Virtual Bookish Events for July 27 - August 2, 2020

The Weekly Virtual Bookish Events Newsletter is sent on Sundays and will include 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

I did my best to find as many events as I could, but I’m sure I missed some! Please feel free to add links to events in the comments of the post. Event planners and authors are encouraged to submit their future events via the link below to avoid getting overlooked.

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All times are in Eastern so please convert as needed!

For Readers - Free

Monday, July 27, 2020

• 12:00 PM — Sonoma Valley Authors Festival: Damon West with moderator Joyce Mikal-Flynn

• 2:00 PM — Sonoma Valley Authors Festival: Robert Theleen with moderator Dr. Roy Curry

• 5:00 PM — Kim Johnson and TheBookBlondie discussing THIS IS MY AMERICA

• 7:00 PM — PSB Presents: Alaya Dawn Johnson with Kate Elliott, Trouble the Saints

• 7:00 PM — Lauren Francis-Sharma on Book of the Little Axe with Krystal Sital

• 7:00 PM — A Virtual Evening with Max Brooks

• 8:00 PM — Conversations with Jaquira Diaz (ORDINARY GIRLS) and with Priscilla Oliveras (ISLAND AFFAIR)

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

• 2:00 PM — Heroines, History, and Hope: Jennifer Rosner, Alka Joshi and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

• 5:00 PM — Reader Meet Writer: S. A. Cosby

• 6:30 PM — Books & Books presents… An Evening with Jess Redman In conversation with Natalie Lloyd

• 7:00 PM — Joshilyn Jackson with Sameer Pandya & Kiley Reid

• 7:00 PM — How to survive in America w Damon Young ft. Kiese Laymon presented by City of Asylum

• 7:00 PM — P&P Live! Cindy Otis | TRUE OR FALSE in conversation with Jenna McLaughlin

• 7:00 PM — The Vanishing Sky, with author L. Annette Binder

• 7:30 PM — Newsworthy: A Poetry Reading and Reflection

• 9:00 PM — Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends

• 10:00 PM — Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Colin Dickey | THE UNIDENTIFIED

• 10:00 PM — Ben Ehrenreich and Roberto Lovato at Point Reyes Books

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

• 7:00 PM — Murder & Margaritas with Esme Addison & Victoria Gilbert

• 7:00 PM — From Border to Center: Marketing & Publicizing BIPOC Stories with Milena Brown, Camille Collins & Imani Gary

• 7:00 PM — A Virtual Evening with Natalie Bakopoulos and Alexander Chee

• 7:00 PM — THIS IS MY AMERICA virtual book launch with Kim Johnson and Nic Stone

• 7:30 PM — Natasha Trethewey: Memorial Drive

• 8:00 PM — Fresh Fiction Presents: Video Book Club with Sarah MacLean

• 8:15 PM — Latinx & Proud! Reading Series ft. Melissa Lozada-Oliva presented by City of Asylum

• 8:30 PM — Skylit: The Names of All The Flowers, by Melissa Valentine, with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

• 10:00 PM — Heather Lende in Conversation with Dr. M Jackson, Of Bears and Ballots

• 10:00 PM — Third Place Books presents Aaron Goings, in conversation with David Price - The Port of Missing Men

Thursday, July 30, 2020

• 1:00 PM — Peter Fiennes on Footnotes

• 3:00 PM — Gloria Chao and Addie Tsai: YA Authors in Conversation

• 6:00 PM — RA Salvatore, in conversation with Terry Brooks, for RELENTLESS

• 7:00 PM — Meet the Authors of Braves Win!

• 7:00 PM — Getting Dusmic: The Nuyorican Poetic Tradition: Vincent Toro on Tertulia with Willie Perdomo

• 7:00 PM — Writers Cribs! Jabari Asim

• 7:00 PM — PSB Presents J. Courtney Sullivan with Joanna Rakoff: Friends and Strangers

• 7:00 PM — RWR Presents Beatriz Williams and Her Last Flight

• 7:00 PM — A Virtual Evening with Julian E. Zelizer and Samuel G. Freedman

• 7:00 PM — Susannah Cahalan in conversation with Robert Kolker

• 7:00 PM — Book + Author: Angie Kim

• 7:30 PM — A Conversation with Sarah Broom on The Yellow House with Thelma Golden

• 7:30 PM — Saeed Jones in Conversation with Tayari Jones

• 8:00 PM — Virtual Launch Party for Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon, in conversation with Becky Albertalli & Marisa Kanter

• 8:00 PM — Evening with the Authors: Marcy Dermansky, author of VERY NICE

• 9:00 PM — An evening with Cara Wall

• 9:30 PM — Books in Common: Steve Olson & Sharma Shields in Conversation

• 9:30 PM — Skylit: Fiebre Tropical by Juli Delgado Lopera, with Michelle Tea

• 10:00 PM — J L Oakley, The Quisling Factor - Fiction!

Friday, July 31, 2020

• 12:00 PM — Fernanda Melchor: Murder by Witchcraft

• 2:00 PM — Author Talk with Barbara Fant By Columbus Metropolitan Library

• 6:00 PM — Alaya Dawn Johnson and Daniel José Older for Trouble the Saints

• 7:00 PM — Poetry Reading/Q&A: Francisco, Guzmán, Sousa, Cabrera-Schneider

• 7:00 PM — An Evening of Readings w/ Emily Bernard, Chet'la Sebree and Dolen Perkins-Valdez

• 7:00 PM — OutWrite 2020, DC's LGBTQ literary festival

• 8:00 PM — P&P Live! Zaina Arafat | YOU EXIST TOO MUCH

• 9:00 PM — Cindy Lin discusses "Treasures of Twelve" with Laura Ling

• 10:00 PM — Third Place Books Presents Tara Isabella Burton, in conversation with Jaya Saxena & Jess Zimmerman - Strange Rites

Saturday, August 1, 2020

• 2:00 PM — In conversation with Joanne Harris

• 4:00 PM — Panel: New Queer YA Books

• Middle Ground Book Fest

Sunday, August 2, 2020

• 6:30 PM — A Conversation with Erik Larson on The Splendid and the Vile with Amor Towles

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For Writers - Free

Monday, July 27, 2020

• 6:00 PM — Poetry's Public & Private Realms: A Reading & Craft Talk with Richard Blanco

• 6:00 PM — Sculpting Your Poem with Zack Rogow - Catamaran Writing Conference

• 7:00 PM — Decolonizing Craft - The Future of Creative Writing Instruction

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

• 5:00 PM — Novel as the Problem Child with Karen Joy Fowler - Catamaran Writing Conference

• 6:00 PM — 10 Things that Make Great Memoirs Great: A Reading & Craft Talk with Boris Fishman

• 7:00 PM — Get Your Work Out There

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

• 5:00 PM — Beyond the Snapshot (Nonfiction Craft Talk) with Neal Snidow - Catamaran Writing Conference

• 6:00 PM — Shop Talk: A Discussion on Craft and Writing

• 6:00 PM — Writing in Place: A Reading & Craft Talk with Bryan Washington

• 6:00 PM — The Writers Journey - Spark and Sustain Your Creativity with Joan Staffen - Catamaran Writing Conference

• 7:00 PM — Virtual Write-In with Sarah Nicolas and Bess Carnan

• 7:00 PM — The Heart of Your Story: Introduction to Structure in Memoir

Thursday, July 30, 2020

• 6:00 PM — World-Building in Writing for Young People: A Reading & Craft Talk with Lilliam Rivera

• 7:00 PM — Words from the Front - Journalism, Justice and Black Lives Matter

Friday, July 31, 2020

• 12:00 PM — Writing into Truth: A Free Journaling & Open Writing class

• 5:00 PM — Virtual Craft Happy Hour with Jessica Q. Stark

• 6:00 PM — Reading & Craft Talk: R.O. Kwon: Failing Better: On Revising

Saturday, August 1, 2020

• 10:00 AM — How to write about encounters with the extraordinary--St. Louis Writers Guild workshop

Sunday, August 2, 2020

• 4:00 PM — AgentChat Live with Chelsea Hensley of KT Literary

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For Readers - Paid

Thursday, July 30, 2020, 6:30 PM — Scott Turow: The Last Trial (A Book Stall conversation with Jon Grand) — Starting at  $29.00

Friday, July 31, 2020, 5:00 PM — RWR Presents Hank Phillippi Ryan and THE FIRST TO LIE benefiting Books Are Wings — Starting at $5.00

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For Writers - Paid

Monday, July 27, 2020

• 9:30 AM — Poetry: The Conscious/Subconscious with Richard Blanco (5 Days) — Starting at $400.00

• 11:00 AM — Fiction: Subverting Timelines with Bryan Washington (5 days) — Starting at $300.00

• 12:30 PM — The Art and Craft of Memoir with Boris Fishman (5 days) — Starting at $400.00

• 2:00 PM — Teenage Rebels: How To Write Young Adult Fiction with Lilliam Rivera (5 days) — Starting at $400.00

• 3:30 PM — After, Before, and Outside an MFA with R.O. Kwon (5 days) — Starting at $400.00

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

• 7:30 PM — Tackling Mature Themes in Children's Literature With Debut Writer Janae Marks — Starting at $22.29

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

• 7:00 PM — Involving your children so they understand your art — Starting at $10.00

Thursday, July 30, 2020

• 10:00 AM — Willamette Writers Conference 2020 — Starting at $349.00

• 7:15 PM — The End is the Beginning - with Lorin Oberweger — Starting at $39.00

Saturday, August 1, 2020

• 10:00 AM — Writing Wild — Starting at $70.00

• 10:00 AM — Scrivener 101 — Starting at $52.50

• 10:00 AM — Second Draft Boot Camp for Novelists — Starting at $70.00

• 11:00 AM — [margins.] virtual writers conference — Starting at $51.20

• 2:00 PM — Writing from the Rabbit Hole: Researched Creative Nonfiction — Starting at $70.00

• 2:00 PM — Publishing Seminar with Literary Agent Dana Murphy — Starting at $50.00

Sunday, August 2, 2020

• 12:30 PM — The Creativity of a Narrative Arc with Ivelisse Rodriguez via Zoom — Starting at $124.00

• 3:00 PM — Poetry For Protest — Starting at $106.08

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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.