To achieve transformation, we must first imagine it. The fall season of WeHo Reads 2025 begins with four authors summoning their powers of creativity and advocacy. The participating writers delight in showing readers expansive visions of life, death, and all the sublime and horrific moments in between.
This event brings together poets and authors with queer and marginalized perspectives on the transformative power of literature.
Featuring: Carlos Allende, educator and author of Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love and Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle; Gina Rae Duran, interdisciplinary artist, trauma informed educator, and editor of The White Picket Fence: Stories of Individuality as Rebelliousness anthology, forthcoming FlowerSong Press; Myriam Gurba, activist and author of several books including Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings; and Dan López, editor and author of The Show House, named a Best Book of 2016 by Chicago Review of Books, and Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea.
The event is free. WeHo Reads is a literary series presented by the City of West Hollywood. For more information and events, visit www.weho.org/wehoreads. The 2025 season is produced by BookSwell, a literary media company amplifying historically excluded voices. Additional support is provided by media partnerships with Book Soup and Los Angeles Review of Books.