Los Angeles Literature Events 7/03/17 –7/09/17
Adult Writing Workshop at Robertson Branch Library
Writing a book and looking for feedback? Need deadlines to help you reach your writing goals? Then this is the group for you!
Each meeting, participants should bring 5-10 double-spaced pages of writing to share with the group. Depending of the size of the group, they will have 1025 minutes to share and receive feedback.
Please call the library’s information desk to RSVP.
Where: Robertson Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Address: 1719 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/eventsrobertson-branch-writers-group /
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Teen Reading by Design Summer Program at Exposition Park-Dr. Mary Bethune Regional Library–Teen Event
Good news from Los Angeles writer Natasha Deón. The following is from her Facebook page. A big congratulations goes out to Mrs. Deón and all her hard work:
Teen’Scape program presents a creative workshop on the DIY art of writing poetry, drawing mini-comics, collaged illustration, self-publishing, and making zines.
Yesterday it was announced that Cynthia Guardado, Los Angeles poet and author of the poetry collection Endeavor, won the prestigious Pellicer-Frost Poetry Prize. The prize, according to its website, is awarded to one “Mexican poet and to a United States poet” who has submitted a manuscript of 25 or more pages, and comes with $2,500 and publican of their poems in various literary magazine in both the US and Mexico.
Three independent publishing entities with common goals of publishing vital and exciting literature, building and participating in community, and contributing and promoting good literary citizenship, are joining forces.
There is a new open mic in town. Yes, another open mic. Yes, even though this site lists more than 30 in and around L.A.
Lou Cove, with Joel Stein, discusses and signs Man of the Year: A Memoir, which tells the story of a family in the 1970s. After his eighth move in twelve years, Lou figures he should resign himself to teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes, school bullies, and unrequited lust for girls he likes. But the arrival of an old friend of Lou’s father from California leads him to juggle the perils of adolescence with the pursuit of Hollywood stardom.
