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Intro to Flash Fiction
Intro to Flash Fiction
Surprise 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. This...
$22
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Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry
Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry
Please join us for Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry, a special virtual event honoring the late local poet Peter McLaughlin. To evoke Pete, poets...
3 events,
Virtual Class: Wendy Walsh – Continuing the Journey with Dante’s Purgatorio (via Zoom)
Continue the journey with Dante on Zoom! Join Wendy Walsh for the reading and study of Purgatorio, the second cantica of Dante’s Commedia. Dante and Virgil begin...
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Jan. 5 @ 7 PM PST Please join us...
4 events,
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Conversations with Authors – Alex Davies (Virtual Event)
Conversations with Authors – Alex Davies (Virtual Event)
Alex Davies’ Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car tells the dramatic, colorful story of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber,...
2 events,
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Words Out Loud Spoken Word Series
Words Out Loud Spoken Word Series
Imogen Arate and John Blair read from their poetry. Plus open mic and literary trivia quiz. Imogen Arate is an award-winning Asian-American poet and writer...
Free
3 events,
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Virtual Event: Danielle Hawa Tarigha
Virtual Event: Danielle Hawa Tarigha
JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 AT 12PM PT WHEN DANIELLE HAWA TARIGHA DISCUSSES HER BOOK, UPLIFT AND EMPOWER: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING EXTREME POVERTY AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION ON...
2 events,
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Daniel Mason in Conversation with Diane Del Signore–virtually
Daniel Mason in Conversation with Diane Del Signore–virtually
Discussing Mason's most recent book A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, winner of the Simpson Library Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California...
4 events,
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Online Intensive Literary Seminar Series – Anna Karenina
Online Intensive Literary Seminar Series – Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy What if the best way to end 2020 is to read “the greatest work of literature of all time”*?? Anna...
3 events,
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Conversations with Authors – Gretchen Rubin (Virtual Event)
Conversations with Authors – Gretchen Rubin (Virtual Event)
Gretchen Rubin's most recent release, Outer Order, Inner Calm is a lovely, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering that shows us how to take control of our stuff—and,...
7 events,
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Community Roundtable: Miss Chinatown
Community Roundtable: Miss Chinatown
Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is...
6 events,
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VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Sofia Samatar
VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Sofia Samatar
The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...
2 events,
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Virtual Event: George Saunders and Tobias Wolff
Virtual Event: George Saunders and Tobias Wolff
bout the Event Part hilarious prophet, part tender interpreter of the human condition, Booker Prize winner George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) has been called...
$40
4 events,
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Kate Messner on Instagram Live IGTV
Kate Messner on Instagram Live IGTV
reading her timely book The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America's Presidents, an inspiring and informative book for kids about the past and...
4 events,
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Mahmood Mamdani in conversation with Gil Anidjar
Mahmood Mamdani in conversation with Gil Anidjar
discussing Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani published by Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press)...
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Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
Rise & 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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Paraic O’Donnell with Helen MacDonald – The House on Vesper Sands (Virtual Event)
Paraic O’Donnell with Helen MacDonald – The House on Vesper Sands (Virtual Event)
London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world...
4 events,
Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision
Do 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
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Virtual Event: James J. Siegel, Ben Kline, and Caroline Earleywine
Virtual Event: James J. Siegel, Ben Kline, and Caroline Earleywine
JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMES J. SIEGEL, BEN KLINE, AND CAROLINE EARLEYWINE READ FROM THEIR WORK TO CELEBRATE SIEGEL'S LATEST COLLECTION, THE GOD OF...
5 events,
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Wider Than The Sky: Author Katherine Rothschild in Conversation With Randy Ribay
Wider Than The Sky: Author Katherine Rothschild in Conversation With Randy Ribay
Please join us on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online book launch of the new YA novel, WIDER THAN THE SKY, with author...
7 events,
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Bryant Terry, presented by EcoFarm Conference
VIRTUAL EVENT: Bryant Terry, presented by EcoFarm Conference
VIRTUAL EVENT: An Evening with Bryant Terry: Live Fireside Chat and Cooking Demo, presented by the EcoFarm Conference. Terry is a James Beard Award-winning chef, educator,...
6 events,
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Jen Sincero – Badass Habits (Virtual Event)
Jen Sincero – Badass Habits (Virtual Event)
New York Times bestselling author Jen Sincero gets to the core of transformation: habits—breaking, making, understanding, and sticking with them like you've never stuck before. Badass...
$40
4 events,
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Virtual Class: Mock Caldecott (via Zoom)
Virtual Class: Mock Caldecott (via Zoom)
What is a Mock Caldecott? The Caldecott Medal is the most important award given to illustrated children’s books, presented each year by the American Library...
$20
5 events,
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Claire Wasserman & Her Father, Steve Wasserman: ‘Ladies Get Paid’
Claire Wasserman & Her Father, Steve Wasserman: ‘Ladies Get Paid’
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a Zoom Event: Claire Wasserman & Her Father, Steve Wasserman "Ladies Get Paid" Claire Wasserman is an author, public speaker,...
$5 – $20
6 events,
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Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Aaron Wright Discussing Thirteen Doors with Author Bianca Marais
Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Aaron Wright Discussing Thirteen Doors with Author Bianca Marais
Please join us for an online book launch and discussion on January 26, 2021 at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST featuring author Aaron Wright discussing THIRTEEN...
8 events,
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‘Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure’ MCD Virtual Event
‘Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure’ MCD Virtual Event
The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes writer and speaker Katie Treggiden for a virtual discussion of her new book, "Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure"...
$8
9 events,
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham, What You Don’t Know
VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham, What You Don’t Know
Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book, What You Don't Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood,...
7 events,
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Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV
Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV
reading The Land of the Cranes, a heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in...