Barbara Hamby and Barbara Ras
onlinePoetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Barbara Hamby, Holoholo, and Barbara Ras, The Blues of Heaven, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend:...
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Claudio Saunt & Mickey Huff: Unworthy Republic: A Zoom event
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents CLAUDIO SAUNT & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event Unworthy Republic: Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory...
$5 – $20
Aiden Thomas
onlineFriday, April 2, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Aiden Thomas is a YA author with an MFA...
Free
Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #53
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
Greg Grandin & Edwards-Tiekert: Empire’s Workshop
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Greg Grandin & Brian Edwards-Tiekert Zoom Event Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the U.S., and the Rise of the New Imperialism...
$5 – $20
Women Lit #UNBOUND Presents: Secrets and the Search for Self: Alka Joshi on The Henna Artist
onlineAt 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
Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #54
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
Vivian Gornick & Kris Welch: Taking a Long Look, a Zoom event
VirtualKPFA 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
Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #34
onlineA Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #55
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
CWC SPEAKER SERIES: Emily Cotler of WaxCreative Author Websites
VirtualEmily 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
Dave Cook & Jeff Chang: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History
VirtualKPFA 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.
Virtual Get Lit #71
onlineWe'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
Ada Limón & Aria Aber
onlineWednesday, 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
Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #56
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
Virtual Get Lit #73
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
Saturday Night Special presents: Roots
online CA, United StatesJoin 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
CWC WORKSHOP: How To Submit Your Poetry With Keith M. Gaboury
VirtualThis 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
Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America’s Forgotten History
VirtualKPFA 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.
Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel
online CA, United StatesJoin 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...
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See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
online CA, United StatesThis 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
Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
onlineWhen 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
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
online CA, United StatesOrville 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
Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
online CA, United StatesVendela 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...
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Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad
online CA, United StatesWednesday, 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...
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Green Rabbits Glowing at the End of the World: Annalee Newitz and Nathaniel Rich on What Happens When Civilizations Fail
online CA, United StatesAnnalee 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
Lager and Love Can’t Pay the Bills: 2020 Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart on his Masterpiece, Shuggie Bain
online CA, United StatesDouglas 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
How to Dream the World You Want: Nnedi Okorafor and Jeff VanderMeer on Resistance and Transformation
online CA, United StatesForget 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
Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #57
online CA, United States90 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...
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Love, Loss, and Meaning in Life: World-Renowned Therapist Irvin Yalom with Joyce Carol Oates
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