The Weekly 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
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For Readers - Free
Monday, February 22, 2021
5:00 PM — Rachel Kramer Bussel in Conversation with Tracy Clark-Flory
6:00 PM — Author Chat with Sarah Penner about THE LOST APOTHECARY via Read it Again Bookstore
6:00 PM — Jacqueline Davies & Deborah Hocking with Ali Benjamin
7:00 PM — Lisi Harrison: GIRL STUFF
7:00 PM — Paisley Rekdal & Matthew Salesses Live Reading and Conversation
8:00 PM — TKE presents ONLINE | Scott Perry | I Was a Teenage Runt
9:30 PM — Skylit: Nuestra América, by Claudio Lomnitz, with Graciela Montaldo
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
12:30 PM — Book Buzz Disrupt 2: David Duchovny
1:00 PM — Anne Enright with Fiona Shaw: Actress
1:00 PM — GROUND ZERO Virtual Tour: The Country Bookshop! (Middle Grade)
1:00 PM — Lunchbreak Series: Ellen McGarrahan, "Two Truths and a Lie"
6:00 PM — Indigo Presents: I Am Smart, I Am Blessed, I Can Do Anything! (Picture Book)
6:30 PM — Five-Time Grammy Winner Victor L. Wooten
7:00 PM — A Conversation with Tayari Jones
7:00 PM — Eternity Martis: They Said This Would Be Fun (memoir)
7:00 PM — Rebecca Mahoney with Sarah Glenn Marsh, The Valley and the Flood
7:00 PM — Retirement Planning During a Pandemic
7:30 PM — Being Ram Dass: An Evening with Rameshwar Das and Mark Epstein
8:00 PM — Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show: Anthony Cody with Keith S. Wilson
8:00 PM — Steve Berry discusses THE KAISER’S WEB
10:00 PM — Mitali Perkins - Book Launch Pajama Party! (Picture Book)
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
9:00 AM — Guest author Merry Farmer takes over Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
10:30 AM — Ijeoma Oluo: So You Want to Talk About Race
6:00 PM — David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson: THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
6:00 PM — Elizabeth Becker on 3 Women War Reporters, with Anne Nelson
6:00 PM — Murder, They Wrote: Rachel Howzell Hall and Hank Phillippi Ryan
7:00 PM — Dreux Richard with Jowhor Ile: Every Human Intention
7:00 PM — An Evening with Alicia Ostriker, Roger Reeves, and Jeffrey Yang
7:00 PM — Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Heather McGhee | THE SUM OF US
7:00 PM — Martín Espada — Author of Floaters at the Odyssey Bookshop
7:30 PM — Chronicling Stankonia--Regina N. Bradley in conversation with Kiese Laymon
7:30 PM — Deesha Philyaw "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies" with Dionne Ford (short stories)
8:00 PM — Virtual Book Launch: THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE by Julia Fine in conversation with Rebecca Makkai
9:30 PM — Skylit: The Low Desert, by Tod Goldberg, with Mark Haskell Smith
Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:00 AM — Meet Alan Gratz! (Hosted by Page 158 Books) (Middle Grade)
3:00 PM — The History and Future of Black Literature: A Black History Month Event
6:00 PM — Left Pasts, Left Futures: Peter Coviello, Gustavus Stadler, and Kyla Schuller in Conversation
6:00 PM — Ruth Forman and Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie for CURLS (Picture Book)
6:00 PM — William Ferris presents I AM A MAN: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, with Lyneise Williams
7:00 PM — Peoples Poetry Festival
7:00 PM — A Personal Story of Intimate Violence by Tanya Selvaratnam; Moderated by Eileen Hoenigman Meyer
7:00 PM — Illustrator Sprint: Brian Michael Weaver, Ann Xu, Urusla Murray Husted, Andrea Tsurumi
7:00 PM — Indigo Presents: Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
7:00 PM — Julia Turshen in conversation with Dorie Greenspan - SIMPLY JULIA (cookbook)
7:00 PM — Martha's Vineyard Book Festival Winter Author Event: Michael J Fox discusses No Time Like the Future
7:00 PM — Serena Burdick with Greer Macallister & Judithe Little
7:00 PM — The Ten Year War: An Evening with Jonathan Cohn and Sarah Kliff
7:45 PM — Rakestraw Books "Live at Home!" with Susan Meissner
8:00 PM — Jason Reynolds and the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing
8:00 PM — Mark Wunderlich (God of Nothingness) reading and in conversation with Erin Belieu and Cate Marvin
8:00 PM — Paisley Rekdal | Appropriate & Todd Robert Peterson | Picnic in the Ruins
8:00 PM — Patricia Lockwood in conversation with Tommy Pico: NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS
9:00 PM — Catie Disabato, in conversation with Edan Lepucki, discusses U Up?
9:00 PM — Meredith May - The Honey Bus (memoir)
9:30 PM — Reconciling 1619 and 1776 in American History: The Debate over the Soul of a Nation
9:30 PM — Skylight Books and The Meteor Present: Assume Nothing by Tanya Selvaratnam, with Liz Plank
Friday, February 26, 2021
12:00 PM — Meena Kandasamy: Exquisite Cadavers
7:00 PM — Virtual Readings, a Romantic Happy Hour
7:00 PM — Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio: An Evening with Betto Arcos and Jackson Browne
7:30 PM — Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
7:30 PM — Nicole Perlroth: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Cybersecurity)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
7:30 PM — Hood Feminism: Mikki Kendall in conversation with Jalessah T. Jackson
8:00 PM — The Fifth • Book Launch with MP Boisvert and Monica Meneghetti
Sunday, February 28, 2021
9:00 AM — Guest author Claire Delacroix takes over Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
2:00 PM — African-American Read-In with Keynotes from Beverly Jenkins and Dr. Carla Hayden
4:00 PM — Tortillera: An Afternoon with Caridad Moro, Richard Blanco and Nikki Moustaki
6:00 PM — Adam Silvera talks Infinity Son!
For Writers - Free
Monday, February 22, 2021
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
1:30 PM — The Four Paths to Publishing
3:00 PM — The Weekly Kiki: A Queer Writer Brunch
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Nicolas
Thursday, February 25, 2021
6:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat with memoirist Jeannine Ouellette
9:00 PM — February Third Thursday: Me, Myself, and I: Writing the Personal
Friday, February 26, 2021
5:30 PM — Happy Hour Writing Session
Saturday, February 27, 2021
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
8:00 PM — Elizabeth Miki Brina and Francisco Cantú for SPEAK, OKINAWA (memoir) — starting at $1.00
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
7:00 PM — No Haven: Civil Rights, Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven — starting at $10.00
7:00 PM — Ransom Riggs and Eva Chen for The Desolations of Devil's Acre — starting at $30.59
For Writers - Paid
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
5:00 PM — Gossip as Alternative History — starting at $55.00
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
1:00 PM — Pop Up: Writing and Pitching Op-Eds — starting at $25.00
1:00 PM — Who Am “I” Really? Finding Yourself as an Engaging Character in Memoir with Dinty W. Moore — starting at $25.00
2:00 PM — Heartbeats: Using a scene’s emotional rhythm to build momentum and captivate readers and agents — starting at $25.00
6:00 PM — Making a Scene: Mapping Out A Plan for Effective Scene Building — starting at $15.00
7:00 PM — Ten Things Fiction Writing Class — starting at $10.00
7:00 PM — Novel 101: The Stars of Detail — starting at $35.00
7:30 PM — Flash Fiction: The Art of the Very Short Story with Katharine Duckett — starting at $109.00
Thursday, February 25, 2021
7:00 PM — The Modern Author's Press Kit — starting at $10.00
Friday, February 26, 2021
10:30 AM — The Tough Stuff: Transforming Trauma into Art — starting at $75.00
Saturday, February 27, 2021
10:00 AM — Elements of Playwriting: Process — starting at $50.00
10:00 AM — Saving Face: The Old-Fashioned Art of Physical Description and How to Make it New — starting at $70.00
10:00 AM — Write a List, Write a Poem — starting at $52.50
10:00 AM — Writing for Caregivers - Time for You! — starting at $52.50
10:30 AM — Giving Voice to The Arab-American Experience — starting at $60.00
10:30 AM — When to Submit: Publishing Intensive — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Writing The Synopsis — starting at $100.00
11:00 AM — Write What Scares You — starting at $45.00
12:30 PM — Book Promo Strategies No One Tells You About — starting at $50.00
12:30 PM — How to Write Sex Scenes with Christina Chiu — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Write an Electric Ten-Minute Play with Barbara Blatner — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Systems of Magic: How to Use Your Magic to Enrich Your Worldbuilding with Cat Rambo — starting at $99.00
2:00 PM — Book Promo Strategies No One Tells You About — starting at $50.00
4:00 PM — Witches Are People Too: Writing Well-Rounded Pagans and Spellcrafters with Evan J. Peterson — starting at $99.00
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:30 PM — A Mixed Bag: Combining and Manipulating Genre Conventions with Tracy Townsend — starting at $99.00
1:00 PM — Natural Meter Crash Course — starting at $50.00
3:00 PM — Be The Change: Crafting Your Social Justice Essay — starting at $100.00
4:00 PM — Writing Masculinity with Sam J. Miller — 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.
Virtual Bookish Events for February 22-28, 2021
Love your list. Just so you know, there are a couple of additional events coming up at Tubby and Coo's this week. https://tubbyandcoos.com/calendar/