No List of Weekly Events This Week
There is no list of local literary events this week. Los Angeles Literature’s list of evetns will be back next week. Continue reading No List of Weekly Events This Week
Tag: Literary Community
The Greater Los Ángeles Literary Community’s Response to the Recent ICE Raids
As ICE raids spark protests across L.Á., the city’s literary community is stepping up. Continue reading The Greater Los Ángeles Literary Community’s Response to the Recent ICE Raids
Two Poets & a Bag of Peaches: My Last Day with Lynn Manning
Pam Ward remembers Lynn Manning, an artist, poet, playwright and Watts native, who was active in the literary community in 1990s and whose plays have been performed all across Los Ángeles from the Skylight Theatre to the Mark Taper Forum and beyond. Continue reading Two Poets & a Bag of Peaches: My Last Day with Lynn Manning
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
Events List Will Return Next Week
The list of weekly events will return Sunday. Continue reading Events List Will Return Next Week
Recommended Los Ángeles Literature For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
By Brian Dunlap
For 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”
Open Letter To Los Angeles City Council Members From Los Angeles Literary Arts Organizations And Allies
FROM: PEN America
NOTE: Los Angeles Literature stands with PEN America Los Angeles and the L.A. literary comminity. Read on to find out why.
We write as a coalition of Los Angeles-based literary arts organizations and allies committed to supporting this city’s writers and literary professionals struggling amid the COVID-19 epidemic. We support the prioritization of health and safety measures until the crisis subsides, but request that you include writers and the literary community in forthcoming funding decisions related to recovery from the pandemic, recognizing the essential cultural and economic role they play in our city.
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