Author: Brian Dunlap

Brian Dunlap is a native Angeleño capturing the city’s stories hidden in plain sight. He’s the author of the chapbook Concrete Paradise (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and the winner of a Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize from december magazine judged by former Los Ángeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez. He's also the Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles Literature, an independent online magazine covering the Greater Los Ángeles literary community.
Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/05/20 – 10/11/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS Nick Hornby & Just Like You via Literary Affairs’ Books & Bathrobes – Zoom Online Event            Bestselling author Nick Hornby will discuss his novel Just Like You in a book club-style conversation with Julie Robinson in a Zoom online event. This novel is a twenty-first century love story about what happens when the person who makes you … Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/05/20 – 10/11/20

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Poet Sara Borjas Wins Prestigious Award

By Brian Dunlap

Last year Fresno native and L.Á. based poet and UC Riverside professor, Sara Borjas, published her debut collection Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff,” from Noemi Press, to critical acclaim. It’s a poetry collection about her chicanx heritage, immediate family, and personal journey, in terms of love, chicanx gender rolls and expectations and, as she calls herself, of being a “Pocha.”

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News From Poet Angelina Sáenz

By Brian Dunlap

During the Coronavirus pandemic, poet Angelina Sáenz revised her monthly open mic, La Palabra, and made it a weekly series for 10 weeks: 10 Poets in 10 Weeks. One poet a week was featured. They ranged from Jenise Miller to Willie Perdomo to Octavio Quintanilla. She’s been the host of the Highland Park-based open mic for just over two and a half years.

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Los Angeles Literature Events: 9/21/20 – 9/27/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Speaker Series with Alison Rose Jefferson & Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era via The Ebell of Los Angeles – Online Event 

The Ebell hosts author and speaker Alison Rose Jefferson, who will share her research and findings contained in her book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era. Our local public places and leisure sites hold a central place in the ongoing freedom rights struggle, and the author describes these cases and efforts in detail.         

Where: The Ebell Speaker Series – Online (see site)                              

Date: Monday the 21st                                         

Time: 12pm – 1 pm                     

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/269045181101014

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 9/14/20 – 9/20/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

UNMUTE! is a month-long generative workshop for writers at all levels. Each week, participants will meet LIVE with poet and writer Brendan Constantine for ninety minutes, to discuss and explore approaches to poetry and discover ways to practice perpetual astonishment. Each class will end with at least one “no pressure” assignment, designed to liberate your own style. Dates of workshop: Sept. 14th, 21st, 28th, and Oct, 5th.

NOTE: See course details and costs at: https://awfulgoodwriters.com/courses/brendan-constantine-unmute/?fbclid=IwAR3DL0iNNdBJCoFn5KrMZw6_L3ua3DBb-NuEOn9miK12vaX1bD0BC-np7DE

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Dryland Expands Its Mission

By Brian Dunlap

It’s been five years since “Dryland: A Literary Journal Born in South Central Los Angeles,” published its first issue. Since Founding Editor-in-Chief, Viva Padilla, set out to publish “the best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of the Los Angeles literary underground, and to prioritizing Black and POC artists, writers, and poets,” as it states on the journal’s website.

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Community Service During COVID-19

FROM: L.A. County Library Library Staff Step Into New Roles We’ve always been dedicated to serving the communities of LA County, but now more than ever, with doors to our buildings closed to the public since mid-March, Library staff have met the challenges LA County faces head-on, using their unique and diverse skills to step into new roles to bring essential services to communities during … Continue reading Community Service During COVID-19

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