Join us for the next panel in our Writing Series for Adults: Women Authors!

***PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS AT 826LA WEST, 685 VENICE BLVD. VENICE, CA 90291***

Our panelists will discuss writing: how they got started, what inspires them, and how female voice impacts the writing process. We will also be discussing the business side of writing: how to find an agent and how to go about getting published.

Our panelists:

Aimee Bender is the author of 3 books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, and Willful Creatures.  Her short fiction has been published in McSweeney's, Granta, GQ, Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, and more, as well as heard on PRI's 'This American Life' and 'Selected Shorts'. She teaches creative writing at USC.

Amber Benson co-wrote and directed the animated web-series, Ghosts of Albion, (with Christopher Golden) for the BBC. The duo then novelized the series in two books for Random House. Her first solo novel, Death's Daughter, will be published by Penguin in 2009 with a children's book for Simon and Schuster called, The New Newbridge Academy, to follow later that year. As an actress, Benson spent three seasons as Tara Maclay on the cult show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has also written, produced, and directed three feature films, including her latest, Drones, which she co-directed with Adam Busch and will be released later this year.

Sascha Rothchild's memoir How To Get Divorced by 30 will be published by Penguin in January, 2010. Sascha has been featured on NPR's 'This American Life', is on their best-of CD Hope and Fear, and has appeared in their series for Showtime. She is one of the original performers in the stage show Mortified and is published in Simon and Schuster's Mortified book. Sascha is a television producer and writer and also periodically writes for LA Weekly, LA Times, Women's Health Magazine, Playboy Magazine, MSN, and the political pop culture website Dipdive.com. Sascha is currently in bed with Universal Studios to pen her latest feature.

Mona Simpson is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy and Off Keck Road. Knopf will publish her fifth novel, My Hollywood, in 2010. She has received the Whiting Prize, Lila Wallace Prize, Guggenheim, Fiction Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Pen Faulkner Finalist. Mona currently teaches at UCLA.

Moderator:

Danny Hom is a programs manager who tackles students' educational challenges as Venice Coordinator for 826LA.  He graduated from UCLA in 2007, where he wrote on the intersection between feminism and intertextuality.  He's a native Southern Californian and has lived in Los Angeles for the past six years.

The seminar will be held Thursday, July 9, from 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at 826LA WEST. Tickets are $25