Virtual Bookish Events for August 19-25, 2024
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, Gathr: Host Bookish Events, and Coastal Magic Convention.
All times are in Eastern so please convert as needed!
For Readers - Free
Monday, August 19, 2024
9:00 PM — Stacey D’Erasmo with R.O. Kwon
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
8:00 PM — Video Book Club with Rhys Bowen
8:30 PM — Poetry Reading with Rustin Larson, Bill Graeser, and Craig Deininger
10:00 PM — Story Hour: Renan Bernardo and Jeff Reynolds
Friday, August 23, 2024
5:00 PM — Launch Party for Gail Cloud's memoir in verse THERAPIST'S DAUGHTER
7:00 PM — Author Talk Featuring Marcela Fuentes
For Writers - Free
Monday, August 19, 2024
7:00 PM — Write a Business Book and Make Sure It's Not BORING
7:30 PM — Marketing for Storytellers
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
9:30 AM — Pen to Paper
11:00 AM — The Image with Craig Deininger, a generative workshop
1:00 PM — Writing the Short Story, with Bestselling Author Jeffrey Archer
7:00 PM — Summer Sundown Writing Hour
8:00 PM — The Heart of the Matter: Choosing Heroes, Heroines, and Sidekicks: A Write Brain Epic Quest
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
7:30 PM — Introduction to Genre
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Sarah Fisk and Bess Carnan
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Friday, August 23, 2024
Sunday, August 25, 2024
2:00 PM — Model Trade Book Contract
3:00 PM — Why Nonfiction Book Proposals Often Fail
For Writers - Paid
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
6:00 PM — Writers (Not!) Behaving Badly — starting at $17.00
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
1:00 PM — POV Mastery — starting at $25.00
2:00 PM — Remember Your Editor When You Write — starting at $30.00
2:00 PM — Navigating Memories in Memoir: What You Can’t Remember is an Opportunity, Not a Problem with Dinty W. Moore — starting at $25.00
6:00 PM — Journaling Techniques for Writing Memories — starting at $115.00
7:00 PM — R(ev)ise & Shine! Presents: Creating Characters w/ Debbi Michiko Florence — starting at $30.00
Thursday, August 22, 2024
7:00 PM — South Carolina Writers Association Author's Toolbox with Alex Rath Writing with Anxiety — starting at $25.00
Friday, August 23, 2024
10:30 AM — Telling the Story: Perspective, Narration and Imagination — starting at $85.00
6:00 PM — Writing as the Inquisitive Reader — starting at $85.00
Saturday, August 24, 2024
10:30 AM — Queery-ing: Navigating Agents and Publishers While Queer — starting at $85.00
10:30 AM — Revising Your Fiction with Courage — starting at $85.00
10:30 AM — Writing Family in the Personal Essay — starting at $85.00
1:00 PM — Mini-Writing Retreat for Women Writing Nonfiction — starting at $49.00
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.