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Llyr Heller, March 24, 2025

Attention all independent authors in California! Are you looking to get discovered and gain more readers? A wonderful way to do this is to enter the 2025 Indie Author Project Annual Contest through us.

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Kelly Wallace, October 30, 2023

"The lights of the city were an endlessly glittering sheet. Neon signs glowed and flashed.

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Catherine Royalty, October 23, 2023

The Los Angeles Public Library has a partnership with the international literary organization Writers Project of Ghana in an effort to exchange resources and amplify the voices of writers in Africa and throughout the world.

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