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Events in June 2023

  • - 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”


    June 1, 2023

    Thursday, 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.

  • - Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch
    Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch

    Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch


    June 8, 2023

    Thursday, June 8, 2023

    Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch

    7:00-8:30 PM on Zoom

    To register: https://tinyurl.com/TEENJourney2023

    The Spring 2023 Teen Issue of Inlandia Institute’s online literary journal, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, launches Thursday, June 8th. Come join the Zoom party from 7:00 to 8:30 pm PT, where teens 13–19 will share their art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry selected for inclusion in the issue by teen editors. Inlandia is proud to feature homegrown creatives from inland Southern California cities including Alta Loma, Corona, Fullerton, Moreno Valley, Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto, and Riverside. We are also pleased to have teen contributors from far and wide: Florida and South Carolina, Wisconsin and Kansas, as well as Canada and India.

    Erin Michaela Sweeney writes, speaks, and teaches about the healing potential of mindful creative self-expression. For twenty years, Sweeney was an editor on the east coast but returned to inland Southern California in 2011 to hang out at City of Hope for spa days (aka life-saving blood cancer treatments). Yes, there’s a memoir. She supports other creatives' adventures as managing editor of the Inlandia Institute’s online literary journal, loves her child unconditionally, and forever humbly serves Rexi the cat queen.