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28 AUGUST 2022 — sunday
- Women's National Book Association returns with their signature Literary Teas, a brunch-time event with readings and conversations with authors, this month featuring novelists Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters, nominated for the NAACP Image Award, and Nicola Harrison, The Show Girl; there will be an online component for those not yet comfortable with in-person events at this hybrid event; each in-person ticket comes with $10 store credit to be used at Bel Canto Books, event will be held at Bel Canto Books, 2122 E. 4th Street, Long Beach 11:00 am PDT (Purchase tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/wnba-la-literary-tea-tickets-391917294177)
- Bird & Beckett presents Story Makers, a reading featuring three fiction writers, Andrena Zawinski, Plumes & other flights of fancy, Judy Juanita, The High Price of Freeways, and Joan Gelfand, Extreme, followed by an open mic, emceed by fiction writer and poet Claire Ortalda, Bird & Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 4:00-6:00 pm PDT (More information here: birdbeckett.com/fiction-8-28-22)
29 AUGUST 2022 — monday
- Napa Valley College offers a sixteen-week hybrid poetry class, taught by poet and biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle, West: Fire Archive, students will read poems, write from inspiring prompts, workshop poems together, and produce their own end-of-semester chapbook of poems, hybrid in person and online, 6:00-7:50 pm PDT (Enroll here: www.napavalley.edu/studentaffairs/AR/Pages/HowtoApply.aspx)
- Skylight Books presents acclaimed poet J. Hope Stein, reading from her new book, little astronaut, joined by her husband, comedian Mike Birbiglia, come for a night of poetry and jokes, in-person, Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-jokes-and-poems-j-hope-stein-and-mike-birbiglia)
30 AUGUST 2022 — tuesday
- Diesel, A Bookstore presents journalist and fiction writer Alexis Deutsch-Adler, reading from her new book, I've Been Thinking, a collection of ten vivid pieces complemented by her own artwork, followed by a book signing, in-person, Diesel, A Bookstore, 225 26th Street, Santa Monica, free, 6:30 pm PDT (More information here: www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Alexis-Deutsch-Adler-Author-signing)
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet and artist essa may ranapiri, author of the forthcoming book Echidna, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
31 AUGUST 2022 — wednesday
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PROGRAMS
Annie Stenzel and Patricia Caspers
