Literary Arts Festival

grossmont.edu/laf

2025 Literary Arts Festival: April 28 through May 1

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Welcome to the official website for the 29th annual Literary Arts Festival. Below is this year's week-long calendar of live events celebrating authors and the transformative power of creative writing in all its diverse forms. To learn more about our Festival's guest authors and events, including bios, links to resources, and media clips of interviews and readings, click the LAF banner below or visit "Events Info" in the menu.

 

All events are free of charge and open to the public, and will be held on the Grossmont College campus at the Performance and Visual Arts Center (PVAC).

 

 

Apr 28		Robin Gow  2-3:15pm poet, essayist, YA novelist author of poetry collection, Lanternfly August		New Voices 6-8pm student reading semester's standout creative writing student writers perform new works
Apr 29		Lisa Teasley 2-3:15pm fiction author and essayist award-winning author of Fluid: Stories
Apr 30		Why Lit Matters 12:30-1:45pm panel students and faculty discuss  literature's impact on our lives		antmen pimental mendoza 3:30-4:45pm poet a reading from his new collection, My Boyfriend Apocalypse
May 1		Ella deCastro Baron 6:30-8:15pm memoirist Filipina American author reading from her new nonfiction collection, Subo and Baon

 

The campus venues where this year's events will be held are circled on the map below. For directions and additional information about visiting the campus, visit "Directions" in the LAF menu.

 

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Our heartfelt  thanks also goes out to those patrons and heroes of the literary arts who contributed bountifully to the Foundation for Grossmont and Cuyamaca College’s Creative Writing Fund.  We invite you to become one of them through a tax-deductible one-time gift or a monthly contribution to the Creative Writing Fund that will help us continue bringing world class authors and important literary programs into the lives of our students. Click on "Foundation Giving"  to go to our donations page on the FGCC website. It's quick, easy, and secure.