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Making Something Out of Nothing: A Literary Fiction Panel

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Making Something Out of Nothing: A Literary Fiction Panel

Featuring Esinam Bediako & E.P. Tuazon
2025-10-05 11:15:00 2025-10-05 12:15:00 America/Los_Angeles Making Something Out of Nothing: A Literary Fiction Panel Join award winning literary fiction authors Esinam Bediako and E.P. Tuazon as they discuss their journeys to make something out of nothing. West Hollywood Library -

Sunday, October 05
11:15am - 12:15pm

Add to Calendar 2025-10-05 11:15:00 2025-10-05 12:15:00 America/Los_Angeles Making Something Out of Nothing: A Literary Fiction Panel Join award winning literary fiction authors Esinam Bediako and E.P. Tuazon as they discuss their journeys to make something out of nothing. West Hollywood Library -

Join award winning literary fiction authors Esinam Bediako and E.P. Tuazon as they discuss their journeys to make something out of nothing.

Join authors E.P. Tuazon and Esinam Bediako for a powerful panel on the craft and power of literary adult fiction. In conversation about their creative journeys, both writers will reflect on writing as resistance, navigating the publishing world, and claiming space in contemporary literature.

This panel will take place in the West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room. 

Book signing to follow at 2:15 pm in West Hollywood Park. 

Esinam Bediako is a Ghanaian American writer from Detroit. She is the author of the Ann Petry Award-winning novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024), as well as the essay/poetry chapbook Self-Talk (Porkbelly Press, 2025). You can find some of her recent work in Porter House Review, Great River Review, North American Review, and Southern Humanities Review. She has worked as a high school English teacher and administrator and currently writes and edits for the Spondylitis Association of America. Esi lives in Claremont, CA with her family.

E. P. Tuazon is a Filipino American writer from Los Angeles. His latest book, A Professional Lola, came out in 2024 with RED HEN PRESS and was selected as the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Fiction. His Forthcoming collection, Kain Tayo! (Let's Eat!) Or Forever Hold Our Piece, comes out 2027 (RED HEN PRESS). In his spare time, he likes to go to Seafood City and gossip with the crabs.

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Lectures & Conversations | Education & Literacy | Books, Poetry, & Writing |

TAGS: | Next Chapter Writers' Summit |

West Hollywood Library
Phone: 310.652.5340
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About the branch

West Hollywood Library began service to the area (then unincorporated ) in 1913. The library was previously located at Sherman School, a cottage on Clark Street, a building on Westbourne Drive, and a building near the present site. The Library has an active Friends of the Library group.

The new library was dedicated October 1, 2011.

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