LitFest Pasadena 2021 will present a packed weekend of panels on a wide array of topics, many of them with Southern California themes.
The annual event, which was forced to cancel a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic, returns Saturday and Sunday, May 15-16, with online virtual events featuring dozens of novelists, poets, and non-fiction writers.
In addition to panel discussions scheduled to run 50 minutes each, LitFest Pasadena has short programming planned to fill the remaining 10 minutes of each hour, making it possible to spend six full hours each day consuming all manner of literature, and a few short film pieces, too.
Saturday, May 15 kicks off at noon with “Stories of the New Unionism,” a panel featuring activists, writers and educators talking about the modern era of the labor movement. That’s followed by “Our SoCal DNA,” with authors talking about the influence of Los Angeles and surrounding communities on their work, and then “Our Culinary Table,” which features food writers talking about the varied food cultures of the region.
The second half of Saturday’s programming begins at 3 p.m. with “Writing While Black,” an exploration of storytelling with Black characters, with writers including Jervey Tervalon, Rachel Harper, and Donnell Alexander, and next, “Graphic Description,” a conversation about graphic novels.
The wraps up at 5 p.m. with “Speculative Los Angeles,” for which writers Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Kathleen Kaufman, and Duane Swierczynski talk about their work on the new science fiction and fantasy anthology of the same name as the panel.
Sunday opens at noon with “Twists and Turns of True Crime,” with writers such as Rabia Chaudry, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Rachel Monroe and Chip Jacobs. It’s followed by “Authors and Airwaves,” a panel about authors and podcasts, and “Modern Kid Lit: Writing From The Heart,” which features a handful of middle-grade authors.
The afternoon sessions that begin at 3 p.m start with “Don’t Hit Repeat,” which features movie critic John Powers and community leader Jinghuan Liu Tervalon in conversation with filmmaker Myles Matsuno about his documentary “First To Go,” the story of Ichiro Kataoka, the first Japanese American in San Francisco to be interned during World War II.
That’s followed by “Untangling The Family Story,” which features writers including Steph Cha, J. Ryan Stradel, Sergio Troncoso and Amy Meyerson in discussion about family relationships in fiction, and then “Publishers Roundtable,” with representatives of some of Southern California’s independent publishing houses sharing tips and trick of the trade.
All events are free — no registration is necessary. For complete details and a schedule that includes the short subject programs that fill the last 10 minutes of each hour — which include poetry by former colleague Johnny Bender — go to litfestpasadena.org/schedule.
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