Writing in Los Angeles

Los Angeles Writers & Artists

Writing in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES IS a sprawling home for creatives in all the arts. Every week, the city sees a new publishing venture launch, a new theater space or gallery open. Every day, its residents work on novels, screenplays, or songs. Angelenos paint, sculpt, work on the frontiers of new media, begin filming the latest blockbuster or indie darling, and design the buildings, dresses, and stage sets that materialize worlds at the limits of human imagination.

LARB is committed to helping these artists find their audience — locally, nationally, and internationally — so that they can sustain their vision and impact on our world. By helping to connect audiences around the world with the work produced by the creative energies of this city, LARB hopes to support LA’s artists and writers, helping them get the gigs that put food on the table, the attention that sells books and encourages viewership, the power to pay the rent and keep on creating.

This year, LARB has been awarded one of the prestigious grants from LA2050, a community-guided initiative supported by the Goldhirsh Foundation that serves to drive and track progress towards a shared vision of Los Angeles as a thriving metropolis. That generous grant provides LARB the opportunity to expand its mission of growing a diverse community of artists and creators by partnering with other grantees and featuring the work of Angeleno artists and writers on a daily basis throughout 2016.

As a testament and home to that effort, LARB’s Los Angeles Writers & Artists page chronicles the best thought and art coming out of this cultural capital by the sea, collecting and featuring the work of local creators published across the site’s various departments and channels, this ability to provide such dynamic local content speaks to the richness of LA’s cultural landscape and the incredible opportunity afforded by the generosity of the LA2050 grant.

“The Los Angeles Review of Books is one of those exciting organizations that has already done so much for writers and artists in Los Angeles. This grant will fuel their efforts to bring to the forefront those in Los Angeles’s literary and cultural arts community who are underserved or underrepresented. We are excited for the new voices they will uncover.” — Tara Roth, President of the Goldhirsh Foundation.