As 2016 comes to a close, local writers have found publishing success. Some have published in journals and magazines, others publshed books and even others published both short pieces along with books. There is a richness in the diversity of their narratives. Congratulations to all the hardworking writers in the Los Angeles literary community. Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2016
As the holidays are upon use and everyone is spending time with friends and/or families, I too am taking a vacation. There will be no list of weekly events till the new year. May you get all the books you asked for for Christmas or Hanukkah. Happy Holidays to all. And a shout out of friendship and comradery to the great Los Angeles literary community. May … Continue reading No List of Weekly Events
By Mike Soksen
From: KCET.org
In early 2017, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) will be announcing our city’s next official Poet Laureate. Dating back over a century, there is an illustrious poetic tradition in Los Angeles, which the Poet Laureate is expected to propagate.
According to the DCA’s website, the seven objectives of the program are to:
Zine-Making Workshops at Central Library
Join us to work on the DIY art of writing poetry, drawing mini-comics, collaged illustration, self-publishing, and making zines.
Where: Teen’Scape, Central Library
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/zine-making-workshops
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 12/12/16 –12/18/16”
by Ellie Robins
From: L.A. Times
If you chart the history of dream writing, you get a map of ideas about fate and individual agency through the ages.
With a few notable exceptions, the ancients and medieval Europeans saw dreams as divine messages; spaces in which you might learn about the destiny assigned to you. In Native American cultures too, dreams have been a means of transcending the individual and connecting with the spiritual world.
Continue reading “In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz’s ‘Bruja’ is vivid and dark”
Angel City Review, a journal dedicated to the literary voices of Los Angeles, has just released its 4th issue. This issue of Angel City Review contextualizes writing in terms of the difficult times we live in. In the “Forward” written by Lead Editor John Venegas, writing hones in on the job of “poets and writers [who] continue to ask difficult questions, respond to those questions, keep alive the humanity that often seems lost, and retain hope.” In these times of Trump, where one group of people hate another group of people they do not even know or have never met, what can writing do when it asks and confronts difficult questions? It allows readers “to engage with and experience what it is like to live a life that is not your own.” In other words, writing allows the reader to step in someone else’s shoes.
Anne Rice at Barnes & Nobel Bookstore
Join us to hear author Anne Rice, in conversation with Christopher Rice, discuss and sign her new book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Vampire Chronicles Series #12). From Anne Rice, the conjurer of the bestselling series, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power, an author discussion and signing.
This is a wristband event. For event guidelines please visit the store’s facebook page at www.facebook.com/BNEventsGrove or call the store at: 323-525-0270.
Where: Barnes & Nobel Bookstore, The Grove
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 189 The grove Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780061816140-0
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 12/05/16 –12/11/16”
BY KENJI LIU
From: Therumpus.net
A gifted poet and doctor of social psychology, Ashaki M. Jackson debuted two chapbooks in 2016, both remarkable for their delicate attention to language and conscience. Language Lesson involves the deeply personal process of grief after the loss of a close family member, and Surveillance a kind of communal grief (though no less personal) due to the ongoing police murders of black people.
Continue reading “LANGUAGE LESSON AND SURVEILLANCE BY ASHAKI M. JACKSON”
Matt Coyle at Vroman’s Bookstore
Southern California author Matt Coyle discusses and signs his new book, Dark Fissures. Private investigator Rick Cahill fears the next knock on his door will be a cop holding a warrant for his arrest. For murder. La Jolla Chief of Police Tony Moretti is convinced Rick killed a missing person. Although no body has been found, all the evidence points to Rick
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/matt-coyle-discusses-and-signs-dark-fissures
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 11/28/16 –12/04/16”
From: L.A. Weekly
The launch of Angels Flight (not the funicular) is the grand blastoff of an ambitious literary salon series to be held at the venerable, quintessentially downtown Clifton’s Cafeteria. The night focuses on writings about Los Angeles history and how L.A. provokes change in our lives. Author and USC English professor Dana Johnson (Elsewhere, California: A Novel) and screenwriter-novelist David Kukoff (Children of the Canyon and the forthcoming Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes in the Goldmine) read from their work, followed by a Q&A. Attention writers: You can share your own writing, completed and in-progress, on this ever-fascinating subject. Themed beverages and dining available.
Continue reading “A New Literary Salon in Los Angeles: Angels Flight Literary Salon”
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