Virtual Bookish Events for March 29 - April 4, 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 29, 2021
7:00 PM — Escape from Castro's Cuba: An Evening with Tim Wendel and Saul Wisnia
7:00 PM — Harlan Coben: Win
8:00 PM — Kathryn Purdie | Bone Crier's Dawn
10:00 PM — C.K. Donnelly discussing Trine Rising
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
5:00 PM — Daniel Heller-Roazen & Hal Foster in Conversation: Absentees -- On Variously Missing Persons
6:30 PM — Heather Frese with Andromeda Romano-Lax and Kristin Bair - In Conversation
7:00 PM — Amanda Foody with J. C. Cervantes (MG)
7:00 PM — HOW TO RESIST AMAZON & WHY with Danny Caine in conversation with Suzanna Hermans
7:00 PM — Of Women and Salt: An Evening with Gabriela Garcia and Maite Morales
7:00 PM — Rebecca Morgan Frank with Elly Truitt, Oh You Robot Saints!
7:00 PM — Tiffany Aliche (The Budgetnista) Discusses Get Good With Money at MahoganyBooks
7:00 PM — Victoria Schade & Patience Griffin discussing "Lost, Found, and Forever"
8:00 PM — Authors in Conversation: Gina Nutt and Chelsea Hodson
8:00 PM — Curated Conversation(s): Jacqueline Balderrama with Cynthia Hogue
8:00 PM — Lauren Fox for "Send for Me" in conversation with Jim Moore
8:00 PM — Virtual Author Conversation: Kamala Puligandla & Ariel Mejia
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
9:00 AM — Guest author Julie Johnstone visits Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
7:00 PM — An Evening with Tommye Blount, Brian Komei Dempster, and Allison Hutchcraft
7:00 PM — Marguerite Duras' "The Impudent Ones": An Evening with Kelsey L. Haskett and Michael Reynolds
7:00 PM — Mark My Words: Lisa Scottoline in Conversation with Renee DiNino
7:00 PM — Vaccine Hesitancy
7:30 PM — Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians--JEB in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
10:00 PM — Story Hour, Livestream Speculative Fiction Readings: Elad Haber and Keith Rosson
Thursday, April 1, 2021
6:00 PM — Billy Baker with Jeff Kinney
7:00 PM — Warwick’s presents Gina Barreca in conversation with Darien Hsu Gee | Fast Funny Women
7:00 PM — Martha Hall Kelly with Pam Jenoff
7:00 PM — Morowa Yejidé in Conversation with Bernice L. McFadden
7:00 PM — National Deaf History AND Poetry Month Double Feature
7:00 PM — STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Dr. Ina Park in conversation with Linda Estabrook
7:30 PM — Sarah Freligh: We
8:00 PM — An Evening with Saeed Jones
8:00 PM — Todd Melby: The Making of FARGO
9:00 PM — Andrea Bajani and Jhumpa Lahiri
9:00 PM — Dawnie Walton, in conversation with Taylor Jenkins Reid, discusses The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
9:00 PM — Wendy Heard discusses "She’s Too Pretty to Burn" with Aiden Thomas
9:30 PM — Skylit: Girlhood by Melissa Febos, with Steph Danler
Friday, April 2, 2021
Saturday, April 3, 2021
11:00 AM — Say YAY to YA with Taylor Simonds, Amber Mitchell, Namina Forna
1:00 PM — The Truth in Fiction with Jenny Torres Sanchez, Trish Doller, Caitlin Lochner
3:00 PM — Ezra Jack Keats Award 35th Anniversary Celebration - The Luminaries!
3:00 PM — Romancing the Book with Brenda Jackson, Mara Wells, Racquel Henry
4:00 PM — Orlando Book Festival Closing Keynote: Romance and Suspense author Alyssa Cole
7:00 PM — Sister Souljah Presents "Life After Death" Hosted By The Dock Bookshop & The Black Girl Social Club
For Writers - Free
Monday, March 29, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
1:00 PM — The Writers Bridge Platform Q&A | How to Plan a Month of Author Social Media in One Session!
7:00 PM — Author-Agent Virtual Tell-All with Jessica Strawser & Barbara Poelle
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
1:00 PM — Inside Writing: Contests with novelist Seth Fried and Friction EIC Dani Hedlund
1:30 PM — Book Advertising 101
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Nicolas (with Laura Helseth)
9:30 PM — Preparing Powerful Pitches & Queries w/ MM Finck of Query Quill
Thursday, April 1, 2021
5:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat with Thomas Calder
7:15 PM — Craft Collection Night with Donald Maass, Lorin Oberweger, Emma Dryden, and more!
Friday, April 2, 2021
Saturday, April 3, 2021
11:00 AM — How to Self Publish Like a Pro
12:00 PM — Crafting Tension panel discussion
2:00 PM — How to Keep Young Readers Engaged
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
7:00 PM — Paula Munier, The Hiding Place, with Hank Phillippi Ryan — starting at $5.00
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
8:00 PM — Kaitlyn Greenidge and Bryan Washington for LIBERTIE — starting at $1.00
Thursday, April 1, 2021
8:00 PM — Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Rick Barot for Dēmos — starting at $1.00
Friday, April 2, 2021
5:00 PM — Avon Books Presents: KissCon One Night Stand — starting at $15.98
For Writers - Paid
Monday, March 29, 2021
7:00 PM — Native Futures: Crafting Indigenous Science Fiction — starting at $75.00
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
2:00 PM — Naming the World: Connecting the Personal to the Universal — starting at $15.00
5:30 PM — Writing Micro Memoir - A Hali‘a Aloha Series Webinar — starting at $15.00
6:00 PM — The Writing Show: Show Me the Money! — starting at $15.00
Saturday, April 3, 2021
7:00 AM — Write a TV movie: Rom-com or Thriller in this LIVE, online class — starting at $249.00 (Canadian)
10:30 AM — Deconstruct to Reconstruct! Scene Writing Workshop — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Resistance Through The Poetic — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — Mining the World for Meaning: How to Move Beyond the Personal in Memoir with Donna M. Johnson — starting at $109.00
12:30 PM — Virtual Vacation: Get Me Out of Here! With Karen Finley — starting at $124.00
1:00 PM — Prose Poetry with Jose Hernandez Diaz — starting at $24.00
2:30 PM — A 2-hour Workshop with Pamela Nowak: Finding the Story in History — starting at $20.00
4:00 PM — The Art of Body Snatching in Poetry — starting at $25.00
Sunday, April 4, 2021
2:00 PM — Grief Writing Sunday with Diane Zinna, Author of THE ALL-NIGHT SUN — starting at $10.00
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.