Virtual Bookish Events for February 20-26, 2023
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 and The Shape of a Star Podcast.
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For Readers - Free
Monday, February 20, 2023
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
12:00 PM — Nikesha Elise Williams: Mardi Gras Indians
6:00 PM — Moonshine, Sassafras, and Raccoons in Negligee: Writing Queer Southern Fiction
7:00 PM — An Evening with Michael Tomasky, Jacki Lyden, and Jo-Ann Mort: Can the Republican Majority Govern?
7:00 PM — Stories of Home, Humor, & the Human Condition with Ramona Reeves
9:00 PM — A Conversation with Art Spiegelman
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
2:00 PM — A Virtual Afternoon with Jojo Moyes and Lisa Jewell: Someone Else's Shoes
6:00 PM — Author Reading Series: Joshua Whitehead + Kaitlyn Purcell
7:00 PM — Invisible Boy: Finding the Self with Harrison Mooney
8:00 PM — Book Club with Author Kayla Olson
10:30 PM — Author Voices with Clyde W. Ford
Thursday, February 23, 2023
7:00 PM — Past Is Prologue: How Lessons From the Reconstruction Era Can Help Us Build
9:00 PM — Author Reading and Discussion with Catherine Adel West
9:00 PM — L.A. Times Book Club: Brendan Slocumb discusses 'The Violin Conspiracy'
Friday, February 24, 2023
7:00 PM — Aubrey Gordon — "You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
7:00 PM — The DWC Presents Poet Mark Jarman
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Sunday, February 26, 2023
3:00 PM — Removing the Thorns of Human Suffering with Hiromi Ito & Jeffrey Angles
6:00 PM — A Conversation with Jordan Harper, EVERYBODY KNOWS & Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
7:00 PM — History, Mystery and More: A conversation with Louis Bayard
For Writers - Free
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
3:00 PM — Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster of Writing Memoir
7:00 PM — Plotting Your Novel
8:30 PM — Crafting Your Character's Voice
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
3:00 PM — How to Write Romance That Stands Out
7:30 PM — Resources for Storytellers
8:00 PM — Writer Re-Launch: Getting Genre Fiction Published in a Post-Pandemic World
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Fisk
Thursday, February 23, 2023
7:00 PM — Ellen's WritingEssentials - Writing More, Writing Smarter: What the research shows
7:00 PM — Craft Chat with Novelist Nyani Nkrumah
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
6:00 PM — Mary-Frances Winters, Author and Change Agent — starting at $25.00
Thursday, February 23, 2023
7:00 PM — Reparations, Freedom, and Equality feat. William A. Darity & Kirsten Mullen — starting at $1.00
7:30 PM — Let's Talk Romance Books with Sarah Smith, Plus Giveaway! — starting at $1.00
Saturday, February 25, 2023
2:00 PM — Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Buttered Roll, Kim Brandon, Prince A. McNally — starting at $5.00
For Writers - Paid
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
1:00 PM — Negotiation Skills for Writers — starting at $25.00
2:00 PM — Write What Scares You — starting at $25.00
7:00 PM — Essay Writing 101 Online Workshop taught by Rachel Kramer Bussel — starting at $50.00
8:00 PM — First Impressions: Fine-tuning the Opening of Your Novel (Workshop for Fiction Writers) — starting at $65.00
Thursday, February 23, 2023
7:15 PM — Promising Pages with Lorin Oberweger — starting at $39.00
Friday, February 24, 2023
10:30 AM — Starting Your Script: Intro to Screenwriting — starting at $85.00
10:30 AM — Writing the Romance Novel — starting at $85.00
6:00 PM — Speculative Fiction Series: Action, Conflict, and Combat — starting at $85.00
Saturday, February 25, 2023
9:30 AM — Hooking Your Reader: Writing A Killer First Line Zoom Seminar — starting at $70.00
10:00 AM — Creative Maps for Creative Writing — starting at $55.50
10:00 AM — Decolonizing Fiction — starting at $55.50
10:00 AM — Experimenting with Form: The Hermit Crab Essay — starting at $66.60
10:00 AM — Finding Your Literary Community — starting at $55.50
10:00 AM — How to Begin a Poem — starting at $55.50
10:30 AM — Act Like A Writer, Think Like An Editor: Getting Your Manuscript Ready — starting at $85.00
10:30 AM — Let's Write For Kids: A YA/MG Intensive — starting at $85.00
10:30 AM — Soundtrack of Your Life: Essays About Music — starting at $85.00
10:30 AM — What We Talk About When We Talk About Food — starting at $85.00
11:00 AM — Before the Agent Search with Maggie Cooper — starting at $25.00
11:00 AM — Hooking Your Reader: Writing A Killer First Line Zoom Seminar — starting at $25.00
1:00 PM — Grief, Loss and Creative Transformation: Writing as Process—Humor Welcome with Karen Finley — starting at $124.00
2:00 PM — Patterns and Promises: Structure in Speculative Fiction — starting at $70.00
2:30 PM — Act Like A Writer, Think Like An Editor: The Road to Publication — starting at $85.00
Sunday, February 26, 2023
12:30 PM — The Poem Under the Poem: A Poetry Revision Workshop with January Gill O’Neil — starting at $124.00
1:00 PM — Erotica Writing 101 Online Workshop taught by Rachel Kramer Bussel — starting at $119.00
1:00 PM — It's Me, Hi: Meet the Creators on BookTok — starting at $29.00
3:00 PM — How to Outline Your Novel — starting at $70.00
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