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
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
Recently poet, writer and musician Raffi Joe Wartanian was named Glendale’s first Poet Laureate. It only took eight years for poet and resident Linda Ravenswood to get city approval for the position last Fall. Continue reading Glendale’s First Poet Laureate
The 46th Annual UCR Writers Week is back from February 13-17 on the campus of the University of California, Riverside. It’s the longest-running, free literary event in California and features established writers alongside those at the beginning of their careers. Writers Week is completely free to attend and open to the public.
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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
Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the diverse contributions of the US’s Latinx population. With Southern California’s deep Chicanx and Latinx roots, Los Angeles Literature is highlighting many of the city and region’s powerful and diverse Latinx writers. Continue reading Latinx Literature of Los Ángeles and Southern California
By Jo Scott-Coe
FROM: Riverside Press-Enterprise
There’s a common myth that “real” writers feel like writing all the time. Sometimes we feed the myth by over-explaining gaps in our creative activities or output. Sharing how writing works or doesn’t work can be fascinating. For me, this can also be a counterpart to anxious impulses: Addressing anticipated critics — real or imagined — or playing out arguments on an internal loop after someone has voluntold me what they think I should be creating.
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News from around the Los Angeles literary community. Its poets and writers are always busy. Continue reading News Around the Community
“Leslie Turner White served as inspiration for Chandler’s Marlowe, and whose autobiography, Me, Detective (1936), played a pivotal if largely forgotten role in the formation of American noir.” Continue reading The Forgotten Noir Detective
“In fact, Bukowski cannot be understood apart from his midcentury Los Angeles milieu.” Continue reading Charles Bukowski’s Lush Life: “Post Office” and the Utopian Impulse
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