Idyllwild Arts Event Calendar

Please join us for a Writer's Week Craft Talk with special guest Ben Loory at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Ben Loory's first book, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011), was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers […]

Please join us for an evening reading with guests, faculty, and students of Writer's Week at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Janet Fitch is the author of the #1 national bestselling novel White Oleander, which was translated into 24 languages, selected for Oprah's Book Club, and adapted into […]

Please join us for a Writer's Week Craft Talk with special guest Tom Laichas at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Tom Laichas is author of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (FutureCycle Press, 2023), Sixty-Three Photographs at the End of a War (3.1 Press, 2021), and Empire of Eden (The High Window […]

Please join us for an evening reading with guests, faculty, and students of Writer's Week at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public. Amber Tamblyn is the critically acclaimed author of seven books across genres, including the bestselling novel Any Man and anthology Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power […]

Please join us for a Writer's Week Craft Talk with special guests Janet Fitch and Amber Tamblyn at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Janet Fitch is the author of the #1 national bestselling novel White Oleander, which was translated into 24 languages, selected for Oprah's Book Club, and […]

Please join us for an evening reading with special guest Joy Harjo at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and […]

Please join us for a Writer's Week Craft Talk with special guest Brendan Constantine at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Poem-a-Day.  A popular […]

Please join us for a special Writer's Week evening reading at Middle Ridge Winery!

Please join us for a Writer's Week Craft Talk with special guest Julia Ingalls at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Julia Ingalls' stories, essays, reviews, and other work regularly appear in Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, BOOM California, Crimereads, […]

Please join us for an evening reading with guests, faculty, and students of Writer's Week at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public. Amber Tamblyn is the critically acclaimed author of seven books across genres, including the bestselling novel Any Man and anthology Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power […]

Please join us for a special Writer's Week Craft Talk at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Lynne Thompson was Los Angeles’ 4th Poet Laureate and received a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. In 2024, She represented the City of Los Angeles at […]

Please join us for an evening reading with guests, faculty, and students of Writer's Week at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.  Janet Fitch is the author of the #1 national bestselling novel White Oleander, which was translated into 24 languages, selected for Oprah's Book Club, and adapted into […]

Please join our Writer's Week adult summer program students for their culmination! This event is free and open to the public.  Amber Tamblyn is the critically acclaimed author of seven books across genres, including the bestselling novel Any Man and anthology Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition. Tamblyn writes cultural criticism for The New York […]