What’s Going on in the Austin Book World Mar. 3rd – Mar. 9th

Come out and enjoy the weather, gain some fresh perspectives, and meet the authors you love! Make sure to check out BookPeople’s Storytimes, as well as new book clubs right here in Austin! Here’s what’s happening this week in the Austin book world.

Thursday, Mar. 3 (7 PM) @ Malvern Books, enjoy Fantastical Fictions with Marshall Ryan Maresca, an event focused on the
“literary fantastic” in all different cultures and genres!

Friday, Mar. 4 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy local author Anne Odom speaking and signing her new novel, The Duchess of Bristol. 

Saturday, Mar. 5 (7 PM) @ Book Woman, enjoy the Poetry Chapbook Launch Party – Abe Louise Young’s “Heaven to Me.” For more information, visit What is A Chapbook?

Saturday, Mar. 5 (130 – 230 PM) @ Malvern Books, enjoy Malvern’s Book Club: Reading Classics from New York Review Books.

Sunday, Mar. 6 (2 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy Austin Children’s Author and Writing Barn friend Carmen Oliver speaking and signing her newest book, Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies. 

Monday, Mar. 7 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy the 7% Solution Book Club investigating Dorothy Sayers’ Murder Must Advertise.

Tuesday, Mar. 8 (7 PM) @ North Village Library, enjoy the YA for Adults Book Club, also available on other
days.

Wednesday, Mar. 9 (1030 AM) @ BookPeople, enjoy Book Kid’s Storytime with Ms. Staci! Don’t forget your dancing shoes!

Wednesday, Mar. 9 (7 PM) @ BookPeople, enjoy Jill Chamberlain, founder of The Screenplay Workshop, speaking and signing The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting. 

Upcoming Events and Classes at The Writing Barn

New Session: Perfecting the Picture Book II: A Deeper Understanding, and Draft, Draft, Drafting:

Perfecting the picture book is not an easy task. In 500 words or less, an author must convey character, setting, emotional drive, and provide a surprise but satisfying conclusion with enough wit or spark that the child reader begs for it to be read again. Throw in some word play, read-a-loud ability, and the relationship between text and art, and one may have the makings of a masterpiece.

Language is the Story with Visiting Author David Elliott (PB to Adult):

This evening lecture/class is for ALL genres of Writing. From Picture Books to Adult Novels.In an NPR interview after the publication of Heir to the Glimmering World, Cynthia Ozick noted that the life of a novel is in the language. While Ozick was speaking of adult novels, this important concept is also true for work written exclusively for young people. This lecture/discussion will explore what Ozick might have meant by looking closely at the language of Carolyn Coman’s What Jamie Saw, Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting, M.T. Anderson’s Feed, and Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. We’ll pay particular attention to sentence structure and variety, syntax, diction and punctuation. Time permitting, the workshop will conclude with an exercise meant to sensitize participants to their own use of language in the stories they are telling. It is suggested that participants bring copies of the books we will examine.