Building Literary Community at the Small Press Book Festival
By Brian Dunlap
Last Saturday, the first annual Small Press Book Festival took place at the Wende Museum of the Cold War, in Culver City. It was a day to celebrate, promote and connect with Los Ángeles’ independent publishing community. Founded by Mark Lipman, poet and publisher of local independent press Vagabond, the Festival’s “goal is to promote and foster communication and the diversity of voices through literature and the arts as an integral part of the on-going work of building” literary community and community as a whole.
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Lambda LitFest Event: Modern Love, Mental Wellness & Healing in LGBTQ Literature at Cal State LA
Rachel Cline & The Question Authority at Chevalier’s Bookstore
MORIA, the literary journal at Woodbury University in Burbank, California, is open for submissions for their Fall issue until October 1, 2019.
Applications are being accepted for the inaugural city of Pomona poet laureate.
Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running in Theatre Adaptation at Casa 0101
El Paso. Dayton. Odessa. Pittsburgh. Parkland. Santa Fe. Newtown.
As Labor Day is today, I have taken this week off from compiling my weekly list of Los Ángeles literary events. However, next week my weekly list of Los Ángeles literary events will return. Expect the next list to be posted sometime on Sunday the 8th.
Join Sideshow Books and host L.A. poet Brian Dunlap as they celebrate L.A.’s 238th brithday, with a night of L.A. poetry. It will take place on September 4th, from 7pm-9pm.
The latest release from local L.A. press 
Los Angeles Literature 