In this preview event for the Community Arts Partnerships Spring Writes Literary Festival (now re-scheduled for a virtual November event), nine local writers will read (and sing) for us. The event is FREE but it is also a fundraiser for the November Festival. Funds will go towards paying the writers who participate! IF YOU WOULD […]
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs and Red Hen Press present Beach=Culture: PRIDE at the Beach, a virtual event hosted by the Annenberg Community Beach House on July 1, 2020 at 4:00 P.M. PST! Join LGBTQ+ authors Judy Grahn, Amber Flame, Francisco Aragón, and Ryka Aoki as they read from their recent and forthcoming works. Following the reading, moderator Jason Schneiderman asks the panel […]
Join memoirist Julia Munemo and novelist Ellen Meeropol as they explore the pleasures and perils of using fraught family history in creative writing. Hosted by the World Fellowship Center. https://www.facebook.com/events/3660207104008787/
Discussion moderated by Kristen Millares Young, with authors Aimee Liu, Donna Hemans, and Ellen Meeropol July 14, 2020, 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT This virtual event will take place on Crowdcast.
Hosted by Vroman's Bookstore. Details to come.
Donna Hemans and Aimee Liu discuss each of their new books, "Tea by the Sea" and "Glorious Boy." Donna Hemans, author of River Woman, debuts her second novel --a story about a family uniting and unraveling. Tea by the Sea spans from Brooklyn to the island of Jamaica and traces a mother's circuitous route to find the daughter […]
Subduction (Red Hen Press) Fleeing the shattered remains of her marriage and a betrayal by her sister, in the throes of a midlife freefall, Latina anthropologist Claudia Ranks retreats from Seattle to Neah Bay, a Native American whaling village on the jagged Pacific coast. Claudia yearns to lose herself to the songs of the tribe and […]
