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City Guide

by Carolyn Kellogg

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From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Nathanael West, Joan Didion to Raymond Chandler, many writers have been inspired by Los Angeles. In this installment of City Guides, Carolyn Kellogg, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and Jacket Copy blogger, visits her favorite haunts made famous by writers of both past and present.

Upcoming Events

Creative NonfictionFictionPoetry
Workshop
Art Division
May 23, 2013 - 5:00pm
Poetry
Reading
Cypress Park Community Job Center at Home Depot
May 25, 2013 - 10:00am
Poetry
Workshop
Burbank Senior Artists Colony
May 29, 2013 (All day)
Fiction
Reading
Rhapsodomancy Reading Series
June 2, 2013 - 7:00pm
Poetry
Workshop
Burbank Senior Artists Colony
June 5, 2013 (All day)

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Conferences and Residencies

Conference
Los Angeles, California

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From Grants and Awards

Commonwealth Club of California

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From the Directory of Writers

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Encino, CA
Spoken Word Artist, Poet
Sherman Oaks , CA
Poet
Glendale, CA

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From the Magazine

by Travis Kurowski

May/June 2012

Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Southwest Review, Oxford American, Midwestern Gothic, the Los Angeles Review, ZYZZYVA, Hawk & Handsaw, and Common.

by Staff

January/February 2011
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A pen-and-ink drawing and a typewritten letter by Charles Bukowski are two pieces among the documents and ephemera currently on view in Charles Bukowski: Poet on the Edge at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

by Shell Fischer

September/October 2010

In response to the Deep-water Horizon oil spill, writers Heidi Lynn Staples and Amy King created Poets for Living Waters, an online poetry forum featuring works written in response to the disaster, spurring a host of nationwide events that give poets not only an opportunity to take action against the catastrophe but also to speak out in support of our natural environment.

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Literary Places

Located in Santa Monica, California, the Writers Junction, offers quiet writing rooms for rent. Facilities include rooms with private desks, library-like open tables, a lounge area, a conference...

Located on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Book Soup is an independently-owned bookstore that carries 60,000 titles. The store specializes in art, film, photography, music, controversial...

Founded in 2010, Libros Schmibros is a lending library and used bookstore in Los Angeles, California. 

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