by STAFF REPORTS
From: Pasadena Now
Pasadena non-profit Light Bringer Project is about to launches the fifth issue of its online literary journal created by local authors as a resource for engaging and inspiring underserved public school students with relatable stories that are often missing in textbooks.
by Brian Dunlap
It’s now summer. It’s now July. The first of 2017 is behind us. The first of the year in the Los Angeles literary community is now only memories. Now we begin July with #90x90LA, 90 consecutive days of literary programming through out L.A., brought to the city by Chiwan and Judith Oden Choi and the entire Writ Large Press Family.
So far, it’s been a busy year in Los Angeles Literature and it’s not about to let up.
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature: Year in Review So Far”
by Agatha French
From: LA Times
Starting July 5 and running until Oct. 1, downtown’s Writ Large Press will present 90 events in 90 days, a marathon of literary happenings that remains in flux. While the July schedule is posted, August and September events are still taking shape, but this ambitious undertaking is also fluid in another way: Like any live, collaborative effort, it will take on a life of its own as determined by its artists and participants, an exciting variable that its organizers embrace.
Continue reading “Writ Large crams 90 literary events into 90 days, starting July 5”
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 /
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 7/03/17 –7/09/17”
Teen Reading by Design Summer Program at Exposition Park-Dr. Mary Bethune Regional Library–Teen Event
Join us for a book discussion of Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell, at the first meeting of our book club and summer reading challenge titled Teen Read, Rant & Rave. Copies of the book are available to borrow at the Information Desk.
Recommended for teens in grades 9-12.
Where: Exposition Park – Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 3900 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90062
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/reading-design-summer-reading-challenge-teen-read-r
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 6/26/17 –7/02/17”
By Brian Dunlap
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:
“Honored to receive the 2017 Best Debut Novel Prize by the American Library Association, Black Caucus. Thank you librarians from around the nation! 
❤️ And I can’t wait to meet them in Atlanta this summer for the ceremony. If you’re at the @americanlibraryassociation conference today, @counterpointpress is giving away a few copies of GRACE to celebrate in Booth 3421. Yay! Get one!”
by Brian Dunlap Update on #90x90LA. Today Chiwan Choi, the lead organizer of #90x90LA, posted the following on his Facebook page: “Presenting the #90X90LA site and calendar. as you will see, July dates are posted. as August and September fill up, we will post them too. it’s not 100% perfect (details need to be put in for some of the events) but we think it’s … Continue reading #90x90LA
by Brian Dunlap
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.
Continue reading “L.A. Poet Cynthia Guardado Awarded the 2017 Pellicer-Frost Poetry Prize”
From: Entropy
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.
THE ACCOMPLICES is made up of Civil Coping Mechanisms: publisher & promoter of kick-ass independent literature, Entropy: a magazine and community of contributors that publishes diverse literary and non-literary content, and Writ Large Press: an indie press that uses literary arts and events to resist, disrupt, and transgress.
By Brian Dunlap
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.
This open mic brands itself as “Open Mic Poetry Slam.” It goes down the first Friday of each month at Pipe & Thimble Publishing on Narbonne Avenue in Lomita, a heavy commercial street, out of the way of where one would expect to find a literary event.
Los Angeles Literature 