Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
VirtualRise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020, Rise & Shine...
Free
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Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision
VirtualDo you want your poems to sing more sweetly? Resonate more deeply? Read more beautifully? In this 8-week craft workshop, you will learn structured techniques...
$250
VIRTUAL EVENT: Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism
VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Mikki Kendall who will discuss Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. Registration for this free...
Online Book Launch of THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK with Author Patricia Bracewell
Please join us on Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Patricia Bracewell to discuss her new novel, THE STEEL BENEATH THE...
Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Barbara Saunders!!!
onlineDuring Women's History month 2019 a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded...
Free
Melissa Valentine
onlineFriday, March 5, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Melissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California,...
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Melissa Valentine Reading
Friday, March 5, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Melissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California,...
Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #49
online90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
Free – $200
Contemporary Classics – Maud’s Line
Patricia Holt, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, continues her popular book group, “Contemporary Classics.” A book should stand the test of time...
$20
Words out Loud Spoken Word Series
virtual 9208 Chanute Drive, BethesdaFeaturing Dane Cervine and Margo Taft Stever reading from their poetry. Also includes open mic and literary trivia quiz. Dane Cervine’s forthcoming book, The World Is God’s Language, will...
Free
Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
onlineA dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM - 12 PM from Mar 6 -...
$250
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A young girl and an old tree learn from each other how to find their purpose and foster healing in the world.
Joyous Resilience: Book Talk & Meditation with author Anjuli Sherin
Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for a book talk and guided meditation with author Anjuli Sherin, hosted by Shivani Narang. With so much information...
Poemscaping: Trim. Write. Repeat.
VirtualSurprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month....
$22
Conversations with Authors – Jean Shinoda Bolen (Virtual Event)
Jean Shinoda Bolen’s book Like a Tree, which grew out of her experience mourning the loss of a Monterey pine that was cut down in her...
Page Poets reading online event at The Green Arcade
onlineCOVID wouldn't stop Ovid! Or any other poets worth their salt, so please join us for an exciting online reading from The Page Poets Series...
Free
Celebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press
onlineJoin us as we celebrate the arrival of Black Freighter Press! With readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, Alie Jones, Tongo Eisen-Martin reading QR Hand, Jr.,...
Free
Nomadic & Black Freighter Press
Black Freighter is honored to team up with our comrades at Nomadic Press for a joint reading celebrating resistance art. JOIN US as we celebrate...
Suzanne Simard: Pioneering scientist discusses her anticipated book, Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard, a pioneering scientist who has changed the way we understand forest ecosystems, joins us to discuss her highly anticipated first book, Finding the Mother...
Bazaar Writers Salon
onlineReadings by Jen Burke Anderson, Ryan Fox, Sarah Schweig, and Molly Spencer Hosted by Peter Kline Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and...
Free
Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom Meeting
Readings by Jen Burke Anderson, Ryan Fox, Sarah Schweig, and Molly Spencer Hosted by Peter Kline Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and...
James Canton Discusses his new book, The Oak Papers
James Canton joins us from the UK to discuss his book, The Oak Papers (HarperOne). "A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as...
MFA Reading Series: Shapes of Native Nonfiction – Deborah Miranda, Theresa Warburton, Elissa Washuta
onlineDeborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013), recipient of the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, a Gold Medal from the Independent...
Free
Irvin D. Yalom with Lori Gottlieb
This event is online. How can we understand life, joy and love during the moment when they culminate in death and grief? Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist...
Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer
onlineCity Arts & Lectures presents: Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer Co-presented with Impact Justice Monday, March 8, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time KQED Broadcast: 03/21/2021,...
$29
CLA Presents: Laila Lalami
onlineWhat does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant...
Free
San Francisco Public Library Presents: Know Your Name with Tahtahme Xero, Poet and Healer
onlineTahtahme Xero will talk about her book Apricity (Nomadic Press, 2020), and discuss her work as a healer, poet and author. Apricity follows the journey of a teenage...
Free
Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event: Life After Death
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present: Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event Life After Death by the bestselling author of...
$5 – $20.
Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler & Caroline Paul
onlineJoin us on Tuesday, March 9 at 6pm PT for the launch of Rebecca Handler's debut novel, Edie Richter is Not Alone, with Caroline Paul...
Free
Kelly Loy Gilbert and Anna-Marie McLemore
Two much loved critically acclaimed authors. Two fabulous eagerly awaited new books. Join us as we launch Kelly Loy Gilbert’s new book When We Were...