October 2026 Newsletter
Below are events that our Los Feliz Writers are involved in this September!
As a reminder, Los Feliz Writers organizes local writers to amplify their work and the writers do not represent the views of the organization.
As usual, we have our weekly Shut Up and Writes on Wednesdays at 6:45pm at Big Bar Alcove!
Events
10/10/2026 | $27.76 | Flamingo Resort & Spa in Santa Rosa, CA | All Day
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club at Resort-O-Rama
Join The Los Angeles Breakfast Club Historian Rachel Skytt and history book author Sandi Hemmerlein at the Resort-O-Rama event to discover The Shrine of Friendship’s Hollywood ties, hi-jinks, and ham & eggs — including rarely-seen images and newly discovered archives that may have never seen the light of day. Conference passes and single seminar tickets are available (as are rooms at the Flamingo Resort & Spa, although you don’t have to stay onsite).
10/16/2026 | FREE | Electrical Box Theater Arts District DTLA | 7pm
Perverse4Verse: GORY BOX
GORY BOX 🩸💀 DTLA after dark. Queer AF poets, drag, camp, noir, horror, lust & circumstantial evidence. The gays are sus. Get your bi-alibi correct. The mic is hot, the case is cold. 🧠🍴🎤 Everyone’s a suspect. The witness is unreliable. Questions: @perverseverse
10/17/2026 | Free | Barnsdall Art Park | 1pm to 3pm
Poets in the Grove Vol. 2
What kind of future are we making? 🌿 Poets in the Grove Vol. 2 brings some of L.A.’s brightest poets to the Pine Grove at Barnsdall for an afternoon of poetry, possibility, & collective imagination. In celebration of Susan Silton’s “Civilized Voices,” we’re exploring what happens when text, voice, participation, & public memory become tools for collective action—& what we might create when we imagine beyond this world as it is. Hosted by Karla Lamb & Aubrey Mayne, presented by Los Feliz Writers in partnership with Barnsdall Art Park Foundation, DCA, LAMAG, & 21st Century Writers. Free + open to all. 🌱 Outdoors🌲 BYO picnic optional 🧺 Come make some history with us!
10/17/2026 – 10/18/2026 | Free | All Over Los Feliz | 12pm-5pm
PorchFest LA Eastside
Porchfest LA is a 100% Free Performance Festival ( MUSIC , ART, ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, POETRY) Where neighbors oen up their proches and spaces to performers to entertain the neighborhood form 12 to 5pm eachh day. There will be – music, performance art, stand-up, story-telling, clowning, and more can all be found at Porchfest LA! We’re hosting porches in Los Feliz, Silverlake, East Hollywood, Culver City, and Mar Vista! Schedules are live! (Linked above and on our website) www.porchfestla.com If you don’t have time to RSVP, please come by. This festival is designed for spontaneity and serendipity!
10/19/2026 | FREE W/ RSVP | VIRTUAL | 12pm-1pm
On Writing: About Beauty
Philosophers have long considered “beauty” to be one of our most significant aesthetic experiences. Some regard its power as inspiring or even ennobling; others treat beauty’s allure with suspicion. But beauty isn’t just philosophical. It also interests sociologists, biologists, and marketing execs. Most of us experience beauty as deeply personal, even while we know that our most visceral responses to beauty are shaped by the largest structures in which we exist. So, then, what does beauty mean to the writer? How do we think about writing about beauty, or with beauty? Beauty matters to our sense of writerly voice and also to our beliefs about evidence, persuasiveness, and analysis. This event brings together Arabelle Siccardi, a journalist and cultural historian of the beauty industry, with Mitra Parineh, a creative writer herself and a frequent professor of USC’s “Issues in Aesthetics” freshman seminar. Together, we’ll discuss how beauty shapes what writers do and what readers feel.
Opportunities
Submit to the Los Feliz Writers Spotify Playlist
Max Oakland is organizing a Spotify playlist to amplify songwriters who live in Los Feliz! If you would like to be added to the playlist, please email Max at max @ maxoakland.com.
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