Select Past Events
Kelly Writers Series. Wed., Oct. 5, 2022, 7:30 pm. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
ZYZZYVA Fall 2020 Issue Launch Party. Thu., Nov. 12, 2020, 6 pm. Virtual event with City Lights Books
The Freya Project: A Time You Felt Seen, Wed., Nov. 13, 2019, 6:30-8:30 pm. The Wing, 8550 Santa Monica Blvd., 3rd Floor, West Hollywood
The Poetry Circus #6: Circus Noir. Sat, July 13, 2019, 6 pm. Griffith Park, Los Angeles.
Featured Poet at Poetry Palooza at Cal State Northridge. Thu., May 2, 2019, 5 pm. Jerome Richfield Hall, Room 201, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, Calif.
Reading and Q&A with Siel Ju. The 42nd Annual Writers Week Conference at University of California, Riverside. Tue., Feb. 12, 2019, 2:30-4:30 pm. UC Riverside, Interdisciplinary Building South, Room 1128, Riverside, Calif.
Book launch for Brittany Ackerman’s The Perpetual Motion Machine with Siel Ju and Nicelle Davis. Fri., Dec 7, 2018, 7 pm. Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood
Tammy Lynne Stoner, with Jillian Lauren & Siel Ju, discusses and signs Sugar Land
Thursday, October 25, 2018, 7 pm
Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood
Fallbrook Writers Conference
Sunday, September 16, 2018, 9 am to 4:30 pm
Fallbrook Public Library, 124 S. Mission Road, Fallbrook, Calif.
Hot Dish Reading Series
Saturday, August 11, 2018, 5 pm
826LA, 1714 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles.
USC Creative Writing program reading at the Los Angeles Festival of Books
(Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge at Booth 377)
Saturday, April 21, 2018, 3 to 4:30 pm
University of Southern California, University Park Campus, Los Angeles
The Table Presents: Redemption
Sunday, April 15, 2018, 2:30 pm to 5 pm
Hollywood Hotel, 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles
RCC Muse Author Talk
Monday, April 2, 2018, 12:45 pm
Riverside City College, Quad 205, 4800 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, Calif.
The Secret Society of The Sisterhood
The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles
Thu., March 1, 2018, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm
Tickets: $20 in advance, $30 at the door. Proceeds donated to Planned Parenthood.
Cake Time: A Reading at University of La Verne
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, 5 pm
University of La Verne, 1950 3rd St, La Verne, Calif.
San Miguel Writers’ Conference and Literary Festival
Workshop: Writing Creatively in the Second Person
February 14 to 18, 2018
Hotel Real de Minas, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Vermin on the Mount
Saturday, January 20, 2018, 7 pm
2196 Logan Ave., San Diego
Library Girl & Roar Shack Present: (This Is S’posed To Be) The New World
Sunday, December 10, 2017, 7 PM
Ruskin Group Theater, 3000 Airport Ave, Santa Monica
Living Writers Series: San Diego State University
Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 7 pm
Love Library 430/31, SDSU, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA
[News article about event in Daily Aztec]
Fresh Fiction: A Reading at Miami Book Fair (Nov. 12 – Nov. 19)
Sat., November 18, 2007, 10:30 am
Room 8201 (Building 8, 2nd Floor), 300 NE Second Ave.
Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, Florida
Dirty Laundry Lit: Safe Word
Saturday, November 4, 2017, 7 pm
The Virgil, 4519 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles
National Writing Month workshop with Siel Ju (Palos Verdes Library District)
Title: How to build your author platform: Find, Connect, and Engage with Your Readers
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 6 pm – 7:15 pm
Peninsula Center Library community room, 701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.
Los Angeles Review Salon
(Private event — Email me for an invite)
Sunday, October 29, 2017, 2 pm
Red Hen Press at Lit Crawl L.A.
(Facebook event page)
Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 8 pm
The Eclectic, 5156 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood
Pen Center USA’s Edison Book Club
(I will host this month’s event; more about the book club here)
Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 6 pm – 8pm
The Edison, 108 W 2nd St, #101, Los Angeles
Indie Author Day
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 3 pm – 5 pm
Junipero Serra branch library, 4607 S Main St, Los Angeles
National Reading Group Month Authors Panel
(Facebook event page)
Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 7:30 pm
Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Review Reading
(Facebook event page)
Friday, October 6, 2017, 7:30 pm
The Last Bookstore, 453 S Spring St, Los Angeles.
Griffith Park Storytelling Series (a 90x90LA event)
(Facebook event page)
Sunday, September 24, 2017, 5 pm – 7 pm
In the Bronson Caves, Griffith Park (follow directions on website), Los Angeles
[News story about event in The Los Angeles Times]
Siel Ju — Cake Time: One Book / One Glendale
(Eventbrite page)
Thursday, September 14, 2017, 7 pm
Glendale Central Library, 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA
All Lit Up
(Facebook event page)
Thursday, September 7, 2017, 7 pm
Chevalier’s Books, 126 N Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles
Author’s Club: Siel Ju
(Facebook event page)
Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 6 pm
Westwood Branch Library, 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles
Roar Shack presents “Shine On” Sunday
Sunday, August 13, 2017, 4 pm – 5:30 pm
826LA, 1714 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
Siel Ju reads with Celeste Gainey
Sunday, June 11, 2017, 2 pm
Big Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Ln, Philadelphia
An Evening with Red Hen Press
Thu, June 8, 2017, 7:30 pm
Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St., Brooklyn
Bitches of the Drought Chapbook Release Party
Monday, June 5, 2017, 8 pm
Stories Books and Cafe, 1716 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg event at The Window @A.G. Geiger
Sunday, April 30, 2017, 4 pm
A.G.Geiger Fine Art Books, 502 Chung King Ct., Los Angeles
Cake Time: A Reading at SMC Spring Literary Series
Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 11:15 am – 12:30 pm
Santa Monica College, HSS 165, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica
Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge Pre-Reading & Party
(Facebook event page)
Friday, April 21 2017, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Other Books, 2006 E Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles
Why There Are Words Los Angeles
(Facebook event page)
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 7pm
1614 Wilshire Blvd. Unit 503, Los Angeles.
Writes of Spring Festival
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 8 am
Rio Hondo College, 3600 Workman Mill Rd., Whittier, Calif.
Adventures in Literary Readings – Los Angeles
Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 8 pm
Stories Books & Cafe, 1716 West Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
Red Hen Press event featuring Elizabeth Powell, Siel Ju, Angela Palm, and Lynnell Edwards
Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 3 pm
Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood
Siel Ju: Cake Time with Corinne Manning and Tara Atkinson
(Facebook event page)
Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 7 pm
Hugo House, 1021 Columbia St., Seattle
Siel Ju reads from Cake Time with Kelly Magee
(Facebook event page)
Tuesday, April 11, 2017, at 7 pm
Village Books, 1200 11th St., Bellingham, Wash.
Siel Ju in conversation with Kevin Sampsell
Monday, April 10, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland
Siel Ju reads from CAKE TIME with Andrew Lam and Brynn Saito
(Facebook event page)
Friday, April 7, 2017 at 7 pm
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland
Writers With Drinks
(Facebook event page)
Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St, San Francisco
Siel Ju reads from her novel-in-stories CAKE TIME, with special guests
Janice Lee, Victoria Patterson, and Jim Ruland
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles
Angels Flight • literary west Salon with Siel Ju & Lilliam Rivera
Sunday, March 26, 2017, 4 pm – 6 pm
Clifton’s Republic, 648 S Broadway, Los Angeles
Readings of Red Hen Press Poets at Downtown Bookfest
Saturday, March 11, 2017, at 4:05 pm – 5 pm
Grand Park’s Olive Court, 200 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles
Literaoke II
Friday, February 10, 2017, 8:30 pm – 11 pm
Dupont Underground, 1900 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC
Red Hen Press Omnibus Reading (AWP offsite event)
Thursday, February 9, 2017, 6:30 pm
Busboys & Poets, 1025 5th Street NW, Washington, DC
Cake Time Book Signing at 2017 AWP Conference & Bookfair
* Thurs, Feb. 9, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
* Fri, Feb. 10, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
* Sat, Feb. 11, 11 am – noon
Red Hen Press booth at Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC
Tongue & Groove
December 18, 2016, 6 pm
Hotel Cafe, 1623 N Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles
Meredith Alling & Siel Ju: Reading & Conversation
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave., Los Angeles
The Rejection Game reading at Lit Crawl L.A.
Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, 7 – 7:45pm
The Eclectic Fine Foods and Spirits, 5156 Lankershim, North Hollywood
How to Find the Right Literary Agent (talk) at Women Who Submit
Sat., October 8, 2016, 10 am
Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, Los Angeles
Roar Shack
Sunday, September 11, 2016, 4 pm – 5:30 pm
826LA, 1714 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Review reading at Southern California Poetry Festival
Saturday, September 10, 2016, 3 pm
Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach
Sumarr Reading Series
Sunday, April 17, 3 pm
The Pop-Hop, 5002 York Blvd, Los Angeles
The Flash Sequence: A Reading and Discussion at AWP Conference
Friday, April 1, 2016, 9 am – 10:15 am
Los Angeles Convention Center (Room 406 AB, Meeting Room Level), Los Angeles
#LitinColor Reading with Kaya Press (at AWP Conference)
Friday, April 1, 2016, 12:30 pm
Los Angeles Convention Center (Booth 1310), Los Angeles
Best of the West Reading (AWP Conference offsite event)
Presented by The Los Angeles Review, Pacifica Literary Review, and Cutbank
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Villain’s Tavern, 1356 Palmetto St, Los Angeles
How to Build a Writing Community panel at Bindercon LA
Saturday, March 19, 2 pm – 3:15 pm
Carnesale Commons at University of California, Los Angeles
Vermin on the Mount reading
Fri, Feb. 19, 2016, 7:30 pm
Book Show, 5503 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles
Winter Solstice Reading
Sun, Dec. 20, 2015, 6 pm
739 N. Edgemont St., Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Review Reading
Thu., November 12, 2015, 7 pm
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffee House, 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge, CA
Dancing Girl Press reading at Roar Shack
Sun, November 8, 2015, 4 pm – 5:30 pm
826LA, 1714 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
Kaya Press Reading
Wed, November 4, 2015, 7:30 pm
Stories Books & Cafe, 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA
Rhapsodomancy Reading Series
Sat., March 21, 2015, 8 pm – 10 pm
Writ Large Press HQ, 722 S. Los Angeles St. #312, Los Angeles