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.

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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

• 8:00 PM — Tracy Dawson — Let Me Be Frank: Women Who Dressed Like Men To Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do with Amber Tamblyn

• 10:00 PM — Anwen Crawford and Juliana Spahr - No Document

• 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!

• 8:00 PM — What's New in Historical Fiction - A Virtual Panel Featuring Historical Novelists with New and Upcoming Titles

• 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

• 6:00 PM — Lorgia García Peña & Ruha Benjamin: Community as Rebellion -- A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color

• 7:00 PM — Reading from the Room, with Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (GIRL AS BIRCH) and Fatima Kara (THE TRAIN HOUSE ON LOBENGULA STREET)

• 7:00 PM — The Invisible Kingdom: A Conversation with Meghan O’Rourke

• 7:00 PM — An Evening with the Editors of the Tree Lines Anthology: Jennifer Barber, Jessica Greenbaum, & Fred Marchant

• 7:30 PM — Neither the Moon Nor the Cosmos Are Impossible: Breanna J. McDaniel in conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• 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

• 10:00 PM — Story Hour: Willow Dawn Becker and Gemma Files

• 10:00 PM — Tori Bovalino in discussion with Catherine Yu

Thursday, June 16, 2022

• 10:00 AM — Terry Catasús Jennings & Raúl Colón | The Little House of Hope

• 7:00 PM — Livestream: Dale Kushner with Mare Chapman

• 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 — Juneteenth Poetry Reading with Akua Lezli Hope

• 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

• 1:00 PM — What's the T?: The Guide to All Things Trans And/Or Nonbinary--Juno Dawson in conversation with E.R. Anderson

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For Writers - Free

Monday, June 13, 2022

• 6:00 PM — Poetry Chat: Let's Talk About Love?? Poems

• 7:30 PM — Starting a Writing Project

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

• 1:30 PM — Creating a Vivid World that Readers Want to Live In

• 7:00 PM — Poetry Writing Workshop with Akua Lezli Hope

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

• 1:30 PM — How to Recognize a Publishing Scam and Avoid It

• 5:00 PM — Inside Writing: Breaking In with author, chiildren's TV writer, and creator of the Queer Kids Stuff web series Lindz Amer

• 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 — Virtual Craft Chat with Poet Jennifer Huang

• 7:00 PM — Working with Bookstores as an Author

• 9:00 PM — Debut Fiction: The Path to Publication & Beyond

Friday, June 17, 2022

• 2:00 PM — Write-In: Craft and Community with Gotham Writers

• 6:30 PM — Write-In: Craft and Community with Gotham Writers

Saturday, June 18, 2022

• 2:00 PM — Connecting Through Story

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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

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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

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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.