This week there will be no list of weekly events. Los Angeles Literature is taking a summer break. There is a short list of five literary events happening this week that Los Angeles Literature ran across on social media. There are still plenty of other literary events happening all week all across the Greater Los Ángeles area. Get out there L.Á. and support your local literary community! Continue reading No List of Weekly Events
As usual, another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, a few kids and teen events. Local writers reading this week include: Donato Martinez, Nancy Lynée Woo, James Coats, Andrés Sanchez, Naomi Hirahara and Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate Claire Beeli, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/31/23 – 08/06/23
As usual, another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, a few kids and teen events and a few events that leads up the Latina Writers Conference. Local writers reading this week include: Anastasia Fenald, Brenda Vaca, Leslie Ortega, Teresa Mei Chuc, Susan Hayden, Vickie Vertiz and Cory Cofer, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/24/23 – 07/30/23
As usual, another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops and a few kids and teen events. Local writers reading this week include: Poet Laureate of Glendale Raffi Joe Wartanian, Jerry Garcia, Lois P. Jones, Gary Phillips, Mike Sonksen, Pam Ward and Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/17/23 – 07/23/23
Another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops and a few kids and YA events. Local writers reading this week include: Donato Martinez, Priyanka Mattoo, Deborah Harkness, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Jireh Deng and Audrey Kuo, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/03/23 – 07/09/23
Another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops and a few kids events. Local writers reading this week include: Arthur Kayzakian, Lynell George, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Jen Cheng, Lou Mathews, Sheila J. Sadr and Tanya Ko Hong, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 06/19/23 – 06/25/23
Another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops, a couple of LGBTQIA events and a few kids and YA events. Local writers reading this week include: Michael C. Ford, Héctor Tobar, Daniel Jose Ruiz, Mona Simpson, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Jackie Chou and Carribean Fragoza, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 06/12/23 – 06/18/23
Another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops and a few kids and YA events. Local writers reading this week include: Nikolai Garcia, Ernie Delfin, Lisa See, Tresha Faye Haefner, Cynthia Guardado, Poet Astrid, Cynthia Dewi Oka and Taz Ahmed, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 06/05/23 – 06/11/23
Another busy week full of literary events that include the return of the Los Angeles Zine Fest on Saturday and Los Angeles Poet Society’s Always Running Book Festival, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Luis J. Rodríguez’s seminal memoir Always Running. Local writers reading this week are: Brian Dunlap, Douglas Manuel, Mary Torregrossa, Ideas Aubrey, Rachelle Cruz, Maria Bolaños and Glendale Poet Laureate Raffi Wartanian, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/22/23 – 05/28/23
Another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops and quite a few YA, teen and kids events. Local writers reading this week include: Bill Mohr, Michael C. Ford, Vickie Vértiz, Hanna Pachman, Mike Sonksen, Pam Ward and Iris Yamashita, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/15/23 – 05/21/23
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