41^st Annual Writers Week Conference at UC Riverside

Join us for the 41^st Annual Writers Week Conference, the longest-running FREE literary event in California, which attracts both seasoned authors and those just beginning their careers. This year’s event takes place from February 12-18, and is hosted by the UCR Department of Creative Writing and Tom Lutz, the Writers Week director.

On Monday, February 12^th join us to hear:

Tess Taylor is a poet, an on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and the chair of the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle. She is the author of the chapbook, Misremembered World, the book The Forage House, in which she explores her personal history as a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, and the author of Work and Days, which was named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2016 by The New York Times. (Reading at 2:30 pm)

Hadara Bar-Nadav is a poet and a Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is the author of two chapbooks and three poetry collections. She also co-authored the bestselling textbook Writing Poems (8^th edition) with Michelle Boisseau. Her latest book of poetry, The New Nudity was published in 2017. (Reading at 4 pm)

Books by Writers Week authors are available at the UCR Bookstore and at Cellar Door Books in nearby Canyon Crest Town Center.

Complimentary parking permits available at parking lot Kiosk.

Where: CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg., South-Screening Room, 1128

Date: Monday the 12^th

Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm; and 4 pm – 5:30 pm on Monday the 12^th

Address: 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521

Website: http://www.writersweek.ucr.edu

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Memoir Writing Workshop at , LAPL

Would you like to write your own memoir? Instructor Erika Fernbach is offering a free, two session course to get you started. It is recommended that you attend both sessions.

Don’t forget to bring paper and pen—or your computer!

Where: Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch Library, LAPL

Date: Monday the 2^nd

Time: 2:30 pm – 4 pm

Address: 14245 Moorpark St., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

Website:    https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/memoir-writing-workshop

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From: The Soul of California

 

In this 65-minute interview, writer Luis Rodriguez discusses his nine lives, going from being a barely pubescent gang member in East LA and the San Gabriel Valley, to being shot at, doped up and finding redemption through the arts, literature and his own writing. After all this, he sets an example to others facing the same temptations and challenges that he faced.

Continue reading “Luis Rodriguez – Angry at Injustice, Hungry for Change”

First saw this ad in the New Yorker. L.A. very own rock star poet, Amanda Gorman. She’s also published a book of poems titles The One for Whom Food is Not Enough. Continue reading Former Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate, Now Youth Poet Laureate of the United States

by Brian Dunlap Los Angeles poet Matt Sedillo has won the 2017 Joe Hill Poetry Award. As stated on the Labor Heritage website the ” Joe Hill Award honors leaders and artists who have contributed to the successful integration of arts and culture in the labor movement, given every year at the Great Labor Arts Exchange is awarded to persons based on their dedication, participation, and promotion … Continue reading Los Angeles Poet Matt Sedillo Wins Poetry Award

90X90LA: Facilitating Spaces at Cielo Galleries/Studios

 

Facilitating Spaces 101: not ‘what’, but ‘where’ are we doing[?]

first comes the space
then comes facilitating
or
first comes facilitating
then comes the space

What draws us to particular spaces? What do we know about the space before and after we choose it? Who was here before us? Who is us? Where is us? What are we doing here?

Either way, the spaces we choose to hold our events in are determined by a number of factors, but are those factors aligned with equitable intentions? This workshop/discussion hopes to convince you, to persuade you, to con you, into thinking deeply about the space your program occupies.

We’ll run through the many components/factors/variables of operating in a space. Whether it’s a workshop, a classroom, a reading, an art exhibit, or a musical experience – we need spaces! Incorporating thoughtfulness and mindfulness will not only help to make your event more meaningful and engaging, but it also fosters inclusive practices that in the long run can build equity in art/communities.

This workshop/discussion is part one in the [equity in community building series] and facilitated by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell

Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios

Date: Monday the 14^th

Time: 7 pm

Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011

Website:   http://90x90la.com/facilitating-spaces-101-equity-in-community-building-814-7pm/

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Fitzgerald’s I’d Die for You at Book Soup

Join us to hear editor Anne Margaret Daniel discuss and sign F. Scott Fitzgerald’s I’d Die for You, a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by Fitzgerald, most of which were originally submitted to major magazines in the 1930s and accepted during his lifetime but never published. Some could not be sold because they departed from what editors expected of him. These stories provide a new look into his creative process and a new insight  into the arc of his career.

Where: Book Soup

Date: Monday the 7^th

Time: 7 pm

Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069

Website:   http://www.booksoup.com/event/editor-anne-margaret-daniel-discusses-and-signs-f-scott-fitzgerald%E2%80%99s-i%E2%80%99d-die-you

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