Robertson Writers Group at Robertson Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Calling all writers! The Robertson Writers Group meets every Monday. Get those creative juices flowing and join the group as everyone shares their work and gives feedback.
This group mostly meets in person, but email rbrtsn@lapl.org if you’d prefer to join via Zoom.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Robertson Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 11 am
Address: 1719 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/robertson-writers-group
Book Club: Speech Team at Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Book Club participants will discuss Speech Team: A Novel by author Tim Murphy.
RSVP:
Please email ebarrera@lapl.org for the monthly Google Meet virtual link.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 4:45 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sun-valley-branch-book-club-3
Meditation Monday: Alex Petunia via Los Angeles Poet Society – Online Event
L.A. Poet Society hosts Alex Petunia and Meditation Monday writers’ workshop via Zoom online.
NOTE: See site for Zoom link and details.
Where: Los Angeles Poet Society
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/
Womxn’s Takeover: Readings by Lady KDay, Gia Civerolo, Angelina Saenz, Jesenia Chavez, Annalicia Aguilar with L.A. Poet Society at 33RD HILL – In-Person Event
L. A. Poet Society hosts Womxn’s Takeover readings hosted by Jessica M. Wilson and featuring readings by:
Lady KDay is a musical poet and mother from Chino, CA. She wrote her soon-to-be released debut poetry collection RAW. The Trill o’ G as a form of self-expression.
Gia Civerolo is the author of the newly released collection She Confuses Lovers, Movies, Angels and Poems.
Angelina Saenz is a poet and educator, and author most recently of the collections Maiestra and Edgecliff.
Jesenia Chavez is a proud Chicanita, public-school teacher, writer, poet, and storyteller. She has kept a diary since elementary school, and is the author of This Poem Might Save You (me),
Annalicia Aguilar is a Mexican American/mixed-race indigenous poet, screenwriter, playwright, producer, and educator. She has published multiple poems in various anthologies and magazines, expressing her creativity and passion for writing.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Los Angeles Poet Society at 33RD Hill St.
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3226 S. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90007
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4ND_YCuTbc/
R.U.P.O. at Back to the Grind in Riverside – In-Person Event
RUPO Open Mic is back every Monday Night at Back to the Grind in Riverside.
Every Monday at a new time- 7pm to 9pm. Sign-ups are at 6:30pm and in person only, $4 cash admission. See you then!
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Back to the Grind, Riverside
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm (Sign-ups at 6:30 pm)
Address: 3575 University Ave. Riverside, CA 92501
Website: https://www.facebook.com/backtothegrind
At Skylight: Marie-Helene Bertino & Beautyland at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Marie-Helene Bertino will present and discuss her novel, Beautyland.
This is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. It is a remarkable evocation of the feeling of being in exile at home, and it introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times.
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. Her work has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Story Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and New York City’s Center for Fiction, and has twice been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing at New York University and Yale University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Skylight
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-marie-helene-bertino-presents-beautyland
Ticketed Event: Phil and Lily Rosenthal & Just Try It! at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Phil and Lily Rosenthal will present and discuss their book, Just Try It!
From Netflix star and New York Times bestselling author Phil Rosenthal and his daughter Lily comes a hilarious picture book about a food-loving dad encouraging his picky eater daughter to just try something new.
Phil has one rule about food: try everything at least once. Otherwise, how will you know what you like? His daughter Lil disagrees. She already knows what she likes—just bread and pasta with no sauce—and that’s all there is to it.
When the two go to a food truck festival, an unexpected mustard accident changes everything.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Phil-and-Lily-Rosenthal-sign-Just-Try-It
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom Event
This free Monday Night Community Writing Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a 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 an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial and Transnational Literatures at California State University Channel Islands, teaching courses on creative writing and contemporary African literatures. Raquel has published poetry in Africology and The Arrow; fiction in Enculturation, The Daily Palette, The Womanist, and Crux; and non-fiction in Little Village; and has done readings with the Ventura County Poetry project. Raquel lives for talking about all things about the craft and social meanings of literature!
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-856973319267
Book Club via Northridge Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
This Book Club meets every month via Zoom. All are welcome.
RSVP:
Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for the Zoom link and book information.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Northridge Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-21
Gatsby’s Books Writing Group at Gatsby’s Books, Long Beach – In-Person Event
The Gatsby’s Writing Group is held every 2nd Tuesday of the month and hosted by Mary Dixon.
All styles and genres welcome!.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Gatsby’s Books
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: https://www.gatsbybooks.com/events
Braintrust Writing Workshop via The Poetry Lab – Online Zoom Event
The Poetry Lab’s Braintrust generative writing workshop is a one-time workshop led by Kelsy Bryan-Zwick, with the theme of World Building: Every Poem Is a Universe.
As a group, we’ll examine examples from poets such as Ilya Kaminsky, Nin Andrews, Stephanie Rogers, and Solmaz Sherif and discover what these poets do to create poems that immerse readers in universes new and illuminating. We’ll spend time together creating our own universes through curated prompts based on the reading.
Instructor Kelsey Bryan-Zwick (she/they) is a disabled, queer, bilingual immigrant, and author based in Los Angeles, California. Their debut poetry collection, Here Go the Knives (Moon Tide Press 2022)—part memoir, part magical realism, part illustration—focuses on their decades surviving with debilitating scoliosis. Kelsey is The Poetry Lab’s Assistant Director, a Los Angeles Poet Society organizer, and Acting Chair of Produced Media for the Stonewall Democratic Club. On the gram @theexquisitepoet.
NOTE: See site for costs and details. Pay what you can.
Where: The Poetry Lab
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event (See site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/braintrust
Poetry Open Mic Event via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Share a poem you wrote or a poem you love! You are also welcome to just listen and enjoy. Emceed by Wyatt Underwood.
RSVP:
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic
Silver Lake Book Club: The Guest List at Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Book Club participants will discuss The Guest List by author Lucy Foley.
A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 2411 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90039
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/silver-lake-book-club-6
Tammy Greenwood and Meg Howrey Present: The Still Point & They’re Going to Love You, respectively,at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Tammy Greenwood and Meg Howrey, will present and discuss their novels: The Still Point and They’re Going ot Love You, respectively.
In Tammy Greenwood’s The Still Point, Ever, Lindsay, and Josie have ushered their daughters—Bea, Olive, and Savvy—through years of dance classes in their coastal California town. They’ve tended bloodied feet, stitched ribbons to countless pairs of pointe shoes, and in the process, forged friendships that seem to transcend rivalry. But now Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, has come to their conservatory. Not only will he direct this year’s production of The Nutcracker, but he’s brought along a film crew to document his search for one special student who will receive a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie. For the girls, this is the chance to fulfill lifelong dreams.
From auditions to casting to rehearsals, the cameras capture the selection process, with its backstabbing and jealousy, disappointment, and triumph. But it’s behind the scenes that Bernay’s arrival will yield the most shocking revelations, exposing the secrets and lies at the heart of all three families—and the sacrifices women make for their children, for friendship, and for art.
Tammy Greenwood is an acclaimed author as well as the mother of a professional ballerina. A four-time winner of the San Diego Book Award whose novels have been translated into five languages, she has received grants from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Five of her novels have been Indie Next Picks and her twelfth novel, Rust & Stardust, was a LibraryReads selection. She and her family split their time between Vermont and San Diego, California, where she teaches creative writing for The Writer’s Center and San Diego Writers, Ink.
Meg Howrey will discuss her novel, They’re Going to Love You.
Throughout her childhood, Carlisle Martin got to see her father, Robert, for only a few precious weeks a year when she visited the brownstone apartment in Greenwich Village he shared with his partner, James. Brilliant but troubled, James gave Carlisle an education in all that he held dear in life—literature, music, and, most of all, dance. Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and hoping to follow in the footsteps of her mother—a former Balanchine ballerina—Carlisle’s aspiration to become a professional ballet dancer bloomed.
This book is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist in America, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.
Meg Howrey is the author of the novels The Wanderers, The Cranes Dance, Blind Sight, and most recently, They’re Going to Love You, which was a New York Times Best Book of the Month and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. She is also the coauthor of the bestselling novels City of Dark Magic and City of Lost Dreams, published under the pen name Magnus Flyte. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue and The Los Angeles Review of Books. A former professional dancer, she currently lives in Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Tammy-Greenwood-Meg-Howrey-Author-signing
Conchas y Café Zine Writing Workshop via DSTL Arts – In-Person Event
Conchas y Café is a DSTL Arts bilingual community writing workshop series for adults that produces a biannual zine by the same name, featuring artwork and creative writing produced by our community and program participants.
The goal of Conchas y Café is to bring together our community under the arts, building skills and arts-literacy, so that more adults may appreciate the cultural and economic value the arts bring to our lives. The content taught through this workshop series is primarily for new and emerging poets and writers, or people returning to creative writing after a long-term absence from the craft.
The Conchas y Café workshop series spans 15 weeks, and is an ongoing program offered every trimester. Our program participants write on a new theme for their zine every trimester and celebrate its release with a public reading.
Enrollment via Google Classroom required for workshop participation and full access to session handouts.
For any questions regarding Conchas y Café, feel free to contact us directly by email at Info@DSTLArts.org.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: DSTL Arts
Date: Tuesday the 12th (through April the 30th)
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.dstlarts.org/conchasycafezine
Quantay “Bosco” Adams & Chasin’ Freedum at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Quantay “Bosco” Adams will present and discuss his book, Chasin’ Freedum.
In support of the release of the new Peacock series, “Bosco”, Book Soup welcomes the author of the adapted book, Chasin’ Freedum.
Chasin’ Freedum is more than a story about a man attempting to escape prison. It is a story about Quawntay’s struggles and continuous cycles of misfortune. It is an entertaining, touching, and inspiring memoir that provides a glimpse into the mind and heart of a man who has been described as a wise fool, a rebel, a humanitarian, an escape artist, and simply a man determined to turn a life of misfortune into a fortune.
Quawntay’s story has a message of hope. One that should inspire you to find your meaning and purpose in life and change how you perceive young black men trapped in the system.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/quawntay-%E2%80%9Cbosco%E2%80%9D-adams
Adult Book Group: Morgan Is My Name at Once Upon a Time – In-Person Event
Adult Book Group participants will discuss Morgan Is My Name (The Morgan le Fay Series #1), by author Sophie Keetch.
Adventure, mystery and just the right amount of creepiness imbues this unforgettable tale of 12-year-old loner, Ravani, who happens to see out his bedroom window seven children arriving at the derelict house next door being dropped off and left at midnight. Who could they be and where are the adults? Mysteries aplenty are prevalent in Ravani’s town called Slaughterville and wouldn’t it be great if he could have a friend to share the discoveries. This is Gemeinhart’s best and not to be missed!
(Juvenile Fictions, age 9+) – Reviewed by Maureen
Whether you loved it, hated it, or haven’t finished it, we want to see you at our Adult Book Club that has been going strong for 40+ years at America’s Oldest Children’s Bookstore!
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-morgan-my-name-sophie-keetch-hybrid
Mystery Book Club: The Woman on the Ledge at pages: a bookstore – In-Person Event
Mystery Book Club Book Club participants will discuss the novel, The Woman on the Ledge by author Ruth Mancini.
This story is about: Obsession. Intrigue. Revenge. Whose secrets are you keeping? And why?
A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace.
You’re arrested for her murder.
Get ready for one of the most twisty-turny novels you will read this year.
Ruth Mancini is a criminal defense lawyer and author. She continues to practice for a large criminal law firm with offices in London, conducting advocacy in the courts and defending people arrested at police stations. She juggles her legal work with writing crime and psychological fiction. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two children.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: pages: a bookstore (on the Patio)
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 900266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club-20
At Skylight: Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans: The Unclaimed at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans will present and discuss their book The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels.
In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
Beautifully crafted and profoundly empathetic, The Unclaimed urges us to expand our circle of caring—in death and in life.
Pamela Prickett is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and an acclaimed writer and former broadcaster.
Stefan Timmermans is a professor of sociology at UCLA. He is the author of an award-winning scholarly book on forensic death investigations.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Skylight
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-pamela-prickett-stefan-timmermans-present-unclaimed
Environmentalist Book Club: H Is for Hawk at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Are you passionate about the environment? Do you love to read? Do you want to engage in meaningful discussions about pressing environmental issues with likeminded folks? Look no further! The Central Group and West LA Group of the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter are thrilled to announce the launch of its Environmentalist Book Club!
Participants this month will discuss H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
Every month, we will discuss a book that revolves around nature, the environment, or environmentalism. We will read capaciously, and will discuss books old and new, fiction and nonfiction, sobering and hopeful.
Bring your enthusiasm, questions, and a passion for the environment.
Make sure to RSVP, and we hope to see you there!
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/34842
The Virtual Cobalt Series & Open Mic + Featured Reader Donny Jackson – Online Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest Donny Jackson.
Donny Jackson is a producer, psychologist, and spoken word artist. He has featured at venues throughout the United States. His acclaimed memoir is boy, poems.,
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar
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. Check to Verify.
Where: Unurban Co6ee House
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups or https://www.facebook.com/events/213407634459999/?active_tab=discussion
Claire Bidwell Smith, with Alua Arthur, & Conscious Grieving at Live Talks LA at Gloria Kauffman Performing Arts Center – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Live Talks LA presents Claire Bidwell Smith, in conversation with Alua Arthur, and her book, Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss.
From one of the leading grief therapists, Conscious Grieving is a compassionate and accessible guide to grieving offering a new framework for understanding and navigating loss.
Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist specializing in grief and the author of four books of nonfiction, published in 22 countries: The Rules of Inheritance, After This: When Life is Over Where Do We Go?, Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief, and Anxious Grief: A Clinician’s Guide to Supporting Grieving Clients. Claire offers numerous online programs for grief in addition to working with people one-on-one, as well as training other clinicians to work in the field of grief and loss. Led by her own experiences with grief, and fueled by her work in hospice and private practice, Claire strives to provide support for all kinds of people experiencing all kinds of grief. Claire has written for and been featured in many publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, The Los Angeles Times, CNN, MSNBC, Forbes, The Today Show, The Chicago Tribune, Oprah Magazine, and Psychology Today. She is devoted to expanding the conversation about grief and loss. Visit her website.
Alua Arthur is a death doula, recovering attorney, and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization that exists to support people as they answer the question, “What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?” Going with Grace works to improve and redefine the end-of-life experience for people rooted in every community using the individual lived experience as the foundation. Alua has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Refinery29, The Doctors, and InStyle. Arthur is the author of the upcoming book, Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 3200 Motor Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/claire-bidwell-smith/
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court – In-Person Event
The nation’s largest weekly Open Mic event is 25 years strong. They hold open mic nights. At an open mic, all are welcome to share their poetry or sit in their audience.
Every Tuesday (except for 3rd Tuesdays SLAM and special events) they hold open mic nights.
NOTE: See sign-ups, details, and guidelines at website link.
$10 donation. Do NOT line up prior to 7:30 p.m. Free parking adjacent to theatre.
Masks are encouraged. All ages are welcome.
Where: Greenway Court Theatre
Date: Tuesday the 12th
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/events/open-mic-night
Mystery Book Club: The Lighthouse at West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Book Club participants will discuss the novel, The Lighthouse, by author P.D. James.
RSVP:
Please email wvally@lapl.org with “Mystery Book Club” in the subject line for information on the title to be discussed and the Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 19036 Vanowen St., Reseda, CA 91335
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-43
Mystery Book Club: Beating About the Bush at Sylmar Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Mystery Book Club participants will discussBeating About theBush: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, 30) by author M.C. Beaton.
When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Sylmar Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 14561 Polk St., Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-44
Poets Café: Poetry from Around the World: Cornell West with Mark LIpman via KPFK 90.7 FM – Live On-Air Event
Poets Café hosts Poetry from Around the World is aired monthly on KPFK.
Poet, writer, and publisher of Vagabond Press Mark Lipman will be in conversation with Dr. Cornell West on the role of poetry in society, with poetry by Annahita Mahdavi West.
This program is offered monthly on KPFK Los Angeles 90.7 FM.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: KPFK 90.7 FM
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 2 pm
Address: On-air Event (live)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo
Feedback Circle Workshop via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
The Feedback Circle workshop is appropriate for writers who have at least 5 poems ready for revision. Participants will have opportunities for feedback in small groups, large groups, and one-on-one settings. Much attention will be paid to giving feedback to others compassionately and equitably. Craft-focused feedback will be strongly encouraged, and a review of elements of craft will be made available to facilitate this focus.
Maximum class size: 12 people
NOTE: See site for RSVP, cost, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Poetry Lab
Date: Wednesday the 13th (Six weeks: continues on March 20th,27th, & April 3rd, 10th,17th, and 24th)
Time: 5 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/feedback
Author Talk: Adam Gidwitz & Max in the House of Spies at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Adam Gidwitz will present and discuss his new book, Max in the House of Spies; A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion), in which Max discovers he’s been joined by two unexpected traveling companions-a dybbuk named Stein and a kobold named Berg-one on each shoulder.
Max knows Berlin is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but he is determined to find a way back home, and back to his parents. He just didn’t expect to return as a British spy.
Adam Gidwitz taught in Brooklyn for eight years. Now, he writes full-time—which means he writes a couple of hours a day and lies on the couch staring at the ceiling the rest of the time. As is the case with all of his books, everything in them, not only happened in the real fairy tales…it also happened to him. Really. Adam Gidwitz is the bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm, In a Glass Grimmly, and The Grimm Conclusion, as well as Newbery Honored novel, The Inquisitor’s Tale, and The Unicorn Rescue Society series.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/maxinthehouseofspies
Reading in Bed with Jessica: L.A, Poet Society via 101.5 FM – Live On-Air Event
Reading in Bed with Jessica hosts poets and writers in conversation and is aired weekly on 101.5 FM.
Jessica Wilson Cardenas is the founder of L.A. Poet Society.
Guests TBA
This program is offered weekly on radioollin Los Angeles 101.5 FM.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: L.A. Poet Society via www.radioollin.com 101.5 FM
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: On-air Event (live at 101.5 FM)
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events
Rex Ogle & Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel at Vroman’s – In-Person MG Event
Rex Ogle presents and discusses Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel, a humorous and heartwarming middle-grade graphic memoir about fitting in, facing bullies, and finding the right pair of glasses.
In this true coming-of-age story, Rex has his sights set on surviving sixth grade, but now he’s got to find a way to do it with glasses, no friends, and a family that just doesn’t get it!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Rex-Ogle-discusses-Four-Eyes
Amy Tintera, with Mackenzi Lee, & Listen for the Lie at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Amy Tintera, in conversation with Mackenzi Lee, will discuss Listen for the Lie.
Lucy moves to LA to start a new life, following widespread assumptions she was implicated in the death of her best friend. But a true crime podcast decides to focus on investigating the death. So Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/amy-tintera
McKenzie Wark, with Michelle Tea, & Love & Money, Sex & Death at North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Event
McKenzie Wark, in conversation with Michelle Tea, will discuss her new memoir, Love & Money, Sex & Death: A Memoir.
After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and two kids, McKenzie Wark has an acute midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recasts her relation to the world. Transition changes what, and how, she remembers. She makes fresh sense of her past and of history by writing to key figures in her life about the big themes that haunt us all—love and money, sex and death.
In letters to her childhood self, her mother, sister, and past lovers, she writes a backstory that enables her to live in the present. The letters expand to address trans sisters lost and found, as well as Cybele, ancient goddess of trans women. She engages with the political, the aesthetic, and the numinous dimensions of trans life and how they refract her sense of who she is, who she has been, who she can still become. She confronts difficult memories that connect her mother’s early death to her compulsion to write, her communist convictions, her coming to New York, the bittersweet reality of her late transition, and the joy to be found in Brooklyn’s trans and raver communities.
McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto, The Beach beneath the Street, The Spectacle of Disintegration, Molecular Red, Capital Is Dead, as well as the popular introductions to contemporary thought General Intellects and Sensoria. In 2017, she came out as transgender. Since, she has published her trans autofiction books, Reverse Cowgirl and Raving, and a work that combines memoir and literary criticism about Kathy Acker, Philosophy for Spiders. She teaches at Eugene Lang College, the New School.
Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including the cult-classic Valencia, the essay collection Against Memoir, and the speculative memoir Black Wave. She is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim, Lambda Literary, and Rona Jaffe Foundations, PEN/America, and other institutions. Knocking Myself Up is her latest memoir.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 6040 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-ls54q6z6
RECESS Open Mic Is Back at SIPA HQ, Palms Up Academy – In-Person Event
RECESS Open Mic Is Back at SIPA HQ on Wednesdays.
Featuring a Student Showcase in the month of March!
This dynamic open mic is the most accessible public program in our curriculum and manifests our mission statement in a physical (and digital) space.
Join us at the intersection of Historic Filipinotown & The World: Search to Involve Pilipino Americans.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, cost, guidelines, and details.
Where: SIPA
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm (Doors at 6:30; Open Mic at 8 pm)
Address: 3200 W. Temple St., Ste. 100, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://www.palmsupacademy.com
Mariah Stovall, with Jean Kyoung Frazier, & I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both at Reparations Club – In-Person Event
Author Mariah Stovall, in conversation with author Jean Kyoung Frazier, will present and discuss her debut novel. I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both: A Novelset.
This novel is a story of coming-of-age and friendship set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City. It’s an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki Oliver, who’s perennially trying to disappear into something: a codependent friendship, an ill-advised boyfriend, the punk scene, or simply, the ether. These days it’s a meaningless job and a comfortingly empty apartment. Then, after a decade of estrangement, she receives a letter from her former best friend. Fiona’s throwing a party for her newly adopted daughter and wants Khaki to join the celebration.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Reparations Club
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3054 S. Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: https://rep.club/products/mariah-stovall-event
At Skylight: Katya Apekina, with Ottessa Moshfegh, & Mother Doll at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Katya Apekina, in conversation with Ottessa Moshfegh, will present and discuss her book Mother Doll.
Mother Doll is a visceral nesting doll of a novel about four generations of mothers and daughters and the inherited trauma cast by Russian history.
Ferociously funny and deeply moving, Mother Doll forces us to look at how painful secrets stamp themselves from one generation to the next. Katya Apekina’s second novel is a family epic and a meditation on motherhood, immigration, identity, and war.
Katya Apekina is a novelist, screenwriter, and translator. Her debut novel, The Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish, was named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Lithub, and others, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, German, and Italian. She is the recipient of an Elizabeth George grant, an Olin Fellowship, the Alena Wilson prize, and a Third Year Fiction Fellowship from Washington University in St. Louis, where she did her MFA. She has done residences at VCCA, Playa, Ucross, Art Omi: Writing, and Foundation Jan Michalski in Switzerland. Born in Moscow, she moved to the US when she was three years old and currently lives in Los Angeles. Mother Doll is her second novel.
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona, her next three novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Skylight
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-katya-apekina-presents-mother-doll-w-ottessa-moshfegh
Hype Book Club: Bride at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
Hype Book Club is led by bookseller Paola, and participants read popular books that everyone is talking about. The March selection for discussion is Bride by author Ali Hazelwood.
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
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.
- 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm — Formal workshop;
- 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm — TBA;
- 9:05 pm – 10:00 pm — 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@gmail.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.instagram.com/anansiwritersworkshop/
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom Event
Beyond Baroque’s longest-running free poetry workshop is offered on Zoom and welcomes new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Please be prepared to share one poem. This workshop will be hosted via the Zoom video-conferencing platform. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting.
The workshop facilitator this quarter is L.A. Johnson, the author of the chapbook Little Climates (Bull City Press, 2017). She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of Southern California, where she is currently a Mellon Humanities and University of the Future postdoctoral fellow. The winner of the 2022 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the 2022 Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, the 2021 Arts & Letters Rumi Poetry Prize, her poems appear in The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, and The Slowdown. She’s received support for her writing from Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. Find more about her at http://www.la-johnson.com
Please spend some time before the workshop learning how to share documents via Zoom. It will keep the session moving if you’re able to make your poem viewable quickly and easily. There’s an instructive video that might help.
The workshop can sometimes reach high levels of attendance, which means not everyone will get a chance to read every session.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets, and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesday-night-poetry-workshop-tickets-858801768207?aff=erelexpmlt
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry with Ben Trigg & Guest Feature Christian Hans Lozada at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Host Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Nights offers a Reading & Open Mic, with featured guest Christian Hans Lozada.
Christian Hans Lozada is the son of an immigrant Filipino and a descendant of the Southern Confederacy. He knows the shape of hope and exclusion. He authored the poetry collection He’s a Color, Until He’s Not and co-authored Leave with More Than You Came With. His poems have appeared in journals from California to Australia with stops in Hawaii, Korea, and the United Kingdom. Christian has featured at the Autry Museum and Beyond Baroque. He lives in San Pedro, CA and uses his MFA to teach his neighbors and their kids at Los Angeles Harbor College.
$4 cover fee, cash only
$4 cover fee, cash only.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/people/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/880741270452539
Not So Secret Society Book Club: The Agathas at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Not So Secret Society participants will discuss The Agathas (An Agathas Mystery #1) by authors Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson.
Who killed Brooke Donovan? It’s the biggest mystery of the summer, and everyone in Castle Cove thinks they know what happened. But they’re wrong. Two unlikely friends come together to solve the case in this fast-paced, fun, modern Agatha Christie inspired thriller.
Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces, How to Make Friends with the Dark, and You’d Be Home Now. She lives and writes in Tucson, Arizona.
Liz Lawson is the author of The Lucky Ones (2020), which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. She lives outside of Washington, DC, with her family and two bratty cats.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/not-so-secret-society-agathas
Mystery Book Club: Small Mercies at Venice Memorial Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Mystery Book Club participants will discuss Small Mercies by author Dennis Lehane.
RSVP:
For the Zoom link, please email venice@lapl.org.
Note: See site for details.
Where: Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 501 S. Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90291
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-45
Diverse Romance Book Club: Once Ghosted, Twice Shy at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Diverse Romance Book Club participants will discuss Once Ghosted, Twice Shy: A Reluctant Royals Novella, by author Alyssa Cole.
While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her romance had ended in heartbreak, and now, back in NYC again, she’s determined to rediscover her joy—so of course she runs into the woman who broke her heart.
When Likotsi and Fabiola meet again on a stalled subway train months later, Fab asks for just one cup of tea. Likotsi, hoping to know why she was unceremoniously dumped, agrees. Tea and food soon leads to them exploring the city together, and their past, with Fab slowly revealing why she let Likotsi go, and both of them wondering if they can turn this second chance into a happily ever after.
Alyssa Cole is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers and romance (historical, contemporary, and sci-fi). Her books have received critical acclaim from Library Journal, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, Booklist, Jezebel, Vulture, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, and various other outlets. When she’s not working, she can usually be found watching anime or wrangling her many pets.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/diverse-romance-book-club-once-ghosted-twice-shy
Book Talk & Signing: Katie Flynn, with Chana Porter, & Island Rule: Stories at Chevalier’s Books – In-Person Event
Katie Flynn, in conversation with Chana Porter, will discuss her genre-bending and interconnected book of stories, Island Rule: Stories.
Through each of these twelve interconnected stories, Katie Flynn masterfully blends people, places, and even realities. From a powerful and “radiant” (Kassandra Montag, author of After the Flood) new literary voice to be reckoned with, this collection will stay with you after turn the final page.
Katie M. Flynn is a writer, editor, and educator based in San Francisco. Her short fiction has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and Tor.com, among other publications. She has been awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, a fellowship from the San Francisco Writers Grotto, and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Katie holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco and an MA in Geography from UCLA. Her first novel, The Companions, was published by Gallery/Scout Press in 2020. Follow her on Instagram @Katie_M_Flynn or visit her website KatieMFlynn.com
Heralded as “the new Philip K. Dick,” Chana Porter is an author, playwright, teacher, MacDowell fellow, and cofounder of The Octavia Project, a STEM and writing program for girls, trans, and nonbinary youth that uses speculative fiction to envision greater possibilities for our world. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and is also the author of The Seep, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her newest novel The Thick and The Lean was named Best Science Fiction of 2023 by The Times of London.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Chevalier’s Books
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Nathan Tavaras, with Eric Williams, & Welcome to Forever at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Nathan Tavares, in conversation with Eric Williams, will discuss his book, Welcome to Forever.
Fox is a memory editor – one of the best – gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by Khadija Banks, the pioneer of memory editing technology turned revolutionary. A bombing which shredded the memory archives of all its victims, including his husband Gabe.
Thrust into reconstructions of his memories exploded from the fragments that survived the blast, Fox tries to rebuild his life, his marriage and himself. But he quickly realises his world is changing, unreliable, and echoing around itself over and over.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/nathan-tavares
Trenches Full of Poets: Readings by Leticia Cervates-Lopez, Laura Sermeño, and Iván Salinas at Page Against the Machine – In-Person Event
Trenches Full of Poets is a monthly poetry series created, curated, and hosted by Los Angeles-based poets and editors, Nikolai Garcia and Mauricio Andres Moreno, with the goal of supporting published SoCal authors and the local independent bookstores that support them.
Leticia Cervates-Lopez was born in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico. She immigrated to Los Angeles with her family when she was seven. She lived in East L.A., attended Roosevelt High School and then Cal State L.A. She is a retired teacher still in love with teaching and teaches English, Theater, Folklorico, History, and Chicano Studies to parents and community. She has written, directed, and produced many successful high school and community plays and is also an accomplished poet.
Laura Sermeño was born in Montebello, CA, raised and educated in Sur El Monte —UCLA matriculated, educated by her people only, from the classrooms to the streets. While in her second year of studies at UCLA in 2012, she began to unfold her art of poetry by auditioning for spoken word performances. In 2015, she was accepted into the Voices of our Nation’s (VONA) Southern California Regional Workshop, focusing on Poetry as Documentary. In 2017, along with her womxn-centered writing circle, Las Lunas Locas, her poetry was published in an anthology. She never traditionally captured the art of poetry-making, instead relying on her inner beat and only the most raw inspiration with which to write. She claims celestial goddess power, speaks truth and hopes to give mexicana princesas a good name. She now teaches and resides in Pasadena, CA.
Iván Salinas is an undocumented poet, co-editor of 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘡𝘪𝘯𝘦, and Programs Manager at Beyond Baroque. His work has been published in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘨, 𝘓𝘢 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘻 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦, and elsewhere. He is publishing a bilingual zine-turned-chapbook, 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳: 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘢, in 2024. He lives in Panorama City with his forever girlfriend Madi and their dog, Rocket.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Page Against the Machine
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2712 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90814
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events
Mariah Stovall, with Jean Kyoung Frazier, & I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both at Reparations Club – In-Person Event
Author Mariah Stovall, in conversation with author Jean Kyoung Frazier, will present and discuss her debut novel. I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both: A Novelset.
This novel is a story of coming-of-age and friendship set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City. It’s an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki Oliver, who’s perennially trying to disappear into something: a codependent friendship, an ill-advised boyfriend, the punk scene, or simply, the ether. These days it’s a meaningless job and a comfortingly empty apartment. Then, after a decade of estrangement, she receives a letter from her former best friend. Fiona’s throwing a party for her newly adopted daughter and wants Khaki to join the celebration.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Reparations Club
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3054 S. Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: https://rep.club/products/mariah-stovall-event
Paperback Release Event: Susanna Hoffs, with Magaret Stohl, & This Bird Has Flown at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
Songwriter and Bangles co-fonder Susanna Hoffs, in conversation with Margaret Stohl, will discuss her book, This Bird Has Flown.
Susanna will also give an acoustic performance followed by a book signing at this ticketed event.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Thursday the 7th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
At Skylight: Xochitl Gonzalez, with Jean Guerro, & Anita Del Monte Laughs Last at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Xochitl Gonzalez, in conversation with Jena Guerro, will discuss her book,Anita Del Monte LaughsLast, a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both women, Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive, witty examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.
Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming. Named a Best of 2022 by The New York Times, TIME, Kirkus, Washington Post, and NPR, Olga Dies Dreaming was the winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Fiction and the New York City Book Award. Gonzalez is a 2021 MFA graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her nonfiction work has been published in Elle Decor, Allure, Vogue, Real Simple, and The Cut. Her commentary writing for The Atlantic was recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A native Brooklynite and proud public school graduate, Gonzalez holds a BA from Brown University and lives in her hometown of Brooklyn with her dog, Hectah Lavoe.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Skylight
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Community Writing Workshop with Carly Sotas & Mimi Thompson at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Carly Sotas and Mimi Thompson will lead a community writing workshop for both novice and seasoned writers. Participants will be guided through a series of interactive prompts that will span across various writing formats.
This workshop is a perfect opportunity to explore different styles in a low-pressure, inclusive environment, expand your skills, and connect with fellow writing enthusiasts.
Please bring a pen and notebook, or a laptop!
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/35045
Daniel Lewis & Twelve Trees at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Daniel Lewis will present and discuss his new book Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future, which is a compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that represent the challenges facing our planet, and the ways that scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future.
Lewis takes us on a sweeping journey to plant breeding labs, botanical gardens, research facilities, deep inside museum collections, to the tops of tall trees, underwater, and around the Earth, journeying into the deserts of the American west and the deep jungles of Peru, to offer a globe-spanning perspective on the crucial impact trees have on our entire planet.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Daniel-Lewis-discusses-Twelve-Trees
Romantasy Writing Class: at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
Romantasy is a buzzword that’s taking readers of fantasy romance by storm. Join us in-person for an interactive workshop where you will explore what romantasy is and is not, which books and authors you should be reading/studying, and how to publish/self-publish a romantasy book.
Bring your ideas, laptop, notebook, or magic and give your book wings.
Recommended reading (not required):
Bride, by Ali Hazelwood and Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm
Address: Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Spectacular Storytime at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Spectacular Storytime is a weekly time to have fun with books with enthusiastic troubadour, Maddi!
Open to all ages. Free to attend.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 9:30 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event
Poetry Writing Workshopat Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join Gubnit Ní Dhúinn for the 3rd in a 5-part series of poetry writing when we focus on a specific poetic form, this month: Villanelle.
Equal time will be accorded to the discussion and composition of poetry. Those who come to relish the art form rather than create are also welcome.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-writing-workshop
Jenn Jackson & Black Women Taught Us at Octavia’s Bookshelf – In-Person Event
Author Jenn M. Jackson, PhD will present and discuss her new novel Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate Story of Black Feminism, and we will take a deep dive into an intimate history of black feminism. See you there!
Across eleven original essays that explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders—from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde—Jackson sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show, in both critical and deeply personal terms, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements and have done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods.
Where: Octavia’s Bookshelf
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1365 North Hill Ave., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: https://www.octaviasbookshelf.com/events/black-women-taught-us-book-talk
Ed Zwick, with Marshall Herskovitz, & Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Ed Zwick, in conversation with Marshall Herskovitz, will discuss his book, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and executive producer of My So-Called Life, gives a, behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/ed-zwick-marshall-herskovitz
Michael Arceneaux with Sylvia Obell, & I Finally Bought Some Jordans at Reparations Club – In-Person Event
Author Michael Arceneaux, in conversation with journalist Sylvia Obell, will present and discuss his collection of essays. I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays.
This book is a hilarious collection of essays about making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world.
In his previous books Michael Arceneaux established himself as one of the most beloved and entertaining writers of his generation, touching upon such hot-button topics as race, class, sexuality, labor, debt, and, of course, paying homage to the power and wisdom of Beyonce. In this collection, he takes stock of how far he has traveled—and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society. He explores the opportunities afforded to Black creatives but also the doors that remain shut or ever-so-slightly ajar.
Michael Arceneaux is the New York Times-bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé and I Don’t Want to Die Poor. He has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, Essence, Esquire, Ebony, Elle, Rolling Stone, and many other publications on and off Al Gore’s internet. He’s run his mouth on MSNBC, NPR, VH1, Viceland, Comedy Central, SiriusXM, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles.
Sylvia Obell is a journalist and on-air talent whose relatable and entertaining approach to news has made her a valued rising voice in culture. She’s currently the co-host of The Scottie & Sylvia Show, a podcast in partnership with Issa Rae’s Raedio audio company. Her past hosting work includes the Okay, Now Listen podcast and Get You A Me — both collaborations with Netflix’s Strong Black Lead — and Hella Opinions, an unapologetically black Twitter show she helped develop at BuzzFeed News.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Reparations Club
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3054 S. Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: https://rep.club/products/michael-arceneaux-event
At Skylight: S. Fey, with Michelle Tea, & Decompose at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
S. Fey, in conversation with Michelle Tea, will discuss the poetry collection, Decompose.
In Decompose, S. Fey explores pruning our past to make room for future growth; the expanse we are offered through the crush of heartbreak, discovering family beyond our original home, finding new meaning in our own name – S. Fey picks these timeless themes like roses from a flourishing garden to compose a thorny and succulent bouquet of living, loss, and rebirth throughout the rejuvenating pages of their debut poetry collection.
S. Fey is a Queer and Trans writer living in LA. Currently, they are the poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine, and co-creative director at Rock Pocket Productions. Their work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Thee Sonora Review, and others. They love to beat their friends at Mario Party. They tweet @sfeycreates.
Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books of memoir, fiction, poetry and children’s lit — including her latest, Knocking Myself Up. Her memoir Valencia won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, even though it was obviously all true. It was also made into a sprawling, feature-length art film using nearly 20 different directors and different Michelles. Her recent-ish essay collection, Against Memoir, was awarded the PEN/America Diamonstein-Speilvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also the recipient of the legendary Rona Jaffe Awards, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-s-fey-presents-decompose-w-michelle-tea
Jonna Mendez & In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Jonna Mendez will present and discuss her book, A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked.
Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her interest in photography into an operational role overseas, an unlikely area for a woman in the CIA. Often underestimated, occasionally undermined, she lived under cover and served tours of duty all over the globe, rising first to become an international spy and ultimately to Chief of Disguise at CIA’s Office of Technical Service.
In True Face recounts not only the drama of Mendez’s high-stakes work—how this savvy operator parlayed her “everywoman” appeal into incredible subterfuge—but also the grit and good fortune it took for her to navigate a misogynistic world.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Jonna-Mendez-discusses-In-True-Face
Eclipse Illumined, Poems and Images in Dialog: Cathie Sandstrom & Thom Cooney Crawford at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – In-Person & Live YouTube Hybrid Event
This poetry reading is a three-way dialog between two lyric poets and contemporary paintings which creates an experience of transcendence using symbol, mythos, Jungian archetypes, and everyday life in the visual, spiritual, and cosmic realms in this reading featuring Cathie Sandstrom and Thom Cooney Crawford.
Cathie Sandstrom is a Los Angeles-based poet and writer. Her poems are online at the Academy of American Poets (poets.org) and have been published in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Lyric, Ekphrasis, and other leading literary journals. Anthologies include Coiled Serpent and Wide Awake, among others. A short story for children appeared in Zizzle. Of two nominations for a Pushcart prize, one was from The Southern Review. Her poem “You, Again” is in the artists’ book collection at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles and at University of Southern California. Two of her poetry manuscripts have been finalists in several prestigious book competitions. Her essay “Braiding the Dreamscape” was published online by the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis, and her essay “Getting Broken” appears in Master Class: The Poetry Mystique by Suzanne Lummis. Her writing on veterans’ issues was published online by the Huffington Post for six years. Presently, she writes for the National Veterans Foundation and is working on her second novel along with new poetry. A military brat, she has never been “from around here” and still expects to hear from the Pentagon any day.
Thom Cooney Crawford, painter/sculptor/poet, earned his MFA in painting at Syracuse University and did graduate work in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design. He began his 40-year career in New York with two back-to-back shows at Tibor De Nagy gallery. He’s had 34 solo shows, 16 of them in New York City, and his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. A recipient of an NEA grant, New York CAP Grant, Open Studio Award, and Cill Rialaig Residency Award, he has taught at Middlebury College, Parsons School of Design, Binghamton University, and Lafayette College. In the early 2000s he left the art world, college teaching and the U.S. to “clear the bramble” from his head. He lived first in Bavaria, then for four years on Ireland’s wild west coast on the Ring of Beara. On his return in 2010, he went into his studio and worked in isolation for a decade until his most recent one-person exhibit, “The Inner Eye of Art / The Outer Spark.” His poem “Flutter” was published in Chronogram 2019, and he is the author of Raising of the Heart, a visual novel. He relocated his home and studio to the Los Angeles area in 2020. His art and poetry can be seen at http://www.thomcooneycrawford.com.
NOTE: See site for further details, and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
The Mix Up: Improv & Poetry at Fanatic Salon Theatre – In-Person Event
The Mix Up Improv & Poetry presents:
Poets: Jordan Stanley Kaitlyn Fae, Soul Stuf
Storyteller: Jay Sukow
Improvisors: Amanda Blake Davis, Frank Caeti, Frances Callier, Michelle Gilliam, Jane Morris, Jeff Michalski, Nnamdi Ngwe, Tezz Yancey
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Fanatic Salon Theatre
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 8 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3815 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066
Website: https://fanaticsalon.com/event/the-mix-up/
SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music Event & Open Mic by Lorenzo Frank at Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center – In-Person Event
Join us to hear a featured poet, plus an Open Mic, hosted by Lorenzo Frank on the first and third Fridays of the month.
Featured artist TBA
Lorenzo Frank is the author of ‘Nzinga Teaches/Learns a Lesson’ book series.
NOTE: See site for costs, guidelines, and details.
Where: Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 4305 Degnan Blvd., Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.facebook.com/swaampoetry
Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series, with host Elena Secota, via Rapp Saloon – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Third Fridays at Rapp Saloon Open Mic & Featured Readers is an event offered every 3rd Friday of the month, curated by host Elena Secota.
Featuring: Greg Bell, Peggy Dobreer & Sean Hill, plus Surprise Guests.
Greg Bell N/A
Peggy Dobreer is a Los Angeles poet, mentor, curator and writing facilitator with three published books of poetry: Forbidden Plums, with Glass Lyre Press; Drop & Dazzle and In the Lake of Your Bones with Moon Tide Press. She is editor of Slow Lightning: Impractical Poetry, Anthology Volume I released in December 2021 and Volume II, Slow Lightning: Astonished Poetry, released September 2023.
Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods, a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read. His poems have appeared in such journals as The Oxford American, Poetry, Tin House, and the Harvard Review, and several anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing, and Villanelles.He has served as the director of the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference at Bemidji State University since 2012. He is a consulting editor at Broadsided Press, a monthly broadside publisher.
RSVP and details at site.
Share your voice at the Open Mic, where there is a time limit of 4 minutes max. Sign-ups are: 8 pm – 8:30 pm.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Rapp Saloon at HISUA
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 8:30 pm – 11 pm
Address: 1436 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Zoom link in bio)
Website: https://www.facebook.com
Expedition L.A.: Journaling Hike with Brittney Lewis at Will Rogers State Historic Park – In-Person Event
Learn to journal mindfully and document your adventures through writing, observation, and artful scrapbooking. During this guided hike to Inspiration Point in Will Rogers State Historic Park, Brittney Lewis will teach us how to journal using all of our senses. This hike will be approximately 2.2 miles with an easy incline and minimal shade. Please be sure to wear weather-appropriate outerwear.
About Brittney Lewis: Brittney Lewis is a multidisciplinary artist + outdoor enthusiast who is obsessed with journaling.
This program was made possible by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Will Rogers Park, LAPL Off-site
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Will Rogers State Park Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90272
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/expedition-la-journaling-hike-will-rogers-state-historic-park
Book Reading & Signing: Vianney Harelly at Casita Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author Vianney Harelly is a nostalgic Fronteriza poet who writes about healing, generational trauma and writing love letters, will read and sign her new poetry book,
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Casita Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 10 am – 11:30 pm
Address: 1440 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90802
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4MMgCypOwg/?img_index=1
LGBTQ Book Club: Lavender House via Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Book Club participants will discuss Lavender House by author Lev AC Rosen.
RSVP:
Email silver@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/lgbtq-book-club
Poetry Workshop at Central Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join this inclusive, in-person poetry workshop where poets of all levels can come together, share their work, and foster a vibrant poetry community. Participants are invited to bring a poem, no longer than one page, to read and receive valuable feedback from fellow poets. Engage in thoughtful discussions and provide your own insights on the work of others. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or just starting out, this workshop offers a supportive environment to refine your craft, connect with like-minded individuals, and celebrate the power of words.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL, Literature & Fiction Study Rooms
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-workshop-1
Poetry Workshop with Lory Bedikian: The Ode at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – In-Person & Live YouTube Hybrid Event
Lory Beidkian’s poetry workshop is titled: The Ode: A Joyful or Analytical Wringer.
Before it was even named, the ode must have been a chant raised to the onset of darkness, singing gratitude for starlight. Imagine it across eons, changing according to language, topography and/or need. In our poetic history there have been odes kept in glass cases and some turned to ash, never given a chance.
This generative poetry workshop will focus on “The Ode” and inspire us to write our own! We will look at examples of this form, specifically poems from Keats, Neruda, Olds, Dove, and Clifton and will follow the discussion with writing prompts to create our own strong, first drafts.
Lory Bedikian‘s collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize and her latest book, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, won the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize. Several of Bedikian’s poems received the First Prize Award in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry as part of the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards. Her work is published in Miramar, Tin House, The Los Angeles Review, Northwest Review, BOULEVARD, The Adroit Journal, Literary Matters, Orion, and wildness and was featured on Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Poetry Unbound podcast. Her poem, “The Mechanic,” is included in the anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration (KNOPF, 2020). Bedikian’s manuscript-in-progress received a 2021 grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. New work is forthcoming in Gulf Coast and Guesthouse and was just released in Massachusetts Review’s Revisiting WOMAN: An Issue, 50 Years Later. Bedikian earned an MFA from the University of Oregon. She teaches poetry workshops in Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for further details, and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Charlotte Offsay & The Quiet Forest at Children’s Book World – In-Person Kids Event
Join the debut of Charlotte Offsay’s newest picture book, The Quiet Forest.
When a small action creates a snowball effect that disrupts the peace of the animals, the forest and a bear cub restore order once more in this delightfully funny picture book. A mischievous mouse wanders alone in a quiet, nothing-to-do forest. Until one small mishap snowballs into a chain of outrageous events, causing the whole forest full of animals to have a very loud day indeed. Can they find a way to bring calm and quiet back to their home?
Charlotte Offsay is the author of several children’s books including A Grandma’s Magic, Challah Day!, and The Big Beach Cleanup. When she is having a particularly loud day, she can always count on her two small bear cubs and husband to bring calm and quiet back to their home in Los Angeles, California. Learn more at CharlotteOffsay.com.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Children’s Storytime: René Colato Laínez & My Friend, Mi Amigo at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Bilingual families and young students learning to speak and read Spanish will treasure this third book in the My Friend, Mi Amigo series. René Colato Laínez, a teacher in a bilingual kindergarten classroom, has crafted an ingenious story that authentically and naturally uses conversation to introduce children to English and Spanish.
Make sure to RSVP on our EVENTBRITE!
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/35121
Special Storytime: Marcia & Kori Withers & Grandma’s Hands at Vroman’s – In-Person Family Event
Grandma’s Hands is a timeless, universal song originally featured on Bill Withers’ 1971 album, “Just As I Am.” With soulful lyrics, the song captures the significant impact that Withers’ grandmother had on his life as a child. Multiple award-winning artist R. Gregory Christie has brought the iconic song to life through vibrant illustrations, painting a tender portrait of Bill’s grandmother. Through the illustrations, readers are transported back in time to experience the comfort, security, and unconditional love.
Marcia and Kori Withers, the late wife and daughter of Bill Withers who will read from and speak about Grandma’s Hands.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 11 am
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Vromans-Special-Storytime-featuring-Marcia-and-Kori-Withers-Mar-24
Children’s Reading: Sasha Lee & The Hanapepe Hero at Octavia’s Bookshelf – In-Person Event
Bring the kiddos to the children’s reading of a story called The Hanapepe Hero by student author, Sasha Lee. This amazing story will be followed by a crafting activity, so come on out and join us for a morning of fun!
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Octavia’s Bookshelf
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Address: 1365 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: https://www.octaviasbookshelf.com/events/the-hanpepe-hero-reading-and-signing
Children’s Storytime: Marya Ayloush & Ramadan Curious George at Chevalier’s Books – In-Person Event
Author Marya Ayloush will read from her book for all ages, Ramadan Curious George.
This playful book makes a great holiday gift for all fans of Curious George—those who celebrate Ramadan, and those who are learning about it for the first time.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Chevalier’s
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 12 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Felicia’s Free Form Writing Workshop via Sims Library of Poetry – Online Event
This monthly workshop is held online every last Saturday of the month and Felicia provides a prompt and you can connect with community while reaching your writing goals.
Felicia Taylor E. is a poet, actress, author, writer, and arts educator. She’s performed with the Award-winning companies, Deaf West Theater and Dallas Children’s Theater. And toured with companies in California performing Shakespeare, Contemporary plays and Poetry. As an Arts Educator, she’s worked within the community creating worksho9ps and performances for museums, schools, libraries, and colleges. Her belief is that “writing and journaling is healing.” Her book Southern Spiced: A Brown Girl’s Tale, is a Reader’s Choice Book Award Finalist.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 12 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/felicias-free-form-drop-in-writing-session-14
Drag Queen Storytime: Celebrate a Native Flowerat Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Drag Queen storytime will be providing seeds and small pots to plant your own flower. It’s going to be so much fun! You can’t miss it!
Tickets are required to attend this event.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/dragqueensloveflowers
Zine Making Workshop with L.A. Zine Fest at Palisades Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Learn how fun and easy it is to express yourself by making zines. Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are homemade booklets that can be about anything that interests you. In the Zine Workshop, L.A. Zine Fest will briefly discuss the history of zines and zine making, the diversity of zines, and the importance of zines and zine culture in today’s society. Learn how you can create your own mini-zine to tell your story or anyone else’s with or without words.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Palisades Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 861 Alma Real Dr., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/zine-making-la-zine-fest
Tia Chucha Press’s Serpent Song Reading at La Plaza de Cultura – In-Person Event
Tia Chucha’s presents a reading and conversation with poets form both the Coiled Serpent and The Wandering Song anthologies:
Poets include:
Vickie Vertiz is a writer and educator and the author most recently of AutoBody.
Lynne Thompson is the recent poet laureate of Los Angeles, and the author of three collections of poetry. Her new book Blue on a Blue Palette is forthcoming in 2024.
Cynthia Guardado is a Salvadoran American poet and writer, professor of English at Fullerton College, and author most recently of the collection Cenezas.
Xochitl Julisa Bermejo is the author most recently of Incantation: Love Poems For Battle Sites, a founder of Women Who Sumit, and a writing instructor and activist.
Neelanjana Banerjee is managing editor for Kaya Press, has published her journalism, in numerous journals, and teaches writing and publishing in the Asian American Studies Department at UCLA and through private writing workshops.
Hosted by Luivette Resto, author most recently of Living on Islands Not Found on Maps.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Tia Chucha’s at La Plaza de Cultura
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 501 N. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: https://www.tiachucha.org/events
Big Read: Memoir Writing at Will & Ariel Durant Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Memoir writing discussion/program with different local writers; the many forms a memoir could take (narrative, graphic novel, through poetry, etc).
Part of the Big Read and Roz Chast’s memoir, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Will & Ariel Durant Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 2:30 pm
Address: 7140 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-memoir-writing
Creative Writing Group at Central Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Calling all writers of fiction, screenplays, poetry, etc. Get feedback on your writing in a fun, supportive environment. Meetings include a writing prompt/exercise, snacks, and a rollicking good time! Whether you are just starting out or well on your way to glory, join us and banish (at least temporarily) those Lonely Writer Blues!
RSVP:
Please RSVP by emailing fiction@lapl.org today.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL, Meeting Room B
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/writers-group-0
Expressions L.A. 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, and offered every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month.
RSVP:
Please email studio@lapl.org for participation details.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Will & Ariel Durant Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 7140 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/expressions-la-poetry-reading-series-and-open-mic-3
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Readings by Gerda Govine, Alan Chazaro & Nikolai Garcia – Online Event
Featured poets reding online today include: Gerda Govine, Alan Chazaro & Nikolai Garcia and poets published in Four Feathers Press online edition: Pie Sighs and are hosted by DKC & JRT.
Gerda Govine Ituarte’s poetry collections include Poetry Within Reach in Unexpected Places, 2018; Future Awakes in Mouth of NOW, 2016; Alterations|Thread Light Through Eye of Storm, 2015; Oh, Where is My Candle Hat? 2012 in English and Spanish. She is the Editor and Contributor of the Pasadena Rose Poets Poetry Collection 2019: Reflection. Resistance. Reckoning. Resurrection. which launched November 15, 2019.
Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020).
Nikolai Garcia is the author of Nuclear Shadows of Palm Trees and is co-host of the monthly reading series Trenches Full of Poets in Long Beach.
Don Kingfisher Campbell hosts and curates these events.
Where: Saturday Afternoon Poetry
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Ann Suk Wang & The House Before Faling into the Sea at Vroman’s – In-Person Kids Event
In this story a child and her family take in refugees during the Korean War. This poignant picture book is about courage and what it really means to care for your neighbors.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Ann-Suk-Wang-presents-The-House-Before-Falling-Into-The-Sea
Dual Author Reading: Jennifer Chow and Iris Yamashita at Octavia’s Bookshelf – In-Person Event
Join us for a special dual author reading and signing!
Jennifer Chow (ILL FATED FORTUNE) and Iris Yamashita (VILLAGE IN THE DARK) partner together for the debut of their novels.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Octavia’s Bookshelf
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 1365 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: https://www.octaviasbookshelf.com/events/ill-fated-fortune-reading-and-signing
Pages on Stages: Celebrating the Release of Gia’s She Confuses Lovers, Movies, Angels, and Poems at Sims Library of Poetry – In-Person Event
Gia Civerolo’s release of She Confuses Lovers, Movies, Angels, and Poems will also feature several readings.
Gia Civerolo is a Los Angeles based poet, producer, educator, and special needs advocate. She has immersed herself into the poetry community for the past few years and is thrilled to be graduating in June from the CLI Poetry Publishing Class with her this first full-length collection She Confuses Lovers, Movies, Angels & Poems. She is honored to be published in Spectrum Online Editions, Once Upon a Poem Anthology, Four Feather Press Southern California Series Anthologies & E-books. She is also featured in the Bards of Southern California: Top 30 SoCal Poets. She can be seen performing at open mics most Wednesdays at the World Stage Anansi Poetry Writers Workshop, weekends with the Saturday Afternoon Poetry, and once a month at Pages on Stages at the Sims Library of Poetry. Gia is most proud to be Riley and Holden’s Mother.
Aiyana Sha’niel is a 21-year-old Black poet born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She has been writing for over seven years, beginning at Hamilton High School, on her school’s poetry team, Hamlit, where she competed in Get-Lit competitions from 2017-2020. She was Poetry Out Loud’s 2020 County representative for Los Angeles and placed second in the State competition. Sha’niel was the Youth Poet Representative for the LA Arts Recover Fund Donors Banquet, at the Getty Museum. She was one of five poets selected for KCRW’s Young Creators concert, spotlighting youth talent throughout Los Angeles County. Sha’niel has also been the featured poet at various events including the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures “Regeneration” Exhibition Activation, the Culver City Book Festival, and the Pan-African Film Festival Spoken Word Activation. She has had individual pieces published nationally through various online magazines such as Rooted Minds, Black Minds Publishing, and Death Rattle. Sha’niel’s work has been published in various anthologies including the Behind the Vision’s “The Story Behind the Poems,” Sims Library of Poetry’s “Poems in Praise of Libraries,” Street Poet’s “The Burning River”. She is a 2021 graduate of the Community Literature Initiative program (CLI). Sha’niel signed to World Stage Press and released her first collection of poems, Little Black Poetry Book, on September 25th, 2022 at 19 years old.
Lynda V. E. Crawford was born and raised in Barbados and lives in the US. Both homes sway and punctuate her writing. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Lynda’s poems have appeared in print and online journals including Prairie Schooner, ArtsEtc Barbados, The Caribbean Writer, The Galway Review, The Bookends Review, Moonstone Arts Center (various anthologies), Exposition Review, The Halcyone Literary Journal, and in Los Angeles Poets for Justice: A Document for the People. She has work forthcoming in the California State Poetry Society’s California Quarterly. Lynda writes to sneak behind eyes, blow through ears, and stretch voices.
MaiJoi is a poet and painter from Los Angeles, California. She uses spoken word to heal herself and others and spread hope. MaiJoi was recently Featured at P-Valley, SWAAM,The World Stage, The Pan-African Poetry Festival 2023 and 2024, Poet vol.1, Creative Jucies. Spit that Poet, many on-line mics and more. She is also the host and curator of “Write Yourself Free” a writing workshop designed to help empower people and push them into freedom through writing. She is honing her performance and writing abilities at the World Stage where she workshops and performs her poetry, along with many other venues. Maijoi is a lover of words, and how they can be used as a conduit to healing and restoration.
Albert Starr, Jr. is the author of Late Night Offerings & Morning Prayers. Writing at the intersection of the poetic and the prophetic, Albert writes to capture the grace and truth inherent in both. As performer, storyteller and poet he is always seeking to bring an offering gleaned from the late-night wrestling and the demands of morning prayers. He is a native of Durham, North Carolina. Together with his wife Judy, their family calls Los Angeles, California home.
Hosted by Karo Ska.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 2702 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Indie Bookstore Feld Trip #19: LA/Echo Park at Bel Canto Books Off-Site at des pair books + A Good Used Book – In-Person Event
Bel Canto Books’ 19th Indie Field Trip will visit des pair books in Echo Park and A Good Used Book in Los Angeles.
Schedule is as follows:
10 am – des pair books (1543 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026)
11 am – A Good Used Book (307 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90026)
The Plan:
1) We’ll meet at 10am at des pairs books and browse for a bit, gathering at 10:45am for introductions and a group photo.
2) Then we’ll head to A Good Used Book (a 6-minute drive) for more bookstore browsing and a group photo at 11:45pm.
3) For those interested, we’ll convene afterwards at a nearby coffee shop or restaurant for a quick lunch or snack (meal on own).
Where: Bel Canto Books off-site at des pair books + A Good Used Book
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 10 am
Addresses: 543 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (des pair); and
307 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 (A Good Used Book)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indie-bookstore-field-trips-19-laecho-park-tickets-785527813837
Holy Pepperoni Reading Hourat North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Kids Event
Holy Pepperoni Reading Hour is hosted by Plants and Jacket, stars of the new Children’s Television show Holy Pepperoni.
Pants and Jacket will read some of their favorite picture books followed by a fun and magical activity.
The Holy Pepperoni Reading Hour is free and open to kids of all ages!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 11 am
Address: 6040 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-lr6tgkvk
Palabras Literary Salon: Sarah Ghasal Ali with BIPOC Writersat Laitnx with Plants – In-Person Event
Palabras Literary Salon will feature Sarah Ghasal Ali and BIPOC writer for readings, community discussion and a light reception. Hosted by West Hollywood Poet Laureate Jen Chang.
Theme: Matrilineage.
Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of THEOPHANIES (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award.
A 2022 Djanikian Scholar and winner of The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, her poems appear in POETRY, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, The Yale Review, Poem-a-Day, Guernica, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
A Stadler Fellow, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and currently lives in the Bay area of California.
NOTE: See site for free RSVP, guidelines, and details. Donations welcomed.
Where: Latinx with Plants
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 2208 Cesar Chavez., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/palabras-at-latinx-with-plants-tickets-846828876967
Bucket List Book Club: Death Comes for the Archbishop at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Bucket List Book Club participants will discuss Death Comes of the archbishop, by author Willa Cather.
Written in 1927 at a time when Cather herself was expanding her own ideas of race, religion, and gender, Death Comes for the Archbishop remains a moving account of one man’s physical and spiritual journey of understanding in naturalistic prose as sparse as the desert plains.
Set in 1848, following the US’s recent acquisition of the American Southwest from Mexico, the young bishop Father Jean Marie Latour receives instruction from the Vatican to oversee a newly created diocese in New Mexico. With his good friend Father Joseph Vaillant in tow, the pair travel through the unforgiving and seemingly-endless desert on mules in attempt to reclaim the region from corrupt priests who have taken mistresses, exhibited greed, and inflicted abuse and genocide on the Mexican and Indigenous residents. This is a moving account of one man’s physical and spiritual journey of understanding in naturalistic prose as sparse as the desert plains.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/bucket-list-book-club-death-comes-archbishop
George Lopez & Chupacarter and the Screaming Sombrero at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
George Lopez will present and discuss his next laugh-out-loud ChupaCarter adventure!
Jorge and his chupacabra chum Carter are hot on the trail of the legendary El Dorado gold…but so are some wicked treasure hunters who will stop at nothing to find it!
A cursed Aztec dagger. A five-hundred-year-old witch’s riddle. And a…screaming sombrero?
These are the ancient artifacts that mysteriously hold the answer to the location of the priceless El Dorado treasure hidden in New Mexico—not far from where Jorge and Carter live.
George Lopez’s multifaceted career encompasses television, film, standup comedy, and late-night programs. He currently stars in and executive produces the NBC sitcom Lopez vs. Lopez, and can also be seen in his Netflix original comedy special, We’ll Do It for Half. His autobiography Why You Crying? was a New York Times bestseller. He has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America by TIME magazine, and one of the Top Ten Favorite Television Personalities by The Harris Poll. ChupaCarter is his first series for children.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore (in the Courtyard)
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/George-Lopez-March-17-Author-signing
Workshop Your Novel at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
This is a ticketed event and offered in-person only.
Once you have reserved your spot you will receive instructions online to submit your work.
You will respond to all other manuscripts and make comments for the author in advance of the event. Each author will receive comments from peers and from Jeanne De Vita with personalized feedback and critique.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Roar Shack Reading Event with David Rocklin & Guest Readers at Echo Park Time Travel Mart – In-Person Event
The March Roar Shack Reading will feature these stellar talents:
Melissa Chadburn is a poet and writer and author of the debut poetry collection A Tiny Upward Shove. She is a Ph.D. candidate at USC’s Creative Writing Program, and through her own work and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence.
Marcus Clayton is a multi-genre Afro-Latino writer from South Gate, CA, who holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from CSU Long Beach. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and is an executive editor for Indicia Literary Journal. He is the author of Nurture the Open Wounds.
Brian Lin is a doctoral candidate at USC in creative writing and literature. He has attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and the VONA Summer Workshop. He was a resident at Ragdale and The Cabins and a fellow at the Community of Writers Workshop and the Writing by Writers Workshop. His stories and essays can be found in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, The Margins, Lambda Literary, Hyphen Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Erin Marie Lynch is a descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California, where she serves as the managing editor of Ricochet Editions. She is the author of Removal Acts.
Krishna Narayanamurti’s essays, articles, and poems have appeared in LAist, The GroundTruth Project, Killing the Buddha, The Brazenhead Review, The Northridge Review, and elsewhere. He is the prose editor for Indicia Literary Journal and was a 2020 finalist for the Religion News Association’s Chandler Award. Krishna holds a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing and a graduate certificate in religious studies from the University of Southern California. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at USC, where he teaches courses in the Thematic Option Honors Program and the School of Religion.
Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera writes so that the desert landscape of her childhood can be heard as loudly as the urban chaos of adulthood. She is the author of the YA novel, Breaking Pattern, and is an award-winning debut playwright.
Don’t miss this one!
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Echo Park Time Travel Mart
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 1714 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/roar-shack-march-show/7350519738301676/
Book Launch: Ron Wilkins & Crook’s Lens at Midnight Books – In-Person Event
Author Ron Wilkins will present and discuss his book, Crook’s Lens: A Photographic Journey Through the Black Liberation Struggle.
Ron Wilkins has lived an incredible life of struggle. From being one of the key organizers of the Watts Rebellion in 1965, to a key member of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) including during their alliance with the Black Panther Party, to standing with Chavez in the face of a US backed coup, standing with Fidel, being in South Africa as apartheid ended and many more travels and events documented in this book! Don’t miss this! A chance to speak to and learn from an elder in the movement.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Midnight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 3382 E. Florence Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 90255
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4MUyWEPV7x/?hl=en
Harriet Jacobs & Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl at Octavia’s Bookshelf – In-Person Event
“Those familiar with Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography will discover new, vital details about her lifelong struggle in defense of Black women and Black people. Those encountering this work for the first time will be profoundly altered by Jacobs’ relentless pursuit of equal rights and justice”. —Kali Gross, Emory University
Where: Octavia’s Bookshelf
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1365 North Hill Ave., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: https://www.octaviasbookshelf.com/events/incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl
Focus on Craft Book Club: Mister Hockey at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
March’s Focus on Craft Book Club participants will discuss Mister Hockey: A Hellions Hockey Romance, by author Lia Riley. Developmental editor and teacher Joanne De Vita leads this book club. Please join us.
No membership is necessary, feel free to show up!
For fans of Icebreaker—sparks fly between a hockey player with a dirty mouth and an awkward bookworm in this spicy hockey romance.
No membership is necessary, feel free to show up!
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Sippin’ + Zines: A Zine Fest Fundraiserat North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Event
High Five Wine Club and North Figueroa Bookshop host a Zine Fest Fundraiser with a night of wine tasting and zine making.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, sliding scale costs, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 6040 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
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