Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
VirtualRise & 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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Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision
VirtualDo 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
Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
onlineA dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM - 12 PM from Mar 6 -...
$250
Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event: Life After Death
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present: Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event Life After Death by the bestselling author of...
$5 – $20.
Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler & Caroline Paul
onlineJoin us on Tuesday, March 9 at 6pm PT for the launch of Rebecca Handler's debut novel, Edie Richter is Not Alone, with Caroline Paul...
Free
Kelly Loy Gilbert and Anna-Marie McLemore
Two much loved critically acclaimed authors. Two fabulous eagerly awaited new books. Join us as we launch Kelly Loy Gilbert’s new book When We Were...
“What it Means to Love America”: Dan Rather on What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel
onlineLimited copies of What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel with signed bookplate available with your ticket purchase! Information and “the news” have become contested territories, with more...
$20 – $40
Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler
Join us on Tuesday, March 9 for the launch of Rebecca Handler's debut novel, Edie Richter is Not Alone on Zoom! Zoom Login Info Please click the link below...
Joshua Mohr in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
celebrating the launch of his new book Model Citizen: a memoir published by MCD/FSG ---------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...
Jeff Hawkins with Anil Ananthaswamy
This event is online. In a book that biologist Richard Dawkins calls “exhilarating,” author, neuroscientist and engineer Jeff Hawkins unveils a new theory of intelligence...
Virtual Event: Sam Cohen and Andrea Lawlor
onlineJoin us on Wednesday, March 10th at 6pm PT when Sam Cohen discusses her story collection, Sarahland, with Andrea Lawlor on Zoom! Zoom Login Info...
Free
Book Passage Presents: Elizabeth Wetmore – Valentine
Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime...
Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten
onlineAcclaimed poets and scholars, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening”...
Free
Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio
onlineSeismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio Thu Mar 11th 5:00pm - 6:30pm Buy Tickets Litquake is thrilled to welcome Lysley Tenorio to our Seismic Salon series! Of his...
$500
Elemental: Earth Stories A celebration of the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press
Center for the Art of Translation presents Jessica Cohen, Allison Charette, and Brian Bergstrom in conversation about the latest installment in the Calico Series, Elemental: Earth Stories....
Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event Floaters MARTIN ESPADA, a poet who stirs our social consciousness, has...
$1 – $20
VIRTUAL: Arisa White / Who’s Your Daddy, with Dan Alter, Michael ‘MJ’ Jones, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent
Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Arisa White for her new book Who's Your Daddy. She'll be joined for a group reading by former...
Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers
The Mill Valley Public Library & The Marin Poetry Center invite you to a virtual book launch for Heyday Books’ release of Why to These...
VIRTUAL EVENT: Joe Ide, Smoke
Join us for an online event with bestselling author and staff favorite Joe Ide, who will discuss Smoke, the newest installment in his IQ series. Isaiah...
Dena Grunt launches Table with a View: The History & Recipes of Nick’s Cove
Dena Grunt joins us to celebrate the release of Table with a View: The History & Recipes of Nick's Cove (Cameron Books). This event will be streamed...
Book Launch of EVERYTHING AFTER with Author Jill Santopolo
Please join us on Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen's recent favorites, EVERYTHING AFTER, with author Jill Santopolo. Our...
Virtual Event: Alan Chazaro, Raina J. León, Tongo Eisen Martin, and Barbara Jane Reyes
JOIN US ON THURSDAY, MARCH 11 AT 7PM PT, FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING BAY AREA POETRY AND ALAN CHAZARO'S LATEST COLLECTION PIÑATA THEORY, ON ZOOM! FEATURED READERS...
Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #50
online90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
Free – $200
VIRTUAL: Babylon Salon presents Roberto Lovato, Matt Bell, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Spring event, featuring readings by Roberto Lovato, Matt Bell, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról! Please note: this is a free, virtual...
Word Week 2021 “Colm Toibin, Paula Meehan & Michelle Gallen Read Contemporary Irish Literature”
onlineIrish authors Colm Toibin, Paula Meehan, and Michelle Gallen read from new work Saturday, March 13, 11 a.m. Pacific time via Zoom. Colm gives us...
Free
Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Momtaza Mehri and Zoé Samudzi, reading and in conversation
onlineRemote access event, free and open to the public REGISTER TO ATTEND —or— Watch this program at YouTube With emcee, alex cruse This remote-access event starts promptly...
Free
Joanell Serra – (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic (Virtual Event)
(Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives...
Wales to Bay V
Four beautiful poets: Two from Wales (John Goodby and Fiona Cameron) and two from the SF Bay Area (Nathasha Dennerstein and Terry Lucas) will share...
Free
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun
A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun,...
Conversations with Authors – Julia Turshen (Virtual Event)
Julia Turshen’s Simply Julia: 110 Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food is her first collection of recipes featuring a healthier take on the simple, satisfying comfort food for which...