Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2025

Los Angeles Literature’s annual list of “Los Angeles Writers Publish…” is finally here. The edition for 2025 includes more writers and their publications than ever before. Local writers were busy publishing books and short pieces in known and little known publications and with publishers both big and small, local and otherwise. These writers continue to demonstrate the diversity of the community from white to LGBTQIA+ to POC writers who all wanted their voices to be heard whether it was through fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Los Angeles Literature attempted to be as comprehensive as possible, but unfortunately there were authors and publications that slipped by us. Let’s celebrate everyone in the Greater Los Ángeles literary community that published in 2025. Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2025

Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2024

Los Angeles Literataure’s 9th Annual Los Angeles Writers Publish list, 2024 edition. Though this isn’t everyone who’s published in the Greater Los Angeles Literary community in 2024, it’s a large swath of the community. Congratulations to all the local writers who’s published in 2024! And may everyone in the community find even more publication success in 2025! Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2024

Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2023

A bit late, but here is Los Angeles Literature’s 8th Annual Los Ángeles Writers Publish list. It’s been a year filled with release parties, notably from new local presses–El Martillo Press and Riot of Roses–dedicated to publishing voices and women of color, as well as World Stage Press and others. Also, individuals published pieces in journals, magazines and newspapers, both big and small and in-between. This list attempts to be comprehensive, but if a publication has been missed, Los Angeles Literature apologizes. Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2023

LGBTQIA Legacy in the Literary Community

The LGBTQIA literary legacy in Greater Los Angeles runs deep, going back more than 50 years. They have not only impacted Los Angeles literature, but they’ve also helped shape the local literary community and continue to shape the community today. Here is a list of many, but not all, of the LGBTQIA writers past and present that make up the Greater L.Á. literary community. Continue reading LGBTQIA Legacy in the Literary Community

Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2022

It’s Los Angeles Literature’s 7th Annual Los Ángeles Writers Publish list. This is an exhaustive a list as I could make of all the local writers who have published in 2022. It’s long. Short pieces in magazines, news papers, journals. Books publications as well. If I missed anyone or missed someone’s publication I sincerely apologize. Congratulations to all the hardworking writers in the Los Angeles literary community. Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2022

Recommended Los Ángeles Literature For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

By Brian Dunlap

apahm-logoFor Asain/Pacific American Heritage Month, Los Āngeles Literature is recommending books about Asian L.Á. written by Asians and books written by Asian Angeleños. This history of the city’s Asian American literature extends at least as far back as the 1920s, as historian Valerie J. Matsumoto chronicles in the chapter “Sounding the Dawn Bell: Developing Nisei Voices” from her book City Girls. Continue reading “Recommended Los Ángeles Literature For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month”