The Los Angeles literary community is thriving. Every weekend there are poetry readings, book launches, and more. Join four area writers as they talk about what it means to ground their work in the southern California landscape and the importance of having a diversity of voices representing the region. In a discussion moderated by writer and Book Club board member Daria E. Topousis, these writers of varying genres will talk about how they ground their work in Los Angeles, what has helped them persevere in a highly-competitive space, and how the literary community has changed in the last decade (and is continuing to transform).
Panelists include fiction writer Tisha Reichle-Aguilera, author of Stories All Our Own and Breaking Pattern; former Altadena Poet Laureate and memoirist Carla Sameth, author of Secondary Inspections and One Day on the Gold Line; Romaine Washington author of Purgatory Has An Address and editor of These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology; and Désirée Zamorano who’s historical fiction novel of Mexican-Americans in southern California, Dispossessed, was just released.
An in-person panel discussion moderated by Daria E. Topousis, author, featuring Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera, Carla Sameth, Romaine Washington, and Desiree Zamorano