WeHo Reads: Wild and Powerful Imaginations

How do writers harness their imaginations to create new worlds, reshape realities, and advocate for justice? How can their stories help us envision more inclusive futures?

This event brings together three groundbreaking trans authors whose work expands the horizons of speculative fiction, journalism, and cultural commentary. Through their novels, anthologies, and advocacy, these writers transform personal and collective experiences into bold acts of creativity and resistance.

The event will feature: Charlie Jane Anders, award-winning author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, a new novel about a trans witch who teaches her mother magic; M. M. Olivas, a trans, Xicanxfuturist, author of Sundown in San Ojuela, and alumna of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and the Lambda Literary Workshop; and Tuck Woodstock, host of the celebrated Gender Reveal podcast and the editor of both the Lambda Literary Award-winning 2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies and the upcoming anthology Sex Change and the City.

The event is free. WeHo Reads is a literary series presented by the City of West Hollywood. For more information and events, visit www.weho.org/wehoreads. The 2025 season is produced by BookSwell, a literary media company amplifying historically excluded voices. Additional support is provided by media partnerships with Book Soup and Los Angeles Review of Books.

Attendees are advised that the program may include mature language and themes.