Virtual Bookish Events for January 18-24, 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.
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All times are in Eastern so please convert as needed!
For Readers - Free
Monday, January 18, 2021
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
6:00 PM — Cast in Firelight: A Virtual Evening with Dana Swift and KayLynn Flanders
6:00 PM — WENCH Launch Event with Maxine Kaplan and Jamie Pacton
7:00 PM — Focus on Fiction Panel featuring Tall Poppy Writers
7:00 PM — Grubbie Debuts: Desmond Hall with Jennifer De Leon, Your Corner Dark
7:00 PM — Littorally ALIVE! What Would You Read? Inauguration Poems
7:30 PM — Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent (With Author Rich Cohen)
9:00 PM — Black Crime Writers – Celebrating the Past, Looking Toward the Future
9:00 PM — Peter Ames Carlin, in conversation with Robert Lloyd, discusses Sonic Boom
9:30 PM — Skylit: The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh, with Alexander Chee
10:00 PM — M.A. Carrick in conversation with Christopher Paolini
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
9:00 AM — Christina Britton takes over Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
8:00 PM — Charles Baxter + Matthew Duffus
9:30 PM — Skylit: Sanctuary by Emily Rapp Black, with Sarah Sentilles
Thursday, January 21, 2021
2:00 PM — ALA Midwinter Pre-Game with MacLib & Tor
2:00 PM — Lunchtime Reading: torrin a. greathouse with Zeyn Joukhadar
2:04 PM — The Autonomous Creative with Robbi Behr & Matthew Swanson
7:00 PM — Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar with Lacey Schwartz Delgado
7:00 PM — Creating Fantasy Readers For LIFE! With B.B. Alston, Rena Barron, Amie Kaufman and Ryan Graudin
7:00 PM — Historian Simon Winchester for LAND: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
7:00 PM — The Prophets: A Virtual Evening with Robert Jones, Jr. and Deesha Philyaw
7:30 PM — Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale--Tim Fielder in conversation with Edward Hall and Victor LaValle
9:00 PM — Ellie Eaton, in conversation with Rufi Thorpe, discusses The Divines
9:00 PM — M.A. Carrick & Andrea Stewart - Q&A and Conversation
9:00 PM — South Asian Writers Resist
9:30 PM — Skylit: The Library of Esoterica: Tarot by Jessica Hundley & Astrology by Andrea Richards
10:00 PM — Evening with authors Anna North and Anna Helen Petersen
Friday, January 22, 2021
Saturday, January 23, 2021
12:30 PM — Dante Micheaux: Circus (poetry)
3:00 PM — A Book Launch and Celebration of Poetry with Rae Armantrout and Heller Levinson
3:00 PM — Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance-- Nikki Grimes in conversation with Susana Morris
4:00 PM — PubTalk Live 1-23-21 with J. Elle and Illumicrate founder Daphne Lao Tonge
4:00 PM — Tiffany Schmidt in conversation with Elizabeth Eulberg
6:00 PM — Skylit: Goldie Vance: The Hocus Pocus Hoax by Lilliam Rivera, with Cecil Castellucci
Sunday, January 24, 2021
1:00 PM — NICKY & VERA Launch Event with Peter Sis
4:00 PM — One Book - One Community Author Talk with Jason Reynolds
5:00 PM — Virtual Event - Kristin Cashore and Malinda Lo in conversation with Tui Sutherland
6:30 PM — The Rib King: A Conversation with Ladee Hubbard and Susana Morris
For Writers - Free
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
12:00 PM — Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
1:30 PM — Query Like a Pro - Proven Strategies to Land an Agent or Publisher
8:15 PM — Write Brain: Beating Procrastination
Wednesday, January 20, 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
Thursday, January 21, 2021
5:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat with Bryan Washington
6:30 PM — Starting Your Novel in the Right Place
7:00 PM — Writer to Writer: Nandi Comer & Jonah Mixon-Webster
8:00 PM — Taxes for Writers
9:00 PM — Hello, 2021: Our Writerly Resolutions
Friday, January 22, 2021
Saturday, January 23, 2021
For Readers - Paid
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
1:30 PM — Kate Mosse in conversation with JoJo Moyes — starting at $35.00
Thursday, January 21, 2021
7:00 PM — Charlotte Bismuth + Patricia McCormick: Bad Medicine — starting at $10.00
7:30 PM — Savannah Book Festival presents Jane Smiley — starting at $15.00
8:00 PM — Terry Tempest Williams and Lauret Savoy for EROSION — starting at $1.00
For Writers - Paid
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
9:00 AM — Loft Writer's Hour: Morning with Kathryn Savage — starting at $5.00
10:00 AM — Winter Weekly Creative Writing Workshops for Kids, Teens & Adults — starting at $145.00
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
10:30 AM — Memoir 101: Three Stages of Writing — starting at $30.00
6:00 PM — Keep It Short: Writing Microfiction — starting at $55.00
7:00 PM — Ten Things Fiction Writing Class — starting at $10.00
Thursday, January 21, 2021
7:15 PM — A Deep Dive Into Scene Structure with Lorin Oberweger — starting at $39.00
Friday, January 22, 2021
10:30 AM — Generator Bootcamp — starting at $75.00
1:00 PM — Goal Setting and Project Planning for Your 2021 Writing Life — starting at $25.00
6:00 PM — Loft Writer's Hour: Afternoon with Kathryn Savage — starting at $5.00
8:00 PM — After Hours with Authors, featuring Donna M. Johnson, Michael Noll, and Deanna Roy — starting at $100.00
Saturday, January 23, 2021
9:30 AM — Mapping Strategies — starting at $50.00
10:00 AM — Lessons in Self-Publishing with Romance Writer Libby Waterford — starting at $35.00
10:00 AM — Digital Story Jumpstart — starting at $105.00
10:00 AM — Elements of Playwriting: Character — starting at $50.00
10:00 AM — Flash Memoir: Life Stories in 500 Words or Less — starting at $52.50
10:00 AM — Plot Like a Pro — starting at $50.00
10:00 AM — Scrivener 102 — starting at $52.50
10:30 AM — Novel Revision Series: Point of View & Psychic Distance — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — The Art of Backstory — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Writing Dialogue — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — Applying to Fellowships and Residencies with Confidence with Faylita Hicks — starting at $109.00
11:00 AM — Writing as Healing — starting at $87.50
12:30 PM — The Ins and Outs of Urban Fantasy: Talking with L.L. McKinney — starting at $99.00
3:00 PM — Create Characters Using Point of View & the Unconscious — starting at $55.00
4:00 PM — The 4th Language of Genre Fiction with M. Todd Gallowglas — starting at $99.00
7:00 PM — After Hours with Authors, featuring Alison Macor, Stephanie Noll, and John Pipkin — starting at $100.00
Sunday, January 24, 2021
11:30 AM — The 6th Annual Write Brunch with Kim Johnson (Fundraiser for Writer’s Atelier) — starting at $45.00
12:30 PM — Power Word Real Name: Upping Your Game with Names and Titles — starting at $99.00
3:00 PM — From Memory to Story: An Approach to Writing from the Details of Real Life — starting at $100.00
4:00 PM — High-Speed Worldbuilding for Fiction and Games: Session 1 with James L Sutter — 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.