Los Angeles, Get Ready for Lamda LitFest!

The second annual Lambda LitFest Los Angeles is just around the corner!

Designed to celebrate contemporary voices honoring and expanding on the rich, diverse tradition of LGBTQ+ writers and readers n the area, Lambda LitFest will take place Saturday, Sept. 29 through Saturday, Oct. 6. The week-long celebration will kick off with a LitFest Launch the first day at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Downtown L.A. The launch will feature a full day of programming, including panels, talks and readings. Plus, new this year, low-cost workshops will be available for festival attendees. 

The LitFest Closing on the last day will feature a live taping of the LA Review of Books (LARB) Radio Hour podcast with featured guest Patrisse Cullors, the cofounder of Black Lives Matter. This will take place at Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park, West Hollywood.

For more information, visit lambdalitfest.org.

See HERE for a schedule of the Lambda LitFest events happening all week:

Saturday, Sept. 29

11 a.m. –

• Geekdom in the Fiefdom, at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
• A Big Queer Reading / Writing Round Robin, at the JACCC Garden Room “B”
• But Make It Funny, at the JACCC Garden Room “C” 

12:45 p.m. –

• Everything You Wanted to Know about Being a Queer TV Writer but Were Afraid to Ask (Sponsored by UCLA Extension Writers’ Program), at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
• Your Voice is a Hammer: A How-to for Manifestos, Rants, & Tweetstorms, at the JACCC Garden Room “B” 
• Taking the Tragedy Out of LGBTQ Young Adult Fiction: Writing Fun, Fluffy, Romantic Queer Teen Stories, at the JACCC Garden Room “C” 

2:15 p.m. –

• Queer/Sex/Work, at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center 
• How to Give Great Read!, at the JACCC Garden Room “B” 

3:45 p.m. –

• It’s Very That: The Ever-Evolving Queer Label, at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center

Sunday, Sept. 30

1 p.m. – 

• Still We Rise: 50+ Queer Women Writers Speak, at the Community Meeting Room at the West Hollywood Library

2 p.m. – 

• Queer Youth Voices Workshop, at the 826LA – Echo Park 
• Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos, at the Avenue 50 Studio 131 North Avenue 50 Los Angeles

3 p.m. –

• What is the future of literature?, at the Community Meeting Room at the West Hollywood Library

3:30 p.m. – 

• QUEER JOY SPOKEN: Queer Poets of Color Revel, at the Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, Los Angeles
• 4 p.m. – 
• Porn Again: More Than a Memoir, at Book Soup, West Hollywood
• Are We Still Writing Endings?, at Beyond Baroque, Venice

5 p.m. – 

• Dust & Lust: Writing in and About Lesbian Archives, at the June Mazer Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles

 7:30 p.m. – 

• An Evening with Feminist Press, at The Virgil, Los Angeles

Monday, Oct. 1

7 p.m. – 

• What’s Done, Must Come, at Room 139 Los Angeles LGBT Centre – The Village at Ed Gould Plaza 1125 N. McCadden Place Los Angeles CA 90038 
• Crowdfunding Queer Lit: A Panel and Reading, location TBD
• Closet Drama, or The Dick Pic of a Twink, at Akbar Silverlake

Tuesday, Oct. 2

6:30 p.m. –

• Burning Time, at 1888 Center, Orange CA

7:30 p.m. –

• Acclaimed Bi Writers Read From Their Work, at Stories Books and Café, Los Angeles

8 p.m. – 

• Remembering James Carroll Pickett & Artists Confronting AIDS, at Skylight Theatre 1816 1/2 N Vermont 90027 

8:30 p.m. – 

• Queer Lit Dreams, at Alfred Coffee, Melrose Place 

Wednesday, Oct. 3

1:30 p.m. –

• L.A. Writers: Celebrating Women of Color & LGBTQ Artists – This is What a Feminist Looks Like (Sponsored by Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies), at Cal State LA, Room AB 3rd Floor, University-Student Union

4 p.m. –

• The Mariposa Hour: Stories of Queer Love, Blood, and Memory, at UCLA LGBT Resource Center 220 Westwood Plaza B36 Student Activities Center 

6 p.m. – 

• Queering Children’s Lit, at Stories Books and Café, Los Angeles

6:30 p.m. – 

• Fertile Ground: Stories Rooted in Our Trauma, at the TransLatina Coalition Offices, Los Angeles

7 p.m. – 

• GET HAUNTED: Ghosts, Queerness (In)Visibility, and a Poetics of Possession: Six Writers read, perform, discuss, and/or raise ghosts., at Akbar Silverlake
• Rewriting the Future: Science Fiction and LGBQ/Trans Peoples, at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries 

8 p.m. – 

• The Ovary Office, at The World Stage, Los Angeles

Thursday, Oct. 4

6 p.m. – 

• Celebrating the Asian American LGBTQ+ Experience, at the Chinese American Museum 425 N Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 
• Written on the Body: Contemporary Writers Read Writers Who Died of AIDS, at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries

7 p.m. – 

• Queer, Sweet Home, at Akbar Silverlake 

7:30 p.m. – 

• Hear Me Out, at the Los Angeles LGBT Center The Village at Ed Gould Plaza Davidson/Valentini Theatre 1 125 N McCadden Pl.

8 p.m. – 

• Drunken Masters, at the Civic Center Studios, Los Angeles
• Queer Spirit, Neo-shamanism, Wizardry, and New Frame Stories for LGBTQ, at ART SHARE L.A. 

Friday, Oct. 5

1:30 p.m. – 

• The Hollywood Adriana, A Cautionary Tale of Damaged Good, at The Hollywood Heritage Museum 

6 p.m. – 

• AWAKENINGS: Weaving Our Stories Through the Threads of Time, at Founders MCC Church, Los Angeles
• Roar Shack Presents: Just Say It!, at 826 LA Echo Park

6:30 p.m. – 

• Trumpocalypse: Can Writing Books Help Save a Seriously F*cked World?, at Skylight Books, Los Angeles

7 p.m. – 

• Trans-Latinas Filling the Literary Void, at Trans Wellness Center, Los Angeles
• PEN Presents yayy it’s jayy: Open Mic Night with jayy dodd & friends, at The Black Cat, Los Angeles
• WeHo Reads: Eloise Klein Healy & City Poet Laureate Kim Dower, at West Hollywood City Council Chambers 

8 p.m. – 

• The Werkroom, at Skylight Books, Los Angeles
• Yes Femmes, at Book Show, Los Angeles

Saturday, Oct. 6

6 p.m. –  

• Lambda LitFest LA Presents Live with Patrisse Cullors, at Fiesta Hall at Plummer Park, West Hollywood