Virtual Bookish Events for August 22-28, 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, August 22, 2022
12:00 PM — Nahid Shahalimi: We Are Still Here
1:00 PM — Author Tania Katan in Conversation with Gabriella Cisneros
4:00 PM — Meet the Author: Michael P. Branch in conversation with Moira Marsh
6:00 PM — C.J. Carey, Author of "Widowland," in Conversation with Jennifer Coburn
6:00 PM — Launch for LIGHTLARK by Alex Aster
9:00 PM — Author Talk with Michele Harper
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
3:00 PM — Mysteries & Thrillers Book Club: 'The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle'
4:00 PM — Meet the Author: Axie Oh in conversation with Naseem Jamnia
7:00 PM — Ingrid Rojas Contreras & Elaine Castillo
7:00 PM — Oscar Hokeah on Calling for a Blanket Dance with Santee Frazier
10:00 PM — Author: Beverly Jenkins and Rachel Fiege in Conversation
10:00 PM — Discussion with authors of "The Summer of Christmas"
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
12:00 PM — Kaitlyn Tiffany: Everything I Need I Get From You
12:00 PM — Virtual Book Talk with Hampton Sides
7:00 PM — "Is This a Kissing Book?": Romance in Fantasy" with Hannah Whitten & Megan Bannen
8:00 PM — Beverly Jenkins: To Catch a Raven
8:00 PM — Video Book Club with Author Megan Goldin
10:30 PM — Banana Yoshimoto, "Dead-End Memories," with Bryan Washington
Thursday, August 25, 2022
12:00 PM — Author Talk with Liz Wiseman
3:00 PM — Seek and Hide: Discussion with the Author Amy Gajda
6:00 PM — Anne Heltzel, Author of "Just Like Mother," in Conversation with Lana Popović Harper
7:00 PM — Eating While Black Author Event: Psyche A. Williams-Forson with Lyndsay C. Green
7:00 PM — Kelly Lytle Hernandez on Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
7:00 PM — Poets at the Mic with James Morehead, Caitlin Conlon, & Morgan Liphart
7:00 PM — The Love and Labor of Single Motherhood: Poetry w/ Reza, Smith, Cross Davis
7:00 PM — THE STREETS BELONG TO US: A Conversation with the Author Anne Gray Fischer and Guest Simon Balto
7:30 PM — Reluctant Immortals and Unwieldy Creatures—Feminist Horror Remixes in Conversation
8:00 PM — Joyce Carol Oates discussing BABYSITTER w/Paula McClain
8:00 PM — Rebecca Woolf | All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire
10:00 PM — Women in Crime Fiction Panel: Rachel Howzell Hall, Amina Akhtar, May Cobb, and Elizabeth Hand
Friday, August 26, 2022
12:00 PM — WE SHALL TELL OUR STORIES, Women of African Diaspora Griots Annual Event
6:00 PM — Launch Event for THIS IS WHY THEY HATE US by Aaron H. Aceves
7:00 PM — The Deal Goes Down: An Evening with Larry Beinhart and Les Standiford
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
5:00 PM — The Writer's Hotel Virtual Summer Fiction Workshop 2022 Reading Series: Reading Two
6:00 PM — Jeffrey Fleishman & Barbara DeMarco-Barrett in conversation
For Writers - Free
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
3:30 PM — Writing Through Trauma
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
11:00 AM — Master Class with Anika Fajardo: Writing for Children
7:30 PM — Storycrafting Fundamentals Part One
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Fisk
Thursday, August 25, 2022
3:30 PM — Finding Your Story, Telling Your Truth
7:30 PM — Storycrafting Fundamentals Part Two
Friday, August 26, 2022
2:30 PM — First Things First: Rethinking Order & Structure in Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Headwaters
8:30 PM — Panel: Saying the Unsayable
Saturday, August 27, 2022
11:00 AM — Writing through Grief with Eileen Elizabeth Espinoza
12:30 PM — Writing Into the New Moon
2:30 PM — Inviting Ghosts: Finding Truth through Writing Fiction
Sunday, August 28, 2022
1:00 PM — Short Genre Fiction
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
7:00 PM — Ali Hazelwood celebrates LOVE ON THE BRAIN — starting at $24.27
8:00 PM — Nina Mingya Powles and Chen Chen for MAGNOLIA木蘭 — starting at $1.00
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
8:00 PM — Victor Manibo and Isabel Yap for THE SLEEPLESS — starting at $1.00
For Writers - Paid
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
7:00 PM — Creative Nonfiction: Writing the Self-Implicating Essay — starting at $100.00
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
1:00 PM — Mastering Suspense and Tension — starting at $25.00
4:00 PM — Belonging and Alterity: Writing Race, Culture & Identity — starting at $75.00
Thursday, August 25, 2022
7:00 PM — The Haus of Expression Presents: Poetry Workshop With Serena Wills — starting at $10.00
Friday, August 26, 2022
6:00 PM — The Art of Growing Older: Writing About Aging — starting at $75.00
Saturday, August 27, 2022
12:30 PM — On Ramps, Off Ramps, and Line Breaks: A Craft talk with Julie E. Bloemeke — starting at $124.00
2:00 PM — Processing the Pandemic: Moving Forward — starting at $70.00
Sunday, August 28, 2022
12:30 PM — Revision with Michael P. Collins — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — The Art of Telling: a Prose Workshop with Allison Wyss — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Writing the Sonnet in the 21st Century with Jason Schneiderman — starting at $124.00
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.