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DTLAB: the Individual and the Community
Of individuals and community. Of the personal and public. Of interior and exterior. DTLAB begins.
PUBLISH!
PUBLISH!, DT•LAB, & the Start of Summer
There’s not much to report this week. Except to say things are brewing. Things are ready to be shaken up a bit. I guess we’re just getting ready for summer. We had a full weekend, with two events to take part in on Saturday: noon to 5pm at Richie Valens Park in Pacoima during the …
Bondage
A few weeks back, I was interviewed by Darren Cifarelli for The Morningside Park Chronicles. I met Darren in March when I was the featured reader at the inaugural Ground Zero reading at LA Southwest College. I was invited by Teka-Lark Fleming, who I’ve known through mutual friends like Mike Sonksen and Jo Scott-Coe. It …
Year of Underground Publishing – and Learning
In June, we will celebrate a year of our PUBLISH! project. It’s been an interesting, exciting, frustrating experience that presented us with important lessons about visions and long term focus. We kicked off Phase 1 of PUBLISH! in June of 2013, on a rainy weekend in New York. This first year has been what we …
Photos from the Best Book Festival in LA
On Saturday, March 29th, 2014, the best book festival in LA took place at Grand Park. Next week, I will share with you the story from the event, with details and numbers and all that. But for now, please enjoy these photos, taken by various wonderful people who came out and enjoyed a wonderful day …
The 2nd Annual Grand Park Downtown BookFest
We are a little over a week away from one of our biggest (if not the biggest) project of the year: the Grand Park Downtown BookFest. It is on Saturday, March 29th, noon–5PM. Come out. It will be a blast and so much unlike that other book festival. This is our second year putting together …
AWP14 Recap: Part Two
The part that I didn’t expect to be fun turned out to be pretty great. I get pretty grumpy a lot and hate everyone around me so I was dreading seeing a bunch of, ugh, writers. And, good god, all those horrible editors and publishers. Ewwwww. BUT I was wrong. Was I wrong. All those …
AWP14 Recap: Part One
Last week, we had our first experience at AWP. I had heard many stories from friends who’d attended before, most of them bad/nightmare/horror stories. And considering all the personal stuff I’d been dealing with last month or so, I was quite nervous about AWP14. Well, surprise, surprise. We had a fantastic and productive trip. And …
PUBLISH @ AWP 2014
This week, we are attending our very first AWP conference. AWP is the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. We’re both excited and, based on stories from previous attendees, terrified. I am not much for industry trade shows and this appears to be one of those. At least this one is in Seattle, a city …
