Local Press News: Los Nietos
FROM: Los Nietos Press
Los Nietos Press is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Acts of Contrition, a collection of short stories by Victoria Waddle. Presales are available now; the book release date is March 15, 2021.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/04/21 – 01/10/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Ask a Children’s Author: Nick Eliopulos via Newport Beach Public Library – Online Kids Facebook Live Event
Join Ms. Liz in asking her fiend, Nick Eliopulos, all about writing fantasy books for kids! Nick has written several of the Spirit Animal books, the Minecraft Wordsworth Chronicles, and co-authors The Adventure Guild.
Log on starting at 10:00 am to watch Ms. Liz and Nick as they discuss writing and answer your questions. A recording of this even will be available for viewing on our Facebook page afterward. Check out our link if you want to submit a question before the event.
Where: Newport Public Library, LAPL – Online Facebook event (see site)
Date: Monday the 4th
Time: 10 am
Address: Newport PL – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1704944309686314
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Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2020
2020 has been one shit show of a year. Especially for Los Ángeles. Kobe died in January. The pandemic hit Los Ángeles County harder than anywhere else in California. The election. However, with businesses shut down and public gatherings banned, the city’s literary community quickly adapted and created community and continued to amplify voices virtually. At the same time writers continued to publish powerful literature.
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Daniel A. Olivas: Our Stories Are Important
FROM: Roanoke Review
Daniel A. Olivas is the author of nine books and editor of two anthologies. His latest books are The King of Lighting Fixtures: Stories (University of Arizona Press, 2017) and Crossing the Border: Collected Poems (Pact Press, 2017). Widely anthologized, Olivas has written for many publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, and BOMB. His writing has appeared in many literary journals, including PANK, Fairy Tale Review, MacGuffin, New Madrid, and The Prairie Schooner Blog. He shares blogging duties at La Bloga, which is dedicated to Chicanx and Latinx literature.
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No List of Weekly Events
After a a year like no other which saw the Los Ángeles literary community move online, 2020 has come to an end. This holiday week between Christmas and New Years, the literary community takes a vacation. Events run to barely a trickle. As such, there will be no list of weekly events this week. Next week the list of event will return with the new year.
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Extraordinarios con Lisbeth Carolina Coimen
Interview by Yayett Peralta
Lisbeth Coimen is a L.Á. writer who has wandered the immigration path from her native Venezuela, to Canada, to USA, leaving pieces of her heart scattered in the places she’s lived.
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Poetry Lives Here: The Sims Library of Poetry
By Mike Sonsken
FROM: KCET.org
Over the last three decades, the Los Angeles Poetry community has grown into one of the most diverse and active scenes in this city. Before the pandemic, dozens of readings were held weekly and usually at least four or five simultaneously on the same day in different corners of L.A. County. Nonetheless, in a gentrifying city, with the exception of a few long-term spaces like Beyond Baroque, Skylight Books, Stories or the World Stage, the poetry scene is transitory. Many readings only last a few years before the gallery or coffeehouse hosting it goes out of business or the folks who organize the reading find a demanding job that takes them away from poetry. This is where Hiram Sims comes in.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 12/21/20 – 12/26/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Tweens Read Graphic Novels Book Club via Northridge Branch Library, LAPL – Online Tween Event
Kids ages 9-12 are invited to a monthly graphic novel book club! Join in the fun as we explore popular graphic novels for tweens. The selection for discussion this month is the award-winning graphic novel, Pie in the Sky, by Remy Lai.
With your library card get free access to the book via OverDrive or the library catalog.
Where: Northridge Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/tweens-read-graphic-novels-book-club
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Everything Is Radiant Between The Hates Now Available for Pre-Order
FROM: Moon Tide Press
It’s been quite the year, but Moon Tide Press is beyond grateful to have been able to continue giving the world quality poetry, and the goodness does not stop. So we’re thrilled to announce that the first release of 2021 is now available for pre-order, Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates, by Rich Ferguson.
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A Sad Day In The Los Ángeles Literary Community
Sad news to report from the L.Á. literary community. It was announced yesterday that L.Á. lost a stanch supporter of literature and L.Á. writers, Chevalier’s Books manager Elizabeth Clare Newstat. She has passed away.
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