Virtual Bookish Events for March 22-28, 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.
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For Readers - Free
Monday, March 22, 2021
6:00 PM — Angie Bullaro with Manon Rhéaume: BREAKING THE ICE
7:00 PM — No Barrier Can Contain It: An Evening with Ariel Mae Lambe
7:00 PM — Write America Ep. 8: George Howe Colt, Anne Fadiman, & Carl Philips
9:00 PM — Bud Werner Library Author Series: Michelle Nijhuis
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
1:00 PM — Stephanie Scott: What's Left of Me is Yours (A Book Stall Lunchbreak Event)
6:30 PM — Timothy Brennan | A Rain Taxi Event
7:00 PM — AMID RAGE: a legal thriller, with Joel Burcat in conversation with Burke Allen
7:00 PM — BLACK, BLIND, & IN CHARGE: David Paterson and Karen Boykin-Towns
7:00 PM — Book Launch: Creative Types by Tom Bissell in conversation with Adrienne Miller
7:00 PM — DANGER IN NUMBERS Launch Event with Heather Graham
7:00 PM — David Daley — Author of Unrigged at the Odyssey Bookshop
7:00 PM — Latinx & Proud! Reading Series ft. Rocío Carlos, Nico Amador, Rosina Conde, & Ángel García
7:00 PM — Michael Slaby, FOR ALL THE PEOPLE, in conversation with Beth Comstock
7:30 PM — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong: When Women Invented Television
7:30 PM — The Whiteness of Wealth: Dorothy A. Brown in conversation with Maurice J. Hobson
8:00 PM — Katherine E. Standefer | Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
8:00 PM — Melanie Challenger - How to be Animal
9:00 PM — Cleo Wade, in conversation with Nicole Richie & Cameron Diaz, discusses What the Road Said
9:00 PM — Rediscovered Books presents author Marc C. Johnson in conversation
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
9:00 AM — Guest author Callie Hutton visits Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
4:00 PM — A Mighty Blaze's Authors Love Bookstores presents Kate Baer and Midtown Scholar Bookstore
6:00 PM — How to Resist Amazon and Why, with Danny Caine in conversation with Paul MacKay
7:00 PM — Alma Katsu with Joe Finder, Red Widow
7:00 PM — Author Brit Bennett Virtual Book Discussion for The Vanishing Half
7:00 PM — Imbolo Mbue: Live Reading & Conversation
7:00 PM — Shooting Midnight Cowboy: An Evening with Glenn Frankel and Arlo Haskell
8:00 PM — Mashama Bailey + John O. Morisano: Black, White, and The Grey
Thursday, March 25, 2021
2:00 PM — Emily Thomas on Victorian Lady Travellers, Unfeminine Philosophical Women, and Mary Wollstonecraft
3:00 PM — No Icon In Another World: A Conversation between Isabelle Graw and Kim Gordon
3:20 PM — Porochista Khakpour discussing her latest book, Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
4:00 PM — Poets in Conversation: John Murillo & Carolyn Forché
6:00 PM — How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House : An Evening with Cherie Jones
7:00 PM — Could You Survive Alone? A Virtual Author Program with Megan E. Freeman
7:00 PM — Danny Caine - How To Resist Amazon And Why - in conversation with booksellers
7:00 PM — Grubbie Debut: Jennifer De Leon with Grace Talusan, White Space
7:00 PM — Lisa Scottoline, Author of Eternal: In Virtual Conversation
7:00 PM — Novelist Claire Messud in Conversation with Liesl Schillinger
7:00 PM — TRAVELING BLACK, featuring Dr. Mia Bay in conversation with Dr. Raymond Arsenault
8:00 PM — Hard-Boiled Now: Gar Anthony Haywood and Nikki Dolson
8:00 PM — Virtual Author Conversation: Jess Zimmerman & Kate Harding
10:00 PM — Memoirist Joshua Mohr in Conversation with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Friday, March 26, 2021
Saturday, March 27, 2021
9:00 AM — Winter Park Book Festival
1:00 PM — Launch Event for THE HAPPINESS OF A DOG WITH A BALL IN ITS MOUTH by Bruce Handy
3:00 PM — Mina and the Undead - Book Launch
4:00 PM — Venturing Into Retellings: with Aiden Thomas, K. Ancrum, L.L. McKinney and Chloe Gong
Sunday, March 28, 2021
For Writers - Free
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
1:00 PM — Inside Writing: Writing vs. Life with memoirist Sarah McColl and novelist Daniel José Older
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Nicolas
Thursday, March 25, 2021
2:00 PM — From Small Press to Big Career
Thursday, March 25, 2021
7:00 PM — Writers at Play
Friday, March 26, 2021
5:30 PM — Happy Hour Writing Session
6:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat with Tamara Winfrey-Harris (nonfiction)
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
7:00 PM — How to Resist Amazon and Why, with Danny Caine — starting at $5.00
8:00 PM — Kazim Ali and Sherwin Bitsui for NORTHERN LIGHT — starting at $1.00
10:00 PM — Michael Eric Dyson & Sabrina Jacobs: Reckoning With Race in America — starting at $5.00
Thursday, March 25, 2021
6:00 PM — Tamara Winfrey Harris and Rochelle Riley for DEAR BLACK GIRL — starting at $1.00
Saturday, March 27, 2021
8:00 AM — Dazzling Debuts. Raven Leilani and Danielle McLaughlin in conversation with Edel Coffey — starting at 5 EUR
11:00 AM — Weirdo: Zadie Smith and Magenta Fox — starting at 2 EUR
For Writers - Paid
Monday, March 22, 2021
7:00 PM — Secrets of Publishing Panel — starting at $22.99
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
8:00 PM — Proposing Your Book With Agent Katharine Sands — starting at $25.00
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
1:00 PM — Get Better Critiques Now with Lisa Cooper Ellison — starting at $25.00
2:00 PM — Widening the Lens: Let Other Voices Enrich Your Own — starting at $25.00
Thursday, March 25, 2021
7:00 PM — Creating from Wounds: An Interactive Seminar with Meg Eden — starting at $30.00
Friday, March 26, 2021
6:00 PM — Happy Hour Writing Session — starting at $75.00
8:30 PM — Kickstart Your Self-Publishing Career with Kylie Fennell — starting at 69 AUD
Saturday, March 27, 2021
10:00 AM — Getting Your Word Out: Polishing, Submitting, and Marketing Your Writing — starting at $52.50
10:00 AM — Poetry Tune-Up — starting at $150.00
10:30 AM — MWW Virtual One-Day Conference: How to Get Published with Jane Friedman — starting at $99.00
10:30 AM — When to Submit: Publishing Intensive — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — 2021 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium — starting at $20.00
12:30 PM — Is Grief a Bridge: Writing Lyrical Prose with Rosebud Ben-Oni — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — The Poet in The Poem — starting at $124.00
2:00 PM — Crafting Unconventional Narratives — starting at $60.00
2:00 PM — Growth Hacking a Bestseller with Liz Pelletier, Entangled Publishing — starting at $50.00
2:00 PM — Plotting versus Storyboarding versus Pantsing — starting at $5.00
2:00 PM — Writing Kids in a Grown-Up World — starting at $52.50
2:30 PM — Finding Romance Publishers and Agents — starting at $20.00
Sunday, March 28, 2021
12:30 PM — Writing Wild: a virtual eco-Poetry generative writing intensive with Pam Uschuk — starting at $124.00
2:00 PM — Grief Writing Sunday with Diane Zinna, Author of THE ALL-NIGHT SUN — starting at $10.00
6:00 PM — A Little Like a Deity, A Lot Like a Bug: Letting Your Characters Lead Way — starting at $75.00
8:30 PM — Erotica Writing 101 Workshop — starting at $15.00
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.