Festival 2026
Our second Los Feliz Writers Festival 2026 is happening August 19-23, 2026, and we are so excited!
The mission of this festival is to celebrate, empower, and engage writers that live, work, and play in Los Feliz!
This festival is 100% volunteer ran. We are raising money to pay our staff and make our work sustainable. Find out more here!
Below is the schedule and information to RSVP.
Aug 19 – Wednesday
Event #1: Opening Party | 6:45pm to 9pm | Sidewalk Grill
Join us for a super special Shut Up and Write in Los Feliz!
This will be our opening party with a welcome from LA Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace & other surprises.
Aug 20 – Thursday
Event #2: Personal Essay Writing | 7pm to 8:30pm | Fred 62
Join us for a personal essay writing workshop!
In this workshop, you’ll learn: (1) what makes a great personal essay, (2) how to pitch your essay to editors at publications, (3) what makes a pitch stand out to editors. You’ll also write a scene from your personal history!
Aug 21 – Friday
Event #3: Poets are the new pop stars | 8pm to 10pm | Oxford House Projects
Join us on Friday, July 21st at 8PM for a showcase of Los Feliz’ finest musical and literary artists.
Two poets, two pop stars, one night only. There are worlds being born.
We want you to watch.
Aug 22 – Saturday
Event #4: Fall in love with your own voice | 10am to 11:30am | Los Feliz Market
Join us for a free workshop to cultivate your writing and your delicious self.
In this workshop, we’ll explore how to write with greater authenticity, bravery, and depth while celebrating and developing your unique writing style that could not belong to anyone else… not even AI!
Event #5: Sensory Portal – Writing Through Taste and Scent | 12pm to 1:30pm | SideBar @ Bar Covell
Join us for an immersive creative writing workshop that invites you to explore taste and scent as unexpected catalysts for creative inspiration.
Through a curated series of flavors and aromas, writers will discover how sensory experiences can evoke atmosphere, emotion, character, place, memory, and vivid inner worlds.
Event #6: Tarot for Writers | 2pm to 3:30pm | BArnsdall Art Park
Join us for “Tarot for Writers” – an interactive workshop exploring tarot as a tool to unlock self expression and re-enchant craft for writers and creatives. No prior knowledge of tarot is necessary. Bring your notebooks and an open spirit!
Event #7: Writing With Audio | 4pm to 5:30pm| Fred 62
Want to release poems on Bandcamp; read your novel on Patreon; or produce a play as a podcast?
We will explore how form & sound design shape the written word & developing your writing for audio.
Event #8: Voices of Los Feliz – Radically Human | 6:30pm to 9pm | Barnsdall Art Park
Join us to celebrate the Voices of Los Feliz and zine Radically Human.
Bring a picnic, a blanket, and friends, and come meet under the stars at the beautiful Barnsdall Art Park and meet the local writers who live in Los Feliz as they read from our zine.
Event #9: After-Party | 9:30pm to … | Tabula Rasa
To celebrate our celebration, join us at Tabula Rasa for an after-party that’s actually a post-life birthday party for Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, and Harper Lee!
All three would have turned 100 this year!
Happy 100th Birthday!
Aug 23 – Sunday
Event #10: Local POC VOices | 12pm to 1:30pm | SideBar @ Bar Covell
Join local Writers of Color for performances and an honest conversation about protecting and celebrating your authentic voice.
Together, the panel will explore the ways in which POC writers are currently silenced and how to make change.
POC allies welcomed!
Event #11: Writer and Activist Mixer | 2pm to 3:30pm | Best Fish Tacos
Come join us at Best Fish Taco at 2 pm.
There will be time to briefly share what issues (and art!) you are working on and/or wanting to get involved in.
Friends, family, dogs welcome. Tacos on Nicole!
Event #12: PorchFest OPen Mic | 4pm to 5:30pm | Vermont Triangle
Join us for an open mic at Vermont Triangle as part of the PorchFestLA’s Sundays Before Sunset!
Sign-ups will start at 3:45pm, with our mic starting at 4pm.
2 minutes or one piece of writing (whatever comes first!).
Event #13: The Story of You: Journaling Stroll & Integration | 6pm to 7:45pm | Barnsdall Art Park
Reflect on your journey through this festival & on the bigger story you’re living with journaling guided by Laura.
Bring your journal. Paper, pens, and snacks provided.
A sweet integration, landing and closing to the festival.
FAQs
What if I’m on the waitlist?
The Los Feliz Writers Festival is a free community resource for any and all writers in Los Angeles. We are thrilled by the overwhelming response and number of RSVPs we’ve gotten so far. If you are on the waitlist, you are welcome to show up to the event anyway, you may not have a seat or materials but are welcome to stand and participate. We will only turn away writers if we are absolutely at capacity.
Any advice about parking/transportation?
Each venue has a different parking situation! We have attached the information at the bottom of each Partiful. All our venues are intentionally located walking distance from each other as well as all in the center of Los Feliz to make it accessible for you to walk, bike, or use public transit.
ADA and Accessibility
If you have any ADA or accessibility needs, please email the organizer Sammy (seeliterarypixie@gmail.com) within 24 hours of the event. At the event, please check-in with us so we can ensure your accessibility needs are met! It is important to us that you are able to be part of our festival and our community!!
I can’t make it to the festival and/or the workshop I wanted to attend, but love this – will you have other events?
Yes, we will and do! Join our email list and follow our Instagram @losfelizwriters to stay up-to-date! Sign-up here.
How are you paying for this festival?
This festival is currently run 100% by volunteers and in-kind donations! We did get a grant from the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council to pay for the printing of our zines. We are currently crowdfunding to pay our expenses (our talent and event facilitators and producers) for this year and for next year’s festival!! We’d love your support!!
Here’s the link to donate. Anything helps! We have fun donation rewards, too!
Tier 1 – $25 – The Zinester
- Los Feliz Festival sticker
- Name in festival program (digital) and website
- Signed copy of a zine created by a Los Feliz Writer
Tier 2 – $50 – The Reader
- Tier 1 rewards
- Instagram shout out
- Signed copy of a book from one of our Los Feliz Writers!
Tier 3 – $100 – The Poet
- Tier 1 & 2 rewards
- A custom typewriter poem from a Los Feliz Poet
Tier 4 – $200 – The Writer
- Tier 1 & 2 & 3 rewards
- 30 minutes of feedback on your writing by one of our Los Feliz Writers OR your writing services listed on our website and shared on our email list and Instagram
Tier 5 – $300 – The Literary It Girl (THIS IS ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL WEDNESDAY 8/19).
- ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL AUGUST 19! Open bar (wine & beer only) at our Poets are the New Pop Star event and early entry!
- Invite to private literary salon with wine and Thai food with Los Feliz Poet Laureate 2026-2027!
- Tier 1 & 2 &3 & 4 rewards
I donated and am excited about my donation reward! How can I get it?
You can collect your donation reward at our Poets New Pop Stars and Voices of Los Feliz event. We will have typewriter poets present as well as stickers, zines, books, and t-shirts!
Feedback on your writing will be organized after the festival and take place over zoom! We will send an email with more details to those who donate.
I had some thoughts about the festival and want to share some feedback! Where do I share it?
We created an anonymous feedback form for you to share your feedback with us! Feedback is important and helps us grow. This is our second year as a festival and we know we are learning and have some blind spots. We’d also love to hear if there is something that you loved, too!
Here’s the form.
How long have you been doing this festival?
This is our second festival!!! Last year was our first one. It was super fun, so we decided to do it again! Last year was 6 events and this year is 13. So excited and grateful at how many people wanted to organize events for our community, as well as have fun writing and celebrating writers together!!
I’d love to perform next year, have my writing published in your zine, or pitch an event, how can I do that?
We’d love that!!!! We have a google form where you can pitch events to us. Here’s the form!
For our events for the festival, we did an open call for proposals as well as an open call to writers to submit to our neighborhood zine where their writing would be published and distributed around the neighborhood.
It’s important before pitching and taking on leadership and responsibility that you are an engaged member of our community.
Some ways to engage:
- Come to our weekly Shut Up and Writes
- Have fun at our festival
- Join our email list and come out to support writers in the neighborhood, participate in book clubs, etc.
- Attend the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council Cultural Affairs Committee!
This year we’ve been featured in:
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