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Virtual Bookish Events for April 4-10, 2022

Sarah Nicolas
Apr 3
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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 and WP expert Nate Hoffelder.

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For Readers - Free

Monday, April 4, 2022

  • 6:00 PM — Henry Louis Gates and Andrew Curran — Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race - with Celeste Headlee

  • 6:30 PM — Black Sound as Liberation Technology ft. Camae Aweya, Anaïs Duplan, & Taylor Johnson

  • 7:00 PM — A Reading and Discussion with award-winning poet Paul Tran

  • 7:00 PM — Mia Sosa and Nichole Perkins for THE WEDDING CRASHER

  • 7:30 PM — Café Muse featuring Barbara Goldberg and J.C. Todd.

  • 7:30 PM — Erika Meitner: Useful Junk

  • 7:30 PM — Words out Loud: Mark Fishbein and Nancy Pagh (poetry)

  • 8:00 PM — Elizabeth Alexander and Mahogany L. Browne in celebration of THE TRAYVON GENERATION

  • 8:00 PM — Mickey Rowe — Fearlessly Different - with Emily Ladau

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

  • 1:00 PM — And a Dog Called Fig: An Afternoon with Helen Humphreys & Mark Doty

  • 5:00 PM — De Nichols—The Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution

  • 5:30 PM — Paula McLain — WHEN THE STARS GO DARK - with Regina Brett

  • 6:00 PM — Dorothy Roberts — Torn Apart - with Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor

  • 7:00 PM — Ellen Crosby Celebrates Release of BITTER ROOTS

  • 7:00 PM — Author Robin Wall Kimmerer Discussion for Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

  • 7:00 PM — Diana Kapp—Girls Who Green the World: Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save Our Planet - with Chris Maxey

  • 7:00 PM — Grubbie Debuts: Betty Yee with Shelley Berg, Gold Mountain

  • 7:00 PM — Imani Perry's "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation" with Tarana Burke

  • 7:00 PM — WHAT WOULD MRS. ASTOR DO? with Dr. Cecilia Tichi, Pieter Roos and Donna Murphy, Mrs. Astor on HBO’s THE GILDED AGE

  • 8:00 PM — Book Launch: Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

  • 12:00 PM — Author Talk with Kari Gunter-Seymour Poet Laureate of Ohio

  • 12:00 PM — Jim Al-Khalili | The Joy of Science

  • 6:00 PM — Packing for Mars for Kids: An Evening with Mary Roach & Brad Meltzer

  • 7:00 PM — Alyssa Colman Celebrates THE TARNISHED GARDEN, in conversation with Heather Kassner

  • 7:00 PM — An Evening with Kaveh Akbar, L. Lamar Wilson, and Elizabeth Metzger

  • 8:00 PM — Eugene Linden and Ginia Bellafante - Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present

  • 8:00 PM — Jane Austen in YA Virtual Event

  • 8:00 PM — Jennifer Natalya Fink, author of ALL OUR FAMILIES, and Kate Washington!

  • 8:00 PM — Lilly Singh | Be A Triangle

  • 8:00 PM — You Are More Than Magic with Minda Harts

  • 9:00 PM — WeHo Reads: Trans | Future | Poetics

Thursday, April 7, 2022

  • 7:00 PM — Ashley Woodfolk—Nothing Burns as Bright as You-with Amber McBride

  • 7:00 PM — Ecological Gardening: Companion Planting and Other Earth-Friendly Practices

  • 7:00 PM — Healer and Witch / Glass Slippers Middle Grade Fantasy Celebration

  • 7:00 PM — Live & In Conversation: Lilly Singh

  • 7:30 PM — Visiting Writers Series: Michael Zapata (Fiction)

  • 8:00 PM — Katya Kazbek, author of LITTLE FOXES TOOK UP MATCHES, and Sophia Shalmiyev!

  • 8:00 PM — Martha Waters To Marry and to Meddle

  • 9:00 PM — An Online Reading of New Works From Amy Uyematsu & Chuck Rosenthal

  • 9:00 PM — Rory Power in discussion with Heather Walter

Friday, April 8, 2022

  • 4:45 PM — Chantal V. Johnson — Post-Traumatic - with Myriam Gurba

  • 6:00 PM — Civil Forum: MAiD in Canada

  • 6:00 PM — Monica Huerta with Namwali Serpell

  • 8:00 PM — Alka Joshi — The Henna Artist and The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

Saturday, April 9, 2022

  • 1:30 PM — Charlotte Offsay Virtual Book Launch & Storytime: A Grandma's Magic

  • 4:00 PM — Treva B. Lindsey's “America Goddam,” with Marc Lamont Hill

  • 7:30 PM — Against Heaven: Kemi Alabi in conversation with Phillip B. Williams

  • 8:00 PM — A Night of Unity: Performances from WriteGirl

  • 8:00 PM — Paper Plains Literary Festival: Colson Whitehead, "Harlem Shuffle"

Sunday, April 10, 2022

  • 1:00 PM — 2022 Ezra Jack Keats Award Celebration

  • 2:00 PM — TREEHOUSE: Air by Monica Roe

  • 6:30 PM — America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice--Treva B. Lindsey in conversation with Kiese Laymon

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For Writers - Free

Monday, April 4, 2022

  • 7:00 PM — Writing 101: A Writer’s Guide to Planning or Revising a Novel

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

  • 5:00 PM — Inside Writing: Breaking In with author and BuzzFeed News inequality editor Albert Samaha

  • 8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Danny

Friday, April 8, 2022

  • 2:00 PM — Write-In: Craft and Community with Gotham Writers

  • 6:30 PM — Write-In: Craft and Community with Gotham Writers

Saturday, April 9, 2022

  • 1:30 PM — The Power of Setting with Connie Berry

Sunday, April 10, 2022

  • 3:00 PM — Sunday Business Sermon: Open Q&A on Email Newsletters

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For Readers - Paid

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

  • 7:00 PM — Books that Changed My Life: BIG MAGIC - Elizabeth GIlbert and Maggie Smith in conversation — starting at $15.00

  • 9:00 PM — Daisy Pitkin and Kim Kelly for ON THE LINE — starting at $1.00

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

  • 8:00 PM — Treva B. Lindsey and Derecka Purnell for AMERICA, GODDAM — starting at $1.00


For Writers - Paid

Monday, April 4, 2022

  • 2:00 PM — Poetry As Spiritual Practice--Creative writing workshop — starting at $10.00

  • 6:00 PM — Overcoming Rejection for Writers — starting at $10.00

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

  • 9:00 AM — The 30-Day Spring Writing Circle with Diane Zinna, Author of The All-Night Sun — starting at $200.00

  • 2:00 PM — Tarot Tuesday--Prompt-based generative writing workshop — starting at $5.00

  • 6:00 PM — Busting Myths About Parenting and Writing — starting at $10.00

  • 8:00 PM — Identifying and Cultivating Your Author Brand — starting at $69.00

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

  • 7:00 PM — Poetry As Spiritual Practice--Creative Writing Workshop — starting at $10.00

Thursday, April 7, 2022

  • 9:00 AM — Poetry As Spiritual Practice--Creative Writing Workshop — starting at $10.00

  • 6:00 PM — Submission Roulette — starting at $10.00

  • 7:15 PM — Point of View: Voice and Character Through a Creative Kaleidoschope with Sheree Greer — starting at $39.00

Friday, April 8, 2022

  • 10:30 AM — Friday Fiction Generator — starting at $75.00

  • 10:30 AM — Marketing for Writers: Publicity — starting at $75.00

Saturday, April 9, 2022

  • 10:00 AM — Getting Your Word Out: Polishing, Submitting, and Marketing Your Writing — starting at $52.50

  • 10:00 AM — The Art and Craft of Writing Disability — starting at $70.00

  • 10:00 AM — Writing Personal Essays that Get Published — starting at $52.50

  • 10:30 AM — Getting Unstuck — starting at $75.00

  • 10:30 AM — Horror Flash Fiction — starting at $75.00

  • 10:30 AM — Reclaiming the Body — starting at $75.00

  • 10:30 AM — Screenwriting Tricks for Fiction Writers — starting at $75.00

  • 10:30 AM — Story Structure and The Monomyth — starting at $75.00

  • 11:00 AM — Poetic Mechanics: All About Form — starting at $109.00

  • 12:00 PM — A Crash Course in the Lyric Essay — starting at $30.00

  • 12:00 PM — Law for Writers: Book Contracts with Joseph Perry, Esq. — starting at $10.00

  • 12:30 PM — Danger & Daring II: A Lyric Essay Class with Tyler Mills — starting at $124.00

  • 2:00 PM — Poetry: The Power of the Line — starting at $70.00

  • 2:30 PM — Creating Three-Dimensional Characters — starting at $30.00

Sunday, April 10, 2022

  • 12:30 PM — Rising Action, the Engine of Story with Barbara Blatner — starting at $124.00

  • 12:30 PM — Using Language as Immediacy Instrument & Mystery Machine: A Generative Workshop with Jennifer Militello — starting at $124.00

  • 4:00 PM — Persisting as a Short Story Writer with A. T. Greenblatt — starting at $55.00

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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.

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