Virtual Bookish Events for June 13-19, 2022
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, The Shape of a Star Podcast, and WP expert Nate Hoffelder.
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For Readers - Free
Monday, June 13, 2022
7:00 PM — Live & In Conversation: Emily Giffin
7:00 PM — The Writer's Hotel 2022 "Mini MFA" Faculty Reading in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
8:00 PM — Mark Kurlansky — The Importance of Not Being Ernest — with Mitchell Kaplan
10:00 PM — Kate Khavari in discussion with Katharine Schellman
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
5:00 PM — CrossTalk Event with Kenji López-Alt (food writer)
5:00 PM — Inanna Spring 2022 Book Launch No. 1
6:00 PM — Jason Reynolds — Penguin Classics Marvel Collection - with Ben Saunders
7:00 PM — Afrofuturism with Julian Chambliss
7:00 PM — Emi Watanabe Cohen — The Lost Ryū - with Van Hoang
8:00 PM — Pat Zietlow Miller, author of SEE YOU SOMEDAY SOON, in conversation with Sarah Aronson!
10:00 PM — Sci-Fi: Ren Hutchings in conversation with Mike Chen & K.B. Wagers
10:00 PM — Ren Hutchings, in discussion with Mike Chen and K.B. Wagers
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
7:00 PM — The Invisible Kingdom: A Conversation with Meghan O’Rourke
8:00 PM — Kaitlyn Tiffany — Everything I Need I Get From You - with Kyle Chayka
8:00 PM — Poetry Reading: Shelley Wong with Cathy Linh Che & Lo Kwa Mei-en
9:00 PM — Lars Horn in conversation with Carolina De Robertis
Thursday, June 16, 2022
10:00 AM — Terry Catasús Jennings & Raúl Colón | The Little House of Hope
9:00 PM — I Don’t Think I Did This Right: An Evening with the Thursday Night Poets
Friday, June 17, 2022
6:00 PM — Nandita Dinesh — This Place That Place - with Putsata Reang
7:00 PM — Meet the Star Wars Author Mike Chen
8:00 PM — Panel Discussion - The World As We Knew It - with Amy Brady and Tajja Isen
Saturday, June 18, 2022
For Writers - Free
Monday, June 13, 2022
7:30 PM — Starting a Writing Project
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
8:00 PM — Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Fisk
Thursday, June 16, 2022
1:30 PM — Make it Sing: The Why, When, and How of Working with an Editor
7:00 PM — Working with Bookstores as an Author
Friday, June 17, 2022
Saturday, June 18, 2022
2:00 PM — Connecting Through Story
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
7:00 PM — Linda Holmes — Flying Solo - with Ari Shapiro (with Sixth & I) — starting at $12.00
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
7:00 PM — Meet the contributors of Generation Wonder — starting at $24.00
Thursday, June 16, 2022
6:30 PM — DISCOVER-E: Otherlands - A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds by Dr. Thomas Halliday — starting at $5.00
8:00 PM — Arinze Ifeakandu and Jonathan Lee for GOD'S CHILDREN ARE LITTLE BROKEN THINGS — starting at $1.00
Friday, June 17, 2022
8:00 PM — Toya Wolfe and Jacqueline Woodson for LAST SUMMER ON STATE STREET — starting at $1.00
For Writers - Paid
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
1:00 PM — I Hate Social Media—Now What? — starting at $75.00
Thursday, June 16, 2022
7:00 PM — Talk-it-Out Workshop: A Verbal Workshop-Meets-Craft Day Session for Nonfiction Writers — starting at $75.00
Friday, June 17, 2022
10:30 AM — Cause Some Drama: Creating Conflict — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Memoir Revision Essentials: Setting & Character — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Mythic Story Structures Series: Soul Triptychs — starting at $75.00
Saturday, June 18, 2022
10:30 AM — "Film Noire:" Black Horror Cinema and Its Catharsis — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Poetry Through the Prism of Grief & Trauma — starting at $124.00
10:30 AM — Writing with Perspective: Character Building — starting at $65.00
12:00 PM — Poesía Migrante: Writing about the Migrant Experience with Juan Felipe Herrera — starting at $150.00
12:30 PM — Generative Poetry Writing Workshop with Indran Amirthanayagam — starting at $25.00
2:00 PM — All Things Kindle Vella with Gage Greenwood — starting at $20.00
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.