Events for February 2021 Events Search and Views Navigation Show Events Search Events Search Events In Search Event Views Navigation View As ListMonthDay Category Menu Comics Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Author Readings Book Clubs Festivals/Book Sales Free Events Kids/Teens Lectures Open Mics Publishing Reading Series Slams Socials Storytelling Submission Deadlines Workshops Writing Groups « January March » Calendar of Events Calendar of Events Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 Social Justice Book Club: A Black Women’s History of the United States 2 A Conversation with Mirin Fader Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Norma Ketzis Bernstock, Sean Hanrahan, and Elaine Terranova, with Charles S. Carr 3 Words Without Borders: Young Russophone Writers Wednesdays on the Stoop: Penguin Random House Series Part Two – Marketing & Publicity Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World with Simon Winchester Philadelphia Press Spotlight: The Shoutflower Virtual Poetry Reading: James Feichthaler, Anthony Palma, Mbarek Sryfi, with Larry Robin Nadia Owusu | Aftershocks: A Memoir 4 Honing Your Hook Yours Forever: Love Letters in the Archive | Virtual Behind the Bookcase Tour The NIB: A Panel Discussion “soft boy.” Virtual Book Release Party Storm at Split Rock: Empathy and Experimentation with FWM, a virtual conversation with Leslie Jamison, Karen Patterson, and Samara Golden 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – Beyond Expectations: Beyond Numbness and Anger Te-Ping Chen & Shruti Swamy w/ Alexandra Chang 5 February Community Drafts 6 Virtual Program | Free Shakespeare Read-Aloud Group: Troilus and Cressida (part one) Virtual Poetry Reading in Collaboration with Serotonin: Lexi Locket, Warren Longmire, Basil Wright, with Sean Lynch 7 Sundays with Frankenstein Tarot Salon: The Minor Arcana 8 Philadelphia Press Spotlight: The Shoutflower Do Right By Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces A Novel Witch Book Club: Queering Your Craft 9 White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind By Koa Beck The Long Arc of Survival: A Virtual Discussion Group on Alice Dunbar-Nelson The Good Poem Project Erica Abbott, Sherrie Elle, John Polier @ Livin’ on Luck! Victor Wooten | The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues 10 Wednesdays on the Stoop: Lanternfish Press Una Mannion, Author of A Crooked Tree: In Virtual Conversation Rachel Ricketts, author of “Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy”, in conversation with McKensie Mack Speakeasy Open Mic Night Elizabeth Kolbert | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Voicemail Poems Winter Issue Release Reading 11 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – Create Your Own Show with Bill Roudebush, 2 Day Workshop – ONLY FIVE SPOTS 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – Storytelling for Business with Cyndi Freeman Existing In-Between: Spatial Precarity in Literature and Art Radical Self-care in an Era of Activism: A Virtual Salon Inspired by the Harlem Renaissance 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – “Witness: Stories and music that reveal hidden truths and untold stories.” NoRiverTwice Short Reading Melissa Broder | Milk Fed 12 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – “Attention!” by Rose Valley Storytelling 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – Re-Purposed + Re-Positioned 13 Lit Balm: The Barrelhouse Magazine Showcase 11TH ANNUAL EX-FILES A 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presentation An Evening with Kailey Tedesco, Author of FOREVERHAUS 14 Sundays with Frankenstein 15 Uncle Bobbie’s Presents: Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick “Except For Palestine” Book Launch Instant Literature 16 Virtual Book Club with Michele Harper Dr. Yaba Blay, author of “One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race”, in conversation with Michael Eric Dyson Nancy Johnson, Author of The Kindest Lie: In virtual Conversation Maria Kefalas | Harnessing Grief: A Mother’s Quest for Meaning and Miracles 17 How to Write a Novel How to Write a Novel Wednesdays on the Stoop: Penguin Random House Series Part Three – Art & Production World Wonders: Day in the Life of a Nairobi School Girl A Reading by Jenny Zhang Count Four Philly Release Party 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – Penn Nursing Slam: Stepping Up 18 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – Find the Funny Workshop with Che Guerrero Recycling Your words: A Zine Workshop 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – MY BODY IS A MONUMENT: AN EVENING WITH CAROLINE RANDALL WILLIAMS WITH A SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY SONIA SANCHEZ Michael Eric Dyson | Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Mighty Minds Featuring Dr. Raina León 19 A Conversation with Stacey Abrams 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presents – Risk! LiveStream Online Show Radio SORTES Presents: The 39 Steps An Introduction to Sex Magic 20 Murphy Writing Publishing Workshop Virtual Program | Free Shakespeare Read-Aloud Group: Troilus and Cressida (part two) New Voices Emerging Poets Reading Series | Virtual Poetry Reading with Rose-Marie Athiley, Colby Bellman, and Wes Matthews REARVIEW MIRROR – ENCORE A 2021 First Person Arts Anthology Presentation 21 Murphy Writing Publishing Workshop Write Your Own Myth: Empowering Yourself Through Goddess Archetypes Philly Jawns: For Women Revisited, Virtual Poetry Reading Tribute to Nina Simone 22 Virtual Course | Read the Blood of Dracula: “Dracula’s Guest” by Bram Stoker A Reading by Erica Hunt 23 A Conversation with Erica Hunt A Bigger Picture with the Honourable Malcolm Turnbull, 29th Prime Minister of Australia Experimental Night for an OPEN MIC Amelia Pang | Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods 24 Re-Reading Milton Re-Reading Shakespeare: 10th Annual Milton Lecture Wednesdays on the Stoop: Jacqueline Goldfinger In Conversation: John E. Dowell, Jr. and Ruth Naomi Floyd Brontez Purnell | 100 Boyfriends 25 Janis Joplin: Her Life and Music Black Writers, the Jazz Age, and the Harlem Renaissance at The Rosenbach | Virtual Behind the Bookcase Tour Winter Counts Book Club Discussion Root Roundtable: A Talkback with RQ featured artists Nile Livingston and Carole Loeffler 26 Shadowspeak Virtual Book Launch Spring 2021 Online Exhibition Opening In Conversation: Jessica Vaughn & Nikil Saval, Moderated by Meg Onli 27 Virtual Flash Fiction Festival PTW Masterclass – How to Land a Literary Agent Martín Espada and Afaa Weaver | Virtual Poetry Reading Series with Larry Robin 28 Virtual Flash Fiction Festival Submission Deadline for Moonstone Arts Poetry Chapbook Contest Harriett’s One Year Soca Celebration HUNCKE Launch + Export Events Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)