Virtual Bookish Events for September 7-13, 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, September 7, 2020
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
6:30 PM — Meals, Music, and Muses with Alexander Smalls Sponsored by The Local Palate
6:30 PM — The New Gen! Rising African Poets with Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
7:00 PM — A Virtual Evening with Linda Kass and Dr. Oren Stier
7:00 PM — BPL Presents: Matt Sandler, THE BLACK ROMANTIC REVOLUTION
7:00 PM — Joshua Bennett, author of "Owed," with Carlos Andres Gomez
7:00 PM — Virtual: Lara Ehrlich (Animal Wife) Book Launch Party
7:30 PM — Poet Kathy Engel
8:00 PM — An Evening with Author Scott Anderson in Conversation with Quil Lawrence
8:00 PM — Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Jonathan Lethem
8:30 PM — Author Laura Jensen-Walker
9:00 PM — Andrea Stewart & K.S. Villoso - Q&A and Conversation
9:00 PM — Ann Shen and Kate Spencer discuss "Nevertheless, She Wore It: 50 Iconic Fashion Moments"
9:00 PM — Jonathan M. Berman: ANTI-VAXERS: HOW TO CHALLENGE A MISINFORMED MOVEMENT
9:30 PM — Two Rivers Supper Club with Leela Cyd
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
2:00 AM — Future Brunch, Episode 6 with Bayo Akomolafe - Beyond Dualities
10:00 AM — Prizes, Fun, and Chat with Shana Galen in Erica Ridley's Historical Romance Book Club
2:00 PM — Creativity Conversation: Flash Here and There Like Falling Stars
5:00 PM — Tough Women, Tough History: Historical Fiction with Alyssa Palombo and Carrie Callaghan
6:00 PM — "Women on Wednesdays": Women's Suffrage Centennial with Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman
6:00 PM — Jubilee Talks: Toni Tipton-Martin with Chef Todd Richards
6:00 PM — Myth and Memory in the Diaspora Featuring Hala Alyan and K-Ming Chang, Moderated by Sadia Shepard
7:00 PM — A Virtual Evening with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Jaswinder Bolina
7:00 PM — Alice Randall: Author Talk with Question and Answer
7:00 PM — Authors John Bruning, Sam Kleiner and Hampton Sides In Conversation
7:00 PM — Jonathan Slaght, Author of Owls of the Eastern Ice: In Virtual Conversation
7:00 PM — Marlowe Granados: Happy Hour
7:00 PM — THIS IS OHIO: Jack Shuler
7:00 PM — Tubby & Coo's Presents: Brent Weeks and Evan Winter on "Action, Plot, & Pacing"
7:30 PM — Ellen Kolba, "In Your Own Voice"
8:00 PM — A Cloud Of Outrageous Blue
9:00 PM — Launch for Lisa McMann's DRAGON SLAYERS
9:00 PM — Margaret Atwood
9:30 PM — Belinda Alexandra - Online Author Talk
9:30 PM — Skylit: You're the Only One I've Told by Dr. Meera Shah
Thursday, September 10, 2020
12:00 PM — Festival of Ideas: Thomas Frank, People without Power
12:00 PM — Publishing for the Popes: Book Launch
5:30 PM — Meet Jennifer Schiff - A virtual chat around Trouble in Paradise
6:00 PM — Eddie S. Glaude Jr. on James Baldwin, with Nicholas Boggs
6:30 PM — James Benn (The Red Horse) Author Talk With Read of The Day Book Club
7:00 PM — Hub City Bookshop Launch of You Want More: Selected Stories of George Singleton
7:00 PM — Jessica Henry book event SMOKE BUT NO FIRE: CONVICTING THE INNOCENT OF CRIMES THAT NEVER HAPPENED
7:00 PM — PSB Presents: Margot Livesey with Thomas Mallon, The Boy in the Field
7:00 PM — Secrets and Truths: K-Ming Chang on Bestiary with T Kira Madden
7:00 PM — Virtual Author Event with Historical Fiction Author Georgie Blalock
7:30 PM — Kathleen Rooney Discusses her new novel, Kathleen Rooney: CHER AMI AND MAJOR WHITTLESEY
7:30 PM — Kerri Arsenault + Ben Fountain
7:30 PM — Online Color & Design Talk with authors Arielle & Joann Eckstut
8:00 PM — Virtual Author Visit: J.F. Riordan
9:00 PM — Aimee Nezhukumatathil & John Freeman
9:00 PM — Chris Murphy: THE VIOLENCE INSIDE US
9:00 PM — How My Firends Failed at Flirting: Denise Williams with Jen DeLuca
9:30 PM — Two Rivers Supper Club with Jami Curl
10:00 PM — Third Place Books Presents Katie Hill, in conversation with Pramila Jayapal - She Will Rise
10:30 PM — Author Voices: Terese Marie Mailhot (Heart Berries)
Friday, September 11, 2020
11:00 AM — Cassandra Federman Storytime
12:00 PM — Daniel Susskind: A World Without Work
1:00 PM — BOYGIRLPARTY PARTY + LIVE DRAWING
6:30 PM — Judy Turner Award Winner, Andrew Gumbel: Won't Lose This Dream
7:00 PM — An Evening with Yona Harvey, John Murillo, and Jacob Strautmann
7:30 PM — Yaa Gyas and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton in Celebration of TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM
8:00 PM — Sara Evans, Singer/Songwriter, In Conversation about Her New Memoir Born to Fly
9:00 PM — Barney Scout Mann discusses "Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail"
9:00 PM — Justin Michael Williams presents Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us
9:00 PM — Read For Pixels 2020: Sarah Gailey Reading+Q&A Session
Saturday, September 12, 2020
10:00 AM — Fiction: Dark Matters – Outsider Female Narrators By Montclair Literary Festival
11:00 AM — Princeton Children's Book Festival Book Jam
11:00 AM — Race/History: America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation By Montclair Literary Festival
1:00 PM — Addiction and the Family By Montclair Literary Festival
1:00 PM — The Future of Reading By Montclair Literary Festival
4:00 PM — 2020 and the Future of American Politics By Montclair Literary Festival
4:00 PM — Peace Adzo Medie, in conversation with Mathangi Subramanian, discusses His Only Wife
6:30 PM — The President’s Kitchen Cabinet and Adventures in Barbeque
8:30 PM — Read For Pixels 2020: Melissa Caruso Reading+Q&A Session
9:00 PM — PubTalk Live with Juliana Brandt and Erin Entrada Kelly
Sunday, September 13, 2020
11:00 AM — Salem Literary Festival - YA DAY
11:00 AM — Virtual Brunch with Adam Platt: Adventures in Professional Gluttony By Montclair Literary Festival
1:00 PM — Launch Event for Democracy for Dinosaurs with LAURIE KRASNY BROWN and MARC BROWN
3:00 PM — Launch Celebration for Carol Coven Grannick's MG Novel in Verse REENI'S TURN.
4:00 PM — Annual FIU MFA Virtual Alumni Reading
6:30 PM — Soul on Grill with Chef Todd Richards Sponsored by Big Green Egg
For Writers - Free
Monday, September 7, 2020
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
1:00 PM — Writers' Bridge Platform Chat: One Idea, Six Posts - Multipurpose content across platforms
3:00 PM — LIVE Webinar with Susan Elia MacNeal - The Way We Weren’t: Writing Historical Fiction
3:00 PM — The Art of Screen Adaptation with Alistair Owen and Hannah Patterson
5:00 PM — Virtual Craft Happy Hour with Ryan North
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
7:30 PM — Walking and Talking with Myself: Alden Jones and Cheryl Strayed on Memoir Writing
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan
Thursday, September 10, 2020
10:30 AM — Blogging for Authors: Beginner Level
Friday, September 11, 2020
Saturday, September 12, 2020
11:00 AM — Desert Sleuths WriteNow! Conference
5:00 PM — Pitchapalooza with The Book Doctors
8:00 PM — Pitch Wars #AskMentor Twitter Chat
Sunday, September 13, 2020
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
7:30 PM — Yaa Gyasi presents Transcendent Kingdom In conversation with Tracy K. Smith — starting at $5.00
9:30 PM — THE INVENTION OF SOUND – Chuck Palahniuk in Conversation with Pamela Adlon — starting at $5.00
10:00 PM — Bea Koch and Alyssa Cole for Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency — starting at $1.00
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
7:00 PM — Thrilling Virtual Author's Night — starting at $20.00
10:30 PM — Alice Wong with Elsa Sjunneson: Disability Visibility in the Twenty-First Century — starting at $1.00
Thursday, September 10, 2020
6:00 PM — Historical Women Who Dared: Histfic with Greer Macallister and Carrie Callaghan — starting at $1.00
10:30 PM — Erin Brockovich: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It — starting at $5.00
For Writers - Paid
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
6:30 PM — Start Here! Quick Intro to Creative Writing, Session 1 — starting at $10.00
9:00 PM — Harnessing the Power of Lists in Short Story Writing with Izzy Wasserstein — starting at $55.00
9:00 PM — Weekly Writing Sesh with Lyndsay Hall — starting at $15.00
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
12:30 PM — YoYB: Poetry Deep Revision: Wednesday, Fall #1 on Zoom (6 weeks) — starting at $370.00
1:00 PM — Research Agents and Publishers Like a Pro with Jane Friedman — starting at $25.00
7:30 PM — "The Agent Search: Tips, Tricks, and Timeless Advice" ONLINE with Becka Oliver — starting at $109.00
Thursday, September 10, 2020
12:30 PM — Start Here! Quick Intro to Creative Writing, Session 2 — starting at $5.00
2:00 PM — Weston Writers' Night: How to Write a Good Book with Kesia Lupo — starting at 5 GBP
4:00 PM — Publishing Success: Poetry with Amy Holman via Zoom (4 weeks) — starting at $250.00
7:00 PM — Loft Fall Evening Sampler Class: Creative Nonfiction — starting at $5.00
7:00 PM — Publishing 101 — starting at $50.00
7:00 PM — The Circle and the Line — starting at $75.00
8:00 PM — Taxes for Writers or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and File My Own IRS Returns with Curtis C. Chen — starting at $55.00
Friday, September 11, 2020
10:30 AM — Publishing Your Book in Today's Changing World — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Year of Your Book: Poetry Friday Fall Session #1 via Zoom (6 weeks) — starting at $370.00
8:30 PM — Writing For Young People with Claire Christian — starting at 49 AUD
Saturday, September 12, 2020
9:30 AM — Mapping Strategies — starting at $50.00
9:30 AM — Using History to Tell a Story with Angie Klink — starting at $59.00
10:00 AM — Editing Extravaganza — starting at $40.00
10:00 AM — Collaborative Poetics — starting at $75.00
10:00 AM — Elements of Playwriting: Dialogue — starting at $50.00
10:30 AM — Storytelling Through Film — starting at $75.00
11:00 AM — "Research like a Pro" ONLINE with Sindya Bhanoo — starting at $109.00
12:30 PM — Taking Risks in Narrative Poetry with Erin Hoover via Zoom — starting at $124.00
1:00 PM — Turtles All the Way Down with Bryan Camp — starting at $105.00
2:00 PM — Empathy and Authenticity — starting at $75.00
7:30 PM — Open Write — starting at $10.00
Sunday, September 13, 2020
12:20 PM — Challenging Coloniality in Travel Writing with Bani Amor via Zoom — starting at $124.00
12:30 PM — Mind’s Eye: Imagining Your Narrative with Barbara Blatner via Zoom — starting at $124.00
6:00 PM — Fiction II (10 weeks) — starting at $635.00
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.