Virtual Bookish Events for September 5-11, 2022
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.
This newsletter is sponsored by Free Expressions Seminars, The Shape of a Star Podcast, and WP expert Nate Hoffelder.
All times are in Eastern so please convert as needed!
For Readers - Free
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
6:00 PM — Communities Read Comics: A Virtual Author Talk with Walker Mettling
6:00 PM — Hispanic Star: An Evening with Sara E. Echenique and William Alexander
7:00 PM — Author Night with Hallee Bridgeman
7:00 PM — Conversation with Kimberla Lawson Roby: SISTER FRIENDS FOREVER
7:00 PM — GRUBBIE DEBUTS: Jonathan Escoffery with with Dariel Suarez, If I Survive You
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
6:00 PM — Ekow Eshun — In The Black Fantastic - with Tina M. Campt
7:00 PM — Racial Innocence | A conversation with Tanya Hernández and Cathy Albisa
10:00 PM — Story Hour: Martin Cahill and Ellen Meny
Thursday, September 8, 2022
2:00 PM — Author Talk with Dr. Michele Borba
6:00 PM — Book + Author with Ann Cleeves: Launch Event for "The Rising Tide"
6:30 PM — Facing the Storm: Two Authors Writing Climate Fiction
7:30 PM — Writers on Abortion Now! Hannah Matthews, Alana Edmonson, Natalie Lima, Nicole Walker
10:00 PM — CLA Presents: Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Friday, September 9, 2022
12:00 PM — Emma Donoghue: Haven
9:00 PM — Tori Bovalino and Alex Brown discussing THE GATHERING DARK
Saturday, September 10, 2022
1:30 PM — Culinary History Program: "Who Was Typhoid Mary?" with Leslie Goddard
3:00 PM — Midnight's Children's Children: Writers on Salman Rushdie
Sunday, September 11, 2022
5:00 PM — Afternoon Tea-Light interview with Catherine Stein
7:00 PM — Trent Jamieson in conversation with Elijah Kinch Spector
For Writers - Free
Monday, September 5, 2022
7:30 PM — Revealing the Writer Within
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
7:30 PM — Storytelling as a Successful Business
8:00 PM — Writing Wednesday: Virtual Write-In with Bess Carnan and Sarah Fisk
Thursday, September 8, 2022
1:00 PM — Bookstagram Basics with Cat Rambo
7:30 PM — Introduction to Genre
Friday, September 9, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
12:00 PM — What Every Writer Needs to Know About the Law with Joseph Perry, Esq.
3:00 PM — Images & Imagination: a mixed-genre creative writing workshop hosted by Writers' Studio
For Readers - Paid
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
6:00 PM — Nina Mingya Powles and Chen Chen for MAGNOLIA木蘭 — starting at $1.00
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
7:00 PM — Grant Morrison Presents LUDA — starting at $39.99
8:00 PM — Denise Williams for Do You Take This Man — starting at $19.00
Thursday, September 8, 2022
6:00 PM — Essence and Alchemy: Meet the Author — starting at $10.00
8:00 PM — Helena Andrews-Dyer and Shilpi Malinowski for THE MAMAS — starting at $1.00
For Writers - Paid
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
3:30 PM — Pursuing The Artist’s Way: A Conversation with Julia Cameron — starting at $47.00
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
1:00 PM — Identify & Find Your Ideal Readers — starting at $5.00
1:00 PM — Loft Sampler Class: Start Here! Introduction to Creative Writing — starting at $5.00
7:00 PM — Loft Sampler Class: Creative Nonfiction — starting at $5.00
Thursday, September 8, 2022
1:00 PM — Loft Sampler Class: Poetry — starting at $5.00
7:00 PM — Loft Sampler Class: Fiction — starting at $102.00
7:15 PM — The Secret to Organic Storytelling with Arielle Haughee — starting at $75.00
Friday, September 9, 2022
10:30 AM — Publishing Your Memoir: Demystifying the Proposal — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Writing is Re-Writing: Revising Your Fiction with Courage — starting at $75.00
Saturday, September 10, 2022
10:30 AM — Act Like A Writer, Think Like An Editor: Getting Your Manuscript Ready — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Interiority: Fiction’s Inner Landscape — starting at $75.00
10:30 AM — Setting as Character — starting at $99.00
11:00 AM — Character Driven and Intricately Plotted Mysteries” with Sherry Thomas — starting at $124.00
12:00 PM — Revision as Play: A Georgia Writers Workshop with Nicole Homer — starting at $60.00
12:30 PM — A Neurodiverse Poetry Workshop with Lily Akerman — starting at $30.00
12:30 PM — The Image and the Verse: How Paintings Are Translated into Poems with Michał Choiński — starting at $25.00
1:00 PM — Fan Service and Reader Engagement — starting at $119.00
1:00 PM — Writing in English as a Foreign Language with Jana Bianchi and Diogo Ramos — starting at $39.00
2:00 PM — Using Submission and Anthology Calls as Writing Prompts — starting at $10.00
2:00 PM — Writing Riveting Romantic Suspense: Simple Steps to Help Pen a Nail-Biting Book with Denise N. Wheatley — starting at £25.00
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.