Virtual Bookish Events for July 18-24, 2022
The Virtual Bookish Events Newsletter is sent weekly and events are separated into four categories: For Readers - Free, For Writers - Free, For Readers - Paid, For Writers - Paid.
This newsletter is sponsored by Free Expressions Seminars, The Shape of a Star Podcast, and WP expert Nate Hoffelder.
All times are in Eastern so please convert as needed!
For Readers - Free
Monday, July 18, 2022
7:00 PM — HEAT WAVE: A Virtual Conversation with the author TJ Klune and guest Ryka Aoki
7:00 PM — They Want to Kill Americans: An Evening with Malcolm Nance and Fernand Amandi
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
7:00 PM — Jennifer Chiaverini
7:00 PM — Malevolent Mothers of Myth with Mary McMyne and Vaishnavi Patel
8:00 PM — BODY LANGUAGE: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
9:00 PM — Puget Sound: A Maritime Highway with David B. Williams
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
2:00 PM — Michaela Goade - Berry Song
7:00 PM — An Evening with David A. Robertson
7:00 PM — Our Gen | With Diane McKinney-Whetstone
7:00 PM — Ru Freeman, "Sleeping Alone," with special guest Madeline Miller
8:00 PM — Mari Mancusi & Jen Calonita - Disney Frozen Polar Nights: Cast Into Darkness
10:00 PM — Story Hour: Jen Brown and Jordan Kurella
Thursday, July 21, 2022
7:00 PM — The Daughter of Doctor Moreau | Silvia Moreno-Garcia in conversation with Mariana Enriquez
7:00 PM — Why Didn't You Tell Me?: An Evening with Carmen Rita Wong and Carmen Pelaez
9:00 PM — Skylit: The Work Wife by Alison B. Hart, with Julia Phillips
Friday, July 22, 2022
Saturday, July 23, 2022
For Writers - Free
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
7:00 PM — Exploring Visual Poetry: Making Postcard Poems hosted by Writers' Studio
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Fisk
Thursday, July 21, 2022
7:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat on Fiction with Fernando A. Flores
8:00 PM — Learning Through Lived Experience /How We Think About Inclusion
9:00 PM — On the Writing Life: “Creative Magic” with Cecily Sailer
Friday, July 22, 2022
For Readers - Paid
Thursday, July 21, 2022
10:00 PM — On Sexualization and Society: A Conversation with Julia Serano and Abeni Jones — starting at $10.00
For Writers - Paid
Thursday, July 21, 2022
1:00 PM — Build a Powerful and Sustainable Email Newsletter — starting at $10.00
Friday, July 22, 2022
10:30 AM — Setting the Table: Building Narratives Around Food — starting at $70.00
4:00 PM — Writing the Self through Others with Emily Bernard — starting at $70.00
7:00 PM — Diversity and Inclusion Practices for Creative Writers — starting at $70.00
Saturday, July 23, 2022
10:00 AM — Full Color Fiction: Representative Writing Techniques for Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction — starting at $87.50
10:00 AM — Incorporating Multiple Languages into Your Work — starting at $70.00
10:00 AM — The Business of Writing: Edit, Polish, Query, Submit — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Horror Flash Fiction — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Raising the Stakes: Arcs and Conflicts — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Striking Illumination: Erasure & Palimpsests — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — The Tough Stuff: Strategies for Writing About Pain, Trauma, and Loss — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — Memoir Intervention: Retrieving, Remembering, and Reviving your Forgotten Voice — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Finding the Structure of Our Stories with Jai Chakrabarti — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — More Crazy Mourning, More Howl: The Elegy—Poem of Grieving & Resistance with Yerra Sugarman — starting at $124.00
2:30 PM — Lean Writing — starting at $25.00
Sunday, July 24, 2022
12:30 PM — Prose Poetry: Remake It, Don’t Break It: A Generative Workshop with Ruben Quesada — starting at $25.00
Disclaimer: Including events in this roundup doesn’t imply an endorsement of the authors, organizations, or events. I do not claim responsibility for the quality or execution of these events.