The Feminist Bookstore Reading Series and Open Mic

Join us for a queer-friendly, feminist reading series at The Feminist Bookstore in Mission Hills!

Our series celebrates diverse voices alongside a featured reader. Before or after the main reading, we have a generative workshop where attendees get a prompt and write for 10 minutes. This helps generate new material that attendees can share at the open mic portion. After that, the microphone is open for attendees to share up to 3 minutes of prose, poetry, or music in an inclusive, welcoming space. Tickets are free, and we invite all to participate and amplify their voices. Hosted by Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press dedicated to socially engaged literature by marginalized voices, this series promises an inspiring night of creativity and community.

Feature: Myriam Gurba is a writer and activist. Her first book, the short story collection Dahlia Season, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. O, the Oprah Magazine ranked her true-crime memoir Mean as one of the “Best LGBTQ Books of All Time.” Her recent essay collection Creep: Accusations and Confessions was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. She has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Vox, and Paris Review. Her next book, Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings, was published by Timber Press in October 2025.

Emcee: Elizabeth Earley: I am the author of the popular Substack series, Queering Reality, with 100,000 subscribers. My debut memoir in essays, Little Deaths All in a Row, Essays on Sex And Death is available now. I am also the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen Press), winner of the Women’s Prose Prize (judged by Aimee Bender), the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle, alongside Ocean Vuong and Jacqueline Woodson. In addition to two published works of fiction, I hold an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University-Los Angeles. My stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. I was awarded the David Friedman Memorial Prize for Fiction and was twice a finalist for the AWP New Journals Award. I have received two Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for the 2011 Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction. I am currently the owner of The Feminist Bookstore and president of Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature.

Join us for a queer-friendly, feminist reading series at The Feminist Bookstore in Mission Hills!

Our series celebrates diverse voices alongside a featured reader. Before or after the main reading, we have a generative workshop where attendees get a prompt and write for 10 minutes. This helps generate new material that attendees can share at the open mic portion. After that, the microphone is open for attendees to share up to 3 minutes of prose, poetry, or music in an inclusive, welcoming space. Tickets are free, and we invite all to participate and amplify their voices. Hosted by Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press dedicated to socially engaged literature by marginalized voices, this series promises an inspiring night of creativity and community.

Feature: TBD
Emcee: Elizabeth Earley: I am the author of the popular Substack series, Queering Reality, with 100,000 subscribers. My debut memoir in essays, Little Deaths All in a Row, Essays on Sex And Death is available now. I am also the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen Press), winner of the Women’s Prose Prize (judged by Aimee Bender), the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle, alongside Ocean Vuong and Jacqueline Woodson. In addition to two published works of fiction, I hold an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University-Los Angeles. My stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. I was awarded the David Friedman Memorial Prize for Fiction and was twice a finalist for the AWP New Journals Award. I have received two Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for the 2011 Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction. I am currently the owner of The Feminist Bookstore and president of Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature.

Join us for a queer-friendly, feminist reading series at The Feminist Bookstore in Mission Hills!

Our series celebrates diverse voices alongside a featured reader. Before or after the main reading, we have a generative workshop where attendees get a prompt and write for 10 minutes. This helps generate new material that attendees can share at the open mic portion. After that, the microphone is open for attendees to share up to 3 minutes of prose, poetry, or music in an inclusive, welcoming space. Tickets are free, and we invite all to participate and amplify their voices. Hosted by Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press dedicated to socially engaged literature by marginalized voices, this series promises an inspiring night of creativity and community.

Feature: TBD
Emcee: Elizabeth Earley: I am the author of the popular Substack series, Queering Reality, with 100,000 subscribers. My debut memoir in essays, Little Deaths All in a Row, Essays on Sex And Death is available now. I am also the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen Press), winner of the Women’s Prose Prize (judged by Aimee Bender), the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle, alongside Ocean Vuong and Jacqueline Woodson. In addition to two published works of fiction, I hold an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University-Los Angeles. My stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. I was awarded the David Friedman Memorial Prize for Fiction and was twice a finalist for the AWP New Journals Award. I have received two Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for the 2011 Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction. I am currently the owner of The Feminist Bookstore and president of Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature.

Join us for a queer-friendly, feminist reading series at The Feminist Bookstore in Mission Hills!

Our series celebrates diverse voices alongside a featured reader. Before or after the main reading, we have a generative workshop where attendees get a prompt and write for 10 minutes. This helps generate new material that attendees can share at the open mic portion. After that, the microphone is open for attendees to share up to 3 minutes of prose, poetry, or music in an inclusive, welcoming space. Tickets are free, and we invite all to participate and amplify their voices. Hosted by Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press dedicated to socially engaged literature by marginalized voices, this series promises an inspiring night of creativity and community.

Feature: TBD
Emcee: Elizabeth Earley: I am the author of the popular Substack series, Queering Reality, with 100,000 subscribers. My debut memoir in essays, Little Deaths All in a Row, Essays on Sex And Death is available now. I am also the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen Press), winner of the Women’s Prose Prize (judged by Aimee Bender), the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle, alongside Ocean Vuong and Jacqueline Woodson. In addition to two published works of fiction, I hold an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University-Los Angeles. My stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. I was awarded the David Friedman Memorial Prize for Fiction and was twice a finalist for the AWP New Journals Award. I have received two Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for the 2011 Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction. I am currently the owner of The Feminist Bookstore and president of Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature.