Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes

Virtual

Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020, Rise & Shine...

Free

Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision

Virtual

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

LILY KING

online

LILY KING Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS “Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.” – Ann Patchett Lily King is...

$29

This is Now: David Bradford and Carole Robin

This event is online. In the history of humankind, connecting to others and building strong relationships has never been more complicated. That was true even...

Virtual Event: Zak Salih and Lydia Kiesling

JOIN US ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 AT 6PM PT WHEN ZAK SALIH DISCUSSES HIS DEBUT NOVEL, LET'S GET BACK TO THE PARTY, WITH LYDIA KIESLING ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

Zetta Elliott on Instagram IGTV

reading A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart, a powerful, affirming poem in which a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the year. "A...

Prepping to Publish: a workshop for writers of color

Virtual

Geared toward marginalized writers who may lack access to MFA programs, workshops, and conferences, Prepping to Publish is a six-hour, two-session intensive. Sonora will select...

Free

Children’s Book Reading: The Unexpected Friend

Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children's story time featuring a live read-aloud of The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children's Story with author Raya...

CWC Speaker Series: Sage Cohen

virtual

Sunday, February 21, 1-3pm Pacific time When you don't know what matters most in your writing life, it's hard to focus-and finish. In this live...

$5 – $10

Virtual Event: Lauren Oyler and Anna Wiener

JOIN US ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN LAUREN OYLER IS JOINED BY ANNA WIENER TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL, FAKE ACCOUNTS, ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

Tanya Selvaratnam – Assume Nothing (Virtual Event)

In Assume Nothing, award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story...

Book Launch Pajama Party with Mitali Perkins

Join us for a special pajama party with local author Mitali Perkins and her dog to celebrate the launch of Mitali's new picture book, Home is in Between!...

VIRTUAL EVENT: Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us

VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Marcus Books, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, present author Heather McGhee...

Daphne A. Brooks

discussing her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound published by Belknap Press / Harvard University Press ----------...

Lidia Yuknavich in conversation with Lance Olsen

reading from their work and talking about literature Lidia Yuknavich celebrates the paperback release of Verge: stories published by Riverhead Books Named one of the Best...

HIGH DAWN 6: LAWRENCE / LEUNG / LOU / BASU

Zoom

Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present the sixth installment of HIGH DAWN, a reading series featuring poets and musicians from the Bay...

Free

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow on Instagram IGTV

reading Your Name is a Song.  "This lovely celebration of African American culture, featuring a Muslim family, offers a fresh way to look at the tradition...