Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST 2020 SCHEDULE Welcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians https://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0 September 2, 1pm PT Burlingame Public Library...
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Berkeley Poetry Festival
The Berkeley Poetry Festival is a City of Berkeley sponsored celebration of the city's poets. We honor a local poet with a Lifelong Achievement award...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Before Columbus Foundation 41st Annual American Book Awards
onlineThe Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding...
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Eoin Colfer
THIS EVENT IS ONLINE Eoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl which gained a huge worldwide readership...
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Eastwind Book Club: Minor Feelings
Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong About this Event Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers...
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VIRTUAL: Omnidawn Fall Book Launch
Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will be reading from their work....
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Writing for Power & Resiliency with Thea Matthews
You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. –Maya Angelou “The power of language, of the voice, is not...
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Conversations with Authors – Marilyn Chase (Virtual Event)
Marilyn Chase’s compelling new biography, Everything She Touched, recounts the life of WWII prison camp survivor Ruth Asawa, who broke barriers of race and gender to...
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Colossus: Home Reading
D.L. Lang Yolanda Morrissette Tyrice Brown Jos Burns Aquila Lewis- Ross Elizabeth Costello
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Kandinsky: Dramatist, Poet. Talk and Reading: Lissa Tyler Renaud
Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky's writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud, one of the...
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Magical Feminism: An Editorial Discussion
onlineElectric Literature executive director Halimah Marcus talks to Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet, 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas, Safe as Houses) and Elissa Washuta (White Magic,...
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Book Passage & Left Coast Writers®: America After November 3rd (Virtual Event)
This special event will introduce Left Coast Writers® to the broader community and showcase the many programs that it offers to authors. As part of...
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VIRTUAL: Inter•Col•Lab: A Reading and Film Screening with Valerie Witte, Sarah Rosenthal, and Ayana Yonesaka
Booksmith and The Bindery host a special virtual event of interrelated, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters, an essay collection, and a film, all of which investigate...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Book Club: Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra
onlineWe will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. Set in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to...
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Sandor Ellix Katz: James Beard Award-winner discusses his new book, Fermentation as Metaphor
Bestselling author Sandor Ellix Katz joins us for a virtual event for his new book, Fermentation as Metaphor (Chelsea Green). This event will stream on Crowdcast. Visit...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
Legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his new novel—a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the...
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Blogging 101: Publish Your Passion with Allison Landa
Blogging began in earnest the better part of three decades ago, and today there are an estimated 600 million blogs worldwide, with 31 million active...
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VIRTUAL: Michele Morano in conversation with Ryan Van Meter / Like Love
Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She'll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). This...
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Virtual Event: David Lazar and Joanna Eleftheriou
Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm PDT when David Lazar discusses his book Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age with Joanna Eleftheriou on Zoom! Zoom...
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Marketing Your Nonfiction Book: Build the Platform, Send the Query, Sign the Deal with Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
Your memoir, hybrid memoir, or nonfiction book is in the works. Maybe you’re halfway through and are wondering how to build your platform or make...
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Try it Again: The Art of Revision, with Audrey Ferber (via Zoom), Oct. 28
WEDNESDAYS, OCT. 28 — DEC. 2 | “My pencils outlast their erasers.” — Vladimir Nabokov Have you “finished” a story or personal essay that you know...
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Two Truths and a Lie (What Even Is Truth, Anyway?)
onlineEavesdrop on your dream writing group meeting with a classic drinking (or not drinking) game. Memoirists and essayists are masters at spinning everyday lives into...
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Conversations with Authors – Mikel Jollett (Virtual Event)
Mikel Jollett‘s remarkable new memoir of a tumultuous life, Hollywood Park, is both the story of a man born into one of the country’s most infamous...
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How to Build a Successful Freelance Writing Career for Sex Industry Professionals with Laura LeMoon
Writing and pitching stories from the POV of a marginalized identity like a sex worker and/or sex trafficking survivor can be extraordinarily frustrating. If editors...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez
onlineAn evening with Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry...
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VIRTUAL: Launch for Scott James / Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Scott James and his new book Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and...
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Virtual Event: July Westhale and MK Chavez
Join us on Wednesday, October 28 at 6pm PDT when July Westhale joins us to read from and celebrate her new collection, Via Negativa, with MK...
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Intro to Creative Nonfiction: Let Your Story Unfold with Jennifer Lewis
“Have you always wanted to write but are stumped by the way to tell your own story?” asks instructor Jennifer Lewis. “In this remote class,...
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No Matter What Faith: A Conversation with Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid (Virtual Event)
ack by popular demand (and just when we need it most), good friends Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid will be talking about what they’ve learned in Covid College...
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Author Talk: Nitasha Tamar Sharma with Andrew Way Leon
Nitasha Tamar Sharma will discuss her writings on Desis hip hop culture and race and indigeneity in Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands. The talk will...