Community News
The first Community News of the year. In the first three months a lot has happened in the literary community. Book releases, readings, festivals and more. Let’s get caught up. Continue reading Community News
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The Influencers: Writers Talk About Who Shaped Their Work – Jeff Rogers
The third installment of Los Angeles Literature’s interview series “The Influencers: Writers Talk About Who Shaped Their Work” features long-time resident, poet and performer Jeff Rogers. Continue reading The Influencers: Writers Talk About Who Shaped Their Work – Jeff Rogers
Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/10/22 – 01/16/22
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Tween Book Club & Escape from Mr. Lemoncillo’s Library via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join the Tween Book Club for kids ages 9-12 to meet monthly and discuss and share books you’ve read and recommend. The titles are all available through Libby/Overdrive, or check out a copy from your local branch.
Our selection for January 10th is titled Escape from Mr. Lemoncillo’s Library, by Chris Grabenstein. This book asks the question:Can 12 twelve-year-olds escape form the most ridiculously brilliant library ever created?
NOTE: Contact Jennifer Murphy at jmurphy@lapl.org for Zoom link and event details.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom online
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tween-book-club-0
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/31/21 – 06/06/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing form Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She also has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/18/21 – 01/24/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
2021 MLK Day Celebration via California African American Museum (CAAM) – Online
Celebrate Marin Luther King Jr. Day immersed in music, culture, and community. This year’s virtual festival highlights MLK’s dedication to labor and workers’ rights, and these movements’ continued importance today.
See site for complete schedule, including a 2:30 pm event: Family Storytime and Poetry Workshop with author Alice Faye Duncan reading her children’s book, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop, followed by a haiku writing workshop.
Where: CAAM – Online Facebook event (see site)
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 10 am – 3:30 pm
Address: CAAM – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/190941376010094/
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News From the L.Á. Literary Community
Texas based FlowerSong Press is quietly building an impressive list of local writers and other book news from Poet Astrid and others. Continue reading News From the L.Á. Literary Community
Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/16/20 – 11/22/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
South to Freedom & Professor Alice L. Baumgartner via Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom Online Event
Join us as Professor Alice L. Baumgartner, in conversation with historian Albert Brossard and Institute Director William Deverell, discusses her new book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.
Where: Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom & Facebook Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1706751046153577
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/16/20 – 11/22/20”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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Los Angeles Literature Events 1/14/19 –1/20/19
Main Library Book Group & Snow Flower and the Secret Fan at Santa Monica Library, SMPL
Join our long-running book discussion group, which is always welcoming new members, and alternates between fiction and nonfiction on a month-to-month basis. Our January selection is Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See.
Where: Community Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica Main Library, SMPL
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=28509
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Los Angeles Literature Events 12/17/18 –12/23/18
Santa Monica Public Library
Join us at our Main Library Book Group to discuss the book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt. This event is for adults and seniors.
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In this book, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
Where: Santa Monica Main Library, 2nd Floor
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=26229
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