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Literary journals/publications on books.Literary & literacy organizations
Book groups.Independent bookstores
California politics and public policy.California studies.Reference desk.Freedom of expression
Literary Radio and TV
Cover to Cover, KPFA (SF)
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, KUCI-FM (Orange County)
Patt Morrison, KPCC (Southern California)
Fran Halpern, KCLU (Ventura/Santa Barbara)
Michael Krasny, KQED (Bay Area)
Warren Olney, KCRW, Which Way LA.
Ronn Owens, KGO-AM (Bay Area)
Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm, KCRW
Marcos M. Villatoro, Shelf Life. KPFK (Southern California)
West Coast Live, hosted by Sedge Thomson (San Francisco)
Word by Word, hosted by Jordan E. Rosenfeld (Northern California)
Literary Journals and publications on books
The Believer (San Mateo)
Bookmarks Magazine (San Mateo)
Etude, new voices in literary nonfiction
The Mosaic Art & Literary Journal
Stone Soup (children’s)
Literary & Literacy Connect
Inside Out Writers, creative writing by teen inmates
Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature (Fresno)
California Association of Teachers of English
California Center for the Humanities
California Center for the Book, UCLA
California Library Association
California Poets in the Schools
California School Library Association
Children’s Literature Council of Southern California (Tarzana)
International Center for Writing and Translation, UC Irvine
National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, the author’s hometown.
Northern California Science Writers Association
Pen Center USA West (Los Angeles)
San Francisco Center for the Book
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (Los Angeles)
Southern California Writers Association
The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University
California Studies
California Mission Studies Association
Reference desk
24/7 program, connect with a reference librarian at any hour
Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL)
Writing jobs
California Newspaper Publishers Association
California Society of Newspaper Editors
Journalism Job Bank (UC Berkeley)
National Writers Union (Los Angeles)
National Writers Union (Oakland)
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