Virtual Bookish Events for May 17-23, 2021
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, May 17, 2021
6:00 PM — Catherine McKenzie presents SIX WEEKS TO LIVE, with Barbara Claypole White (Mystery/Thriller)
9:00 PM — Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger, with Erin Khar (memoir)
10:00 PM — Becky Chambers in conversation with Andrew Liptak (SFF)
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
8:00 AM — Guest author Anna Harrington visits Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
5:00 PM — Lecture by Devoney Looser on Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and the Austen Family
6:00 PM — Camryn Garrett and Leah Johnson for OFF THE RECORD (YA)
6:30 PM — Charles Bernstein in conversation with Tonya M. Foster | A Rain Taxi Event (poetry)
6:30 PM — Jordyn Taylor and Stacey Leasca for DON'T BREATHE A WORD (YA)
7:00 PM — Penguin Bookshop Writers Series: A Conversation with Rafe Posey & Liberty Hardy
7:00 PM — BETTER, NOT BITTER: Dr. Yusef Salaam in conversation with Phoebe Zerwick
7:00 PM — Miel Moreland with Erin Hahn, It Goes Like This (YA)
7:00 PM — PROJECT HAIL MARY: Andy Weir incoversation with Ajay Fry (SFF)
7:00 PM — Ruth Rogers Clausen & Gregory D. Tepper, DEER RESISTANT NATIVE PLANTS FOR THE NORTHEAST
8:00 PM — Christina Lauren and Patti Murin Chat about THE SOULMATE EQUATION Audiobook
8:00 PM — Launch Party for PERFECTLY PARVIN by Olivia Abtahi with Brenna Yovanoff (YA)
8:00 PM — Sadie Hoagland in conversation with Lance Olsen | Strange Children
8:00 PM — Launch Event for Chelsea Mueller's YA thriller PROM HOUSE
9:00 PM — Ben H. Winters, in conversation with Kira Jane Buxton, discusses The Quiet Boy
10:00 PM — Mia P. Manansala and Gigi Pandian in conversation
10:00 PM — Benjamin Dreyer, author of Dreyer's English
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
8:00 AM — Bestselling author Sophie Barnes visits Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
11:00 AM — Séverine Autesserre discusses 'The Frontlines of Peace,' King's College London
12:00 PM — Book Launch: Ian Goldin: "Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World" chaired by Nik Gowing
6:00 PM — Patrick Radden Keefe (EMPIRE OF PAIN) in conversation with Karen Dukess
6:00 PM — Physician and Author Suzanne Koven in Conversation with Memoirist Emily Rapp Black
6:30 PM — Graphic Novel author Terri Libenson and Victoria Jamieson for Truly Tyler (MG)
7:00 PM — AAPI History Month: Library Virtual Author Talk with Suzanne Park
7:00 PM — Buzz Editors Panel: Six breakout authors chat with their editors
7:00 PM — I Will Not Name It Except to Say: A Memorial Reading for Lee Sharkey (poetry)
7:00 PM — My Time Will Come: An Evening with Ian Manuel and Brittany K. Barnett (memoir)
7:00 PM — Subdivision and Let Me Think: J. Robert Lennon with Dana Spiotta
7:30 PM — Kaitlyn Greenidge, "Libertie" with Dionne Ford (historical)
9:00 PM — WeHo Reads Presents Alternative Futures: James Sie and Skylar Kergil (YA)
9:30 PM — Skylit: Eat the Mouth That Feeds You by Carribean Fragoza, with Myriam Gurba (short stories)
10:00 PM — Charles Yu and S.Qiouyi Lu in conversation with Denise Hamilton
10:00 PM — Noah Warren - The Complete Stories (poetry)
Thursday, May 20, 2021
6:00 PM — Katie Mack presents THE END OF EVERYTHING (ASTROPHYSICALLY SPEAKING) with John Scalzi (nonfiction)
6:30 PM — A Conversation with Poet Mark Wunderlich
7:00 PM — An Evening With Author Candice Iloh (YA)
7:00 PM — Gwen Strauss, THE NINE, in conversation with Lauren Sandler (historical nonfiction)
7:00 PM — Hidden in Berlin: Author Presentation and Discussion (memoir)
7:00 PM — Lauryn Chamberlain, Cristina Arreola, and Kayleen Schaefer for FRIENDS FROM HOME
7:00 PM — The First Ten Years: An Evening with Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner (memoir)
7:00 PM — THE SEEKER AND THE MONK: Sophfronia Scott in conversation with Barbara Brown Taylor (nonfiction)
8:00 PM — Lilly Dancyger in conversation with Megan Stielstra (memoir)
8:00 PM — Nino Cipri in conversation with Premee Mohamed (SFF)
8:00 PM — Rafe Posey: THE STARS WE SHARE (In Conversation With J. Ryan Stradal)
9:00 PM — Jonathan Parks-Ramage, in conversation with Sam Lansky, discusses Yes, Daddy
9:30 PM — Book Launch • The List of Last Chances by Christina Myers
10:00 PM — Author Voices: Mateo Askaripour (Black Buck)
Friday, May 21, 2021
12:00 PM — Murder, In Fact: An Investigation of True-Crime Literature
12:00 PM — Running with Sherman: A Virtual Event with Christopher McDougall and Hope Torrents
7:00 PM — Dr. Yusef Salaam Discusses Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
7:30 PM — Punch Me Up to the Gods: Brian Broome in conversation with Deesha Philyaw
8:00 PM — Reading: FAT AND QUEER: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives
9:00 PM — Skylit: Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal, with Maia Kobabe
Saturday, May 22, 2021
2:00 PM — Blaze Baking with Rach and Louise Miller, Author and Pastry Chef
3:00 PM — Joshua Coombes, in conversation with Paul Avila, discussing Do Something for Nothing
5:00 PM — Skylit: Permanent Volta by Rosie Stockton, with Hannah Black
Sunday, May 23, 2021
3:00 PM — Mary Alice Monroe: The Summer of Lost and Found (A Conversation with William Kent Krueger)
4:00 PM — Searchers in Winter a Discussion with Owen Pataki and Allison Pataki (historical)
For Writers - Free
Monday, May 17, 2021
7:00 PM — LitFest: Native Language vs the Publishing Industry
8:00 PM — AgentChat Live with Jemiscoe Chambers-Black of Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
8:30 PM — Drop-In Writing Workshop
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
1:30 PM — Blog2Book: Repurposing Content to Discover the Book You've Already Written
7:00 PM — Working Dogs - Incorporating Canine Characters into Your Writing
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Sarah Nicolas & Bess Carnan
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Queries, Qualms, & Quirks Podcast: YA Author Jenn P. Nguyen and the Publishing Hail Mary
1:30 PM — Goodreads: What Every Author Must Do, and How To Do It
2:00 PM — Writing for Young Adults – Writers’ Night with Yasmin Rahman
9:00 PM — The Great Outdoors: Bringing the Natural World into Your Writing
Friday, May 21, 2021
6:00 PM — Virtual Craft Chat with E.C. Osondu
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021
For Readers - Paid
Monday, May 17, 2021
8:00 PM — Thien-Kim Lam and Lyssa Kay Adams for HAPPY ENDINGS (romance) — starting at $1.00
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
7:00 PM — Book Launch: The Atmospherians with Alex McElroy & T Kira Madden — starting at $5.00
7:00 PM — Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade for SHADY BABY — starting at $19.00
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
8:00 PM — Brian Broome and Kiese Laymon for PUNCH ME UP TO THE GODS (memoir) — starting at $1.00
Thursday, May 20, 2021
7:00 PM — Meredith Tate's and Cameron Lund's YA Rom-Com Party — starting at $5.00
8:00 PM — Chloe O. Davis and Gabrielle Inés for QUEEN'S ENGLISH (LGBTQIA+ nonfiction) — starting at $1.00
Friday, May 21, 2021
1:00 PM — All Is Fair in Love … and YA: Angie Thomas and Britta B — starting at 8 EUR
7:00 PM — On Revolutionary Love and Poetic Resistance: Yusef Komunyakaa, Edwidge Danticat, and Threa Almontaser with John Freeman — starting at $20.00
For Writers - Paid
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
1:00 PM — Finding the Universal in Your Memoir with Lisa Cooper Ellison — starting at $25.00
2:00 PM — More Is More: Build Your Body of Work with a Daily Writing Practice — starting at $25.00
7:30 PM — What Authors Need to Know: Marketing and Publicizing Your Book with Katharine Duckett — starting at $109.00
Thursday, May 20, 2021
7:15 PM — Death to the Snoozer: Crafting a Compelling Plot with Henry Neff — starting at $39.00
Friday, May 21, 2021
10:30 AM — Everyone's a Critic: Writing Reviews — starting at $75.00
2:30 PM — From Diwata to Raya: Pilipina/x Representation in Poetry, Art and Film — starting at $75.00
6:00 PM — So You Want to Write a Memoir? — starting at $75.00
8:00 PM — Creating Character with Lauren Elise Daniels — starting at 49 AUD
Saturday, May 22, 2021
10:30 AM — Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Making a Film on Zero Budget — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Memory vs. Truth — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — Writing a Kickass Screenplay with Owen Egerton — starting at $109.00
12:30 PM — Method to the Madness: Pantsing or Plotting; Character First or Plot First? — starting at $65.00
12:30 PM — The Art of Telling with Chen Chen — starting at $124.00
2:30 PM — Setting Up the Basics: World Building and Beyond — starting at $35.00
Sunday, May 23, 2021
3:00 PM — Living Legends: Using Myth with Unconventional Energy + Ambitious Purpose with Katie Peterson + Sandra Lim — starting at $150.00
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.