Virtual Bookish Events for October 19-25, 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.

This newsletter is sponsored by Free Expressions Seminars and WP expert Nate Hoffelder.

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For Readers - Free

Monday, October 19, 2020

• 5:00 PM — P. Crumble & Jonathan Bentley

• 7:00 PM — A Virtual Evening with Rosie Mercado and Coach Mike

• 7:00 PM — Piper Kerman and Victoria Law: A Books Beneath the Bridge event

• 7:00 PM — Writing from the Margins: Poetry and Puerto Rico

• 8:00 PM — Sarah Smarsh and Chuck Mead: SHE COME BY IT NATURAL

• 9:00 PM — Christina Hammonds Reed & Liara Tamani discuss "The Black Kids"

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

• 6:00 PM — Black Voices, Black Voters: Tiffany D. Cross, Chryl N. Laird, Leah Wright Rigueur

• 7:00 PM — Anti-Racism: Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas--Kenrya Rankin in conversation with Mattice Haynes

• 7:00 PM — Bookmarks Presents Erin Brockovich

• 7:00 PM — HH&Home: Jim Peterson, Susan Ludvigson, Joshua Rivkin

• 7:00 PM — Interview with Farrah Alexander

• 7:00 PM — Kahran & Regis Bethencourt Discuss Glory at MahoganyBooks

• 7:30 PM — And Then We Grew Up: Book Launch with Rachel Friedman

• 7:30 PM — The Verso Book of Feminism, featuring editor Jessie Kindig, Sarah Leonard, and Soraya Chemaly

• 8:00 PM — Conditional Citizens: Laila Lalami with Fatima Bhutto

• 8:00 PM — Virtual Paperback Launch: Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison with Lynn Steger Strong, Gregory Pardlo, Andre Perry and Esmé Weijun Wang

• 9:00 PM — In Conversation with author and journalist, Lee Van Der Voo

• 9:30 PM — Skylit: Strip by Jessica Abughattas, with Olivia Gatwood and Jeremy Radin

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• 1:00 PM — The Story of the Windrush with Kandace Chimbiri

• 3:30 PM — Alta Asks Live: Judith Freeman

• 4:00 PM — Books on Tap: Jerry Craft

• 5:30 PM — Once Upon A Halloween Night: Christopher Golden, Amber Benson, Jonathan Maberry, & more

• 6:00 PM — Authors Up Close | Life of a Klansman with Edward Ball

• 6:30 PM — Reading and Book Talk with Lorelei Savaryn and "The Circus of Stolen Dreams"

• 7:00 PM — Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford | CONSTRUCTION SITE MISSION: DEMOLITION

• 7:00 PM — Horror Writers Panel: Shaun Hamill, Alexis Henderson, Adam Cesare

• 7:00 PM — Lamar Giles & Jason Reynolds Discuss The Last Mirror on the Left at MahoganyBooks

• 7:00 PM — Sarah McCraw Crow presents The Wrong Kind of Woman with Katie Crouch

• 7:00 PM — Sarah Smarsh: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

• 7:30 PM — "Apron Strings as Literary Things" Author Panel

• 7:30 PM — Raven Leilani presents "Luster," with Adam Dalva

• 8:00 PM — Educator and Podcaster Amelia Hruby on Feminist Practices for the Radical Present

• 8:00 PM — Skylit: Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow, with Bethany C. Morrow and Tochi Onyebuchi

• 9:00 PM — Jacquelyn Stolos, in conversation with Catie Disabato, discusses Edendale

• 10:00 PM — David Slayton discussing White Trash Warlock

Thursday, October 22, 2020

• 7:00 PM — A Virtual Evening with Lee van der Voo and Levi Draheim

• 8:30 PM — Migration Stories: Erika Lee, "America for Americans"

• 10:00 PM — CLA Presents: Carmen Maria Machado

Friday, October 23, 2020

• 7:00 AM — Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan

• 3:00 PM — On Writing Trauma: Genre-Bending with Nikki Grimes, Grace Talusan, Sonja Solter, and Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn

• 7:00 PM — PSB Presents: Claire Messud & Alexander Chee

• 7:30 PM — Plain Bad Heroines-- emily m. danforth in conversation with Andrea Lawlor

• 8:00 PM — Charlie N. Holmberg | Spellbreaker

• 9:00 PM — Leigh Bardugo presents the paperback release of "Ninth House"

Saturday, October 24, 2020

• 9:30 AM — Nikita Lalwani & Shahnaz Ahsan: Food, Families and Fiction

• 11:00 AM — Jonathan Auxier in conversation with Beth Ferry and Kirsten Miller

• 9:00 PM — PubTalk Live 10/24/20: David R. Slayton and Lorin Oberweger

Sunday, October 25, 2020

• 10:30 AM — S. A. Cosby: Blacktop Wasteland

• 1:00 PM — Boston Book Festival: Witches and Other Bad Heroines with Quan Barry, Emily M. Danforth, Layne Fargo, and Alix E. Harrow

• 3:00 PM — Superheros, Spirits, and Wildfire: A Conversation About Middle-Grade Fiction

• 4:00 PM — Ken Langer in conversation with Merrill Leffler

• 7:00 PM — Alyssa Cole, in conversation with Glory Edim, discusses When No One is Watching

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For Writers - Free

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

• 1:00 PM — The Writers Bridge Platform Q&A! Quality Content: How Writing for Social Media Can Level Up Your Writing Craft

• 1:30 PM — Creating Captivating Characters in Fiction

• 7:00 PM — Ten Common Mistakes Fiction Writers Make About the Law, with Leslie Budewitz

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• 1:00 PM — Inside Writing: Poetry With Kathryn Cowles and Seneca Review Editor Geoff Babbitt

• 8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan

Thursday, October 22, 2020

• 5:00 PM — Virtual Craft Happy Hour with K-Ming Chang

• 6:00 PM — Reading Like a Writer: Perspective

• 7:00 PM — Digital Marketing on a Shoestring Budget with Author and Tech Expert Avery Swartz

• 9:00 PM — WLT Off the Beaten Craft: Fanfiction LIVE WEBINAR

Friday, October 23, 2020

• 10:00 AM — Virtual Craft Talk with Belle Boggs

• 5:30 PM — Happy Hour Writing Session

• 6:30 PM — Write-In: Craft and Community with Gotham Writers

Saturday, October 24, 2020

• 3:00 PM — Writing The Diaspora: Create Diverse Characters with History and Depth

• The Sanibel Island Writers Conference

Sunday, October 25, 2020

• 4:00 PM — The Power of Ghost Stories

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For Readers - Paid

Monday, October 19, 2020

• 7:00 PM — Savannah Book Festival presents Sandra Brown — starting at $15.00

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

• 7:00 PM — Mark My Words: Carl Hiaasen with Rand Richards Cooper — starting at $20.00

• 7:00 PM — Seriously Entertaining - Nerves of Steel — starting at $1.00

• 8:00 PM — Helena Andrews-Dyer and R. Eric Thomas for Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters — starting at $1.00

Thursday, October 22, 2020

• 3:30 PM — Big Problems: Making Sense of 2020 - Roxane Gay in Conversation — starting at 8 Euros

• 8:00 PM — Swords Out: A Dungeons & Dragons Murder Mystery — starting at $10.00

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For Writers - Paid

Monday, October 19, 2020

• 7:00 PM — For a Change, Let’s Be Bad — starting at $25.00

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

• 6:00 PM — Writing White Fragility — starting at $10.00

• 9:00 PM — Indie Author’s Guide to Working with a Cover Designer Led by A.M. Bochnak — starting at $20.00

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• 1:00 PM — Nail Your Memoir Structure By Thinking Like a Novelist: Live Webinar (recording available) — starting at $25.00

• 7:00 PM — Short Stories 101: The End — starting at $35.00

• 7:30 PM — "Writing the Middle Grade or Young Adult Novel" ONLINE with Samantha M. Clark — starting at $109.00

Thursday, October 22, 2020

• 11:00 AM — Memoir 101: Writing Scenes — starting at $35.00

• 7:00 PM — FROM HEAD TO TOME: Pacing Yourself Through NaNoWriMo — starting at $10.00

• 7:00 PM — How to Pitch Your Personal Essays — starting at $50.00

• 7:15 PM — Story and Brain: How to Fulfill Your Readers' Hardwired Expectations with Lisa Cron — starting at $39.00

Friday, October 23, 2020

• 10:00 AM — Personal Narrative Essentials: How to Publish — starting at $150.00

• 10:30 AM — Changing Your Life: Turning Reality Into Fiction — starting at $75.00

• 2:30 PM — The Things We Carry: Fiction Writing Through Objects — starting at $75.00

Saturday, October 24, 2020

• 10:00 AM — Beyond the Memoir: Writing Personal, Creative Nonfiction (and Getting It Published) — starting at $70.00

• 10:00 AM — Conflict & Tension — starting at $50.00

• 10:00 AM — Exploring the Verse Novel — starting at $52.50

• 10:00 AM — Practical Magic: 5 Tools to Break Writers’ Block — starting at $75.00

• 10:00 AM — Social Media Marketing for Busy Authors: How to Efficiently Build Your Online Platform with Leslie Davis — starting at $49.00

• 10:00 AM — Tarot Tells the Story — starting at $70.00

• 10:30 AM — A Lit Agent’s Guide: How to Talk About, Write About, and Get People Interested In Your Book — starting at $150.00

• 10:30 AM — Ecofictions, Ecofutures — starting at $75.00

• 10:30 AM — Writing Motherhood — starting at $75.00

• 6:00 PM — Hearts, Minds, and Guts: Making Horror Political with Nadia Bulkin — starting at $55.00

Sunday, October 25, 2020

• 1:00 PM — Punctuation: A Poet’s Dilemma — starting at $50.00

• 2:00 PM — The Foundations of Getting Published with Jane Friedman — starting at $95.00

• 3:00 PM — Creating Resonant Characters using Jungian Psychology with Whitney "Strix" Beltrán — starting at $55.00

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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.