and a green shoe temporary tattoo.
Susan Azim Boyer writes young adult fiction featuring Iranian American heroines she *never* encountered growing up, who make messy, complicated choices that rapidly snowball into avalanches. JASMINE ZUMIDEH NEEDS A WIN is her young adult fiction debut. She hails from Nebraska but grew up in Los Angeles before spending several years in San Francisco and the next twenty in Sonoma County. She now lives in the Coachella Valley with her husband, Wayne, and her Pug mix, Teddy. Their son, Alec, lives in New York.
Amanda Glaze is the author of The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where she spent most of her time in imaginary worlds. She received a bachelor’s degree in theater from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She’s lived many lives: as a bookseller, a theater director, and an Emmy award–winning film and TV producer. When she’s not running off to the mountains, she lives in Los Angeles with her partner, Blake and their two cute but lazy cats.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Pages: A Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/Jasmine-Zumideh-Needs-a-Win-Launch
Robert Crais & Racing the Light at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Robert Crais will present and read his latest series book, Racing the Light.
Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are back on the case in this brilliant new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.
Adele Schumacher isn’t a typical worried mom. When she hires Elvis to find her missing son, a controversial podcaster named Josh Shoe, she brings a bag filled with cash, bizarre tales of government conspiracies, and a squad of professional bodyguards. Finding Josh should be simple, but Elvis quickly learns he isn’t alone in the hunt–a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find Josh and his adult film star girlfriend first.
With dangerous secrets lurking behind every lead, Elvis needs his friend Joe Pike more than ever to uncover the truth about Josh, corrupt politicians, and the vicious business cartels rotting the heart of Los Angeles from within. And when Elvis’s estranged girlfriend Lucy Chenier and her son, Ben, return, he learns just how much he has to lose…if he survives.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/robert-crais-discusses-racing-light
Antics! Presents: HEY YOU Readings by James Yamada, Jacob Deason, Emma Cairns Watson & Adam De Petris at Book Soup – In-Person
ABOUT THE ANTICS! READING SERIES:
UC Irvine’s MFA Programs in Writing admit just six fiction writers & six poets per year out of 1000+ applicants. Chosen for both their strong voices & commitment to developing their work in an intensive, intimate creative space, writers enrolled in the Programs in Writing are given three funded years to produce a book-length project.
The MFA Reading Series (a.k.a. Antics!) is a crucial part of the Programs in Writing, an opportunity for the writers to share their work with the larger community. Every reading features two poets and two fiction writers currently enrolled in the program, each of whom reads for around fifteen minutes, providing a sampling of their work.
James Yamada is a third-year fiction student with a background in engineering & physics. He writes about the long-term future of humanity & how we can better protect it.
Jacob Deason is a first-year poetry student from Long Beach, California, who has enjoyed his employment in the maritime industry while receiving an education in writing.
Emma Cairns Watson is a second-year fiction student from LA. Pre-MFA, she coordinated conferences for UCLA, stocked Container Store shelves, & ran corticosteroid assays on chompy voles.
Adam De Petris is a third-year poetry student. He isn’t good at introductions. He walks around, reads books, etc. Mostly he just drinks coffee.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/antics-presents-hey-you
Pondwater Presents: Brendan Constantine & Julia Ingalls & Open Mic at Pondwater Society – In-Person Event
Pondwater Society host Joanne Qualey Baines welcomes guest artist and poets Brendan Constantine and Julia Ingalls to read and discuss their work.
Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many of the nation’s standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Poem-a-Day. His most recent collections are Dementia, My Darling (2016) from Red Hen Press and Close Call, a limited-edition chapbook from Itwasadarkandstormynight Press (2022). New work is forthcoming in Rosebud, Mudfish, and The Washington Square Review. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR’s All Things Considered, TED ED, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He currently teaches at the Windward School and, since 2017, has been developing poetry workshops for people with Aphasia and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Julia Ingalls is primarily an essayist. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Guernica, Dwell, Crimereads, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among many other publications. Her essays have also been included in anthologies published by Rare Bird Books and on national public radio.
There will be a very limited reading: 6 slots, first come, first sign up.
The reading is free! if you would like to stay for dinner, there is a suggested $10.00 donation.
This is an adult event.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Pondwater Society
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm – 8 pm
Address: 16504 E. Masline St., Covina, CA 91722
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1206559286939490/?ref=newsfeed
At Skylight: Erika T. Wurth, with Desiree Zamorano, & White Horse at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Erika T. Wurth, in conversation with Desiree Zamorano, will present and discuss her book. White Horse: A Novel.
In White Horse, Kari James, Urban Native, is a fan of heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and dive bars. She spends most of her time at her favorite spot in Denver, the White Horse. When her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari’s mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother’s ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable.
Haunted by visions of her mother and hunted by this mysterious creature, Kari must search for what happened to her mother all those years ago. Her father, permanently disabled from a car crash, can’t help her. Her Auntie Squeaker seems to know something but isn’t eager to give it all up at once. Debby’s anxious to help, but her controlling husband keeps getting in the way. Kari’s journey toward a truth long denied by both her family and law enforcement forces her to confront her dysfunctional relationships, thoughts about a friend she lost in childhood, and her desire for the one thing she’s always wanted but could never have.
Erika T. Wurth’s work has appeared in numerous journals including Buzzfeed and The Kenyon Review. White Horse is her debut novel. She is a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Scholar, attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, and is a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. She is of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent.
Désirée Zamorano is the author of the novel The Amado Women (Cinco Puntos Press). Her work often explores issues of invisibility, inequity, or injustice. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Cultural Weekly, The Kenyon Review, and in the Akashic anthology series South Central Noir. A frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, she was recently a scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Joshua Frank & Atomic Days at Page Against the Machine – In-Person Event
Joshua Frank will present and discuss his book, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America.
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is the most toxic place in the Western hemisphere you’ve never heard of. Laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste, it’s also the site of the world’s most expensive environmental clean-up job, with a $677 billion price tag that keeps growing. 𝘼𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨 offers a gripping and explosive exposé of this unfolding environmental catastrophe and the disastrous cleanup efforts that generate huge profits for companies like Bechtel despite a track record of lies, fraud, and deadly accidents. Along the way, Frank also provides a timely and much-needed refutation of the myths of nuclear technology—from weapons to electricity—and shows how the ravages of Hanford must serve as an urgent call to action for communities, workers, and environmentalists the world over.
Joshua Frank is an investigative journalist, author, and co-editor of the political magazine 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘗𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩. He has authored, co-authored, and edited several books, including 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴: 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘖𝘣𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴: 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘨 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘵: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬.
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Where: Page Against the Machine
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2714 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA
Celebrating Music and Poetry Featuring Musicians & Poets Performing at Sancho’s Garage – In-Person Event
Musicians performing include: Leo Pastrana, Jared Zook, Alejandra Camacho.
Poets performing include Iris De Anda, David Alvarado, Donato Martinez, and Matt Sedillo:
Iris De Anda is a Guanaca Tapatia poet, speaker & musician who has been featured with KPFK & KPFA Pacifica Radio, organized with Academy of American Poets, performed at Los Angeles Latino Book Festival, Feria del Libro Tijuana, Mexico, Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba and is named one of Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color. She is the author of Codeswitch: Fires from Mi Corazon with Los Writers Underground Press 2014 & Roots of Redemption: You have No Right to Remain Silent with Flowersong Press 2022.
David Alvarado N//A
Donato Martinez was born on the dusty streets of a pueblo in Garcia de la Cardenas, Zacatecas Mexico. At Age six he immigrated with his family to Corona and lived in the barrio Home Gardens through his formative years. He believes in storytelling, poetry, and music as healing and powerful remedies. He learned to appreciate the native ways by listening to his mother and father sand will pass these on to his children.His poems “My Mother the Sculptor” and “A Little Story About My Mother” appear in Ofrenda magazine.
Matt Sedillo has been described as the “best political poet in America” as well as “the poet laureate of the struggle” by academics, poets, and journalists alike. He has appeared on CSPAN and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He has spoken at Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba, at numerous conferences and forums such as the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, and at over a hundred universities and colleges, including the University of Cambridge, among many others. He is the current literary director of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles and author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019), which is currently being taught at California State University at Northridge and Monterey Bay, as well as at Mission College. His Three Act Poem structure has been taught as capstones of coursework at UCLA and Occidental College. His latest poetry collection is City on the Second Floor (FlowerSong Press, 2021).
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Where: Sancho’s Garage
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1345 Orizaba, Long Beach, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10162750167324522&set=a.212071394521
Lynn Hightower, with Dr. Alessia Gottlieb: Talking Anxiety and Trauma with a Side of Exorcism at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
In Lynn Hightower’s The Entertainment Project, Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon, with an impressive success record. He has a happy home, with his beloved wife Moira, their two adopted sons, and a dog who’s a very good girl. Noah is removing a tumor from the skull of a fourteen-year-old girl when he feels it again. The presence of something Other. His suspicions are confirmed when he finds a familiar priest waiting for him in his office. Father Perry Cavanaugh is an old friend, and the only one who knows Noah’s darkest secret: that when he was a boy, he was targeted and possessed by a demonic entity, under the malevolent eye of a mysterious man Noah called the Red-Haired Man. This childhood trauma informed the rest of Noah’s life and eventually led him to who he is now: a renowned neurosurgeon, currently in the middle of the most important research study of his life: The Enlightenment Project.
Lynn Hightower is the author of numerous thrillers, including the Sonora Blair and Lena Padget detective series. Her internationally-bestselling novels have been included in the New York Times List of Notable Books, the London Times’ bestseller lists, the WH Smith Fresh Talent Awards, and the Shamus award. Lynn teaches Master Novel classes in the UCLA Extension Writing Program, and works as a Manuscript Consultant/Writing Coach for novelists.
Dr. Alessia de Paola Gottlieb, who will interview the author, is a renowned child psychiatrist who has just completed her first novel, Orphan Island.
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Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/21054
826LA@Hammer: Take Me Away: Writing That Moves Us – In-Person Kids Event
826LA Kids Artistic and Literary workshops have returned to the Hammer!
Consider how words can inspire emotion, create physical sensations, and whisk us away to faraway places. Then craft poetry and prose that enact a sense of movement. Led by writer, poet, editor, and educator Sarah Yanni.
Recommended for ages 8–14.
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Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Sunday the 30th
Time: 11 am
Address: 10988 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca 90024
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2022/826lahammer-take-me-away-writing-moves-us
Happily Everyone After Book Club at The Ripped Bodice at The Actors’ Gang – In-Person Event
The Happily Everyone After Bookclub is led by bookseller Sarah S. and reads widely across the romance genre. Everyone is welcome!
This month’s selection for discussion is Love in the Time of Serial Killers, by Alicia Thompson.
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Where: The Ripped Bodice at The Actors’ Gang
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Main St. at Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Outdoor Lit Book Club: Finding the Mother Tree at Cellar Door Books – In-Person Event
The Outdoor Lit Book Club will discuss its monthly selection, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard.
Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide.
In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths–that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own.
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Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Riverside CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/outdoor-lit-book-club-finding-mother-tree
Book Soup Presents: Bad Religion’s Greg Gaffin & Punk Paradox: A Memoir at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Greg Graffin will present and sign his new book, Punk Paradox: A Memoir.
Gaffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America’s most significant punk band.” Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has produced 18 studio albums, become a long-running global touring powerhouse, and has established a durable legacy as one of the most influential punk rock bands of all time.
Punk Paradox is Graffin’s life narrative before and during L.A. punk’s early years, detailing his observations on the genre’s explosive growth and his band’s steady rise in importance. His unique experiences mirror the paradoxical elements that define the punk genre–the pop influence, the quest for society’s betterment, music’s unifying power–all of which are prime ingredients in its surprising endurance.
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Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/book-soup-presents-greg-graffin
Allison Winn-Scotch, with Emily Wibberley, & The Rewind at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Alllison Winn-Scotch, in conversation with Emily Wibberley, will present and discuss her book, The Rewind.
Two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers — and no idea how they got there. They have just one New Year’s Eve at the end of 1999 to figure it out in this big-hearted and nostalgic rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch.
Allison Winn Scotch is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including Time of My Life, In Twenty Years, and Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing. A cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied history and marketing, she now lives in Los Angeles. She is also the author of the forthcoming novel, The Roughest Draft, available 1/25/22.
Emily Wibberley lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Austin Siegemund-Broka, with whom she is author of The Roughest Draft and Do I Know You?, as well as several love stories for teens.
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Where: Diesel Bookstore (in the Courtyard)
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Allison-Winn-Scotch-Author-signing
Open Words Poetry Reading & Open Mic at San Dimas Canyon Park – In-Person Event
Live Open Reading outdoors. Bring poetry or prose, bring friends or relations, or just bring yourself. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
We’ll be at our usual location in San Dimas Canyon Park.
Directions:
Don’t follow GPS to the park address or it may take you up Sycamore Canyon to the nature center. The section of the park we’ll be in is stretched out along San Dimas Canyon Rd, east of Sycamore Canyon. We’ll be set up near the middle or toward the east end. The parking lot runs the length of the park along San Dimas Canyon. Look for the “Open Words Poetry” sign in the window of my car–a charcoal grey Prius. Park and walk in under the oaks and you’ll see us
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Where: San Dimas Canyon Park
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: See directions at site.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1113518745944636
Yeiska Salgado Celebrates 5 Years of Corazon at Dynasty Typewriter at The Hayworth – In-Person Event
Yesika Salgado will celebrate the 5th Anniversary of her poetry collection, Corazon.
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Where: Dynasty Typewriter at The Hayworth
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 2511 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90057
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yesika-salgado-five-years-of-corazon-tickets-425857791117
Sunday Jump Community Open Mic Series in Historic Filipino Town at Filipino Workers Center – In-Person Event
This is Sunday Jump’s 10th season! Our theme for the year is “in(ten)tion.” Cheers to a journey of purpose, embracing mistakes, and being present in all aspects of our lives. For the past ten years and into the next, our intention is to maintain a safe space to share stories and create genuine connections through the arts. What is yours?
This event is a community open mic series in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles. Every first Sunday at Pilipino Workers Center from 5-7 pm, we facilitate a safe space for marginalized voices to share stories and create genuine connections through the arts. In order to ensure a welcoming space for everyone, we have two community guidelines: (1) Express, not impress and (2) free speech, not hate speech. Our organization’s leaders are award-winning poets and community activists who have shared their work across the nation.
Women and marginalized genders are prioritized and encouraged to share on the open mic, but all are welcome to sign up.
Due to the increasing number of participants, open mic-ers have 4 minutes MAX. First ten performers on the list are guaranteed, with the rest on on-call. Women and marginalized genders are prioritized and all are welcome to sign up. Order is randomized. For on-call, priority is then given to first timers.
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Where: Pilipino Workers Center
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 153 Glendale Blvd, 1st Floor. Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-jump-open-mic-series-tickets-318627582677
Open Heart Spoken Word: Dia De Los Muertos Readings & Open Mic at Sims Library of Poetry – In-Person Event
Come join our Open Mic on Sunday, November 6th.
Featured Authors, Poets, and Writers will be sharing some work from their latest collections! Who knows what other awesome performances the night will bring!
Featuring: Steven Pedro, Anthony Crespo, Abeni Moreno, Jonboi.
Readings & Hosted by: Andrew Zaragoza Jr, 2-time author and spoken word artist rooted in community.
If you’re a poet, singer, or writer looking for a platform to share your work, come check us out and perform!
Community Alter: Bring 2-3 items for a loved one.
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Where: Sims Library of Poetry
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2702 W. Florence, Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/openheart-spoken-word-dia-de-los-muertos
TQR Presents: Readings by Contributors to Current Issue, Volume #23 at Stories Books & Café – In-Person Event
The Quarterless Review presents contributors Lily Lady, Kate Durbin, Ivanna Baranova, Kamala Puligandla, Sophia Le Fraga and Mary Boo Anderson.
Hosted by Sarah Yanni.
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Where: Stories Books & Café
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://storiesla.com/events
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