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Virtual Bookish Events for August 1-7, 2022

Sarah Nicolas
Jul 31, 2022
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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, The Shape of a Star Podcast, and WP expert Nate Hoffelder.

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All times are in Eastern so please convert as needed!

For Readers - Free

Monday, August 1, 2022

  • 5:00 PM — Live author chat with Dean Koontz

  • 7:00 PM — An Evening with Anthony Marra and Celeste Ng

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

  • 3:00 PM — B&N Midday Mystery Presents: Ramona Emerson discusses SHUTTER!

  • 6:00 PM — Chasing Dreams with Iman Hariri-Kia, Author of "A Hundred Other Girls"

  • 6:00 PM — Nell Stevens In Conversation With Melissa Broder

  • 7:00 PM — Bookends: An Evening with Zibby Owens and Alisha Fernandez Miranda

  • 7:00 PM — GRUBBIE DEBUTS: EB Bartels with Kelly J. Ford, Good Grief

  • 7:00 PM — Montreal Pride Week: Wolsak & Wynn Poetry Reading

  • 7:00 PM — NYPL 33 1/3: Author Talk - Lou Reed "Transformer" with musician Ezra Furman

  • 7:00 PM — The Fixer Upper - Lauren Forsythe

  • 8:00 PM — Jayci Lee Booked on a Feeling

  • 9:00 PM — Natasha Marin with Katherine Agyemaa Agard and r. erica doyle

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

  • 2:00 PM — Author Talk With Historian and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dr. Marcia Chatelain

  • 6:00 PM — Madeline Ostrander — At Home on an Unruly Planet - with Laura Helmuth

  • 6:00 PM — YA Panel: Ayana Gray, Kalynn Bayron, and Namina Forna!

  • 7:00 PM — Author Talk with Lisa See

  • 7:30 PM — On the Same Page: Explaining CRT

  • 8:00 PM — Alexandra Lange presents Meet Me by the Fountain

  • 8:00 PM — Kirk Wallace Johnson | THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON

Thursday, August 4, 2022

  • 2:30 PM — Polari LGBTQ+ Literary Salon: Tufayel Ahmed, Nikita Gill and Raga D’Silva

  • 6:00 PM — Lauren Forsythe In Conversation with Mhairi Macfarlane

  • 7:00 PM — A Half-Built Garden: Ruthanna Emrys in conversation with Ada Palmer

  • 8:00 PM — Five Years of Salaam Reads w/ S.K. Ali, Hanna Alkaf, Linda Sarsour & Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

  • 9:00 PM — This Is Now: Steven W. Thrasher

  • 10:00 PM — Marianne Wiggins: PROPERTIES OF THIRST

Friday, August 5, 2022

  • 7:00 AM — American War of Independence: The Early Years

  • 3:00 PM — Suzanne Cope in Conversation with Cleo Silvers, Power Hungry

  • 10:00 PM — Joanna Ruth Meyer in discussion with Rosamund Hodge

Saturday, August 6, 2022

  • 1:00 PM — OutWrite 2022 Presents: Cut Buddies: Black Gay Men Write about Friendship

  • 4:00 PM — Mohsin Hamid, Author of THE LAST WHITE MAN

  • 6:30 PM — The Writer's Hotel Virtual Summer Fiction Workshop 2022 Faculty Reading

Sunday, August 7, 2022

  • 4:00 PM — An Afternoon with Suzanne Frischkorn, Mai Der Vang, & Jennifer Elise Forester

  • 5:00 PM — Dime Grinds Author Meet & Greet

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For Writers - Free

Monday, August 1, 2022

  • 2:00 PM — Perfectionist's Half-Assed Writing Challenge - Free 3-Day Event

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

  • 7:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat with Memoirist Ben Shattuck & Editor Elizabeth DeMeo

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

  • 3:00 PM — How to Write Engaging Characters

  • 7:30 PM — Marketing for Storytellers

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

Thursday, August 4, 2022

  • 7:30 PM — Creating and Performing Tall Tales

Friday, August 5, 2022

  • 6:00 PM — How to Get In: Applying to Fellowships, Residencies, Conferences, and Creative Writing Programs, Session 1

Saturday, August 6, 2022

  • 12:30 PM — Dodging Writer's Block

  • 1:30 PM — Let’s Get Intimate

  • 2:00 PM — How to Get In: Applying to Fellowships, Residencies, Conferences, and Creative Writing Programs (Session II)

  • 4:00 PM — Recovering the Past: Queer True Crime

  • 5:30 PM — Just One More Page: Suspense Writing in WLW Genre Fiction

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For Readers - Paid

Thursday, August 4, 2022

  • 8:30 PM — On Radical Awakening — starting at $20.00

Saturday, August 6, 2022

  • 4:15 PM — [margins.] & PEN America Present: "Supporting Writers who are Incarcerated" — starting at $20.00

  • 4:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "A Reading with Patricia Smith" — starting at $20.00

Sunday, August 7, 2022

  • 3:00 PM — [margins.] Presents "A Reading & Celebration with TORCH Literary Arts" — starting at $20.00

Please note: [margins.] sessions can be purchased individually or you can purchase a weekend pass.


For Writers - Paid

Monday, August 1, 2022

  • 7:00 PM — Writing as a _______: Advocate, Ally, Motivator, Creator...what's your blank? — starting at $25.00

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

  • 3:00 PM — Tarot Tuesdays Creative Writing Workshop — starting at $70.00

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

  • 6:00 PM — Memoir Writing with Marita Golden — starting at $70.00

Thursday, August 4, 2022

  • 1:00 PM — Research Agents and Publishers Like a Pro — starting at $70.00

  • 7:00 PM — Publishing for Free: Managing the risks of "no-cost" publication — starting at $70.00

Friday, August 5, 2022

  • 10:30 AM — From Audience to Critic: Crafting Reviews — starting at $105.00

  • Willamette Writers Conference (3 days) — starting at $70.00

Saturday, August 6, 2022

  • 10:00 AM — Beyond the Memoir: Writing Personal, Creative Nonfiction (and Getting It Published) — starting at $75.00

  • 10:00 AM — Creating the Framework for Stories that Sell — starting at $75.00

  • 10:00 AM — Poetry Basics — starting at $75.00

  • 10:00 AM — Using Color To Manifest Character in Your Fiction — starting at $75.00

  • 10:00 AM — Writing with Consistency and Courage — starting at $124.00

  • 10:30 AM — Flexibility in Form: Poetry and Prose — starting at $124.00

  • 10:30 AM — Point of View in Fiction, Part II: Degrees of Omniscience — starting at $124.00

  • 10:30 AM — When the Community Becomes a Character: The Power of Place in Fiction — starting at $299.00

  • 11:00 AM — [margins.] Presents "Movement Building & New Publishing Spaces" — starting at $70.00

  • 11:00 AM — You've Finished Your Book, Now What? — starting at $25.00

  • 12:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "How to Write Circles Around Others" — starting at $30.00

  • 12:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "YAY! I’m (Going to Be) Published. Now What?" — starting at $20.00

  • 12:30 PM — Writing & Performing the Monologue Craft talk with Jayne Benjulian — starting at $5.00

  • 12:30 PM — Writing in Hybrid Forms: A Generative Workshop with Leah Umansky — starting at $20.00

  • 2:30 PM — How to Structure and Analyze a Great Scene — starting at $20.00

  • 2:30 PM — The Poem as Intimate Space — starting at $20.00

  • 3:00 PM — [margins.] Presents "Neurodivergence, Madness, and Form" — starting at $25.00

  • 3:00 PM — [margins.] Presents "The Beauty and Crisis of Writing Climate" — starting at $20.00

  • 4:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "Stranded in Submission Limbo" — starting at $20.00

  • 5:30 PM — [margins.] Presents "Reserving a Seat at the Table We’ve Made" — starting at $20.00

  • 5:30 PM — [margins.] Presents "Self-Publishing 101" — starting at $20.00

Sunday, August 7, 2022

  • 11:00 AM — [margins.] Presents "Cities Come Alive: Lenses for Diverse Children" — starting at $20.00

  • 11:00 AM — [margins.] Presents "Query 101" — starting at $20.00

  • 12:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "Identity and Self-Love In the Time of Book Bans" — starting at $20.00

  • 12:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "On Queer Re-Tellings" — starting at $20.00

  • 12:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "Resisting the Commodification of Disabled Identities" — starting at $20.00

  • 12:30 PM — Strategies for Revision: a Poetry Workshop with Justin Wymer — starting at $20.00

  • 3:00 PM — [margins.] Presents "Paths to Publication in Poetry" — starting at $20.00

  • 3:00 PM — [margins.] Presents "Writing Rom-Coms: Tropes, Timing & the Perfect Kiss" — starting at $20.00

  • 4:00 PM — Getting Published in Literary Journals — starting at $20.00

  • 4:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "KidLit in Color: Anti-Racism for Young Readers" — starting at $20.00

  • 4:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "Nonfiction & the Storyteller" — starting at $20.00

  • 4:15 PM — [margins.] Presents "Paths to Publication in Fiction" — starting at $20.00

Please note: [margins.] sessions can be purchased individually or you can purchase a weekend pass.

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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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