February 26, 2025 · 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. PT
Watch WeHo Reads: Power and Progress During Black History Month
How do writers use their imaginations to empower themselves and their audiences? How do their stories shape the future?
Read More …Tag: Fiction
WeHo Reads: Through a Lens Queerly
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. PT
What makes a memory? What makes an idol? Through what lens do we examine ourselves and our community?
Join us for a discussion about queer lives, the stories we tell both in words and images, and how we see each other.
Read More …WeHo Reads: Imagining and Building Restorative Communities
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. PT
2024 is a year of possibilities and perils, and it’s more important than ever for writers to share their thoughts on imagining and building restorative communities.
Read More …WeHo Reads: Creating Queer Families and Communities
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. PT
Let’s celebrate National Coming Out Day with an exploration of queer families by Meliza Bañales, Lane Igoudin, and Hazel Kight Witham!
Read More …19 Jessamyn Violet interview
Jessamyn Violet, author of Secret Rules to Being a Rockstar and musician, shares her musings on the power of creative inspiration, music, and more. In conversation with host Cody Sisco, Jessamyn discusses the rock and roll lifestyle, writing a true-to-life Hollywood coming-of-age novel, and the power of being an outsider.
Photo credit: Erin Naifah
Jessamyn Violet is a writer and musician based in Venice Beach. Originally from Boston, she has a BFA from Emerson College and an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. She’s published a book of poetry called Organ Thieves (Gauss PDF, 2017) as well as short fiction in Ploughshares and more. Her debut novel Secret Rules to Being a Rockstar was published in 2023. She is also the drummer for the band Movie Club.
