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  • BOOK LAUNCH: This Is How You Love Her w/ Traci Saulsberry & Jeanell English

    Reparations Club 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join Rep Club for a discussion on 'This Is How You Love Her ' by author Traci Saulsberry in conversation with Jeanell English WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club for a discussion on 'This Is How You Love Her: A Journey To Radical Self-Love' by author Traci Saulsberry in conversation with Jeanell English. WHEN: Doors at 6:30pm, event promptly at Read More ...

    Free

  • Unquiet: A Night of Creative Resistance (Poetry Show/ Open Mic)

    The Glendale Room 127 N Artsakh Avenue, Glendale, CA, United States

    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 ...

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  • “My Queer Cinema” with Douglas Messerli

    Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, United States

    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 ...

  • Exposition Review Launch

    Village Well Books & Coffee 9900 Culver Boulevard, #1b, Culver City, CA 90232, Culver City, CA, United States

    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 ...

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  • BOOK SIGNING: The Cost of Healing in Silence w/ Ashley McGirt-Adair

    Reparations Club 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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 ...

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  • Queer and Ally Book Club

    Chevalier's Books 133 North Larchmont Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free

  • BOOK LAUNCH: Root Therapy w/ Felicia Leatherwood

    Reparations Club 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join Rep Club for a hair experience & discussion on 'Root Therapy: How To Love Your Hair (And Find Yourself) ' by author Felicia Leatherwood

    Free
  • Illustrated crowd of writers and performers on a blue background. Text reads: Aug 19-23, 14 events, FREE, Los Feliz Writers Festival 2026.

    Los Feliz Writers Festival 2026

    Los Feliz Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free

  • Poetry Reading w/ Mitchell Jacobs & Friends

    Village Well Books & Coffee 9900 Culver Boulevard, #1b, Culver City, CA 90232, Culver City, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free

  • Voices of Los Feliz — Radically Human Zine Launch

    Barnsdall Art Park 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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 ...

  • Anti-Racist Workshop: A Fishbowl Demo

    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 ...

  • Reading Through History Book Club

    The Pop-Hop Books Co-Op 5002 York Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90042, United States

    A bi-monthly book club where we read and discuss books inspired by historic events from different and less exposed cultural perspectives.

  • Local POC Voices

    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 ...

  • READ LIKE A WRITER w/ Rasheed Newson

    Reparations Club 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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 ...

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  • Early Access Book Release and Signing with Tammie Frank

    Romancing the Bean Cafe 3413 Magnolia Boulevard, Burbank, CA 91505, Burbank, CA, United States

    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 ...

  • Book Soup Presents: Chloe Benjamin discussing & signing Under Story

    Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, United States

    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 ...

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  • Linda J. Albertano Book Launch

    Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center 681 Venice Blvd, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free

  • Palabras Literary Salon (Sept 2026 edition)

    Studious Coworking Space 418 Bamboo Lane, Los Angeles, CA, US

    Palabras Literary Salon celebrates BIPOC poets + writers for intercultural community building.

    Free

  • Author Event with Lara Sheehi – From the Clinic to the Streets

    Octavia’s Bookshelf 1353 North Hill Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free

  • Learned Ladies and Notorious Whores: The Women of the Scandalous Memoir

    Los Angeles Union Station 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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 ...