This event is free to attend, but we kindly ask that you RSVP so that we can get an accurate headcount! Join designer and author Vicki Tan and producer, writer/director Katie Cunningham as they explore one of life's most universal questions: How do we make more authentic decisions for ourselves? Inspired by Vicki's interactive book, Ask This Book a Question, Read More ...
A night of poetry and art that confronts, resists silence, and reimagines the world. Unquiet: A Night of Creative Resistance Thursday August 6th Doors - 7:30pm // Show - 8:00 PM $8 For Non-Performers /// $5 To Perform For Open Mic Slot UNQUIET: A Night of Creative Resistance is a gathering for poets, artists, and anyone drawn to the kind Read More ...
Douglas Messerli will sign and speak about his new book "My Queer Cinema," an encyclopedic work with hundreds of titillating stills that reveals how cinema has always relied on queer imagery to add excitement and to show what it might pretend doesn't exist. The first volume discusses 180 films, and begins with an examination of the first on-screen kiss, which Read More ...
Participants from the literary journal's newest edition present their work.Join Exposition Review to celebrate the launch of Vol. XI: "PARA/SOCIAL"! Enjoy drinks and snacks, and meet the Expo editors as well as the talented contributors who will be reading selected works in several genres.For Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL,” Expo invited work that traces the edges of intimacy and illusion. They looked Read More ...
Join Rep Club for a meet + greet for 'The Cost of Healing in Silence' by author Ashley McGirt-Adair WHO & WHAT: A signing & meet and greet with Ashley McGirt-Adair, author of The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and The Call for Culturally Responsive Care. WHEN: Doors at 12:00pm - 2pm WHERE: Reparations Club, 3054 S. Read More ...
Presentation & Book signing with actor/author Rachanee LumaynoFollow us on Instagram for event and store updates!@theopenbookpasadena
Queer & Ally Book Club at Chevalier's Books | Monthly LGBTQ+ Community Book Discussion | Los AngelesJoin Alexia Gyorody and David Canfield, virtually or in-person, monthly on the 2nd Monday for Queer and Ally Book Club!Chevalier's Books, Los Angeles' oldest independent bookstore, is our gracious host. Please note: This event is marked "online" to highlight the Zoom option as space Read More ...
Get a signed copy of their book; Death and Duct Tape Follow us on Instagram for store and event updates! @theopenbook_pasadena
The following description is reproduced verbatim from the festival organizers’ own 2026 event page. Los Feliz Writers Festival 2026 is happening August 19-23, 2026, and we are so excited! The mission of this festival is to celebrate, empower, and engage writers that live, work, and play in Los Feliz! Below is the schedule and information to RSVP. Aug 19 – Read More ...
An open-mic in West LA by women, for women.
Join Rep Club for a hair experience & discussion on 'Root Therapy' by author Felicia Leatherwood with a special appearance from Issa Rae WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club for an interactive hair experience & discussion on 'Root Therapy: How To Love Your Hair (And Find Yourself)' by celebrity hairstylist & author Felicia Leatherwood with a special appearance from Issa Read More ...
Acclaimed poets read from their most recent work.Join us for a poetry reading featuring Mitchell Jacobs, author of the new book Rogue Astronaut!Joining Mitchell are poets Ashley Dailey, Bryan Byrdlong, Leila Farjami, and Savannah Manhattan.About the participants:Mitchell Jacobs is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, where he served as Managing Editor of Ricochet Editions. His poems have Read More ...
The centerpiece of the Los Feliz Writers Festival: an outdoor reading at Barnsdall Art Park launching Radically Human, a neighborhood zine featuring over 30 writers and artists.In the organizers’ words: “Bring a picnic, a blanket, and friends, and come meet under the stars at the beautiful Barnsdall Art Park and meet the local writers who live in Los Feliz as Read More ...
A live demonstration of an anti-racist creative writing workshop, facilitated by Shannon Cain — winner of the O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and an NEA fellow.From the organizers: “Come eavesdrop on an anti-racist feedback workshop!”“Set up fishbowl style with four writers and their facilitator at the center, this session will demonstrate an updated Read More ...
A bi-monthly book club where we read and discuss books inspired by historic events from different and less exposed cultural perspectives.
Four writers of color — Laura Sermeño, Joshua-John Judah Ivory, Ten-Headed Skeleton, and Jacqueline Vitela — perform their work and talk about who gets heard in literary spaces.From the organizers: “Join local Writers of Color for performances and a conversation about protecting and celebrating your authentic voice. Together, the panel will explore the ways in which POC writers are currently Read More ...
Join us for the Latina In Construction Vol. II West Coast Book Launch – vibes, stories, and empowerment live!
Join Permission To Write at Rep Club for a book-club-meets-writers-group with There's Only One Sin In Hollywood author Rasheed Newson WHO & WHAT: Join Permission To Write at Rep Club for a book-club-meets-writers-group with 'There's Only One Sin In Hollywood' author Rasheed Newson. Read Like a Writer invites participants to slow down and study how Black authors build their books Read More ...
Join Tammie Frank for an Early Access Book Release and Signing for her new book, Transcending Through Tragedy: The Truth Behind the Silence Early Access Book Release and Signing with Tammie Frank Join Tammie Frank for an intimate and inspiring Early Access Book Release and Signing for her powerful new book, Transcending Through Tragedy: The Truth Behind the Silence. Attendees Read More ...
Join Chloe Benjamin in-store for a discussion and signing of her upcoming novel, Under Story!The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story--and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for Read More ...
A book celebration for Adam O. Davis's second poetry collection Beyond Baroque presents a book launch for Adam O. Davis' award-winning second poetry collection, Pyrrhic Symphony (University of Nebraska Press, 2026) with Blas Falconer, Arthur Kayzakian, and Diana Marie Delgado in the Wanda Coleman Theater. Praise for Pyrrhic Symphony Pyrrhic Symphony is wild, whip-smart, and irreverent—a maximalist elegy for late Read More ...
Linda J. Albertano Book LaunchJoin us for this momentous occasion as we celebrate 6 books at once, all on the life and legacy of the late Linda J. Albertano, a poet and legendary performance artist who worked closely with members of the Beyond Baroque community throughout her career until her passing in 2022.Co-authored by Linda J. Albertano and her husband, Read More ...
Featuring Anna Journey, David St. John, and Allison Benis White Wolf Cut gathers nearly twenty years of work by Anna Journey. From her early work’s baroque lyricism tinged with the southern gothic to her capacious later poems’ signature meditative charisma, Journey reminds us that mystery and imagination are the luminous thresholds through which our reckonings must pass. Journey will be Read More ...
Palabras Literary Salon celebrates BIPOC poets + writers for intercultural community building.
Join Rep Club in celebrating the LA launch for 'The Art Of Fighting ' by author Priya Parker with Special Guest TBA! WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club and author Priya Parker for the LA launch of The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict. Special Guest TBA soon! We say we want community. Successful teams. High-performing colleagues and Read More ...
Led by author Betty Cayouette in conversation with Anneliese Judge! This event is free to attend, but we kindly ask that you RSVP so that we can get an accurate headcount! We're celebrating I KISSED HER FIRST by Betty Cayouette! Betty and Anneliese Judge will be discussing the book and leading a book charm making workshop. All charm materials will Read More ...
Join us on Sunday September 20, 2026 as we welcome Lara Sheehi as she discusses her new book with Robin D.G. Kelly and Mel LopezLara Sheehi is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the host of the Psychic Militancy podcast. Lara’s work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making Read More ...
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026 · 6:30–8:00 p.m. PT In person, West Hollywood Library Community Room, 625 N San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 Free, RSVP Requested Four Los Angeles writers return to the past, through fiction and poetry, to understand where we came from. Why do we keep returning to history? And what changes when we recover what was Read More ...
Presented by Rare Books LA at Los Angeles Union Station: ejected from polite society, three generations of courtesans turned the scandalous memoir into a genre of their own, exposing the hypocrisy of the men around them and reclaiming the worth of women that history tried to erase. This one-hour talk traces how these "learned ladies and notorious whores" wrote themselves Read More ...
Join Rep Club for a discussion on 'Family And Friends' by filmmaker and author Natalie Baszile
Five queer authors open portals to spectacular new worlds and dare us to get lost in them. Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026 · 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Online via Zoom and YouTube What can we discover in worlds that have never existed? And how does queer imagination remake the rules of magic, adventure, and belonging? On Oct. 14, five queer authors Read More ...
Slanguage Poetry Show {HALLOWEEN COSTUME OPEN MIC EDITION}. Come check out great poetry & fun energy! You can perform or enjoy the night. Slanguage Poetry Show {HALLOWEEN COSTUME OPEN MIC EDITION}. Come check out great poets & fun energy! You can sign up on the open mic list and share your work on our stage! We are excited to invite Read More ...
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