Name: Panel: LA Women VS the Void @ the Culver City Book Festival
Start: 2026-03-29T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-29T13:00:00-07:00
Location: The Wende Museum

Panel: LA Women VS the Void @ the Culver City Book Festival

Village Well Books & Coffee

Join us for a panel exploring the madness of modernity.

The Wende Museum

Please note that RSVPing to this event is required for entry.“Women Vs. The Void” is one of the fastest growing categories in fiction and Los Angeles is one of the fastest growing literary scenes. Come hear some of the best and most exciting voices discuss L.A., writing and the danger and necessity of fighting the void in our times.About the participants:Anna Dorn is the author of the novels Perfume and Pain, Exalted, Vagablonde, and American Spirits. She was a Lambda Literary Fellow and Exalted was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in Los Angeles.Ruth Madievsky is the author of national bestselling novel, All-Night Pharmacy, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction, the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Cut, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she works as a clinical pharmacist.Kim Samek is a half-Thai Emmy-nominated writer and television producer whose credits include MTV’s Catfish and PBS’s WordGirl. She studied German literature and creative writing at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in Guernica, Ecotone, Electric Literature, North American Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, swamp pink, Gulf Coast, Southern Humanities Review, The Threepenny Review, Story, and ZYZZYVA. Her short fiction has won a Pushcart Prize. A native of Seattle, she lives in Los Angeles.Allie Rowbottom is the author of the novel Aesthetica and the memoir Jell-O Girls, a New York Times Editors’ Choice Selection, Indie Next Pick, and Real Simple Best Book of the Year. Allie’s essays and short fiction can be found in Vanity Fair, Salon, Lit Hub, No Tokens, NY Tyrant, The Drunken Canal, Alta Journal, Bitch, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey.Nada Alic is the author of Bad Thoughts, a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick and finalist for the Danuta Gleed award. Her novel is forthcoming from Knopf.Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry, and has written screenplay adaptations of her work. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association, and from the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, and PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY. Currently she teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension, Antioch University, Pocket MFA, and numerous workshops across the country. Francesca also edits LIT ANGELS, a literary journal available on Substack. Her latest novel is HOUSE OF HEARTS now out in paperback. https://www.francescaliablock.com/

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