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  • April 2021

  • Thu 8

    Women Lit #UNBOUND Presents: Secrets and the Search for Self: Alka Joshi on The Henna Artist

    April 8, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
    online

    At 62, debut novelist Alka Joshi shattered literary glass ceilings with The Henna Artist, the “eloquent and moving” (Publishers Weekly) story of a 17-year-old girl who,...

    $75
  • Fri 9

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #54

    April 9, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
    online

    90 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
  • Wed 14

    Vivian Gornick & Kris Welch: Taking a Long Look, a Zoom event

    April 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents VIVIAN GORNICK with KRIS WELCH Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism TAKING A LONG LOOK: ESSAYS...

    $5 – $20
  • Thu 15

    Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #34

    April 15, 2021 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm PDT
    online

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom...

    Free
  • Fri 16

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #55

    April 16, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
    online

    90 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
  • Sun 18

    CWC SPEAKER SERIES: Emily Cotler of WaxCreative Author Websites

    April 18, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT
    Virtual

    Emily Cotler is the Creative Director and principal of Waxcreative Design, Inc. She is the co-author of Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow that Works, an established...

    $10 – $20
  • Tue 20

    Dave Cook & Jeff Chang: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History

    April 20, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present Davey D & Jeff Chang: A Zoom Event "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History" The American...

    $5 – $20.
  • Tue 20

    Virtual Get Lit #71

    April 20, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
    online

    We're in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time...

    Free – $200
  • Wed 21

    Ada Limón & Aria Aber

    April 21, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT
    online

    Wednesday, April 21 2021, 2:00pm via Zoom Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry...

    Free
  • Fri 23

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #56

    April 23, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
    online

    90 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
  • Sat 24

    Virtual Get Lit #73

    April 24, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    We're in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time...

    Free
  • Sat 24

    Saturday Night Special presents: Roots

    April 24, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Join SNS this month, for a reading about ROOTS. For our April writing challenge, you are invited to explore an origin story, history, or ancestry...

    Free
  • Sun 25

    CWC WORKSHOP: How To Submit Your Poetry With Keith M. Gaboury

    April 25, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT
    Virtual

    This workshop led by poet Keith M. Gaboury will focus on a step-by-step process of how a poet can submit their poetry to a wide...

    $10 – $20
  • Thu 29

    Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America’s Forgotten History

    April 29, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents AVIVA CHOMSKY & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration Aviva...

    $5 – $20.
  • Fri 30

    Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel

    April 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Join us as we celebrate the release of Dani Gabriel's full-length collection of poetry, Low Rent Prophet. Readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, James Tracy, and...

    Free
  • May 2021

  • Sat 1

    See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World

    May 1, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    This is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our...

    Free
  • Sun 2

    Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun

    May 2, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT
    online

    When bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our...

    $20 – $40
  • Sun 2

    When Everything Falls Apart, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China, Tolstoy, and the Power of Art, with Adam Hochschild

    May 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Orville Schell, Adam Hochschild, Yiyun Li In a heartstopping scene from Orville Schell’s My Old Home, trained musician Li Tongshu sits at his piano, eyes closed, playing “Jesu,...

    $15
  • Tue 4

    Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco

    May 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Vendela Vida, Cherilyn Parsons, Carol Edgarian From the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to the tech takeover, San Francisco has always been a city in...

    Free
  • Wed 5

    Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad

    May 5, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 2:00pm via Zoom Ismail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer, a staff writer at the Millions, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, and a board member at...

    Free
  • Wed 5

    Green Rabbits Glowing at the End of the World: Annalee Newitz and Nathaniel Rich on What Happens When Civilizations Fail

    May 5, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Annalee Newitz, Nathaniel Rich, Bonnie Tsui More than 150 years ago, long before intimations of a warming planet had begun, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a prescient statement:...

    $15
  • Thu 6

    Lager and Love Can’t Pay the Bills: 2020 Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart on his Masterpiece, Shuggie Bain

    May 6, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Douglas Stuart enraptured readers worldwide in 2020 when his heart-stopping debut novel, Shuggie Bain, took the world’s top literary award, the Booker Prize. While Stuart may...

    $15
  • Fri 7

    How to Dream the World You Want: Nnedi Okorafor and Jeff VanderMeer on Resistance and Transformation

    May 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Forget the new normal. What we need right now is literature that turns the whole concept of “normal” on its head, building worlds that put...

    $15
  • Fri 7

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #57

    May 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    90 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
  • Sun 9

    Love, Loss, and Meaning in Life: World-Renowned Therapist Irvin Yalom with Joyce Carol Oates

    May 9, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    “Mourning is the price we pay for having the courage to love others,” opens the extraordinary memoir by renowned psychiatrist Irvin Yalom (Love’s Executioner) and...

    $15
  • Sun 9

    Splitting the World Open: An International Roundtable of Dangerous Women Writers

    May 9, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    In 1968, poet Muriel Rukeyser famously wrote, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” More...

    Free
  • Fri 14

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #58

    May 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    90 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
  • Sun 16

    CWC Speaker Series Panel: Race as Context: BIPOC California Writers

    May 16, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT
    Virtual

    We are so excited to offer a unique opportunity for members to join in this timely discussion. Panelists are California BIPOC writers from many vantage...

    $5 – $10
  • Tue 18

    Virtual Get Lit #72

    May 18, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
    online

    We're in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time...

    Free – $200
  • Thu 20

    Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #35

    May 20, 2021 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm PDT
    online

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom...

    Free
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