WeHo Reads

03/12/2025

Open Call: Free Theatre in the Parks – Apply by April 25, 2025, to bring your production to Kings Road Park. Subscribe to our newsletter for more details and updates on upcoming events at https://conta.cc/4hVZezW

Email from City of West Hollywood's Arts Division () Celebrate Women's History Month with inspiring events. RSVP now! Events Writing Workshop: Writing Strong Women Characters Saturday, Mar

03/09/2025

Join WeHo Reads: Feminism and Fearlessness on March 19 for an inspiring online conversation with bold women writers exploring storytelling, equity, and advocacy. Free event—RSVP now! https://conta.cc/3FcFDgd

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03/04/2025

Join West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Jen Cheng on March 8 for a workshop on crafting strong female characters through writing and improv. Celebrate Women's Herstory Month with us—subscribe to our newsletter for more details and updates on upcoming events at https://conta.cc/4h6wIug

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06/28/2023

Angelic Troublemakers is an exhibition of digital drawings and photographs from 27 artists relating to the theme of LGBTQIA+ Pride at the West Hollywood Library presented by HIT and the City of West Hollywood. In the words of Bayard Rustin: “We need in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.”

This exhibition continues through August 24, 2023. It is free to visit, and open during regular library hours. Check the hours before visiting: https://lacountylibrary.org/west-hollywood-library

The exhibit is part of the WeHo Pride Arts Festival; more info at www.wehopride.com/artsfestival.

06/23/2023

Join us at the Q***r Book Bazaar on Saturday, June 24, 10am-5pm with local book dealers, independent publishers, and literary vendors. Live performances by q***r musicians, dancers, and other performers will be scheduled throughout the day on the Fiesta Hall stage in Plummer Park! The event is free to attend.

The Banjee Ball will follow the Q***r Book Bazaar starting at 6pm. Learn more at www.wehopride.com/artsfestival.

06/12/2023

Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month with q***r creators, writers, and poets.

We share our light and illuminate possibilities for living proud, safe, and free.


This online reading and panel discussion creates a safe space for writers who use their personal lives and literary careers as means to contribute to and strengthen their communities especially during LGBTQ+ Pride Month.


This discussion features K-Ming Chang, Kamden Hilliard, Golden, and Natalie Wee. Presented during the WeHo Pride Arts Festival.


Free event.

Wednesday, June 14, 7-8:30pm PT

RSVP at www.weho.org/wehoreads

06/05/2023

Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month with q***r creators, writers, and poets.

We share our light and illuminate possibilities for living proud, safe, and free.


This online reading and panel discussion creates a safe space for writers who use their personal lives and literary careers as means to contribute to and strengthen their communities especially during LGBTQ+ Pride Month.


This discussion features K-Ming Chang, Kamden Hilliard, Golden, and Natalie Wee. Presented during the WeHo Pride Arts Festival.


Free event.

Wednesday, June 14, 7-8:30pm PT

RSVP at www.weho.org/wehoreads

06/02/2023

Get a custom typewriter poem from an LGBTQIA+ poet this WeHo Pride weekend on June 3 and 4!

Pride Poets was created for the City’s Arts Festival in 2019 and features LGBTQIA+ poets who will write a custom poem on a vintage typewriter for you. You can find the Pride Poets at the WeHo Pride Arts Festival booth ( #363-4) at the WeHo Pride Street Fair, on Santa Monica Blvd. This project is funded through an Arts Grant from the City of West Hollywood.

02/16/2023

Writing Paths Toward Justice

Join WeHo Reads on 2/22 as we search for truth in tales of crime and the pursuit of justice with Walter Mosley, Joe Ide, Jordan Harper, Kellye Garrett, and Steph Cha.

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WeHo Reads: Writing Paths Toward Justice

Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 6pm



What can we learn about human nature from imagining the paths taken by criminals and outcasts? By following people who seek justice, do we learn of better ways to heal wounds and seal rifts? Join us for a discussion with authors who examine what happens when the social contract fractures.

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Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated writers with over 50 published books, including Devil in A Blue Dress which was adapted into a 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington. He has been awarded multiple Edgar Awards and NAACP Image Awards, and in 2020, he was the first Black man to receive the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. His recently published novel, Every Man a King (Hachette, 2023), is the second installment in his Joe “King” Oliver series.



Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay (Ecco, 2019), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award, and the Juniper Song crime trilogy.



Kellye Garrett is an Anthony, Agatha, and Lefty award-winning author whose most recent suspense novel, Like a Sister (Mulholland Books, 2022), is about the death of a disgraced reality TV star.



Joe Ide is the author of the multiple award-winning IQ series, including the most recent installment, Smoke (Mulholland Books, 2021).



Jordan Harper has been a music journalist, film critic, and TV writer. His most recent novel, Everybody Knows, is a crime thriller about a publicist who works for the corrupt and depraved elite in Southern California (Mulholland Books, 2023).



WeHo Reads is a literary series presented by the City of West Hollywood. BookSwell.



RSVP for a reminder at www.weho.org/wehoreads.