Events in June 2023
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- First Thursdays Arts Walk “Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes”
First Thursdays Arts Walk “Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes”
First Thursdays Arts Walk “Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes”
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June 1, 2023Thursday, June 1, 2023
First Thursdays Arts Walk
“Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes”
with Jo Scott-Coe, James Luna, and Becca Spence Dobias
6:30-8:00 PM; doors open at six.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Riverside Main Library
Community Room & Arcade
3900 Mission Inn Blvd
Riverside, CA 92501
6:30-7:00 – Open mic readings – Community Room
7:00-8:00 – Author roundtable – Community Room
Join Inlandia and Riverside Public Library on June 1 for a First Thursdays Arts Walk event for writers, "Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes.” The program will include a roundtable discussion with local authors Jo Scott-Coe, James Luna, and Becca Spence Dobias. Learn about their various paths to publication, including a step-by-step guide to submitting your work to a literary agent – and other means to a publishing end. The conversation will begin at 7:00, but come early if you can! A writers’ open mic is planned from 6:30-7:00.
For the open mic, you are welcome to read poetry, flash fiction, or an excerpt from a work in progress. And while you’re there, explore the month’s topic of books available for checkout in the Community Room. Don’t have a library card? Apply for one at the event!
Jo Scott-Coe’s essays and stories have been published widely, for literary as well as academic audiences. Her third book, Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, is forthcoming in Fall 2023 from the University of Texas Press.
James Luna is the author of three books, all published by Arte Publico Press/Pinata Books: The Runaway Piggy/El Cochinito Fugitivo, A Mummy in Her Backpack/Una momia en su mochila and The Place Where You Live/El lugar donde vives. His fourth book published by Arte Público, Growing Up on the Playground, was released in 2018. Piggy was awarded the 2012 Tejas Star Award as chosen by the students of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Becca Spence Dobias is a 2022 KissPitch mentee, working under the guidance of Jen Deluca, author of the Well Met series. She is the author of On Home (Inkshares, 2021) and has a book under contract with WVU Press about the North Central WV punk scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her work also appears in Inlandia: A Literary Journey, two Writing Bloc anthologies, https://lgbtqreads.com/, and https://diymfa.com/ among other places. She reviews books for Southern Literary Review and co-hosts Writing Bloc’s Indie Writer Podcast. She grew up in West Virginia and now lives in Southern California with her husband and two children.
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- Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein
Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein
Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein
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June 4, 2023Sunday, June 4, 2023
Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein
1:30-3:00 PM
Inlandia Institute and UCR Arts Present
Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts
3834 Main Street, Riverside
On Sunday, June 4, Riverside Press-Enterprise columnist and author Dan Bernstein will join Inlandia and UCR ARTS for “Conversations at the Culver” to discuss his latest book, He Kept His Day Job: Fanfare for the Common Musician. The program will begin at 1:30 PM at the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, 3834 Main Street, in downtown Riverside.
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing.
He Kept His Day Job, described by one reviewer as a “love letter” disguised as a memoir, takes readers on a musical joy ride through bumpy, challenging and exhilarating terrain: the hate-to-practice years, “frightfully flat” solo contests, high school bands, and orchestras, Stanford’s purported “marching band,” an adult community college jazz band, a perfect-chemistry brass quintet, an assisted-living center in Oregon and a Riverside hospital’s ICU and oncology units where Bernstein played for patients and harried staff. This is where the idea for this book was born. Though just one small story, this “Fanfare for the Common Musician” is meant to be contagious, inspiring young musicians to keep playing and adults, particularly those with day jobs, to take their instruments, tap shoes and paint brushes out of the attic and fall in love all over again.
Dan Bernstein got his first blat out of a trombone when he was in fourth grade. Now in his seventies, the retired newspaper columnist who lives in Riverside, California, is still playing his ax – still for little or no money at all.
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- LAST DAY! Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians
LAST DAY! Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians
LAST DAY! Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians
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June 30, 2023April 30-June 30, 2023
Call for Submissions: Inlandia Hearts Librarians
Special Library Issue
Call for Submissions for Inlandia: A Literary Journey
Submit to: https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaLibrarians
Now accepting art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from librarians past and present on any topic and only about librarians/libraries from non-librarians for this themed issue.
Submissions open Saturday, April 30, 2023, and close Friday, June 30, 2023, at midnight Pacific Time.
Simultaneous submissions accepted. Previously curated submissions accepted. Translations accepted. See website for full guidelines.