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We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who came out to visit our Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge this past weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books. Thanks to all of you, we had a successful two days of book-making, game-playing, workshops, author hangouts, and readings. Take a look at our photos below, and be sure to stay tuned for news of our next Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge in spring 2015!
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- Tigers watch over the Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge (and in the background, Kaya author Amarnath Ravva does too)
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- Kaya volunteers set up for a weekend of book-making
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- Writers rush to finish their stories within a three-minute time limit
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- One of the weekend’s proud published authors
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- Kaya publisher Sunyoung Lee encourages a young writer
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- Katie, a volunteer from USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts, helps visitors bind and design their own books
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- Luis Rodriguez gives an impromptu reading
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- Vickie Vertiz teaches how to surprise yourself into writing poetry
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- Writers look to Kaya volunteers for help getting started
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- Another book published!
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- Ruth Ozeki and Steph Cha discuss their work in the lounge
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- Kundiman poets Christopher Santiago and Neil Aitken work off of each other to make a poetry mix-tape
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- Kids who have never seen a typewriter get a little help from parents and grandparents
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- Professor Tom Ontiveros, designer of this year’s Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge, watches as his family makes a book
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- KSIP (Kaya Students for Independent Publishing) gives a reading to a tightly packed crowd
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- Deborah Kolodji talks season words with aspiring haiku poets
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- One of the weekend’s smallest authors
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