Los Angeles Literature Events 9/16/19 – 9/22/19

September 16, 2019 Brian L.A. Literary History, Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events Beyond Baroque, Book Soup, bookstores, Cafe con Libros, Claremont Library, conference, Culver City, Diesel Bookstore, DSTLArts, Fiction, Friday Night Poetry, Gatsby's Bookstore, Huntington Library, Kids Event, Lambda LitFest, library, Marketing, One Mic Collective Showcase, Open Mic, Page Against the Machine, Pages Bookstore, Poetic Research Bureau, Poetry, Pomona, Readings, Saturday Afternoon Poetry, Skylight Books, Small Press Book Festival, The Ugly Mug, The World Stage, Tia Chucha's, Well-Read Black Girl, Workshops, YA

Rachel Cline & The Question Authority at Chevalier’s Bookstore

Join us to hear author Rachel Cline, present and sign her new book, The Question Authority, which was featured in a list of upcoming thriller novels dealing with the topic of the #MeToo movement from Publishers Weekly.

Nora Buchbinder—formerly rich, and now broke—would be the last woman in Brooklyn to claim #MeToo, but when a work assignment reunites her with her childhood best friend, Beth, she finds herself in a hall of mirrors. Was their eighth grade teacher Beth’s lover or her rapist?

Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore

Date: Monday the 16^th

Time: 7 pm

Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004

Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/rachel-cline

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Local Literary Journal Open For Submissions

September 12, 2019 Brian Literary Journals Fiction, literary journal, MORIA, non-fiction, Poetry, Submissions, Woodbury

By Brian Dunlap

Moria+copy2 MORIA, the literary journal at Woodbury University in Burbank, California, is open for submissions for their Fall issue until October 1, 2019.

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Pomona On The Lookout For Its First Poet Laureate

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 Brian L.A. Literary Happenings library, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Pomona, Pomona Library Foundation

By Liset Márquez
FROM: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

69670410_118841689472099_2922756250296909824_n Applications are being accepted for the inaugural city of Pomona poet laureate.

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Los Angeles Literature Events 9/09/19 – 9/15/19

September 9, 2019 Brian L.A. Literary Happenings, Los Angeles Literary Events Art Share LA, Beyond Baroque, bookstores, Cafe con Libros, Children's Events, Civic Center Studios, Fiction, library, Moonday Poetry, open mics, Poetry, poetry slamn, Saturday Afternoon Poetry, Small World Bookd, South Central, SUMARR Reading Series, Women's Center for Creative Work, Workshops, YA Events

Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running in Theatre Adaptation at Casa 0101

The stage adaptation of the acclaimed Luis J. Rodriguez memoir and award-winning book, Always Running, is being performed at the CASA 1010 Theatre August 31 – October 20, 2019, so check website links to purchase tickets and select dates from the full schedule. This play/memoir tells the story of a young man who escapes a life of gang violence, discrimination, depression, and drug addiction through art, the Chicano movement poetry and service.

Where: Casa 0101 Theatre

Date: September through October 20, 2019 (Check theatre’s Eventbrite link & schedule)

Time: 5 pm & 8 pm

Address: 2101 E. 1^st St., Los Angeles, CA 90033

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/339435536938591/ or www.facebook.com/CASA0101Theatre/

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Erased History, Forgotten Communities

September 5, 2019 Brian Los Angeles Writers, Profiles Boyle Heights, Chicano, Cornell, creative writing, East L.A., Eastside, English, Fiction, forgotten communities, Helena Maria Viramontes, Los Angeles, Novel, The Cemetery Boys

Viramontes’ passion for bringing erased communities to the forefront of literature and history has materialized into several acclaimed literary works.

By Jackie Swift
FROM: research.cornell.edu

download Helena María Viramontes, English, brings people and places erased from history to life again. For years, she has focused her lens on the Latino experience in the United States, writing award-winning fiction that draws from her own heritage as a Chicana from Los Angeles. In her latest novel-in-progress, The Cemetery Boys, she explores the experiences of three generations of East Los Angelenos mired in three different wars. During this exploration, she highlights the mix of ethnicities and marginalized communities that flourished and then faded away in the California of the early-to-mid twentieth century.

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No Events List This Week

September 2, 2019September 2, 2019 Brian L.A. Literary Happenings, Los Angeles Literary Events Fiction, libraries, open mics, Poetry, Readings, Workshops

By Brian Dunlap

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.

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