LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair
About this Event
Hosted by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), LITLIT will return in June 2026 for two full days of access to over 50 West Coast presses and literary organizations, as well as panel discussions and workshops. Join us June 6 - 7 at SCI-Arc in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles.
Vendors
Abba Zaba Books| A Good Used Book| Afterword Books| Angel City Press at Los Angeles Public Library| Antiphony: A Journal & Press| Apus Literature| Artbook Bookstore| Atelier Éditions| Bathers Library| Beyond Baroque| Colour Bloc Creativ| Con Todo Press| David Kordansky| David Zwirner Books| DoppelHouse Press | Double Negative| Errant Press| Future Tense Books| Great Oak Press| Hat & Beard Press| Heavy Manners Library| Hesse Press| Hexentexte| Heyday| Hinchas Press| Hyldyr| Inlandia Institute| Insert Press| Inventory Press| ITNA| Kaya Press| Los Angeles Review of Architecture | Luhz Press | Magra Books | Martian Press | Material Editions | New Ritual Press | Paper Chase Press | Para Lllevar Magazine | Pelekinesis | Semiotext(e) | Slant’d | Sming Sming Books | The Lit Club | The Pop-Hop| The Wax Paper | Two Lines Press | Type Eighteen Books | Wave Books | What Books Press | Write Bloody Publishing | X Artists’ Books | You Have Friends | Zocalo Public Square
LITLIT welcomes vendors from up and down the coast. From presses to magazines to literary organizations, LITLIT highlights emerging and established literary work. Shop, browse, and get to know the world of publishing from all over the West Coast.
2026 PANELS
June 6
11 a.m. - West Coast Publishing with Joseph Mosconi, Nicole Katz, Chris Heizer, Michelle Tea, and moderated by Kate Wolf. Dive into what the West Coast literary landscape is, where it is going and where it’s been, and what inspires them to dedicate their lives to the world of books and art.
1 p.m. - The Art of Comedic Writing with Jibz Cameron, Maddie Connors, Christine Catherine Martinez, and Ashley Brooke Roberts. An exploration of the craft of comedy and the stories that it can tell. In an age of nihilism, the demand for whimsy feels like it’s on the rise. Join us to discuss discuss the power that giving in to laughter holds.
3 p.m. - Retellings: The Reimagination of Stories We Know with Melissa Chadburn, K-Ming Chang, Ilana Masad, sam sax, and moderated by Mads Gobbo. A conversation on the many possibilities of traditional storytelling tales, and how these novelists turned them on their heads to create new interpretations of inherited proverbs, tales, and understandings of the unknown.
June 7
11 a.m. - Collective Memory in Digital Spaces, presented with UCLA Humanities. Featuring Alice Bucknell, Yara Feghali, Sadia Quddus, Whisper, and moderated by Daniel Snelson. How do we create shared memory in the digital age? An exploration of the tools that are being utilized to build worlds and tell stories in a collective, virtual era.
1 p.m. - Archiving Los Angeles: Art, Community, and Infrastructure, presented with SCI-Arc. Featuring Tom Carroll, Darío Herrera, Haley Loman, Pierce Myers, and moderated by Michelle Peng. In the city of Los Angeles, which is constantly changing, burning, evolving, and disappearing, our panelists consider the ways in which we can capture the city, whether it’s through traditional or emerging forms of archival work.
3 p.m. - Finding Form with Gabrielle Civil, Tom Comitta, Harry Dodge, and Johanna Hedva. How does an idea go from its start as just a spark to its final form? Explore form with multidisciplinary artists whose work takes them across formats—music, film, performance art, the page.
LITLIT Preview and Launch Party
Get a sneak peak of the festival and celebrate the launch of of LARB Quarterly, Issue no. 49: Traffic. Join us on Friday, June 5 from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m, for for an intimate preview of the amazing presses and literary organizations, food, drinks, and music.
Tickets are $15 for non-members and include a copy of our latest issue, Traffic. Members get in for free.
About the Los Angeles Review of Books
The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) is a non-profit literary magazine covering culture, politics, and the arts. Considered a “pillar of West Coast literary culture with national impact,” LARB publishes reviews, essays, and interviews online every day, as well as a quarterly print journal, which also features original fiction, poetry, and art. As an extension of LARB's editorial vision, LARB promotes cultural conversation and education through our public and educational programs, with events, workshops, and festivals like LITLIT. Founded in 2011, LARB is celebrating it's 15th year, thanks to our readers, donors, and members.
About our hosts, SCI-Arc
Located in Los Angeles' Arts District, SCI-Arc (the Southern California Institute of Architecture) is a world-renowned center of innovation and one of the nation’s few independent architecture schools. Across undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate programs, SCI-Arc teaches architects to engage, speculate, and innovate; to take the lead in reimagining the limits of architecture.
June 6
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel: West Coast Publishing
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Panel: The Art of Comedic Writing
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Panel: Retellings - The Reimaginings of Stories We Know
June 7
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel: Collective Memory in Digital Spaces
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Panel: Archiving Los Angeles - Art, Community, and Infrastructure
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Panel: Finding Form
Where is it happening?
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