The Poets & Writers Live event on January 11, 2014, featured Dani Shapiro, Ron Carlson, Charles Yu, Meghan Daum, Harryette Mullen, Lauren Humphrey, Rick Lupert, Tracy Kato-Kirayama, Terry Wolverton, Cheryl Klein, and Kevin Larimer.
Featured reader Dani Shapiro talks with an audience member following the inaugural Poets & Writers Live event in Los Angeles.
Panelist Rick Lupert talks about opportunities for writers in Los Angeles.
Panelist Ron Carlson talks about why he writes.
Audience members talk during a break.
Panelist Ron Carlson (left) talks with featured reader Dani Shapiro.
Panelist Traci Kato-Kiriyama talks about opportunities for writers in Los Angeles.
Why We Write panelists (from left) Ron Carlson, Harryette Mullen, Charles Yu, and Meghan Daum.
Featured reader Dani Shapiro, author most recently of Still Reading: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life.
Audience members talk during a break.
Opportunities in LA panelists Traci Kato-Kiriyama (left) and Lauren Humphrey.
Why We Write panelist Meghan Daum (right) talks with an audience member.
Featured reader Dani Shapiro.
Poets & Writers managing director Melissa Ford Gradel (right) talks with an audience member.
From left: poet Harryette Mullen, Poets & Writers editor in chief Kevin Larimer, and fiction writer Charles Yu.
Why We Write panelist Charles Yu (left) talks with Opportunities in LA panelist Traci Kato-Kiriyama.
From left: former director of Poets & Writers’ California office and Readings/Workshops (West) Cheryl Klein with Opportunities in LA panelists Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Lauren Humphrey, Rick Lupert, and Terry Wolverton.
Why We Write panelist Harryette Mullen.
The inaugural Poets & Writers Live event was held at the literary arts center Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles.