Literary Women of Long Beach celebrates the enduring power of women\u2019s voices in literature when its 2026 Festival of Authors returns for its 44th year on Saturday, March 7, at the Long Beach Convention Center. The highly anticipated, all-day conference brings together acclaimed writers and passionate readers for a day of conversation, connection and storytelling.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s festival will feature the following authors: Karissa Chen, Homeseeking; Barbara Demick, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove;\u00a0Claire Hoffman, Sister, Sinner; Amanda Peters, Waiting for the Long Night Moon;\u00a0Nayantara Roy, The Magnificent Ruins; Anamely Salgado Reyes, My Mother Cursed My Name; and\u00a0Rufi Thorpe, Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles.<\/p>\n
Attendees of the all-day conference will have the opportunity to listen to sometimes funny, often poignant stories from the event\u2019s authors. Festivalgoers also can browse literary-themed merchandise, including books available for author signings.<\/p>\n
Tickets are $125 and can be purchased by signing up for Literary Women\u2019s email newsletter<\/a> or directly on Literary Women\u2019s website<\/a> under the \u201cJoin Us\u201d tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Literary Women of Long Beach celebrates the enduring power of women\u2019s voices in literature when its 2026 Festival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-124543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}