Virtual Bookish Events for April 5-11, 2021
The Weekly 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.
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For Readers - Free
Monday, April 5, 0021
7:00 PM — An evening with author and journalist Rick Westhead
7:00 PM — Obra selecta: An Evening with Dr. Jorge Duany and Dr. Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
7:00 PM — Write America Ep. 10: A Reading and Conversation with Kurt Andersen, Amy Hempel, & Emily Bernard
8:00 PM — "The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism..."A conversation with Author Kehinde Andrews
8:00 PM — Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story
9:00 PM — Charles Solomon & Director/Producer Tomm Moore (WolfWalkers) discuss The Art of the WolfWalkers
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
10:00 AM — Penguin Random House Book & Author Festival
12:00 PM — Billy Miller Makes a Wish (MG)
3:00 PM — Amira's Picture Day: Reem Faruqi in conversation with Fahmida Azim
6:00 PM — A Discussion with Two Romance Writers; Meet Sarah Hogle and Rosie Danan
6:00 PM — An Evening with Krystal Sutherland In conversation with Karen McManus
6:00 PM — Martha Waters launches TO LOVE AND TO LOATHE, with BEACH READ author Emily Henry
7:00 PM — Andy Griffiths with Jeff Kinney
7:00 PM — Jessica Lahey in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott about her new book THE ADDICTION INOCULATION
7:00 PM — Mateo Askaripour in conversation with Zeno Robinson
7:00 PM — Paula Munier — Author of The Hiding Place at Odyssey Bookshop
7:00 PM — Perdita & Catherine Felicien: My Mother's Daughter
7:00 PM — Shuggie Bain: An Evening With Booker Prize Winning Author Douglas Stuart
8:00 PM — Book Launch: BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN by Gina Frngello
8:00 PM — Cory Anderson | What Beauty There Is
8:00 PM — Courtney Marie Andrews Book Launch: OLD MONARCH: poems
8:00 PM — Erica Ruth Neubauer "Murder at Wedgefield Manor" - In Conversation with Jess Lourey
8:00 PM — Raphael Simon (aka Pseudonymous Bosch) & Adam Gidwitz discuss "The Anti-Book"
9:00 PM — 2021 Edgar Awards: Best Fact Crime Nominee Reading
9:00 PM — Justine Bateman, in conversation with Nancy Etcoff, discusses Face: One Square Foot of Skin
9:00 PM — Skylit: Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge, with C. Morgan Babst
9:30 PM — S. Kirk Walsh, in conversation with Ben Fountain, discusses "The Elephant of Belfast"
10:00 PM — Book Launch for Rachel Sarah's GIRL WARRIORS: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
8:00 AM — Guest author Tabetha Waite visits Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
12:00 PM — Author Talk with poet Marcus Jackson
7:00 PM — Camilla Gibb: The Relatives
7:00 PM — Claire Lombardo with Elin Hilderbrand
7:00 PM — Nancy Werlin and Leah Cypess: Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good and Thornwood
7:00 PM — Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth, with Tony Hiss
9:00 PM — Krystal Sutherland in conversation with Melissa Albert
9:30 PM — Skylit: Directions by Hallie Bateman, with Jacqueline Suskin
Thursday, April 8, 2021
10:00 AM — Emily Duncan discussing Blessed Monsters
4:00 PM — Rashid Khalidi: The Crisis of Arab Democracy and Palestine
5:30 PM — An Evening With Maia Kobabe: Author of Gender Queer: A Memoir
7:00 PM — Book Launch: Jack Kelly, VALCOUR, in conversation with Terry Golway
7:00 PM — Healing Sibling Estrangement with Fern Schumer Chapman; Moderated by Dr. Ramani Durvasula
7:00 PM — Kazuo Ishiguro with Ian Williams: Klara and the Sun
7:00 PM — Libby Copeland: "The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are"
7:00 PM — Temple Grandin with Jeff Kinney
8:30 PM — Hanif Abdurraqib, presented by Paper Plains Literary Festival
9:00 PM — Caroline Kepnes, in conversation with Mary Kubica, discusses You Love Me
9:30 PM — Elle Marr, Author of Lies We Bury, In Conversation with Georgina Cross
10:00 PM — Book Launch • Geoff Mynett's Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot
10:00 PM — Matthew Gavin Frank and Elena Passarello
Friday, April 9, 2021
2:00 PM — Launch of 'Nora' by Nuala O'Connor
3:00 PM — Llewellyn's Virtual Author Event: Elements of Witchcraft
5:00 PM — S.B. Divya, C.L. Clark, Arkady Martine, and Premee Mohamed in conversation
6:00 PM — Helen Oyeyemi and Saeed Jones for PEACES
7:00 PM — Classicist No. 17: An Evening with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Beth Dunlop and Teófilo Victoria
7:00 PM — Justin Ling: Missing From the Village
7:00 PM — Krystal Sutherland with Stephanie Garber
7:30 PM — The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Dawnie Walton in conversation with Deesha Philyaw
8:00 PM — Camron Wright | In Times of Rain and War
9:00 PM — Barbara Clarke in conversation with Cami Osten, THE RED KITCHEN
9:00 PM — Skylit: Jungalow by Justina Blakeney, with Sonja Rasula
Saturday, April 10, 2021
12:00 PM — Book Launch and Storytime: With Author Jean Reidy and illustrator Joey Chou
3:00 PM — Westchester Poetry Festival featuring Reginald Dwayne Betts
9:00 PM — #DignidadLiteraria: Our Voices
Sunday, April 11, 2021
For Writers - Free
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Monday, April 5, 2021
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
6:30 PM — Writing Children's Literature - Writing Workshop with Sara O'Leary
7:00 PM — AgentChat Live with Devon Halliday of Transatlantic Agency
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
12:00 PM — Panel: Creating Worlds and Constructing Narrative
8:00 PM — Aunt Lute and POC United presents the Panel: Creating Our Own 'Table'
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Nicolas
Thursday, April 8, 2021
12:00 PM — Panel: Poetry in a Pandemic
7:00 PM — Publishing Across Genres & Forms
Friday, April 9, 2021
12:00 PM — Panel: Perspectives on Publishing
Saturday, April 10, 2021
6:00 PM — Film Option Q&A with Gail Carriger
9:00 PM — PubTalk Live 4-10-21 with E.J. Wenstrom and Gabriela Pereira of DIY MFA
Sunday, April 11, 2021
For Readers - Paid
Monday, April 5, 2021
7:00 PM — Mandy Gonzalez + Lin-Manuel Miranda: Fearless — starting at $10.00
8:00 PM — Nadia Hashimi and Saumya Dave for SPARKS LIKE STARS — starting at $1.00
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
7:00 PM — Morgan Jerkins and Phoebe Robinson for CAUL BABY — starting at $27.99
7:30 PM — WORD LIVE: Clay McLeod Chapman with Elijah Wood — starting at $5.00
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
6:00 PM — Morowa Yejidé and Jeffery Renard Allen for CREATURES OF PASSAGE — starting at $1.00
Friday, April 9, 2021
8:00 PM — A Conversation with Pete Souza — starting at $33.00
For Writers - Paid
Monday, April 5, 2021
7:30 PM — Creative Writing Essentials With Sarah Terez Rosenblum (8 weeks) — starting at $500.00
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
2:00 PM — The Poetics of Creative Nonfiction — starting at $25.00
7:00 PM — Researching and Writing Your Family History — starting at $25.00
Thursday, April 8, 2021
12:00 PM — Master Class by Latoya C. Smith – The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing. Crafting that First Draft. — starting at $75.00
5:00 PM — Las Vegas Writer's Conference — starting at $149.00
7:15 PM — Black and White and Read All Over with Donald Maass — starting at $39.00
8:00 PM — Imagining Futurisms in Games (2 days) — starting at $75.00
Friday, April 9, 2021
10:30 AM — The Art of Backstory — starting at $75.00
Saturday, April 10, 2021
7:00 AM — Screenwriting class: Write a TV movie for Hallmark or Lifetime (7 weeks) — starting at $199.00
9:00 AM — Mastering the Muddle in the Middle with Hank Phillippi Ryan — starting at $10.00
10:00 AM — Anatomy of a Scene: Activating Setting with Charlotte Gullick — starting at $159.00
10:00 AM — Beyond the Memoir: Writing Personal, Creative Nonfiction (and Getting It Published) — starting at $70.00
10:00 AM — Breathing Life into Your Characters — starting at $50.00
10:00 AM — Getting Unstuck Poetry Workshop — starting at $32.00
10:00 AM — Writing Difference: Strategies for Developing Fictional Characters Across Diverse Backgrounds — starting at $52.50
10:30 AM — Novel Revision Series: Image Systems — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Ode to Odes: Writing Poems of Praise — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — Idea Lab: Finding Inspiration for Your Children’s Book Writing — starting at $35.00
12:00 PM — Writing is Rewriting: Prompts, Tips & Techniques w/ Gabrielle Fulton Ponder — starting at $20.00
12:30 PM — Harmonizing structure & content in creative nonfiction with Zeyn Joukhadar — starting at $124.00
1:00 PM — Beginning at the End with Rachelle Toarmino — starting at $24.00
1:00 PM — Cultural Appropriation: What It Is & How To Avoid It — starting at $30.00
Sunday, April 11, 2021
12:30 PM — The ABC’s of Pageturning Fiction with Joanne Dobson — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Writing the Bop with Afaa Michael Weaver — starting at $124.00
1:00 PM — Villanelle Crash Course — starting at $50.00
2:00 PM — Grief Writing Sunday with Diane Zinna, Author of THE ALL-NIGHT SUN — starting at $10.00
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.