• Intro to Flash Fiction

    Virtual

    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
  • 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...

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer

    VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer

    VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...

  • Words Out Loud Spoken Word Series

    MD, United States

    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
  • 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...

  • Poetry & Short Stories Reading

    Join us for a virtual poetry & short stories reading featuring Brian Dempster (Seize), Caroline Kim (The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories), and...

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?

    An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. Where Do We Go From Chaos? As Jon...

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?

    An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. Where Do We Go From Chaos? As Jon...

  • Gina Apostol

    Join Gina Apostol and friends for the launch party of the first ever US publication of Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award–winning novel Revolution According...

  • 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...

  • Story Time with Joanna Ho

    This is an online event Join us to celebrate the launch of Joanna Ho’s beautiful new picture book, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, a...

  • Women Lit presents Ann Patchett

    We are partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival to present a virtual event with bestselling author (and bookstore owner) Ann Patchett. Visit the Book...

    $15 – $30
  • Madeleine Watts

    Madeleine Watts discusses her highly anticipated debut novel, The Inland Sea (Catapult). "Full of heart and disquiet, astute and precise, almost savage in its eloquence, illuminated about...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt in Conversation–virtually

    discussing their new book Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscape. Every Bay Area gardener needs this book written and photographed by the same...

  • 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