Virtual Bookish Events for January 4-10, 2021
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
Don’t see your event? I do my best to find as many events as I can, but I always miss some! I don’t add events after the list is posted but please feel free to add links to events in the comments of the post and submit future events via the link below.
This newsletter is sponsored by Free Expressions Seminars, WP expert Nate Hoffelder, and Lodestar.
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For Readers - Free
Monday, January 4, 2021
7:00 PM — Edwin Hill with Hank Phillippi Ryan
7:00 PM — Marie Benedict + Lauren Willig: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
9:00 PM — Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry | I WISH I WAS BILLY COLLINS
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
6:00 PM — Consult the Oracle: LORE Launch Event with Alexandra Bracken and S.T. Gibson
6:00 PM — Peter Baker & Susan Glasser on James Baker, with Kai Bird
7:00 PM — Ilyasah Shabazz & Tiffany D. Jackson Discusses The Awakening of Malcolm X at MahoganyBooks
7:00 PM — Sharon Flake: 'The Life I'm In' book Release & Reading
7:30 PM — BE DAZZLED Launch Event with Ryan La Sala, Claribel A. Ortega, and Phil Stamper
7:30 PM — Debut YA author Pamela Harris in conversation with Nic Stone and J. Elle
8:00 PM — TKE presents ONLINE | Jennifer L. Holm | The Lion of Mars
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021
7:00 PM — A Night of Mystery with Authors Edwin Hill and Sara Driscoll
7:00 PM — Virtual: Alden Jones and Sven Birkerts
8:00 PM — Book Launch Party: COLONYSIDE by Michael Mammay and DOMESTICATING DRAGONS by Dan Koboldt
8:00 PM — SL Smith's "Murder on Cathedral Hill"
8:00 PM — TKE presents ONLINE | Sara Shepard and Lilia Buckingham | Influence
Friday, January 8, 2021
7:00 AM — Empires of the Dead
Saturday, January 9, 2021
12:00 PM — Facebook Live Q&A with Authors Crystal Maldonado & Olivia Dade
2:00 PM — CITY OF THE PLAGUE GOD Launch Event with Sarwat Chadda
Sunday, January 10, 2021
1:00 PM — The Good Ancestor: A Virtual Afternoon with Roman Krznaric & Bina Venkataraman
3:00 PM — Jeanne Bishop: Grace From the Rubble
5:00 PM — Free Association Reading Series presented by City of Asylum
9:00 PM — PubTalk Live 1-9-21 with 2020 Debuts Discussing Debuting During a Pandemic
For Writers - Free
Monday, January 4, 2021
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
1:00 PM — The Writers Bridge Platform Q&A | Setting Up Your Public, Sustainable Author Self for 2021
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
1:00 PM — Inside Writing: Comics and Cartoons with Teresa Wong (Dear Scarlet) and Brandon Hicks (The Rumpus)
1:30 PM — How to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing in the New Year
3:00 PM — The Weekly Kiki: A Queer Writer Brunch
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Nicolas
Friday, January 8, 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021
10:00 AM — SLWG workshop: What authors need to know about Amazon publishing
9:00 PM — PubTalk Live 1-9-21 with 2020 Debuts Discussing Debuting During a Pandemic
For Readers - Paid
Monday, January 4, 2021
6:00 PM — Kevin Mattson & Chris L. Terry for WE'RE NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN — starting at $1.00
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
5:00 PM — Live with Brittany Williams — starting at $31.00
8:00 PM — Robert Jones, Jr. and Alexander Chee for THE PROPHETS — starting at $1.00
Thursday, January 7, 2021
6:00 PM — Big Freedia and Blair Imani for GOD SAVE THE QUEEN DIVA — starting at $1.00
For Writers - Paid
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
6:30 PM — Elements of Scene Workshop — starting at $15.00
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
1:00 PM — How to Get Published—Land a Book Deal in 2021 with Jane Friedman — starting at $99.99
2:00 PM — How to Write Someone Else's Story — starting at $25.00
7:00 PM — Ten Things Fiction Writing Classhttps://dianezinna.com/teaching-mentoring/ — starting at $10.00
Thursday, January 7, 2021
7:15 PM — Show/Tell Solution with Lorin Oberweger — starting at $39.00
Friday, January 8, 2021
10:30 AM — Kickstarting Your Short Film — starting at $75.00
Saturday, January 9, 2021
10:30 AM — Making the Personal Universal in Nonfiction — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — The Straight-Up Skinny on How to Submit to Literary Journals with M. M. Adjarian — starting at $109.00
11:00 AM — Womxn's Writing Circle: Ego and Publication — starting at $65.00
12:00 PM — The Crystal Castles of Memory: A Generative Poetry Workshop — starting at $20.00
12:30 PM — New Year, New Page: Crafting Your Narrative With Fresh Eyes with Ko Im — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Class Scripts 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About Screenwriting But Were Afraid to Ask with Margaret Dunlap — starting at $99.00
4:00 PM — Punk U: The Whys and Whats of Writing -Punk Fiction with Cat Rambo — starting at $99.00
Sunday, January 10, 2021
10:00 AM — RESOLVE to WRITE in 2021! — starting at $50.00
12:30 PM — How to End Poems with Sean Singer — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Building Blocks of Mystery Writing with Rebecca A. Demarest — starting at $99.00
4:00 PM — Move Along, Folks: How to Pace Your Novel with Kay Kenyon — 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.