Santa Monica Review Events

 

Alabaster Anniversary: Celebrating 37 Years of the Santa Monica Review

Featuring Readings by contributors to the magazine.

Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 2 p.m. 

Join us at the legendary Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center for readings by four frequent contributors to mark a special anniversary. Founded by writer/ teacher Jim Krusoe and sponsored by Santa Monica College in 1988, we celebrate our commitment to the Southern California community of writers.

With readings by,

Jeffrey Bills-Solomon is the author of So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein. His fiction has appeared in SMR, SPECS, and Best Gay Stories

Kareem Tayyar is a poet and prose writer, author of the novel The Prince of Orange County and the collections Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems and The Revolution of Heavenly Bodies & Other Stories.

Lisa Alvarez's poems and short stories have appeared in Air/Light, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Huizache, [Pank], and SMR. She is author of a debut fiction collection, Some Final Beauty and Other Stories.

Stephen Cooper is a National Endowment for the Arts grantee for his fiction. His Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante was a Los Angeles Times “Best Book of the Year” and he cowrote and produced the Netflix Original Documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski. His new collection is River of Angels: Stories.

Emcee: Andrew Tonkovich, SMR editor

Books by authors for sale. Refreshments.

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center

681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

$10 General Admission. $6 Student/Senior. Free for BB members

The Santa Monica Review is a national literary arts journal sponsored by Santa Monica College.

Thank you to Don Girard, Linda Sullivan, Ming-Yea Wei, Rob Rudolph, Dagmar Gorman, and Vivian Chu.

Please see a list of our videos of past events.