Submissions for Angel City Review Now Open
The following is the text from the Angel City Review’s Facebook post announcing their open for submissions:
Hello All, thank you for everyone who has read, submitted, and otherwise contributed to Angel City Review thus far. Over the past two years we have worked hard to build a journal that is inclusive, open, and representative of the actual community that we live in.
There is always more work to be done and we hope that everyone will help us in this process. We definitely would love more submissions from women, people of color, queer or non gender identifying individuals, writers with disabilities, and everyone in between.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 1/9/17 –1/15/17
Cynthia Garrrett at Book Soup
Join us as Cynthia Garrett discusses and signs Prodigal Daughter: A Journey Home to Identity. In this candid , raw and challenging look at how identity gets lost in today’s modern world, TV personality and evangelist Cynthia Garrett shares an incredible, red-carpeted journey through her life, and we meet a faith that is inclusive and unifying, with love triumphing over hate.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
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Los Angeles Literature Events 1/2/17 –1/8/17
at Sidewalk Café, Pasadena
Join us for our monthly poetry event focusing on social justice issues, this month featuring: Ka’lynn Youngblood and AK Toney.
Bring 1-2 poems about social justice or come and listen!
Hosted by: Khadija Anderson.
Where: The Sidewalk Café
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm (6:45 open mic sign-up)
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles (at Woodbury), Alta/Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://www.facebook.com/groups/792556747483331/
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Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2016
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
No List of Weekly Events
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
Who Will Be Los Angeles’ 2017 Poet Laureate?
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:
Los Angeles Literature Events 12/12/16 –12/18/16
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
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In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz’s ‘Bruja’ is vivid and dark
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.
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Angel City Review Issue 4 Out Now
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.
Los Angeles Literature Events 12/05/16 –12/11/16
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
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