Virtual Bookish Events for July 26 - August 1, 2021
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, WP expert Nate Hoffelder, and The Shape of a Star Podcast.
All times are in Eastern so please convert as needed!
For Readers - Free
Monday, July 26, 2021
5:00 PM — #LBYRExtraCredit Presents: Imagination & Debut Picture Books
7:00 PM — Jessica Goodman with Tiffany D. Jackson
8:00 PM — Palm Springs Noir with Halley Sutton, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Rob Roberge, & Rob Bowman
9:00 PM — Online Reading - GOODBYE TO THE SUN and Author Interview: Jonathan Nevair
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
7:00 PM — 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love: An Evening with Daphne Merkin and Mark Greif
7:00 PM — An Evening with Sara Shepard & Zibby Owens Celebrating the Release of Safe In My Arms
7:00 PM — Celebrating Libraries with Karin Slaughter and Jackie Cooper
7:00 PM — Eddie Glaude Discusses Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America And Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own
7:00 PM — Rachel Yoder — Author of Nightbitch
7:00 PM — RAZORBLADE TEARS: S.A. Cosby in conversation with Walter Mosley and Stephen Graham Jones
7:00 PM — WEIRD KID: Virtual Book Launch!
7:30 PM — Laura Warren Hill: Strike the Hammer: the Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester
8:00 PM — Curated Conversation(s): Caridad Moro-Gronlier with Richard Blanco
9:30 PM — Skylit: Breathing Fire by Jaime Lowe
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
12:00 PM — Domestic Revolutions: Gay Family Life in Three Novels
12:30 PM — It Had to Be You: Georgia Clark with Elin Hilderbrand
5:00 PM — Emily Rapp Black & Doireann Ni Ghriofa
5:00 PM — A Burning by Megha Majumdar
5:00 PM — Who Writers Read, a literary salon for writers to discuss their reading lives
7:00 PM — All the Little Hopes: Leah Weiss, in conversation with Ericka McIntyre
7:00 PM — An Evening with Silvina López Medin, Jennifer Militello, and Jennifer Stewart Miller
7:00 PM — BREATHING FIRE: Jaime Lowe in conversation with Beth Hines
8:00 PM — Brian Daldorph: 20 Years of Teaching Writing at Douglas County Jail
9:00 PM — Mena Suvari, in conversation with Zibby Owens, discusses The Great Peace: A Memoir
10:00 PM — Story Hour: Gemma Files and Suzan Palumbo
Thursday, July 29, 2021
12:30 PM — Book Buzz Disrupt 3 with Stephanie Garber
7:00 PM — Eco-Justice for All! Reading with Camille T. Dungy
7:00 PM — My Dog Romeo: An Evening with Ziggy Marley and Steve Breen
7:00 PM — Writers on the Rise: Hanae Jonas
7:30 PM — Donika Kelly: The Renunciations
Friday, July 30, 2021
7:00 PM — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois with Angela Jackson Brown
9:00 PM — May Cobb, in conversation with Josh Sabarra, discusses The Hunting Wives
Saturday, July 31, 2021
12:00 PM — Are You Enjoying? Mira Sethi in conversation with Malala
2:00 PM — Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Tamara J. Madison, Jennifer Franklyn, Arden Levine
3:00 PM — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Notes on Grief Virtual Author Event
3:00 PM — Ed Hajim: On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom
For Writers - Free
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
1:30 PM — Pro Photo Shoots for Author Branding
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Sarah Nicolas and Bess Carnan
Thursday, July 29, 2021
2:00 PM — Making a Career as a Writer – Writers’ Night with Joanna Nadin
7:00 PM — AgentChat Live with Kaitlyn Johnson of Belcastro Agency
Friday, July 30, 2021
Saturday, July 31, 2021
2:00 PM — Medical Details in Your Fiction
9:00 PM — PubTalk Live with podcasters and authors Emily Thiede and Daniel Ford
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
8:00 PM — Author Joseph Fink: The Halloween Moon, with Ransom Riggs — starting at $21.00
8:00 PM — N.K. Jemisin and Mikki Kendall for THE CITY WE BECAME — starting at $18.00
Thursday, July 29, 2021
6:00 PM — Megha Majumdar and Danielle Evans for A BURNING — starting at $1.00
For Writers - Paid
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
1:00 PM — Past Mastery: How to Reveal Backstory with Roz Morris — starting at $25.00
6:00 PM — The Future of Speculative Fiction — starting at $15.00
Thursday, July 29, 2021
7:15 PM — Emotional Storytelling with Lorin Oberweger — starting at $39.00
Friday, July 30, 2021
10:30 AM — Speculative Series: Establishing Your World — starting at $75.00
Saturday, July 31, 2021
10:00 AM — How to Begin a Poem — starting at $70.00
10:00 AM — Scene + Structure = Story: A Plotting Technique for Genre Novelists — starting at $70.00
10:30 AM — Creating Binge-Worthy Characters — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Multilingual Poetry and Voice — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Staying on Topic: Writing Long Poems — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Writing for Advocacy: Amplifying Your Voice — starting at $75.00
2:00 PM — How Characters Drive Story — starting at $60.00
3:00 PM — Diverse Spines Summer Reading Series: Saumya Dave and Jamise Harper for WHAT A HAPPY FAMILY — starting at $1.00
4:00 PM — Craft Seminar: Writing the Art of Listening with Stephen Kuusisto (2 weeks) — starting at $175.00
Sunday, August 1, 2021
12:30 PM — Intuitive Recollections: A Prose Workshop with Kofi Antwi — starting at $124.00
4:00 PM — Writing Short: Mini Memoir — starting at $60.00
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.