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FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Donate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the "ticket" link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to...

We are giving ONLINE Smack Dab Queer & Trans Open Mic a try. Meet us on Zoom at our usual time :) Smack Dab Queer...

Join these three author-swimmers in a discussion of Bonnie Tsui's fascinating new book, Why We Swim. Join us here at 5pm PDT on Tueday, April 7! https://us04web.zoom.us/j/476150449?pwd=MGtobFBYWXFINHVOUTAzNWdiYXpidz09

A fundraiser for Pegasus Books About this Event It's a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place....

Let's connect our global literary community in a time of closed borders. Hear World Editions authors read from their works, discuss the current situation in...

Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti, Cameron Vanderscoff, and Sarah Rabkin part of the Zoom...

Live: Sunday, April 19th, 7:00est/4:00pst Dave Eggers is known for writing wonderful, gripping stories that tug at the heart. His award-winning body of work consists...

Join us on Instagram live for a virtual event with Lisa Brown and Andrew Sean Greer discussing Long Story Short! Starting at 5:00pm on the greenapplebooks Instagram....

Come on Zoom and let's read some poems from the first archy and mehitabel book by Don Marquis. His work is in public domain. But...

Fundraising goal: $2000 Newberry Award winner Katherine Applegate will read via video conference from her work and talk about her extensive writing history and catalog....

Live: Saturday, April 18th, 7:00est/4:00pst In March 2001, while practicing medicine, Khaled Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, which was published by...

Join us this Sunday, April 19th from 1pm - 2:30pm for a live panel discussion "Our Communities, Climate Change, and COVID-19" featuring Julie Sze, author Environmental...

On April 20, join me and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in celebrating the release of HOME BAKED from the comfort of your kitchen! Share a pic...

Join us from your room on Tuesday April 21st at 5:30 pm, where we will Zoom-share work that in some way contemplates the rooms and...

Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) returns to Bookshop Santa Cruz to share An Onion in My Pocket, her warm, bracingly honest...

Instagram Live Virtual Book Event event R.O. Kwon in conversation with C Pam Zhang author of How Much of These Hills is Gold Thursday, April...

Fundraising goal: $2000 Alex Gino and Mike Jung will read via video conference from their work and talk about writing about real-life experiences through a...

Live In Conversation: Saturday, April 25th, 7:00est/4:00pst Jason Rezaian is an Iranian-American journalist who served as Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post. He was...

a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. join our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a...

Please join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with a reading of our li'l poetry writing group, Queer Your Darlings. 7pm April 28, 2020 on...

Fundraising goal: $2000 Myriam Gurba and Juli Delgado Lopera will read via video conference from their work and talk about writing about real-life experiences through...

As advertisers pull back and publications lay off or furlough journalists, how will the local news media survive the COVID-19 pandemic? In Part II of...