Virtual Bookish Events for February 8-14, 2021
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The Weekly Virtual Bookish Events Newsletter is sent on Sundays and includes the events taking place the following Monday through Sunday. 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, February 8, 2021
4:00 PM — Happy Half Hour with Nnedi Okorafor
7:00 PM — I Was Becoming: A Reading and Conversation with Four Authors
7:00 PM — Natalie Jenner: The Jane Austen Society
7:00 PM — Winter Book Club Social with Simon & Schuster and Sadeqa Johnson
7:45 PM — Mystery Monday with Joseph Schneider & Andy Weinberger
9:00 PM — Mark Wunderlich and Diane Seuss: GOD OF NOTHINGNESS
9:00 PM — Tod Goldberg discusses The Low Desert: Gangster Stories with Patrick Millikin
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
1:00 PM — Holistic Wealth: How to Find Happiness and Prosperity After Loss with Author Keisha Blair
3:00 PM — Carnegie Author Series with Jamie Ford
7:00 PM — Wilde Readings + Open Mic with Patti Ross and Gwen Van Velsior
7:00 PM — Donna Galanti in conversation with F.T. Bradley (MG)
7:00 PM — Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health and American Quarantine
7:00 PM — Sarah Langan in conversation with Christopher Golden
7:00 PM — Stephanie Graves in conversation with Alyssa Maxwell
7:00 PM — The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: A Virtual Evening with Thom Hartmann and David Korten
8:00 PM — A Virtual Evening with Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Lilly Singh
8:00 PM — Natalie C. Parker in conversation with Tochi Onyebuchi: STORMBREAK (YA)
8:00 PM — Joanna Angel and Rachel Kramer Bussel
9:00 PM — Evening with Young Adult authors Mary Ann Fraser and Lani Forbes
9:00 PM — Namina Forna in conversation with Kym Whitley (YA)
9:00 PM — Te-Ping Chen, in conversation with Jiayang Fan, discusses Land of Big Numbers: Stories
10:00 PM — Kim Stanley Robinson - Ministry for the Future (Science Fiction)
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
9:00 AM — Guest author Shana Galen takes over Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
12:00 PM — Fireside Chat with Claire Wasserman, author of Ladies Get Paid
3:00 PM — Get Cozy During the Quarantine
3:00 PM — Tim Harford and Randall Munroe: THE DATA DETECTIVE
5:30 PM — The Unwilling: John Hart in Conversation with C. J. Box
6:30 PM — Peter Gizzi with Ocean Vuong
7:00 PM — Women & Words: An Evening of Mystery with Debra Goldstein & Hallie Ephron
7:00 PM — Serena Parekh in conversation with David Livingstone Smith
7:00 PM — Susan Conley with Lily King, Landslide
8:00 PM — Joy McCullough, in conversation with Elana K. Arnold - WE ARE THE ASHES, WE ARE THE FIRE (YA)
9:30 PM — Skylit: MILK FED by Melissa Broder, with Ryan O'Connell
Thursday, February 11, 2021
1:30 PM — Nic Stone, Shuri 2: The Vanished
5:00 PM — Janet Skeslien Charles, THE PARIS LIBRARY (historical)
6:00 PM — Tracy Deonn presents LEGENDBORN, in conversation with Kwame Mbalia (YA)
6:30 PM — Rochelle Riely: THAT THEY LIVED: AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
7:00 PM — Author Susan Conley, with LANDSLIDE
7:00 PM — Forever GALentine's with Farah Heron, Jenny Holiday, Farrah Rochon; Moderated by Kini Allen
7:00 PM — How To Not Die Alone: A Virtual Evening with Logan Ury and Ellen Huet
7:00 PM — Justin Deabler in conversation with Suzzy Roche for LONE STARS
7:30 PM — A Conversation with Jacqueline Davies, Deborah Hocking, and Grace Lin!
9:00 PM — Andromeda Romano-Lax and Gayle Brandeis discuss "Annie and the Wolves"
9:00 PM — Books with Bite Panel with Marlene Perez, Jennifer Ann Shore, and Kiersten White
10:00 PM — Neal Shusterman discussing GAME CHANGER
10:30 PM — Author Voices: Syed Masood in conversation with Shahina Piyarali
Friday, February 12, 2021
12:00 PM — The Tropic of Stupid: Lunch with Tim Dorsey
7:00 PM — Virtual: Marcos Gonsalez with Jennifer Baker, PEDRO'S THEORY
Saturday, February 13, 2021
4:00 PM — UCR Creative Writing – 44th Annual Writers Week Festival 2021
5:00 PM — Sarah Pearse discusses The Sanatorium
6:00 PM — What's it like being translated into another language? with Gail Carriger
7:00 PM — Love = Love = Love: Five Authors on Equal Love in Lit
7:30 PM — THE REMOVED: Brandon Hobson in conversation with Holiday Simmons
9:00 PM — PubTalk Live 2-13-21 with Tere Michaels and Jennifer Morris, director of Coastal Magic Convention
Sunday, February 14, 2021
For Writers - Free
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
3:00 PM — Query Like a Pro - Proven Strategies to Land an Agent or Publisher
7:00 PM — Teaching in Community: A Class for Writers of Color and Indigenous Writers
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
3:00 PM — The Weekly Kiki: A Queer Writer Brunch
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Nicolas
8:30 PM — Write Drunk, Edit Sober
Thursday, February 11, 2021
5:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat with Lisa Zeidner
8:00 PM — Solve Your Story Problems
Friday, February 12, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021
3:00 PM — Fanfiction as Ekphrasis Writing
For Readers - Paid
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
7:00 PM — An Evening with JP Howard & Marilyn Nelson — starting at $10.00
7:30 PM — Savannah Book Festival presents Larry Loftis — starting at $15.00
8:00 PM — Walter Mosley and Hannah Oliver Depp for BLOOD GROVE — starting at $1.00
Thursday, February 11, 2021
7:30 PM — Tracy K. Smith & Maurice Manning — starting at $15.00
8:00 PM — Dantiel W. Moniz and T Kira Madden for MILK BLOOD HEAT — starting at $1.00
Saturday, February 13, 2021
5:00 PM — Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste w/ Esther Perel for BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS — starting at $1.00
9:00 PM — PubTalk Live 2-13-21 with Tere Michaels and Jennifer Morris, director of Coastal Magic Convention
For Writers - Paid
Monday, February 8, 2021
9:00 AM — Publishing in Literary Magazines — starting at $195.00
3:00 PM — Unreal YA Worlds // Real YA Voices — starting at $55.00
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
11:00 AM — How to Write a Novel — starting at $50.00
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
1:00 PM — Master Point of View to Strengthen Your Storytelling with Tiffany Yates Martin — starting at $25.00
7:00 PM — Ten Things Fiction Writing Class — starting at $10.00
7:30 PM — The Art of Freelance Writing with Alex Temblador — starting at $109.00
Thursday, February 11, 2021
7:00 PM — Elements of Playwriting: Dialogue — starting at $50.00
7:00 PM — FROM HEAD TO TOME: Crafting Unforgettable Characters — starting at $10.00
Friday, February 12, 2021
10:00 AM — Personal Narrative Essentials: Building Characters — starting at $150.00
10:30 AM — The Death Scene: Slow Burn or Shot to the Heart — starting at $75.00
7:30 PM — How Romance Beats and Tropes Can Enhance Your Genre Fiction — starting at $55.00
Saturday, February 13, 2021
10:00 AM — Don't Lose the Plot — starting at $52.50
10:00 AM — Grounding in Gratitude — starting at $50.00
10:00 AM — Here is Where We Are: Poetry of Place — starting at $70.00
10:00 AM — Writing Through Hard Times — starting at $52.50
10:30 AM — Omniscience — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — The Ins and Outs of Great Sex Scenes — starting at $60.00
12:30 PM — What’s Love Got to Do with It? The power and magnificence of love intentional writing with Karen Finley — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Different Kinds of Love: Writing Relationships that Aren’t Romantic with Cat Rambo — starting at $99.00
2:00 PM — The Process of Publishing — starting at $52.50
4:00 PM — Where Babies Come From: Speculative Reproduction with Evan J. Peterson — starting at $99.00
10:30 PM — Let's Write About Sex with Amy Andrews — starting at 49 AUD
Sunday, February 14, 2021
12:30 PM — The Joy of Editing with Daniel Lawless & Frances Richey — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Consent is Sexy: Writing Consensual Scenes with Sarah Buhrman — starting at $99.00
4:00 PM — In Flagrante Delicto: Writing Effective Sex Scenes with Catherine Lundoff — starting at $99.00
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.