Virtual Bookish Events for November 2-8, 2020
The Weekly Virtual Bookish Events Newsletter is sent on Sundays and includes the events taking place the following Monday through Sunday. Events are separated into four categories:
For Readers - Free
For Writers - Free
For Readers - Paid
For Writers - Paid
Don’t see your event? I do my best to find as many events as I can, but I always miss some! I don’t add events after the list is posted but please feel free to add links to events in the comments of the post and submit future events via the link below.
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For Readers - Free
Monday, November 2, 2020
7:30 PM — Café Muse presents poets Michael Davis and Beth Konkoski
10:00 PM — Coco Ma in conversation with Holly Black
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
11:00 AM — Predator Politics Book Launch
8:00 PM — Facebook Live virtual launch of MOVE ON MOTHERF*CKER with Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
3:30 PM — Alta Asks Live: Keenan Norris
7:00 PM — A User's Guide to Democracy: Nick Capodice and Hannah McCarthy
7:00 PM — Caffe Lena Live Stream Poetry Guest Reader Suzanne S. Rancourt
10:00 PM — Ariel S. Winter discussing The Preserve
10:00 PM — Breakout Nonfiction Writer: Esmé Wang
Thursday, November 5, 2020
7:00 PM — Where the Magic Carries Us with Emily X. R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma & Contributors to Foreshadow
7:30 PM — Harvey Araton, "Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship"
8:00 PM — How My Friends Failed at Flirting: Denise Williams with Allison Ashley
10:30 PM — Author Voices: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (The Mountains Sing)
Friday, November 6, 2020
12:00 PM — Janet Evanovich: Fortune and Glory
5:00 PM — Virtual Craft Happy Hour with Steven Leyva & Adam Schwartz
7:00 PM — Terry Brooks, THE LAST DRUID. With Robert V.S. Redick
Saturday, November 7, 2020
2:00 PM — Pride & Prejudice & Zoom: A Virtual Jane Austen Mini-Fest hosted by the Glendale Public Library
Sunday, November 8, 2020
5:00 PM — Free Association Reading Series presented by City of Asylum
6:00 PM — Skylit: What Books Press Authors & Books Launch 2020
For Writers - Free
Monday, November 2, 2020
8:30 AM — Pace Yourself: Timed Sprints
7:00 PM — Pathways to Publication
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
1:30 PM — The First 3 Chapters: How to Start Your Book so that Agents and Editors will Read to the End
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Sarah Nicolas & Bess Carnan
Thursday, November 5, 2020
7:00 PM — Write-In With NaNoWriMo
Friday, November 6, 2020
6:30 PM — The Write-In: Craft and Community with Gotham Writers
7:00 PM — Writer to Writer: Carlos Andrés Gómez & Cynthia Dewi Oka
9:00 PM — Poetry Lit - Online Reading Series
Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing (thorugh 11/7)
Saturday, November 7, 2020
7:00 AM — The Rappahannock Writers Conference
11:00 AM — Tax Tips for Writers and Other Creative Professionals
1:00 PM — Live, Write Workshop for Writers of Color with Poet Mai Der Vang
3:00 PM — Writing Goals, Mindsets, and Routines
9:00 PM — AgentChat Live with Megan Manzano at D4EO Literary
For Readers - Paid
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
3:00 PM — Psychedelic Writing and the Language of Mushrooms — starting at $10.00
Thursday, November 5, 2020
7:00 PM — Christopher Paul Curtis and Nic Stone for THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM —1963 — starting at $1.00
Sunday, November 8, 2020
4:00 PM — Slapering Hol Press Presents: Conversation Chapbook Reading with Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Leela Chantrelle, Toi Derricotte, and Dawn Lundy Martin — starting at $5.00
For Writers - Paid
Monday, November 2, 2020
7:00 PM — Marketing Your Book (2 weeks) — starting at $80.00
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
7:30 PM — Borrowing from Other Genres with Erika T. Wurth — starting at $109.00
7:30 PM — Close Reading (and Dabbling in) Comics with Rachelle Cruz — starting at $55.00
Thursday, November 5, 2020
10:30 AM — Writing the Novella: From Start to Finish (6 weeks) — starting at $370.00
11:00 AM — Memoir 101: Finding the Right Voice — starting at $35.00
1:00 PM — Will Your Nonfiction Book Sell? with Jane Friedman — starting at $25.00
6:30 PM — Picture Books II: Revision — starting at $50.00
7:00 PM — An Easy Approach to a Sensible Social Media Presence: How to Keep Social Media Platforms from Taking Over Your Life and Business — starting at $30.00
7:00 PM — Poetry 101: Rhyme, Rhythm, and Meter — starting at $35.00
7:15 PM — The Archetypes and Other Keys to Character with Christopher Vogler — starting at $39.00
Friday, November 6, 2020
7:30 PM — True Crime: The Art of Narrative Non-Fiction with Matthew Condon — starting at 49 AUD
Saturday, November 7, 2020
8:30 AM — Two-Day Virtual Adult Creative Writing Intensive — starting at $350.00
10:00 AM — Caressing the Flame: Writing the Difficult with ire'ne lara silva — starting at $109.00
10:00 AM — Self-Publishing From Start To Finish (2 weeks) — starting at $80.00
10:00 AM — Things You Didn’t Put on Your Résumé: A Generative Poetry Workshop — starting at $52.50
10:30 AM — Fingerprints and the Adaptability of Forms: Structure and Syntax in Poetry — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Speculative Fiction Series: Gender and Queerness in Imaginative Worlds — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — The Fool’s Journey: A Generative Writing Workshop Using the Tarot — starting at $45.00
1:00 PM — Afternoon Character Intensive: Bring Your Characters to Life on the Page — starting at $87.50
1:00 PM — Beginnings that Grab with Julia Rios — starting at $55.00
2:00 PM — Navigating Self-Publishing — starting at $60.00
2:30 PM — Pitch Your Novel Effectively — starting at $30.00
Sunday, November 8, 2020
1:00 AM — Journaling Your Way to a Better Writing Life — starting at $180.00
12:30 PM — Thinking Inside the Box: on Form with Nathan McClain — starting at $124.00
1:00 PM — Endings that Land with Julia Rios — starting at $55.00
4:00 PM — Flash Fiction Workshop with Evan J. Peterson — starting at $99.00
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.