Virtual Bookish Events for March 1-7, 2021
The Weekly 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 Lodestar.
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For Readers - Free
Monday, March 1, 2021
6:00 PM — Chang-rae Lee – Author of My Year Abroad at the Odyssey Bookshop
7:00 PM — The Smash-Up: An Evening with Ali Benjamin and Brendan Mathews
7:30 PM — Café Muse featuring poets Jane Clarke and Teri Ellen Cross Davis
8:00 PM — Virtual Author Conversation: Randa Jarrar & Leila Abdelrazaq
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
6:00 PM — The Good Girls: An Evening with Sonia Faleiro in conversation with Isaac Chotiner
7:00 PM — Naima Coster presents WHAT'S MINE AND YOURS, in conversation with Christina Baker Kline
7:00 PM — The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly-Fishing, with Mark Kurlansky
7:00 PM — Virtual Book Launch: Abundance by Jakob Guanzon in conversation with Mina Hamedi
7:30 PM — Adam Hochschild: Rebel Cinderella
7:30 PM — Landslide: A Virtual Evening with Susan Conley and Judy Blume
7:30 PM — The Doctors Blackwell: Janice Nimura in conversation with Kimberly Hamlin
7:30 PM — We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival
8:00 PM — The Sum of Us: Heather McGhee
9:00 PM — Dantiel W. Moniz & Melissa Broder discuss Milk Blood Heat and Milk Fed
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
9:00 AM — Guest author Lauren Smith takes over Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
7:00 PM — At Home with Literati: Diane Seuss in conversation with Jeff Shotts
7:00 PM — Nadia Owusu, AFTERSHOCKS & Rebecca Carroll, SURVIVING THE WHITE GAZE
7:00 PM — Robert Jones Jr : The Prophets
8:00 PM — Virtual Author Conversation: Lauren Fournier & Vilashini Cooppan
8:00 PM — Launch Event for Sarah Penner's THE LOST APOTHECARY in conversation with Kristin Harmel
10:00 PM — Story Hour: Meg Elison and Gabriela Santiago
Thursday, March 4, 2021
12:00 PM — Elif Shafak: This Strange and Violent World
4:30 PM — Masha Gessen: Navalny vs Putin
6:00 PM — Book Launch Event for Phil Buckley's CHANGE ON THE RUN: 44 WAYS TO SURVIVE WORKPLACE UNCERTAINTY
7:00 PM — Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter
7:00 PM — Sheltering in Stanzas: An Evening of Poetry & the Arts
7:00 PM — Tell All Boston: Silence, Madness and Secrets: Sorry About All That!
9:00 PM — Sarah Langan, in conversation with Sarah Haskins discusses Good Neighbors
9:30 PM — Skylit: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman, with Torrey Peters
Friday, March 5, 2021
7:15 PM — Friday Night Event: Scott Simon, Lisa See, Billy Collins
7:30 PM — How to Dispatch a Human - Stephanie Andrea Allen in conversation with Jewelle Gomez
Saturday, March 6, 2021
11:00 AM — Birds of a Feather: A Virtual Event with Sita Singh and Stephanie Fizer Coleman
2:00 PM — Virtual Book Launch with Adam Perry (MG)
8:00 PM — Writers Live: Madeleine Henry in conversation with Jennifer Bardsley
Sunday, March 7, 2021
4:00 PM — Renée Kurilla (Picture Book)
5:00 PM — Launch Event for The Sky Worshipers by F.M. Deemyad
5:00 PM — Launch for The Sky Worshipers - A Novel of Mongol Conquests
For Writers - Free
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
1:00 PM — The Writers Bridge Platform Q&A | Building Your Book Launch Team While You Finish The Book
6:30 PM — Emotional Resonance in Fiction
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Thursday, March 4, 2021
10:30 AM — Making the Most of Your Book Launch Campaign
6:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat with Dreux Richard
7:00 PM — Writer to Writer: Kerrin McCadden & Matthew Lippman
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Sunday, March 7, 2021
For Readers - Paid
Monday, March 1, 2021
8:00 PM — Lauren Willig, Band of Sisters Virtual — starting at $39.99
8:00 PM — Mikki Kendall and Marianne Kirby for HOOD FEMINISM — starting at $1.00
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
8:00 PM — Nicole Glover and P. Djèlí Clark for THE CONDUCTORS — starting at $1.00
Thursday, March 4, 2021
5:00 PM — RWR Presents Janet Skeslien Charles and The Paris Library — starting at $3.00
8:00 PM — Author Panel Discussion with Ada Calhoun, Nicole Chung, Amber Sparks & Taylor Harris for WHY WE CAN'T SLEEP — starting at $1.00
Friday, March 5, 2021
5:00 PM — Big Ideas: Sense of Adventure with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Carolyn Finney — starting at $10.00
8:00 PM — Luvvie Ajayi Jones and Esther Perel for PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKER — starting at $31.51
Sunday, March 7, 2021
4:00 PM — A Window to the Sky: A Conversation about Translating Children's Literature — starting at $8.00
For Writers - Paid
Monday, March 1, 2021
10:00 AM — Women in Publishing Summit — starting at $97.00
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
2:00 PM — Writing the Wound: Transforming Pain into Prose — starting at $25.00
7:00 PM — Ten Things Fiction Writing Class — starting at $10.00
7:30 PM — Research and Revision in YA Novels: A Class for Writers of Color and Indigenous Writers — starting at $15.00
The AWP Conference & Bookfair — starting at $160.00
Thursday, March 4, 2021
7:00 PM — From Head To Tome: How POV & Character "Voice" Change Your Story (And what exactly are they?) — starting at $10.00
8:00 PM — Nonfiction for Mass Media — starting at $115.00
Friday, March 5, 2021
10:30 AM — Generator Bootcamp — starting at $75.00
Saturday, March 6, 2021
10:00 AM — Pitch to publishers and hear writing experts conference — starting at $20.00
10:00 AM — Anatomy of a Scene: Opening Pages with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho — starting at $159.00
10:00 AM — Your First (or Next) Novel — starting at $50.00
10:30 AM — Worldbuilding Workshop — starting at $75.00
1:00 PM — Be Water: Writing Humor the Role Playing Game Way — starting at $55.00
1:00 PM — Reviving Stuck Poems — starting at $50.00
1:00 PM — Secrets & Memory: A Workshop for Writers with Dani Shapiro & Albert Flynn DeSilver — starting at $149.00
1:00 PM — SinC Into Great Writing: Reinventing a Writing Career — starting at $25.00
2:00 PM — Personal Essays: The Art and Craft of Narrative Nonfiction — starting at $70.00
2:30 PM — Romance Genres and Subgenres: Understanding Reader Expectations — starting at $20.00
3:00 PM — Dorthe Nors | Master Class on Literary Companions — starting at $85.00
4:00 PM — Poemscaping: Dating Your Details — starting at $22.00
Sunday, March 7, 2021
12:30 PM — Pushing the Metaphor: a craft talk/workshop combination with Suzanne Parker — starting at $124.00
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.