Virtual Bookish Events for November 23-29, 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 (none this week)
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 23, 2020
7:00 PM — YA Fantasy Panel: Tracy Deonn, Kelly Powell, Chloe Gong, and E.K. Johnston
7:30 PM — Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey -- Reading and Discussion with author Michele Levy
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
4:00 PM — Gianni Rodari's TELEPHONE TALES: Grazia Gotti, Translator Antony Shugaar & Valerio Vidali
7:00 PM — Miami Cooks: A Virtual Evening with Sara Liss & Chefs
7:30 PM — Hope Edelman with Allison Gilbert, "The Aftergrief"
7:30 PM — Story/Teller with Zeyn Joukhadar, Samy Nour Younes, Leila Buck, and Jenn Baker
8:00 PM — Transcendent Kingdom: Yaa Gyasi with Doreen St. Félix
9:00 PM — Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby discuss "The Sacrifice of Darkness"
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
7:00 PM — Rapid Fire Reading, Ricochet Writing
Thursday, November 26, 2020
12:00 PM — Jo Nesbo and Johanna Schneller: The Kingdom
12:30 PM — library of exile: no frontiers - celebrating writing in translation
2:30 PM — Dead Doubles by Trevor Barnes
Friday, November 27, 2020
10:00 AM — Book Launch: Sex in an Old Regime City
Saturday, November 28, 2020
5:00 AM — Peter Donnelly: The Dead Zoo
Sunday, November 29, 2020
12:00 PM — Louise O’Neill In Conversation with Dil Wickremasinghe
7:00 PM — Poets in Pajamas 107: Sumita Chakraborty
For Writers - Free
Monday, November 23, 2020
7:00 PM — Mastering Twitter Book Pitch Contests
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
6:00 PM — Mutations in Relentless Bodies: Intimate Access pt 2- Community in Convo
8:00 PM — WLT's On the Craft of Writing: Writing Our Family Stories
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
1:00 PM — Inside Writing: Personal Essays with Hobart editor Aaron Burch and author/essayist Nina Boutsikaris
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Sarah Nicolas & Bess Carnan
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Sunday, November 29, 2020
For Writers - Paid
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
10:00 AM — Personal Narrative Essentials: Using Research and Immersion — starting at $150.00
2:00 PM — Embodying Memory: The Six Senses of Creative Nonfiction — starting at $15.00
Friday, November 27, 2020
7:00 PM — Memoir & Life Writing with Benjamin Law — starting at 49 AUD
Saturday, November 28, 2020
10:00 AM — SLWG 100th Anniversary Book Fair — starting at $10.00
12:30 PM — Dunking the Reader in the Details: Toolsets for Creating Immersive Worlds with Cat Rambo — starting at $99.00
Sunday, November 29, 2020
12:30 PM — Setting the Stakes: How to Pull the Reader (and Yourself) Through the Story with Tobias Buckell — starting at $99.00
4:00 PM — Diversity Plus: East Asian Storytelling Forms and Themes with Henry Lien — 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.