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One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, Lit Crawl SF brings together authors and fans for the world’s largest FREE pop-up literary extravaganza! Check out our full schedule of 60+ events below.
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Saturday, October 26
 

2:45pm PDT

Page Street Presents So You Want to read at Lit Crawl?—A pre-Crawl Tailgate
Saturday October 26, 2024 2:45pm - 4:00pm PDT
We'll open the doors at 2:45 pm to give you time to get a drink (wine, Prosecco, energy drinks) and get settled at a writing space.

At 3 pm, Page Street founder, Janis Cooke Newman, will announce the theme for our Phase One Lit Crawl event, Without a Net. (We're keeping the theme under wraps until then.)

Everyone will have 40 minutes to write 250 words (no more!) on our theme.

If you like what you've written, and want to read it at the Crawl, just drop your name into our sorting hat (bookish Happy Potter reference).

When the 40 minutes are up, we will randomly draw up to 20 names out of the hat to be our readers!
Our Lit Crawl event, Without a Net will take place at 5 pm at The Drawing Room on Valencia Street. (Yes, we know that's tight, so come prepared to go straight from Page Street to the reading.)
And be sure to alert your friends and family, so they can come and cheer you on!

Don't worry if you're not chosen to be a reader, we'll have some swag and consolation prizes for you!

This event is FREE but space is limited. RSVP HERE to secure your spot!
Speakers
avatar for Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman is the author of a memoir and two award-winning novels. She is also the founder of LitCamp and Page Street Co-Working for Writers.
Saturday October 26, 2024 2:45pm - 4:00pm PDT
Page Street 297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA

3:30pm PDT

The Art of Freelancing—A pre-Crawl Tailgate Workshop
Saturday October 26, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
The Writers Grotto is pleased to present authors Jenny Bitner and Doug Henderson for a discussion on the art of freelancing. Learn what you need to get started on your business, the tools you need to succeed, and how to turn your art into a career.

Class registration: $30

Register for class HERE.
Speakers
avatar for Doug Henderson

Doug Henderson

Doug Henderson is the author of the novel The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club, and a winner of the PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Short Édition, Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape, and elsewhere... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
The Writers Grotto 1663 Mission St #602, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

3:30pm PDT

Zip Lines: A Flash Poetry Open Mic—A pre-Crawl Tailgate
Saturday October 26, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Write a poem—in a flash! Enjoy live music as you generate new poems with the help of prompts. Then, step up to the mic to share your creations! Writing and live music portion at 3:30-4pm; open mic at 4-4:30pm.
Saturday October 26, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Syzygy SF 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

5:00pm PDT

826 Quarterly Release Party
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Join us in celebrating the release of 826's annual best-of publication: The 826 Quarterly! Students will read their work, which explore themes of belonging, place, and dreams for a better world.
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
826 Valencia St 826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

Babylon Salon Presents: Come and Get It!
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Come and get stories that are exuberant, comedic, historical, ecological, and otherworldly! A diverse lineup of writers from Babylon Salon, San Francisco's longest-running literary performance series. Babylon Salon’s organizers and friends share original work inspired by the groundbreaking authors who have graced their stage over the past seventeen years.
Speakers
avatar for Becca Berns

Becca Berns

Becca Krock Berns is a writer and scientist. Her fiction has appeared in Carve and Peatsmoke, and she holds a PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University. Originally from the Chicago area, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
avatar for Katie Flynn

Katie Flynn

Katie M. Flynn’s short fiction has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, Tor.com, and elsewhere. She’s been awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her first novel, The Companions, came out in... Read More →
avatar for Lauren C. Johnson

Lauren C. Johnson

Lauren C. Johnson (she/her) attributes her upbringing in Florida, America’s weirdest state, to her interest in the ecological and surreal. She earned her MFA in creative writing at American University and lives in San Francisco, where she co-hosts Babylon Salon, a quarterly Bay... Read More →
avatar for Ryan Sloan

Ryan Sloan

Ryan Sloan lives in Oakland and teaches writing at UC Berkeley. His work is published in LA Weekly, Joyland Magazine and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. Recent residencies include Tin House, Vermont Studio Center & the Arctic Circle. When he's not epee fencing or building immersive... Read More →
avatar for Maury Zeff

Maury Zeff

Maury Zeff’s fiction and plays have been published and performed throughout the US and Europe. He won the 2021 Clark-Gross Novel Award, was a 2020 Pushcart Fiction nominee, and won third place in the 2024 O. Henry World Championship Pun-off. His play "Dada Teen Musical: The Play... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Sycamore 2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

Bauchhaar Travellers Present: Confluence of Place
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
People search for a place where they want to be; carry places they come from. Places can be ideas detached from physicality. We will let poems tell stories of all things places can be or don’t want to be or cannot be. Come, listen to them! Expressed bilingually in English/Hindi.
Speakers
avatar for Pragya Jain

Pragya Jain

Pragya Jain, MD is an Internal Medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente in the Bay Area. She believes that poetry has the power to change the world by inspiring people, and instilling hope. Her book ‘Man ki Lahare’ (ripples from heart) was selected by the Literary Society of Rajasthan... Read More →
avatar for Anshu Johri

Anshu Johri

Anshu Johri authors short stories, poems, and plays in Hindi and English. She has published three poetry and short story collections in Hindi, and “Scraped”, a short story collection in English. She is a hardware engineer with a M.S in electrical engineering from San Jose State... Read More →
avatar for Swasti Johri

Swasti Johri

Swasti Johri is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. She is interested in studying the intersection between different academic conceptions of place, and the Bay Area's housing crisis. She has explored this interest through the school's interdisciplinary rhetoric program. She has... Read More →
avatar for Lalit Kumar

Lalit Kumar

Lalit Kumar writes a regular column in 'India Currents magazine' sharing his passion for adventure and travel. His first book 'Years Spent: Exploring Poetry in Adventure, Life and Love' was among top 3 selects in ‘Indie Spotlight’ poetry genre by BookLife/Publishers Weekly. His... Read More →
avatar for Mighty Mike McGee

Mighty Mike McGee

Mighty Mike McGee is a published, world traveling poet, comedian and educator from San José, California. He has performed on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, NPR’s Snap Judgment, and CBC Radio and Television. McGee was appointed Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County for 2018 & 2019 and serves... Read More →
avatar for Colleen Shoshana McKee

Colleen Shoshana McKee

Colleen Shoshana McKee, an editor and English teacher, has lived in the Bay Area for thirteen years. She’s the author of six collections of poetry, fiction, and memoirs. Her latest book, Routine Bloodwork, was a finalist for the Charlotte Mew Award from Headmistress Press. Her website... Read More →
avatar for Robert Pesich

Robert Pesich

Robert Pesich is the author of Model Organism (Five Oaks Press, 2017) and Burned Kilim (Dragonfly Press, 2001). He co-edited the anthology Cuts from the Barbershop (Tollbooth Press, 2004). He curates the Well-RED Reading Series, works as editor/publisher at Swan Scythe Press and is... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

Bay Area Reporter Presents: What We Wrote During the Blip
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Order a strong cocktail at Martuni's as award-winning author and Bay Area Reporter Arts Editor Jim Provenzano presents writers who share works created during the pandemic, and a few with future-focused stories about the possible collapse of democracy.
Speakers
avatar for Yume Kim

Yume Kim

Yume Kim is the author of Reserve the Right. She is both a Ruby Fellow recipient and a Bay Area Writing Project Fellow teaching fellow recipient at UC Berkeley. She is now working on her second manuscript, which includes poems that call out the toxicity that exists in academia.
avatar for Jim Provenzano

Jim Provenzano

Jim Provenzano is the author of seven gay fiction novels, including a Lambda Literary Award winner and a finalist, a short story collection, plays and other works. A journalist in LGBTQ media for more than three decades, he is the Arts Editor with the Bay Area Reporter.
avatar for Horehound Stillpoint

Horehound Stillpoint

Called "fully pornographic" by none other than Bambi Lake, "a breath of fresh air" (in a very stuffy concrete auditorium) by the SF Weekly, collected in over 30 anthologies, Horehound Stillpoint's work played to sold out audiences at the SF Fringe Festival 3 years in a row. The Inside... Read More →
avatar for Gaia Veenis

Gaia Veenis

Gaia Patience Veenis is a prose writer from the North Bay currently residing in San Francisco. She’s working on a memoir called I’m Sorry I Have to Do This about her chaotic adolescence in the late ‘90s/Y2K era, including tales of running away at age 15, joining a street crew... Read More →
avatar for André Le Mont Wilson

André Le Mont Wilson

André Le Mont Wilson (he/him) is a Black queer writer whose chapbook, Hauntings, won the 2022 Newfound Prose Prize. He published in Fruit: Queer Literary Journal, Fruitslice: A Queer Quarterly, Fourteen Poems: Queer Poetry Anthology, Beneath the Soil: Queer Survivor's e-Zine, and... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Martuni's 4 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94103

5:00pm PDT

California College of the Arts MFA Program Presents: Tell It to Me Straight
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Get ready for an hour of real talk and radical revelations. Truth serum will be flowing as we tell it straight slam style and dish out door prizes galore.

Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Chapel Parking Lot 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

5:00pm PDT

Cult-Like
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Have you ever wanted a charismatic figure to release you from the burden of thought? How about actualizing your frequencies? Give us your unquestioned adoration and we’ll show you the power we all contain to create a cult. Will you become a member of ours by the final bow?
Speakers
avatar for Marya Brennan

Marya Brennan

Marya Brennan’s stories have appeared in Story Magazine, The Normal School, and The Florida Review. She recently completed a novel about disability, interdependence, and sisters set in an early 20th century traveling sideshow, and is currently writing another about motherhood, Better... Read More →
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Sarah Cadorette

Sarah Rose Cadorette is an Oakland-based writer whose work has won prizes from The Southampton Review, Sonora Review, Blood Orange Review, and Emerson College. Their writing has appeared in Meridian, The Massachusetts Review, Barrelhouse, Desert Companion, and Abandon Journal. Sarah... Read More →
avatar for Vinita Goyal

Vinita Goyal

Trained as an architect and urban planner, Vinita advances regenerative and restorative models that center the leadership of low income communities of color. She serves as Community Investment Director of Full Spectrum Labs, a US-based think tank, incubator, and accelerator, and on... Read More →
avatar for Kathryn Jaller

Kathryn Jaller

Kathryn Jaller is a writer and artist who has worked with words in the fields of museums, publishing, and design. Her labors of various kinds have been featured at SXSW, West Coast Craft, and in the New York Times. She lives in Berkeley with her human family who are nearly outnumbered... Read More →
avatar for Jolene Torr

Jolene Torr

Jolene Torr works in book publishing and has covered art and music for Vice, BUST, and Juxtapoz—as well as the defunct but beloved alt weeklies The Bay Guardian and SF Weekly. A Bay Area native, she lives in Oakland with the most beautiful angel baby cats on Earth.
avatar for Kathleen J. Woods

Kathleen J. Woods

Kathleen J. Woods is the author of the pornographic novel White Wedding. She is an alum of CU Boulder’s MFA, the Writers Grotto Fellowship, the Tin House Summer Conference, and the Wellstone Center Residency. Her work has been featured in Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Pacifica... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Bernal Cutlery 766 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

La Raíz Magazine Empowerment Poetry
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Five poets represent La Raíz Magazine with themes of culture, identity, and social justice issues, in English, Spanish, and Spanglish. Join us for empowering palabras: poetizing that subverts conventions. Featuring: Héctor F Castañeda, Jesse León Pantoja, arnoldo colibrí, Rubén Zamora, and Marvin Flores. Emceed by Founder/Editor Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo. 
Speakers
avatar for Ruben Zamora

Ruben Zamora

A proud native of San José, Ca. A high school librarian and wilderness enthusiast, he writes about what he sees, and has seen, and the people along the way. Ruben has been published in the 2024 edition of La Raiz magazine, and won the prize for poetry. He is also a member of the... Read More →
avatar for Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo

Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo

Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo is a visual artist, poet, and facilitator based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Her work is influenced by her Indigenous Mesoamerican ancestry, Mexika (Aztec) artwork and philosophy, Mexican culture, Raza history, and her experiences as an... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

Left Margin LIT Bootcampers: Writing Is a Team Sport!
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Four writers will read from their work to celebrate Left Margin LIT's 8 years as a writers' workspace in Berkeley. Come learn more about LML's vibrant, supportive, writing community!
Speakers
avatar for Rhea Bryce

Rhea Bryce

Rhea Bryce is an emerging writer living in Berkeley, California. She studied creative writing at Stanford University. When she's not working at her job in software development, she is writing her novel, participating in workshops, and trying to convince her friends that they should... Read More →
avatar for Matt Heller

Matt Heller

Matt Heller is a writer, teacher, and musician who lives in Berkeley. Originally from Tucson he has lived in the Bay Area for over thirty years. His short fiction has been published published in The Sun, Abdabs, and Sombrero. He is currently querying several novels and is a member... Read More →
avatar for Elizabeth (Lisa) Turner

Elizabeth (Lisa) Turner

Elizabeth Horner Turner’s work has been published widely, including in Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. Her new fiction chapbook, Horsemouth and Aquariumhead, just came out with Black Lawrence Press, and her poetry chapbook is titled The Tales of Flaxie Char. She's found... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room Mission Street Annex 2675 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

5:00pm PDT

Mixtopia Presents: Beyond Dystopia or That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stranger
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Imagine a future that is neither a dystopian Max Mad nor a utopian Nirvana but a fermentation of the corpus of human knowledge in all languages inclusive of arts, somatic healing, technology, and culture. Our eclectic group of writers represent futuristic storytellers, psychedelic artists, historians of science, and recorders of information.
Speakers
avatar for Olja Dimitrijevic

Olja Dimitrijevic

Olja Dimitrijevic is the Director of Data Platform Engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia. Olja has been building software and data platforms for the past 25 years. She brings into her writing the experience of a third culture kid, someone... Read More →
avatar for Dylan Freitas-D'Louhy

Dylan Freitas-D'Louhy

Artist at heart, business minded, and creative nature. Enlivening the idea that “today is better than yesterday” and the abounding opportunity to improve our youniverse. Dylan is an always evolving multi-dimensional artist, author, and advocate. He continues all creative endeavors through... Read More →
avatar for Genie Love

Genie Love

Genie Love, aka The Genie, is an artist, performer, and musical innovator from San Francisco. He is an avant-garde multi-instrumentalist and the creator of the Crystal Mirror Space Experience (SFGATE: The Genie’s Crystal Mirror Space is SF’s Coolest Airbnb Experience).
avatar for S. S. Mausoof

S. S. Mausoof

S.S Mausoof has sinned all the way from Karachi to San Francisco. Writing credits include noir thriller like Kala Pul and The Warehouse/Nuit sans lune au Waziristan," based on the author’s travel and relief work as a Pakistani-American.
avatar for Fyza Parviz

Fyza Parviz

Fyza Parviz Jazra is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at Stanford. Her field is the History of Science, and her research focuses on intellectual exchanges between the East and the West, European interest in the Arabic scientific culture, scientific manuscripts and instruments... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Gestalt Craft Beer Bar 3159 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

5:00pm PDT

My Dream Job in the Book World
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Literary salons, book parties, cheap wine . . . ah, the glamour of publishing! How do I get in? Bay Area Women in Publishing presents stories to help shine a guiding light on your own path. BAYWiP supports current and aspiring colleagues who identify as women or non-binary, helping them to build connections in the literary world.

Speakers
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Olivia Ngai

After years of in-house experience at traditional book publishers, Olivia Ngai is now a freelance editor for publishers, agents, and independent authors. She has worked on a variety of books, from adult fiction and nonfiction to children's books, to comics and graphic novels.
avatar for Marthine Satris

Marthine Satris

Heyday Books
Marthine Satris has worked in independent Bay Area publishing for over a decade. She is now Heyday's senior acquisitions editor, with a particular focus on nature-focused books. Books she’s edited have won literary prizes, been San Francisco Chronicle bestsellers, and received praise... Read More →
avatar for Chithra Vedantam

Chithra Vedantam

Chithra Vedantam is a Field sales and support representative at Ingram Content Group where she enjoys working with independent publishers and bookstores. She is passionate about championing diversity in the publishing industry and believes everyone deserves to see themselves in b... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Ritual Coffee Roasters 1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

Objet Petit a: writers explore unattainable object of desire through poetry and prose
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Come hear the writing that will make you laugh, cringe, feel dizzy or loved. Writing will stay with you as you walk away to do other things; Writing that will make you contest status quo and our own comfort zone.
Speakers
avatar for Brian Ang

Brian Ang

Brian Ang wrote The Totality Cantos (Atelos 2022) and is Bookstore Manager for the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. totalitycantos.net includes the complete text and a generator that randomizes assemblages of its one thousand sections. Current poetic project: A Thousand... Read More →
avatar for Emily Dezurick-Badran

Emily Dezurick-Badran

Emily Dezurick-Badran is a writer and librarian from San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Tin House Online, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. When not writing, she plays roller derby. She’s currently working on a TV pilot and a novel. She’s just excited to be he... Read More →
avatar for Torsa Ghosal

Torsa Ghosal

Torsa Ghosal is the author of a book of literary criticism, Out of Mind (Ohio State University Press), and an experimental novella, Open Couplets (Yoda Press, India). Her fiction, essays, and translation have appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Massachusetts Review, Berkeley Fiction... Read More →
avatar for Moazzam Sheikh

Moazzam Sheikh

Moazzam Sheikh works as a librarian at SFPL and is the author of A Footbridge to Hell Called Love and Unsolaced Faces We Meet In Our Dreams, two novellas which make up half of his San Francisco Quartet. He is also the author of two collections of short stories, and in 1997 guest-edited... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The SFPL Bookmobile

5:00pm PDT

Ode to Sad Girl Poetry
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Join this generative interactive panel of poets as they expand on the nature of confessional Sad Girl poetry. Delve into the spicy world of five multilingual authors: Sandy Shakes, Diosa Xochiquentzalcoatl, Annaliciia Aguilar, Anastasia Helena Fenald, and Paola Gutiérrez. This session aims to be a hybrid experience, braiding together a mini-workshop experience as well as a poetry performance.
Speakers
avatar for Annalicia Aguilar

Annalicia Aguilar

Annalicia Aguilar is a Mexican American/mixed-race Indigenous poet, screenwriter, playwright, and educator. She obtained her MFA in Screenwriting for Film and Television from AMDA College of the Performing Arts. When she isn't writing or performing poetry, you can find her blasting... Read More →
avatar for Sandy Cornejo

Sandy Cornejo

Sandy Shakes is a Chicana spoken TRUTH artist home grown in Boyle Heights. She has spoken her truth on stages in San Diego, El Paso, New Mexico and across LA county neighborhoods. She writes brown stories to make sure brown voices never go unheard again. Check out her 2024 debut collection... Read More →
avatar for Anastasia Fenald

Anastasia Fenald

Anastasia Helena Fenald (b.1992) is a second-generation Ukrainian-Hispanic-American poet from California’s windy High Desert. She is the author of "The Art of Job Hunting: A Dramedy in Verse" (Riot of Roses Publishing House 2023). She spends her time reading fanfiction, performing... Read More →
avatar for Paola Gutiérrez

Paola Gutiérrez

Paola Gutiérrez is a preschool teacher born and raised in México, currently living in Orange County, CA. Author, podcaster, public speaker, cuenta cuentos & aztec dancer.She self published two bilingual children's books, I don't like broccoli/No me gusta el brócoli in 2022, Yo... Read More →
avatar for Diosa Xochiquetzalcoatl

Diosa Xochiquetzalcoatl

Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, or Diosa X for short, is a multilingual and multidimensional spoken word artist and international poetiza. She is a seasoned language arts educator with a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in Cross-Cultural Teaching. Diosa X has been published in a... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Sour Cherry Comics 3187 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

5:00pm PDT

Page Street Co-working Presents Without a Net: 20 Super-short, Uncurated, Uncensored, Unrehearsed Pieces, Freshly Written in the Last Hour
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
You know how most Lit Crawl events are carefully curated and rehearsed? This isn't that. Join us as 20 writers read no-more-than-2-minute pieces they wrote an hour ago at the Page Street tailgate. 20 surprise readers. 20 surprise pieces. No telling what might happen...
Speakers
avatar for Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman is the author of a memoir and two award-winning novels. She is also the founder of LitCamp and Page Street Co-Working for Writers.
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room Annex - Sponsored by Page Street 599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

Passionate Thinking in Diaspora with Writers from Ukraine, Russia, and Moldova
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
We’re a group of immigrant writers with roots in the former Soviet Union coming together to share writing about our home countries, immigrant communities, complicated identities, and more. War continues to shape our stories, and so does food, nature, parenthood, and love. Passionately told, these stories nourish our communal resilience.
Speakers
avatar for Nina Rodenko

Nina Rodenko

Nina Rodenko is the winner of the 2022 Clark-Gross Scholarship Award for her debut novel, The United Selves of Veronica, which is currently in its final draft. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Bookstr, Prometheus Dreaming, and Watershed Review. Born in Ukraine, Nina now... Read More →
avatar for Karolina Letunova

Karolina Letunova

Karolina Letunova grew up in Western Siberia. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. Her work appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review. She is a 2023-2024 California Arts Council... Read More →
avatar for Maggie Levantovskaya

Maggie Levantovskaya

Maggie Levantovskaya is a writer and Teaching Professor in the English department at Santa Clara University. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and grew up in San Francisco. Her creative nonfiction and journalism have appeared in The Rumpus, Michigan Quarterly Review, Longreads, Catapult... Read More →
avatar for Margarita Meklina

Margarita Meklina

Leningrad-born Margarita Meklina now faces the situation when her current publisher, NLO, is afraid to print her work due to the expanded anti-LGBTQ laws. Her earlier book, written in collaboration with Lida Yusupova, LOVE HAS FOUR HANDS, was removed from Russian bookstores due to... Read More →
avatar for Yuliya Patsay

Yuliya Patsay

Yuliya Patsay is a Soviet-born, San Francisco-raised, teller of stories- most of which are at least half true.She loves rolling fog, dim sum and a receptive audience. She lives in “Little Russia” with her husband, two kids, and enough mishpuha close by to keep her wildly ente... Read More →
avatar for Tatyana Sundeyeva

Tatyana Sundeyeva

Tatyana Sundeyeva is a writer originally from Moldova. She has published short fiction and essays in Fractured Literary, Oyster River Pages, Cleaver, and Hadassah Magazine. Her story about the civil war in Moldova was nominated for Best Microfiction 2023. You can find her at Taty... Read More →
avatar for Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of a debut novel, Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury) that will also come out in Italy, France, Germany, Finland, Israel and Brazil. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, CNN, Harper’s Bazaar, KQED, and elsewhere... Read More →
avatar for Olga Zilberbourg

Olga Zilberbourg

Olga Zilberbourg’s LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press) explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to The Moscow Times and deals with bisexuality and immigrant parenthood. Zilberbourg co-moderates the San Francisco Writers Workshop and is a co-founder... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Manny’s 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

5:00pm PDT

Perverts Put Out: Read Smart Sex at Good Vibes
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Literate smut peddlers from one of SF's longest-running reading groups—entertaining ​you for 25+ years!--descend on iconic toy store Good Vibes for sexy/kinky/smart stories, essays, and poetry. PPO, based at the Center for Sex & Culture, will open your mind and make you think [sexy thoughts]!
Speakers
avatar for Sherilyn Connelly

Sherilyn Connelly

Press, SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based writer and librarian. Her fourth book, Beautiful Ghosts: A Queer Memoir of San Francisco, was published by Exposit Books in 2021.
avatar for Carol Queen

Carol Queen

Carol Queen PhD is a writer, cultural sexologist, theorist of deep sex-positivity, Sexologist for Good Vibes, and the co-founder/director of the Center for Sex & Culture. She won a Lambda Literary award a long time ago and is working on a memoir (thanks, SFAF!)
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Good Vibrations 603 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

5:00pm PDT

Red Light Lit
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Red Light Lit presents an evening of provocative poetry and prose exploring the raw edges of love, lust, and heartbreak. Writers perform with a live musical score, delivering their heart through a blend of words and music.
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

The Afrosurreal Writers Workshop of Oakland Presents: Reexamining our Past, Exploring our Present, Dreaming our Future
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
For more than a decade, a small group of Black writers in Oakland, The Afrosurreal Writers Workshop, have supported each other in world building in poetry, fiction and memoir.
Speakers
avatar for Wandra Williams

Wandra Williams

A mad+crazy+cool nerd hailing from The Rich who spent so much time at the City of Richmond's Public Library that it could have been claimed as a home address. As a life-long reader, and freshly minted Afrosurrealist, her goal is to unleash a torrent of Black-Centric narratives like... Read More →
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Coleman Conner

Coleman Conner is an Architectural Designer whose work fuses sustainability with advanced technology. His experience ranges from airports to skyscrapers, but his passion lies in envisioning the future—whether it’s on Earth, the Moon, Mars, or beyond. You can explore more of his... Read More →
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Ellen McBarnette

Ellen McBarnette, an Afrosurreal storyteller, had her earliest tales transcribed by her mother on the back of envelopes. An active participant in the SF literary community, Ellen has led the Afrosurreal Writers Workshop of Oakland for five years. Her novella, “Negrita” is published... Read More →
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LaMar Mitchell

LaMar Mitchell AKA Khalifa was born and raised in Oakland, CA. He is a poet, screenwriter, and novelist and professional tornado chaser. He aspires to be one of the greatest Surrealists who ever lived. His first poetry chapbook, "Psychedelic Existentialism", will be available soon... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Bissap Baobab SF 2243 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

The Algorithm That Moves: Uncanny Possibilities for AI Poetry
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
What can AI do for poetry? Not much if you rely on ChatGPT. That bot’s makers worked to keep it tame. But we’re taking the chains off. Get ready for an explosive evening of participatory versifying as inhuman minds lead us in an uncanny new direction for the literary arts.
Speakers
avatar for Larry Ebert

Larry Ebert

Musician, writer, innovator, humorist, and teacher. Larry Ebert is researching the human factors aspects of Artificial Intelligence, particularly AI's impact in the arts and in pedagogy, exploring issues related to authenticity, human (cognitive) reliance, and consciousness. Larry... Read More →
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Laird Harrison

A genre-nonconforming writer, Laird Harrison has published essays in Salon and The Nation, poetry in Catamaran and Chinquapin, journalism in Time and Reuters. WUNC and KQED have broadcast his radio scripts. In 2012, Verdant Books published his novel, Fallen Lake, the story of two... Read More →
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Halim Madi

Halim is a queer Lebanese poet and programmer using the web as a tool to create digital poetry and electronic literature. His work combines the physical and digital to create intimate person-to-person interactions, contrasting with the impersonal nature of the web. His practice examines... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Noisebridge 272 Capp St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

The Brown Handler Residents Present: Dispatches from the Stacks
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
For six years, the Friends of the Library's Brown Handler Residency has nurtured emerging voices. This year, the Residents share fresh, provocative stories that delve into identity and place, navigating the uncharted territories between reality and imagination. Join us for a journey through the spaces in-between.
Speakers
avatar for Sara Marinelli

Sara Marinelli

Sara Marinelli is an Italian writer living in San Francisco. Her writing in English is published in New American Writing, Blue Mesa Review, Pummarol; her work in Italian appears in Nazione Indiana, Leggendaria, Alias. A Brown Handler Fellow and a Teaching Artist at the San Francisco... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Matsui

Sarah Matsui

Sarah Matsui is the winner of the 2021 Sewanee Review Nonfiction Contest, the 2022 Fractured Lit Contest, and the 2023 Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Award. Her poems and essays have appeared in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, The Southern Review, The Seventh Wave, and Pleiades... Read More →
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E. Okobi

Ekene “E” Okobi is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, education and research.
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Ploi Pirapokin

Ploi Pirapokin is a Hong Kong raised, Thai speculative fiction writer, whose work explores imperialism in Asia, and revenge. She is featured in Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, The Art and Craft of Stories from Asia: A Writer's Guide and Anthology... Read More →
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Marina Hope Wilson

Marina Hope Wilson is the author of the chapbook, Nighttime (Cooper Dillon Books, 2024). Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, $, Bodega, Stirring, and SWWIM Every Day. Marina is a 2024-25 Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Brown-Handler Artist-in-Residence... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Blondie's Bar 540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

The Fabulist Presents: Cosmic Debris—An Evening of Passionate Conviction and Informed Skepticism
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
“I want to believe!”—but should you? In this perilous time of deception, demagoguery, and suckers born every minute, The Fabulist has assembled a knockout lineup of Bay Area writers, poets, and activists who wield fantastical fictions to say true things about our beating human hearts—and who tell true tales to confront exploitative popular narratives. 
Speakers
avatar for Chris Carlsson

Chris Carlsson

Chris Carlsson, co-director of the multimedia history project Shaping San Francisco, is a writer, publisher, editor, teacher, and community organizer. He is the primary curator for Foundsf.org, the digital archive of San Francisco history organized by Shaping San Francisco. For the... Read More →
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MK Chavez

MK Chavez is an art monster, writer, and educator. Chavez’s writing explores mixed-race identity, social justice, environmental resilience, horror cinema, magic, ritual, and the creative process. Chavez’s work has been recognized with the Pen Josephine Miles Award, the San Francisco... Read More →
avatar for Eva Galperin

Eva Galperin

Eva Galperin is a writer, security researcher, privacy activist, and occasional aerialist who has lived in San Francisco since the 1980's.
avatar for Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi [www.mukethekawinzi.com] is a shepherd and the author of 'saanens, nubians, one lamancha' (Winner, Quarterly West Chapbook Contest) and 'rut' (Ghost City Press). 'The Field Nig Blues,' her collection of tales, songs, and other forms, is forthcoming from KERNPUNKT Press... Read More →
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Loren Rhoads

Author, Automatism Press
Loren Rhoads writes space opera, dark fantasy, and horror, sometimes all at once. 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, her newest book, is gleefully morbid nonfiction. See if you can find the contradiction in any of this at lorenrhoads.com.
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Shotwell's Saloon 3349 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

The Writers Grotto Celebrates Thirty Years with Words to Save the World
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Words to Save the World features sixteen diverse members of The Writers Grotto sharing words of inspiration, intrigue, and urgency. Join us as we celebrate THIRTY (30!) YEARS of building literary community in the Bay Area and beyond. Check us out at www.writersgrotto.org.
Speakers
avatar for Brad Balukjian

Brad Balukjian

Brad Balukjian is an entomologist and freelance journalist based in Concord. His work has been published in National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, and many others. His latest book, The Six Pack, chronicles his 12,525-mile road trip to track down famous pro wrestlers of the... Read More →
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Leslie Kirk Campbell

Leslie Kirk Campbell’s short story collection, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Sarabande), won the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction. Author of Journey into Motherhood (Riverhead), Leslie has published features in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. She teaches at Ripe... Read More →
avatar for Christopher Cook

Christopher Cook

Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning journalist based in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in national publications such as Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, The... Read More →
avatar for Tara Dorabji

Tara Dorabji

Tara Dorabji is the author of the novel, Call Her Freedom, The Books Like Us Grand Prize Winner, which is available for pre-order at Simon and Schuster. Her documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the... Read More →
avatar for Audrey Ferber

Audrey Ferber

Audrey Ferber's short stories and essays have appeared in the NY Times, the SF Chronicle, LILITH Magazine, INTIMA, New World Writing, First Person Singular, upcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine and elsewhere.
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Anoop Judge

Born and raised in New Delhi, Anoop is the author of four novels, THE RUMMY CLUB which won the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award, THE AWAKENING OF MEENA RAWAT, an excerpt of which was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize, NO ORDINARY THURSDAY, and MERCY and GRACE. Her essays and short... Read More →
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Sabina Khan-Ibarra

Sabina Khan-Ibarra is a writer, poet, and teacher. She is currently working on completing her chapbook titled 'A New Vocabulary' and her novel, 'The Poppy Flower.' Her poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have been published in various journals like and anthologies. She... Read More →
avatar for June Martin

June Martin

June Martin is the author of the novel LOVE/AGGRESSION, short stories in X-R-A-Y, BULL, New Session, and other lit mags, and the artist of a few scattered comic zines. She was a 2024 Lambda Literary fellow.
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Jessica Martinez

Jessica Martinez makes the “Get Over It, Go Out With Somebody Else” zine series, which celebrates breakups using quotes from Wayne’s World. She also writes children’s books, novels and screenplays. Her play “Schooltown Funk,” a satire on public school teaching, had a sold-out... Read More →
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Louise Nayer

Louise Nayer is the award winning author of six books including two books of poems. Burned: A Memoir was an Oprah Great Read and her latest memoir is Narrow Escapes. She has been an educator for over 40 years and is a member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. She has given numerous... Read More →
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Elizabeth Svoboda

Elizabeth Svoboda is an award-winning science writer and contributor to Scientific American, Discover, Aeon, the Boston Globe, and Greater Good. She is the author of What Makes a Hero? (Penguin Random House) and The Life Heroic (Lerner), and she is working on a book about the art... Read More →
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Eleanor Vincent

Eleanor Vincent’s memoir Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage is forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press. It shows her gradual discovery that her husband was neurodivergent and describes how she survived the challenges of a high-conflict marriage. Her earlier memoir, Swimming... Read More →
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Lenore Weiss

Lenore serves as the Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Editor for the Mud Season Review and lives in Oakland, California with Zebra the Brave, Granola the Shy, and John the Mighty. Her environmental novel Pulp into Paper was published this year on Earth Day as was a new poetry collection... Read More →
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Stephanie Wildman

Stephanie Wildman, author of five children’s books, became a Professor Emerita after serving as the John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Chair at Santa Clara Law. She is a grandmother, mother, spouse, friend, good listener, who can sit “criss-cross apple sauce” thanks to her yoga... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF 2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

USF's Invisible City Presents: Constellations of the Seemingly Mundane
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
How have the stars aligned for a perfect moment? How does the simple allow us to build the complex? Join the editors and writers of Invisible City, USF's student-run literary magazine, for a night of stories about how the simplest moments become the tapestry of stars we call this life. In works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we'll mine the mundane for the profoundest truth and allow the cosmos to be a reprieve from the busy.

Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Latin American Club 3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

Veins & Tributaries: A Reading with Diasporic Burmese American Writers
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Explore literary tributaries branching from the Burmese diaspora with poetry, fiction, and memoir. Five authors, each drawing from their ancestral roots in Myanmar, will read new work that explores the intricate geo-political themes of identity, displacement, and legacy.
Speakers
avatar for Maw Shein Win

Maw Shein Win

Maw Shein Win's full-length poetry collection Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn) is forthcoming in Fall 2024. Her collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020) was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She teaches poetry in the MFA Program... Read More →
avatar for Michelle Dunn Marsh

Michelle Dunn Marsh

Michelle Dunn Marsh is a first generation American of Indo-Burmese and Irish descent. She is the author of Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography and editor of The Kid Contracts, a book of family essays. She holds an MS in publishing from Pace University, and a BA from... Read More →
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Audrey T. Williams

Founder, Ancestral Futures
Audrey T. Williams is a Black American poet/writer with Indo-Burmese heritage. She earned her MFA from CCA and is an independent scholar of speculative literary arts. She is Founder at AncestralFutures.org and her poetry is published and forthcoming in several magazines as well as... Read More →
avatar for Kenneth Wong

Kenneth Wong

Kenneth Wong is a Burmese-American author, translator, and language teacher. Born and raised in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), he currently lives in San Francisco, California; and teaches Burmese language at UC Berkeley. His essays, short stories, articles, and poetry translations... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

5:00pm PDT

Warp and Weft
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
A multi-genre group of South Asian writers—poets, journalists, short story writers, and novelists—navigate migration, history, belonging, authenticity, and identity in their lived experiences and work. In this session, these writers will weave these concepts together as they explore the nuances of South Asian storytelling and the challenges and opportunities it affords.

Speakers
avatar for Anita Felicelli

Anita Felicelli

Anita Felicelli is the author of the forthcoming short story collection How We Know Our Time Travelers (December, 2024). Her books include Chimerica: A Novel and the award-winning Love Songs for a Lost Continent. Anita edits Alta Journal‘s California Book Club. She served on the... Read More →
avatar for Devi Laskar

Devi Laskar

Devi S. Laskar is a poet, novelist, photographer, former newspaper reporter and lifelong TarHeel. She is the author of the award-winning The Atlas of Reds and Blues, and recently, Circa. Her third novel, Midnight, At The War is forthcoming from Mariner Books.
avatar for Shikha Malaviya

Shikha Malaviya

Shikha Malaviya is a poet, writer & mentor. Her book of historical persona poetry, Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems (HarperCollins India, 2023) is a unique retelling of the life of India's first female medical doctor and the first Indian woman to study medicine in the United States... Read More →
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Sophia Naz

Sophia Naz has authored Bark Archipelago (Weavers Press, San Francisco & Red River India 2023), Open Zero (Yoda Press 2021) Shehnaz, (Penguin Random House 2019), Pointillism (Copper Coin 2017), Date Palms (City Press 2017), Peripheries (Cyberhex 2015). She is a Pushcart Prize nom... Read More →
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Jaya Padmanabhan

Jaya Padmanabhan is an editor at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and a journalist with bylines in The New York Times, PBS Next Avenue, The San Francisco Examiner, and more. Jaya is the author of “Transactions of Belonging,” a collection of short stories published... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Et Al 2831A Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

Are You There God? It's Me, Donald. A literary relay race by The Castro Writers' Cooperative
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
"Are You There God? It's Me, Donald." A literary relay race! Watch as a story based on a classic book zanily evolves when writers each pen short sections of a tale in their own unique styles, ending in mid-sentence to hand off to another to continue until completed.
Speakers
avatar for Katie Burke

Katie Burke

Katie published the critically acclaimed Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco. A practicing San Francisco attorney, Katie has written judicial and attorney profiles for San Francisco Attorney Magazine. Her other publications include HarperCollins, the L.A... Read More →
avatar for Jeanne Carstensen

Jeanne Carstensen

Jeanne Carstensen is a journalist and author. Her book "A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis" comes out this spring from Simon & Schuster/One Signal.
avatar for Vanessa Chang

Vanessa Chang

Vanessa Chang is a writer, curator, and Director of Programs at Leonardo. She earned a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. Her writing has been published in Wired, Slate, Noema, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Her book, Atlas of the Digital Body, is coming... Read More →
avatar for Andrea Coombes

Andrea Coombes

Andrea Coombes writes about personal finance. She’s also writing a memoir about how becoming a single mother at 24 led her to uncover the unspoken secrets of her elegantly outlandish mother, an Austrian immigrant with a penchant for drugs, drinking and fast driving.
avatar for Nada Djordjevich

Nada Djordjevich

Nada Djordjevich is a writer and filmmaker. A graduate of Harvard and Berkeley, she taught writing at City College in San Francisco and other institutions. Her animated short, California Pie, earned awards at film festivals across the country.
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Susie Hara

Susie Hara is the author of the novel Finder of Lost Objects, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and was awarded an International Latino Book Award. Her stories have appeared in Fractured Lit Anthology II, Fast Girls, and Stirring up a Storm.
avatar for Scott James

Scott James

Scott James is a veteran Emmy Award winning journalist and the author of three books, including "Trial by Fire." He is the co-founder of the Castro Writers' Cooperative, a co-working space for writers in San Francisco.
avatar for Mercilee Jenkins

Mercilee Jenkins

Mercilee Jenkins is a produced playwright, published poet and short story writer. Her latest solo performance, It’s Later Than You was presented by 3Girls Theatre at the Phoenix Theatre in 2024. Her 10-minute play, 50 Love Letters, was performed at The Road Theatre Company’s 2021... Read More →
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Lee Daniel Kravetz

Lee Kravetz is the author of the national bestselling novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia P., as well as acclaimed nonfiction, Strange Contagion and SuperSurvivors. He has written for print and television, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Daily... Read More →
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Shana Mahaffey

Shana Mahaffey is the author of Sounds Like Crazy (NAL/Penguin), a San Francisco Chronicle notable book. She a co-founder of the Castro Writers' Cooperative. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including ALONE TOGETHER. Shana is a childless cat lady living in San Francisco... Read More →
avatar for Tina Myers

Tina Myers

Writer, surfer, and gluestick artist, Tina is the author of the epic fantasy trilogy Legacy of the Heavens. Her work has also appeared in Tor.com and Lithub.com
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Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman is the author of a memoir and two award-winning novels. She is also the founder of LitCamp and Page Street Co-Working for Writers.
avatar for Natacha Ruck

Natacha Ruck

Natacha wants to do it all. She was the managing editor of the beloved podcast Duolingo French and just returned to San Francisco from her first international tour of her solo show: YOU’RE GOOD FOR NOTHING… I’LL MILK THE COW MYSELF, a coming-of-age-war-epic-love-story. She is... Read More →
avatar for Melina Selverston

Melina Selverston

Courage Seeker, The Castro Writers Coop
Melina Selverston writes fiction and journalism about people finding courage, hoping to find some more herself. She is a member of the Castro Writer’s Co-op and Page Street Writers. Before launching her writing career, Melina was an environmental advocate and political science professor... Read More →
avatar for Laura Sydell

Laura Sydell

Laura Sydell is a former NPR Tech Correspondent who now writes screenplays and fiction by regularly asking he self the same question she did covering technology, "What could possibly go wrong." She recently turned to pickleball to stop thinking this way. It hasn't worked.
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Drawing Room Annex - Sponsored by Page Street 599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

Black Lawrence Press Presents: Myth, Magic, and World-Building
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Myth, Magic & Worldbuilding Join Black Lawrence Press authors as we explore visions and possibilities for a turbulent world. This reading will be an antidote to the news and an inspiration for your own creativity.
Speakers
avatar for Adrian Arias

Adrian Arias

Adrian Arias is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of poetry, visual arts, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The SFPL Bookmobile

6:30pm PDT

Decentered Arts Presents: Between Hills—A Walk through San Francisco
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Join Decentered Arts for "Between Hills: A Walk through San Francisco," a poetry reading celebrating the city's vibrant culture. From the eclectic Haight-Ashbury to the artistic Mission District, immerse yourself in verses that evoke San Francisco's iconic hills, hidden gems, and the unique spirit that defines this city.
Speakers
avatar for Liz Cahill

Liz Cahill

Liz Cahill is a poet, producer and curator based in the Mission. Her writing explores the impacts of late stage capitalism, income inequality and waste, while trying to find beauty in the garbage age. She’s the co-founder of Decentered Arts, a non-profit building resilient community... Read More →
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Maya Cowan

I’m a San Francisco native who started writing poetry after her grandfather passed, who also wrote poetry. I think poetry can make the most ordinary of experiences extraordinary but I also like to write personal poetry as well. Hope you mmm and snap when you resonate.
avatar for Rhea Joseph

Rhea Joseph

Rhea Joseph is a poet, curator, and event producer who comes from a family of artists and entrepreneurs. She finds power through community and can be found exploring the boundaries of art with experimental performances and unique collaborations. Rhea is currently working on her first... Read More →
avatar for Elise Liu

Elise Liu

Products & Ops, Captain401
Elise Liu is an immigrant third-culture kid writer, immersive artist, and technologist. Her words have been published or are forthcoming in BULL, Rattle, The Found Poetry Review, Thought Catalog, and corporate digital trashcans around the world. She is the recipient of the 2023 Paper... Read More →
avatar for Billy Song

Billy Song

Billy Suiren Song is a film-maker and poet based in San Francisco. He hosts a weekly open mic at the Center SF and leads a writing group at the Page street writers co-working space. He and his creative partner Liz Cahill founded an arts non-profit, Decentered Arts, in 2023. He graduated... Read More →
avatar for Brian Tierney

Brian Tierney

Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford, and a graduate of Bennington’s Writing Seminars, he teaches poetry at The Writing Salon and in Dominican University’s Low-Res MFA program... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Chapel Parking Lot 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

6:30pm PDT

Every Tuesday for 78+ Years: San Francisco Writers Workshop
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Founded in 1946, the San Francisco Writers Workshop meets on Tuesday nights, providing a forum for writers in any genre to share their work-in-progress and receive constructive feedback. This free, drop-in critique group currently gathers weekly in the Mission’s Noisebridge makerspace. Our Lit Crawl event features emerging and seasoned writers.
Speakers
avatar for Ken Grosserode

Ken Grosserode

Ken Grosserode is an attorney and writer in San Francisco. He lives with his partner in what was once a nunnery. His influences include Iris Murdoch, Donna Tarrt, and the ghosts of various Catholic nuns.
avatar for Karen Gu

Karen Gu

Karen Gu is a software engineer and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work explores power, identity and feminism through science fiction, fantasy, and friends.
avatar for Jiyoung Han

Jiyoung Han

Jiyoung Han is a writer from Seoul, South Korea. She daylights as a sustainability researcher looking to make carbon reduction easier for everyone. Her writing often uses fantastical elements to examine the impacts of colonialism on people's day-to-day lives.
avatar for Kurt Wallace Martin

Kurt Wallace Martin

Kurt is a fiction writer, focused on strange tales of idiocy and culture, inspired by Northern California
avatar for Judy Viertel

Judy Viertel

Judy Viertel has been published in Gargoyle Magazine, Gold Dust Magazine, Identity Theory, and Short Story America: Anthology Five. She’s one of four moderators for that venerable but ornery West Coast institution, the San Francisco Writers Workshop. If you were wondering if she... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Noisebridge 272 Capp St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

Happy Endings
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Artists aren’t great at being happy. Anyone paying attention can get bummed out pretty easily too. Happy Endings is here to help! This monthly, literary mixtape (every 2nd Tuesday at the Make-Out Room) invites writers, poets, and comedians to contemplate the upside and the audience to judge them.
Speakers
avatar for Monique Jenkinson

Monique Jenkinson

Monique Jenkinson is an artist, choreographer, performer and writer. Her alter-ego Fauxnique made herstory as the first cis-woman ever, anywhere, crowned as a pageant-winning drag queen, and her original works have toured nationally and internationally in wide-ranging contexts from... Read More →
avatar for Denise Masiel

Denise Masiel

Denise Masiel is a Caribbean-American essayist and poet from Texas. She is a storyteller dedicated to the art of capturing feelings of warmth, passion, and visceral emotions in her work. Her poetry has been published in The Ana and Mujer Manifesto, and she is an active spoken word... Read More →
avatar for Dena Rod

Dena Rod

Managing Editor, Argot Magazine
Dena Rod is a non-binary writer whose work has been highlighted in My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Autostraddle, and The Rumpus. Their debut poetry collection Scattered Arils is now in its fourth print run from Milk and Cake Press. They're currently at work... Read More →
avatar for Danna Staaf

Danna Staaf

Danna Staaf fell in love with octopuses when she was ten, earned a PhD in marine biology some years later, and now works as a science communicator. She is the author of numerous award-winning books for adults and children.
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

If I Had Known: The Light and Shadow of Queer Parenting
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Buckle up for a rollercoaster ride through the exhilarating highs and gut-wrenching lows of queer parenting. We'll serve up unfiltered truth bombs about love, heartaches, and the fierce resilience of LGBTQ+ families. We will pull back the curtain on the raw, messy beauty of being a queer parent or an ally of a queer child. Get ready for real talk, fierce vulnerability, and a whole lot of heart. This event will leave you feeling seen, heard, and ready to embrace the badassery of queer parenthood.
Speakers
avatar for Tijanna Eaton

Tijanna Eaton

Tijanna O. Eaton (Tə-zha-na) is a Black, queer butch writer whose work appears in Honey Literary, Noyo Review, Yellow Arrow Vignette, and Panorama Journal.  She received the 2021 Unicorn Authors Club Alumni award, was a 2023 Rooted & Written Fellow, and is the 2024 Best of the Net... Read More →
avatar for Doug Henderson

Doug Henderson

Doug Henderson is the author of the novel The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club, and a winner of the PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Short Édition, Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape, and elsewhere... Read More →
avatar for Marianne Lonsdale

Marianne Lonsdale

Marianne Lonsdale writes personal essays, fiction, and poetry. She’s looking for an agent for her first novel, Finding Nora, a story set in Oakland in 1991 about love and friendship during the AIDs epidemic. Her work has been published in Literary Mama, Grown and Flown, Pulse and... Read More →
avatar for Samantha Rajaram

Samantha Rajaram

Samantha Rajaram is the author of the historical fiction novel THE COMPANY DAUGHTERS, a 2021 Golden Crown Literary Society winner for debut fiction and a finalist for the 2021 Bisexual Book Awards. Her novel was also longlisted for the Historical Writer's Association (HWA) award... Read More →
avatar for Britta Stromeyer

Britta Stromeyer

Stromeyer is the author of Look At Me. Who Do You See? praised by Maia Kobabe as a “A sweet, sparkly story about letting your true self shine.”  Her flash appears in Flash Fiction Magazine, Bending Genres Journal, & elsewhere. She teaches creative writing and is a member of... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Blondie's Bar 540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

Manic D 40th Anniversary
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Founded in 1984, Manic D Press began originally as a poetry publisher and then expanded to include fiction, graphic novels, creative nonfiction, travel, art, photography, and radical kids' books. At our 40th Anniversary Show, Editor/Publisher Jennifer Joseph hosts an award-winning cadre of the Bay Area’s great writing talent, all published over the years by San Francisco’s Manic D Press. Featuring new works and greatest hits, poetry, fiction, essays, and more. Over the years, reviews have described our writers as hip, edgy, and evocatives. Some of the biggest writers in contemporary literature were first published by Manic D, and our award-winning authors are some of the best writers in the Bay Area.
Speakers
avatar for Jennifer Blowdryer

Jennifer Blowdryer

I wrote Good Advice for Young Trendy People of all Ages (manic D press, SF)
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Thea Hillman

Thea Hillman is an award-winning writer and activist. Called a “radical” in a special report by the Traditional Values Coalition, her groundbreaking memoir, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), won a Lambda Award. She also won the Tag-Team Haiku Championship at the Albuquerque... Read More →
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Jennifer Joseph

Jennifer Joseph has been publisher and editor of Manic D Press since its founding in 1984. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She’s eternally optimistic, in general, but also a little cranky given... Read More →
avatar for Jon Longhi

Jon Longhi

Jon Longhi is the author of four books of fiction: The Rise And Fall Of Third Leg, Flashbacks And Premonitions, Bricks And Anchors, and Wake Up And Smell The Beer. He regularly writes concert reviews for NBC BayArea.com.
avatar for Larry-Bob Roberts

Larry-Bob Roberts

Larry-bob Roberts published the zine Holy Titclamps and his collection of queer satirical rants, The International Homosexual Conspiracy, was published by Manic D Press. He is a clothed civil servant.
avatar for Denise Sullivan

Denise Sullivan

Denise Sullivan is author of Keep On Pushing:Black Power Music From Blues to Hip Hop; editor of YourGolden Sun Still Shines, co-editor andcontributor to The City Is Already Speaking poetry series,and a maker of chapbooks, including Len Chandler:Shadow Dream Chaser of Rainbows
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Manny’s 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

6:30pm PDT

Party Like It's 1999 (in 2024): Bingo Bash Celebrating 25 Years of The Writing Salon
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Who’s up for some literary B-I-N-G-O? Grab a bingo card packed with 25 electric, absurd, and hilarious words or phrases to listen for throughout this rousing reading with voices from our community. Then let’s toast to 25 years at The Writing Salon!
Speakers
avatar for Ann Guy

Ann Guy

Ann Guy is a writer and recovering engineer who grew up in Western Michigan and now lives in Oakland, CA. Her writing and interviews have appeared in CRAFT Literary, River Teeth (Beautiful Things), Sweet Lit, Entropy, MUTHA, Ekphrastic Review, Literary Mama, Motherwell, Terrain.org... Read More →
avatar for Katharine Harer

Katharine Harer

Katharine’s poems have been published in seven small press collections. Her latest, Deconfliction, is from fmsbw press in S.F. A story, It’s Something, is due out from University of Texas Rio Grande this fall. Katharine taught at Skyline College for over thirty years and currently... Read More →
avatar for Alison Luterman

Alison Luterman

I am the author of four books of poetry and an e-book of personal essays. I have published in The New York Times, Poetry 180, The Sun, Rattle, and many other journals and anthologies.
avatar for Rowena Leong Singer

Rowena Leong Singer

Rowena Leong Singer is published in The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, Narrative Magazine, and KQED’s Perspectives. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she was awarded the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction. She is an associate editor at... Read More →
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Andy Touhy

Fiction Instructor, The Writing Salon
Andrew R. Touhy is the author of Designs for a Magician’s Top Hat, winner of the inaugural Yemassee Fiction Chapbook Prize. He is also a recipient of the San Francisco Browning Society’s Dramatic Monologue Award and Fourteen Hills Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. You can... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Latin American Club 3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

SWANA Stories
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The event celebrates the diverse and complex identities within SWANA, Arab, and Muslim communities. Featuring powerful stories from various backgrounds, it promotes inclusivity, challenges stereotypes, and amplifies marginalized voices to create a more positive and representative media and literary landscape.
Speakers
avatar for Justin Ebrahemi

Justin Ebrahemi

Justin Ebrahemi is a Persian American arts writer, dance marketer, and poet based in San Francisco. His personal writing explores the queer Iranian American diaspora, Jewish identity, gender expression and mental health. He recently published his second collection of poetry entitled... Read More →
avatar for Antony Fangary

Antony Fangary

Antony Fangary is a writer and visual artist living in San Francisco. He was awarded the 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and is the author of HARAM (Etched Press 2019).
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Sabina Khan-Ibarra

Sabina Khan-Ibarra is a writer, poet, and teacher. She is currently working on completing her chapbook titled 'A New Vocabulary' and her novel, 'The Poppy Flower.' Her poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have been published in various journals like and anthologies. She... Read More →
avatar for Lama Rimawi

Lama Rimawi

Dr. Lama Rimawi is a pediatrician, author and advocate for human rights and children's health. She is a San Francisco Writer’s Grotto Rooted & Written Fellow and was recently interviewed by PBS's Judy Woodruff for her work with Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom. She is co-founder of the... Read More →
avatar for Liala Zaray

Liala Zaray

Liala Zaray holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary’s College of California. where she was a Risk Press fellow. She has won poetry prizes from Palette Poetry, Smartish Pace and Tinderbox Poetry, in addition to others. Liala is currently working on her first collection of poems.
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

The Center for the Art of Translation Presents: So You Think You Can Translate?
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Show off your skills and maybe learn some new ones while translating poems from all over the world. No need to be a poet. No second language required. Equipped with a glossary, guided by local translators and Poetry Inside Out contributors, with the encouragement of friends (or of the liquid variety), you'll dismantle and reassemble the poem in a new language. Translation of poetry by its nature offers multiple possibilities: since there is no single “correct” rendering of a poem, be prepared to share and defend your language choices. Who knows? Maybe it will change your entire relationship with language? With collaboration? With creation?
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
826 Valencia St 826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

The Crawling Parliamentarians
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The seasoned locals of the Older Writer's Lab will bring their best poetry and flash memoir to the subjects of finding one's voice, finding one's community, and making a place for oneself in the vibrant and unpredictable ecosystem of the arts.
Speakers
avatar for Sharon Elswit

Sharon Elswit

Storyteller, book reviewer, former children's librarian, practicing poet, and author of The Latin American Story Finder, The Jewish Story Finder, The Caribbean Story Finder, The East Asian Story Finder, and Animal Homes.
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Sharn Matusek

Sharn Matusek, English teacher for 40 years, often included poetry/art/music/film in literature units and elicited student’s own creative forays for projects. At 17, she first met a poem to earn love: T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock; one to implode her brain: Sylvia Plath’s Daddy; and... Read More →
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Brenda McManus

Published Noe Valley Voice. The Bernal Journal. Pacific Sun, Marin Agricultural Land Trust. Tambourine, collection, memoir , poetry with nine women authors.
avatar for Daniel Raskin

Daniel Raskin

Daniel Raskin is a retired preschool teacher and lives on Bernal Hill. He writes with The Older Writers Laboratory at the Bernal Library, with Laguna Writers and with The MERI Center at U.C.S.F. He is a photographer and post-modern dancer. Daniel is a grandfather.
avatar for Pauline Crowther Scott

Pauline Crowther Scott

Pauline lived in London where she taught art in high schools and made wall hangings. She moved to San Francisco in 1980 where she taught art and continued to paint. After retiring from teaching she joined the OWL writing group and plunged into poetry. She continues to write with the... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Dog Eared Books 900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

The End of the World as We Know It
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Flash fiction—stories under 1,000 words—has become the perfect form to capture the precariousness of our increasingly fragmented lives. The Bay Area is a hub of flash fiction, so this event will feature some of the region’s premier writers reading their stories … and leading the audience in a flash of writing.
Speakers
avatar for Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari, Flash Fiction Collective co-founder, Writers Grotto and Page Street member, is author of the collection Stealing the Fire and stories published in New Flash Fiction Review, Ms., Big Other, Denver Quarterly, Long Island Noir, Nothing Short of 100, and dozens of other... Read More →
avatar for Jane Marchant

Jane Marchant

Jane Marchant is an interdisciplinary storyteller whose work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Guernica, Apogee, Catapult, Columbia Journal, Kweli Journal, Evergreen Review, and elsewhere. She is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Gestalt Craft Beer Bar 3159 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

6:30pm PDT

The Upward Spiral: Writers Speak to San Francisco’s Resilient Urban Culture
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Urban environments play a special role in American culture, providing safety, sanctuary, and community for many, including immigrants, people of color, low-income and LGBTQ people. This intergenerational group of authors and activists who have deep roots in San Francisco and are involved in ecological and social justice movements will temper some media pundits' "doom loop" narrative of fear and despair with tales of cultural survival and innovation. We speak from our experiences and read from our work.

Speakers
avatar for Joan Gelfand

Joan Gelfand

Author of three poetry collections, a novel and a book for writers, Joan’s memoir, .“Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution” won the International Book Award. Joan’s work appears in Huffington Post, LA Review of Books, SF Chronicle and more. Joan is listed in... Read More →
avatar for Thaddeus Howze

Thaddeus Howze

Attendee, Krypton Radio
Thaddeus Howze is an award-winning writer, editor, and podcaster creating speculative fiction, scientific, political and cultural commentary from his office in Hayward, California. He's published two books, Hayward's Reach (2011), a collection of short stories and Broken Glass (2013... Read More →
avatar for Miah Jeffra

Miah Jeffra

Editor, Foglifter Press
Miah Jeffra is author of four books—most recently The Violence Almanac (finalist for several awards, including the Grace Paley and Robert C Jones Book Prizes) and the novel American Gospel, finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award—and is co-editor of the anthology Home is Where You... Read More →
avatar for Aya de Leon

Aya de Leon

Aya de León teaches writing at UC Berkeley. Her award-winning novels focus climate and social justice. She has been featured in The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and on Def Poetry. Her online conference Black Literature vs. the Climate Emergency is available on YouTube. She... Read More →
avatar for Alvin Orloff

Alvin Orloff

author
Alvin Orloff is the author of four extremely queer novels as well as "Disasterama!" - a finalist for the Lambda Literary award for Gay Memoir. He spends his days running Fabulosa Books, a literary hotspot in San Francisco's Castro District and doting on his cats Pretty Pie and Captain... Read More →
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Truong Tran

Adjunct Professor, Mills College At Northeastern University
Truong Tran is an artist, Wirter and teacher. He is the author of 9 10 books including Looking and Seeing and Book of the Other, recipient of the American Book Award
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

Tuesday Night Social Annual Experiment: Eight Writers Walk into a Story
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Not your usual reading! Join the Tuesday Night Social Writing Group for their ninth annual experiment, featuring eight linked flash pieces by eight writers. In a bizarre twist, each piece serves as the prompt for the one that follows. Watch as themes and motifs rise, fall, and resurface. Not even the writers know what to expect—this will be their first time hearing all the stories, too.
Speakers
avatar for Heather Bourbeau

Heather Bourbeau

Heather Bourbeau’s award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times, The Kenyon Review, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia. Her latest poetry collection, Monarch, examines... Read More →
avatar for Andrew Dugas

Andrew Dugas

Andrew O. Dugas's work has appeared in Unlikely Stories, 100 Word Story, Crack the Spine, and many other places. His novel Sleepwalking in Paradise was published in 2014 by Numina Press. Play your cards right, and he'll mail you a haiku.
avatar for Matt Leibel

Matt Leibel

Matt Leibel lives in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in over 60 publications, including Best Small Fictions 2024. Find him wandering aimlessly through the shelves of local bookstores, or on twitter at @matt_leibel.
avatar for Tony Acarasiddhi Press

Tony Acarasiddhi Press

Tony Press tries to pay attention. Sometimes he does. His story collection, Crossing the Lines, was published by Big Table. He claims 2 Pushcart nominations, 12 years in the same high school classroom, and, yes, 25 criminal jury trials. He treasures walking the streets of his beloved... Read More →
avatar for Anne Trausch

Anne Trausch

Anne Trausch honed her writer’s ear on the musicality of rural Nebraska’s regional dialects, where she grew up. When she’s not eavesdropping on birdsong, or traveling, you’ll find her renaming global conglomerates. Okay it was just the one and she’s probably not supposed... Read More →
avatar for Rachel Wong

Rachel Wong

Rachel Wong has worked as a researcher, writer, audio producer, and adjunct professor. Leveraging her background in applied social science, she explores weird feelings and behaviors in her creative writing. She has a super cute dog with an underbite.
avatar for Liz Worthy

Liz Worthy

Liz Worthy has shown her art at Intersection for the Arts, The Roxie, 826 Valencia, Ruby’s Clay Studio, Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, and the Pacific Ocean (where messages in bottles bob towards Japan). Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and The Bold Ital... Read More →
avatar for Sonya Worthy

Sonya Worthy

Sonya Worthy has interviewed and photographed people reading books in every U.S. state except Alaska. She left her heart and San Francisco and is studying Chinese, and teaching English Language Arts in Taiwan to students who produce massive amounts of fiction when paid in candy and... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Shotwell's Saloon 3349 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

What’s the Buzz: The Hive Poetry Collective Chats Up the Audience
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Hive Poetry Collective--a national podcast/radio series produced by Santa Cruz women poets--will speed-interview audience members. Like literary speed dating, we'll draw poetic nectar from volunteer "blooms."  
Speakers
avatar for Julia Chiapella

Julia Chiapella

Julia Chiapella’s poetry has appeared in Edison Literary Review,I-70 Review, The MacGuffin, Midwest Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, Pirene’s Fountain, The Round, The Wax Paper, and West Branch among others. She co-founded Santa Cruz Writes and is the retired director of the Young... Read More →
avatar for Farnaz Fatemi

Farnaz Fatemi

Farnaz Fatemi is Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate, an Academy of American Poetry Laureate Fellow, and author of the poetry collection, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر. Her poems and essays appear in Alaska Quarterly, Catamaran Literary Reader, Kenyon Review, No Tokens Journal, Poets.org... Read More →
avatar for Julie Murphy

Julie Murphy

Julie Murphy’s poems appear in River Heron, Chicago Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Massachusetts Review, CALYX, Louisville Review and SWWIM, among other journals. A member of Community of Writers, she taught poetry at Salinas Valley State Prison. With the Hive Poetry Collective... Read More →
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Dion O'Reilly

Dion O'Reilly is the author of Sadness of the Apex Predator, Ghost Dogs; and Limerence, a finalist for the John Pierce Chapbook Competition Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, Slowdown, and Alaska Quarterly. A reader for Catamaran, she splits her time between Soquel... Read More →
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Roxi Power

Roxi Power's book, The Songs That Objects Would Sing was published Fall 2023. She podcasts with The Hive Poetry Collective. She founded the trans-genre anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts, at UC Santa Cruz where she teaches. Roxi performs Live Film Narration, or “Neo-Benshi" nationally... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

Why We Love YA
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Speakers
avatar for Lio Min

Lio Min

Lio Min is the acclaimed author of Beating Heart Baby, a longtime music reporter, a MacDowell fellow, and a fullmetal optimist. The L.O.V.E. Club is their second novel. Min lives in Oakland, California, and writes toward the future.
avatar for Samanaz R. Nesh

Samanaz R. Nesh

I am an arts and culture journalist, a 2024 Community of Writers participant, a member of San Francisco's Writers Grotto and Page Street, a 2023 fellow of Rooted and Written, and a 2024/25 recipient of Creekside Arts Residency and Wassaic Project. My short stories and novelette have... Read More →
avatar for Aimee Phan

Aimee Phan

Aimee Phan's debut YA novel The Lost Queen will be published May 2025 from Putnam. She is the author of We Should Never Meet: Stories and the novel The Reeducation of Cherry Truong. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, USA Today and CNN.com among others. Aimee teaches... Read More →
avatar for Shannon Takaoka

Shannon Takaoka

Shannon Takaoka is the author of two young adult novels, Everything I Thought I Knew and The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family, where she also works as a business writer and editor. Find her online at www.shannontakaokawrites.com... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Drawing Room Mission Street Annex 2675 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

6:30pm PDT

Witches Who Write
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Join writerly witches Diana Helmuth, Allie Marini, KR Morrison, Beth Winegarner, and Lauren Parker in a reading of spells, bewitchments, and literary magic. From poetry to fiction to memoir, these literary sorceresses with dazzle and delight you.
Speakers
avatar for Diana Helmuth

Diana Helmuth

Diana Helmuth is an award-winning nonfiction author, exploring modern spirituality, the outdoors, and other millennial culture trends and through humor and immersion journalism. Her first book, "How to Suffer Outside," won the National Outdoor Book Award for best instructional, and... Read More →
avatar for Allie Marini

Allie Marini

Allie Marini is a Florida woman, cross-genre writer, visual artist, maker, and tarot reader. She runs Creepy Girl Trap PDX, where she dresses goths & slings cards. Find her online: @creepygirltrap.pdx www.alliemarini.com www.creepygirltrap.com
avatar for K.R. Morrison

K.R. Morrison

K.R. Morrison is a Bay Area poet, drummer, and teen educator who since the pandemic, splits her time between San Francisco and a place she calls Mermaid Town, in Southern California. Morrison is a two-time Pushcart nominee and has featured for several curations and podcasts for her... Read More →
avatar for Lauren Parker

Lauren Parker

Lauren Parker is a fourth generation female breadwinner descended from male charlatans, and thus has grown up to become a very educated liar. She’s the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods (Bottlecap Press, 2023), The Dark Way Down (Animal Heart Press... Read More →
avatar for Beth Winegarner

Beth Winegarner

Beth Winegarner is a journalist and author who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many more. Her most recent book, “San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History” maps the city’s current and former graveyards and uncovers... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Sour Cherry Comics 3187 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

6:30pm PDT

Write from the Gut: A Night with SF Creative Writing Institute
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
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Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Et Al 2831A Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

6:30pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Fall All-Stars
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
ZYZZYVA All-Stars: New Beginnings! New look, new editor, and ready for the future. Come celebrate San Francisco's venerated literary journal with contributors Lucy Corin, Michael Jaime-Becerra, and Perry Janes and ZYZZYVA Editor Oscar Villalon. Featuring short readings and a whole lot of socializing.  
Speakers
avatar for Perry Janes

Perry Janes

Perry Janes is the author of Find Me When You're Ready (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books). A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared in POETRY, Electric Literature, Poem-a-Day, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. He splits his time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles... Read More →
avatar for Oscar Villalon

Oscar Villalon

Managing Editor, ZYZZYVA
Oscar Villalon is the editor at the San Francisco literary journal ZYZZYVA, winner of a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize in 2022. His writing has been published in Stranger’s Guide, Freeman’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He lives with his family... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF 2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

Bow & Arrow Circus Presents: The Witching Hour
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Spellbinding tales of the haunting and haunted, the loved and the lost, the trapped and the tricksters. The Witching Hour features Bay Area authors accompanied by the local circus collective Bow & Arrow. Come for a night of chills and thrills as our poets, contortionist, and pole and aerial hoop dancers invite ghosts, witches, and monsters into our midst.
Speakers
avatar for Amy K. Bell

Amy K. Bell

Amy K. Bell is raising her children in Oakland. When she is not writing, Amy is the director of the nonprofit, Josie's Place. Most of her work is invisible, but some of it can be found in print and online at amykbell.com.
avatar for Susan Calvillo

Susan Calvillo

Susan Calvillo is a Chinese/Mexican-American and a dead-on-her-feet mother of twins. She’s the author of Excerpts From My Grocery List (Beard of Bees). Her short works appear in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nightmare, the Audacious Women Anthology, Zyzzyva, and other... Read More →
avatar for Genie Cartier

Genie Cartier

Genie Cartier is a San Francisco native. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in English/ Creative Writing and earned an MFA in Creative Writing/ Poetry from SFSU. In the past, she worked for UCLA's literary journal Westwind, and later created her own journal called Autolycus. She has... Read More →
avatar for Lena Alison Knight

Lena Alison Knight

Lena Alison Knight is the author of the Gift of the Stars space opera trilogy, and various short fiction. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area. Find her online at lenaalisonknight.com.
avatar for Ivy Leon

Ivy Leon

Meet Ivy, a pole performer and instructor with a passion for conjuring characters through aerial experiments. Born in Los Angeles, she found her circus home in vibrant San Francisco with Bow & Arrow Circus. Ivy dazzles with her metal stick skills or works her behind-the-scenes magic... Read More →
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Muriel Leung

University of Southern California
Muriel Leung is the author of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company), the Poetry Society of America’s 2022 Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press), and Images Seen to Images... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
San Francisco Mime Troupe 855 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

Casting the Memory Net Wide: Stories at the Heart of Who We Are
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Laughter. Tears. Stories that linger. Sensory details and strong emotions. Our readers will share stories and also invite you to write your own memories into a physical web that will become part of this communal event. Join us to listen and to be part of creating a literary art installation!
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avatar for Connie Baechler

Connie Baechler

CONNIE BAECHLER's work has appeared in Kalliope, Pearl Magazine, Hurricane Review and Desire: Women Write About Wanting (Seal Press). She is an alum of Ellen Sussman and Elizabeth Stark’s Sonoma County Writers Camp and Joyce Maynard’s Write by the Lake workshop. Connie is grateful... Read More →
avatar for Max Bidasha

Max Bidasha

Max Bidasha is a Two-Spirit, disabled, Indigenous, Mexican, Punjabi, German, poet, playwright, and director living with stage IV cancer. His debut book of poetry, The Pros and Cons of Dying is out now!
avatar for Deidre Cavazzi

Deidre Cavazzi

Deidre Cavazzi is a storyteller and choreographer based in the North Bay. She is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Dominican University and is published in Orca, Lunch Ticket, Rust & Moth, and Silicon Republic. She has been an artist-in-residence in far flung places like Iceland... Read More →
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Meg Neville

Meg Neville is a reader turned writer and professional costume designer who is currently writing letters to Saint Augustine, (lovingly) blaming him and his Confessions for western Patriarchy, the pleasure/curse of memory, and her lapsed Catholic guilt, of course.
avatar for Angelica Recierdo

Angelica Recierdo

Angelica Recierdo is the daughter of Filipino immigrants and grew up on the Jersey Shore. She holds an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University and a B.S. in Nursing from Northeastern University. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, at Dominican University... Read More →
avatar for Nichole Turnbloom

Nichole Turnbloom

Nichole Turnbloom works to spark joy, alleviate pain and facilitate connection through creativity and movement, which is not unlike the process of writing poetry. When not working or attempting to stay centered at the pottery wheel, she can be found drinking copious amounts of tea... Read More →
avatar for Carson Wignall

Carson Wignall

After a hiatus from graduate school, Carson embraced poetry but needed a writing community, which he found in the Dominican University MFA program. He’s honored to collaborate with his friend and classmate Deidre Cavazzi and is grateful for everyone’s contribution to this eve... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Noisebridge 272 Capp St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Book launch event and signing featuring Giant Robot founder Eric Nakamura in conversation with illustrator Felicia Chiao and Adam Pfahler of the band Jawbreaker.
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Silver Sprocket 1018 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

Kick-Ass Women Protagonists
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Join us in genre, as five fabulous women authors read tales of protagonists making their way in worlds strange, fantastic, fraught, and utterly imaginative.
Speakers
avatar for Gail Carriger

Gail Carriger

Gail Carriger has multiple NYT bestsellers and millions of books in print in dozens of different languages. She writes book hugs - comedies of manners mixed with steampunk, urban fantasy, or sci-fi (and cozy queer joy as GL Carriger). She is best known for the Parasol Protectorate... Read More →
avatar for Katie Flynn

Katie Flynn

Katie M. Flynn’s short fiction has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, Tor.com, and elsewhere. She’s been awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her first novel, The Companions, came out in... Read More →
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M. Luke McDonell

Speculative Fiction Writer
M. Luke McDonell's five-minutes-into-the-future fiction explores the effects of emerging technology on individuals and society. Her work has appeared in publications including Shoreline of Infinity, The Overcast, The Arcanist, Perihelion, Wyldblood Press, New Reader Magazine, and... Read More →
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Andrea Stewart

Andrea Stewart is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Drowning Empire trilogy and a writing coach at The Novelry. She lives in sunny California, and in addition to writing, can be found herding cats, looking at birds, and falling down research rabbit holes.
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Kimberly Unger

Kimberly Unger is the author of the Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award-winning novel “The Extractionist”. She created her first videogame back when the 80-column card was the new hotness and this turned her literary love of science fiction into a full blown obsession with the intersection... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Latin American Club 3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

KQED Presents: ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? with Baruch Porras Hernandez
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? has been showcasing the literary talents of Latinx writers since 2014. Host Baruch Porras Hernandez showcases the work of Latin American and POC writers by bringing their work to life on stage with dynamic and creative performances! This show has been a part of Lit Crawl for years and will remind you how exciting the literary words of Brown BIPOC authors can be! With musical guest Manny Baltazar of Cat Behavior, poetry by Leticia Hernandez, and comedy by Weyam!
Speakers
avatar for Manuel Baltazar

Manuel Baltazar

Cat Behavior started as the collaborative musical/visual project of brothers Manny and Ricardo Baltazar. Born and raised in Los Angeles and now living in San Francisco, California, the duo co-wrote and self produced three singles between 2018-2021: Good Morning Goodbye, Melancholy... Read More →
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Weyam Ghadbian

Weyam identifies less as a comic, and more as a guy, standing in front of a crowd, asking them to love them. They grew up Syrian and Muslim in the South, which was not not hard. For work, they facilitate conflict workshops for social justice groups, motivated by the pure Gemini desire... Read More →
avatar for Ann Guy

Ann Guy

Ann Guy is a writer and recovering engineer who grew up in Western Michigan and now lives in Oakland, CA. Her writing and interviews have appeared in CRAFT Literary, River Teeth (Beautiful Things), Sweet Lit, Entropy, MUTHA, Ekphrastic Review, Literary Mama, Motherwell, Terrain.org... Read More →
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Leticia Hernández-Linares

Leticia Hernández-Linares is an award-winning, interdisciplinary, bilingual writer, artist, & educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl & Alejandria Fights Back! ¡La lucha de Alejandria! She has lived, created, taught, performed & protested in the Mission District... Read More →
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Baruch Porras-Hernandez

Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a writer, performer, organizer, professional MC/Host, curator, stand up comedian, and the author of the chapbooks “I Miss You, Delicate” and “Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle” both with Sibling Rivalry Press. He had the honor of touring with the legendary... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

Life Lines: BIPOCs Staying Sane in a Crazy World
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Readings/Q & A with two Black writers who work as paralegals while winning fellowships and prizes, getting books published and building a Substack following; a Black/Japanese educator who’s navigated the wilds of China and SF Unified; and an uppity Japanese American art director who fell into community writing by accident.
Speakers
avatar for James Cagney

James Cagney

Oakland born poet James Cagney is the author of two books of poetry, including MARTIAN: The Saint of Loneliness, winner of 2021 James Laughlin Award from Academy of American Poets. Please Visit JamesCagneyPoet.com
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Dondi Dancy

Dondi Dancy is a writer, content creator, and career paralegal. A 2024 Anaphora Arts Publishing Program fiction cohort, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brown Sugar Literary, The Happening, and Kaidankai: Ghost & Supernatural Stories. When not writing, she enjoys domestic... Read More →
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Chris Perkins

Christl Rikka Perkins is a Black/Japanese fiction writer and teacher living in Oakland, CA. She was a freelance writer and teacher in China for 8 years. Christl is a member of WriteNow!-SF Writers Workshop and was published in Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color.
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Shizue Seigel

Shizue Seigel, director of Write Now! SF Bay, is a Japanese American writer and artist who explores intersections of history and culture from farm labor camps to corporate America. A VONA/Voices fellow, Jefferson Award recipient, and San Francisco resident, her eighth book is “Uncommon... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Gestalt Craft Beer Bar 3159 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

8:00pm PDT

Redefining Masculinity: Reclaiming the Power of Vulnerable Storytelling
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Speakers
avatar for Juan Amador

Juan Amador

Juan Amador is a performer from South Central Los Angeles. His poems have been included in the literary journal Mobile Data Mag and anthologies from Beyond The Veil Press, Golden Foothill Press and Poetic Underground LLC Press.
avatar for Gabriel “VOTH” Acosta

Gabriel “VOTH” Acosta

VOTH, a beacon guiding lost travelers “home.” Dieagnosis was released with Riot of Roses Publishing House, and he contributed to Beneath the Soil vol iii: Queer Survivors of Sexual Assault with Time to Tell and Braver Collective. Coffee, Waffles, + Poetry is his show for survivors... Read More →
avatar for Carlos Ornelas

Carlos Ornelas

Carlos Ornelas is a Mexican American poet and spoken word Artist from Los Angeles. He is the Author of 2 poetry collections, Ketchup and Villains Vernacular. His works have been published througout and he is an active member in the literary community. He is associated with Cal Poets... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room Mission Street Annex 2675 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

8:00pm PDT

SF Leonard Cohen Festival Preview with Conspiracy of Beards
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Bending Leonard Cohen into new, evocative forms is the mission of the Annual November San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival. Enjoy a preview of the 2024 festival featuring Conspiracy of Beards.
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room Annex - Sponsored by Page Street 599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

Somos Xicanas: The Enduring and New Mujer
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Riot of Roses Press welcomes contributors to Somos Xicanas, the first Xicana anthology in decades. Through poetry and prose these accomplished Xicana writers reveal and explore the diverse ways Xicana identity impacts lifestyle, education, brown female empowerment, spirituality, motherhood, Indigenous activism, and La Lucha.
Speakers
avatar for Scott Russell Duncan

Scott Russell Duncan

Scott Russell Duncan, a Xicano writer, is director of Palabras del Pueblo, a writing workshop for raza. His novel, Old California Strikes Back, a magic memoir and meta-novel is published through FlowerSong Press. www.scottrussellduncan.com
avatar for Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo

Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo

Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo is a visual artist, poet, and facilitator based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Her work is influenced by her Indigenous Mesoamerican ancestry, Mexika (Aztec) artwork and philosophy, Mexican culture, Raza history, and her experiences as an... Read More →
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Luz Schweig

Luz Schweig is the lead editor of the Somos Xicanas anthology project at Somos en escrito Press. Luz ran an international women's poetry journal for ten years, has worked as an editor and ghost writer in a variety of projects for 20 years. Luz grew up in México City.
avatar for Blanca Torres

Blanca Torres

Blanca Torres grew up on the dry, eastern side of Washington state. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College She has worked as a reporter for several major newspapers and now works as a producer and reporter for KQED... Read More →
avatar for Brenda Vaca

Brenda Vaca

Brenda Vaca is a Xicana poet, author, and independent publisher from Sejatnga, Unceded Tongva Territory, known as South Whittier, CA. She earned her B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley with a Minor in Creative Writing and later earned a Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Biblical... Read More →
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Diosa Xochiquetzalcoatl

Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, or Diosa X for short, is a multilingual and multidimensional spoken word artist and international poetiza. She is a seasoned language arts educator with a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in Cross-Cultural Teaching. Diosa X has been published in a... Read More →
avatar for Natalia Rivas

Natalia Rivas

Natalia Rivas is a 71-year-old Chicana writer who started writing in high school and spent the past 50 years in drug addiction, getting clean and going to school. She was a drug and alcohol counselor for over 32 years and is now retired. She spends her time writing and learning to... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Dog Eared Books 900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

Stanford Continuing Studies Presents: In a Tight Spot
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Writers from Stanford Continuing Studies' Novel Certificate Program share scenes from novels in progress featuring characters stuck in both literal and metaphorical tight spots—from a cave exploration gone wrong to a woman forced to endure a car ride with her obnoxious fiancé to a botched break-in—highlighting how moments of tension bring out creative problem solving.
Speakers
avatar for Berny Chen

Berny Chen

Growing up, Berny dreamt of riding in the Tardis, kissing a green-skinned alien girl, being the fourth Stooge instead of Shemp, watching the Coyote catch the Roadrunner just once, and winning the World Series as a lefty pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. Unsurprisingly, he now creates... Read More →
avatar for Stephanie Dennee

Stephanie Dennee

Stephanie Dennee is a freelance advertising copywriter from Bozeman, Montana, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her short story work has been published in SWING Magazine, and she’s currently writing her first novel-length fiction, a suburban noir set in 1990s Spokane... Read More →
avatar for Rachel Kice

Rachel Kice

Rachel Kice is a multimedia artist whose practice includes painting, writing, and performance. After completing the OWC program at Stanford Continuing Studies, she is currently stashed away in a cabin in Pike National Forest, finishing her novel and creating a series of paintings... Read More →
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Patricia Leitner

Patricia Leitner grew up learning about the stars from her dad and the joy of reading from her mom. These days, she loves strolling under the East Bay redwoods and dreaming up kooky characters who always seem to find trouble. She’s currently knee-deep in a final revision of her... Read More →
avatar for Patrick Liu

Patrick Liu

Patrick Liu is an Ohio-dwelling, Huel-drinking pop music fanatic. He's currently an electrical engineer to pay the bills, but he moonlights as an aspiring novelist. His writing blends his favorite genres—sci-fi, romance, and mystery—with a queer twist.
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Manny’s 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

8:00pm PDT

S’mores & Stories: Tales from the Edges of California
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Gather around the "campfire" for S’mores & Stories, hosted by the Desert Salon writing retreat. Enjoy free s’mores courtesy of Mojave Mallows and readings inspired by the strangeness and beauty of California. You’ll laugh, feel inspired, and get a chill down your spine—because no campfire is complete without a spooky story!
Speakers
avatar for Lexi Pandell

Lexi Pandell

Writer, Freelance
Lexi Pandell is a writer from Oakland, CA. Her non-fiction has been published by The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The New Republic. Her short stories have been published by Wired, The Pinch, Salt Hill, and New Ohio Review. She is the founder of the Desert Salon writing retre... Read More →
avatar for Jessica Powell

Jessica Powell

Jessica Powell is the author of the novel, The Big Disruption. Her short stories have been published in The New York Times, WIRED, VICE, Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives in San Franciso and builds audio software.
avatar for Billy Song

Billy Song

Billy Suiren Song is a film-maker and poet based in San Francisco. He hosts a weekly open mic at the Center SF and leads a writing group at the Page street writers co-working space. He and his creative partner Liz Cahill founded an arts non-profit, Decentered Arts, in 2023. He graduated... Read More →
avatar for Katie Wheeler-Dubin

Katie Wheeler-Dubin

Katie Wheeler-Dubin is a San Francisco native, well-known for both her relaxed parenting style and systematically eating so many oysters she discovered a pearl. She published, I Went to Sleep Drunk and Woke up Hungry in 2016, and made a documentary with Mila Puccini about San Francisco... Read More →
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Tanya Žilinskas

Tanya Žilinskas’ fiction has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. She is working on a novel about early internet hoaxes and documentary ethics, and a linked story collection... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

The Ana Presents: Lined with Gold—The Legacy of Faith Ringgold
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Calling all lovers of words & art! Join The Ana for an evening celebrating the life of Faith Ringgold, with readings based off her most memorable works. Featuring the following writers whose words are lined with gold: Alie Jones, May-Li Khoe, Denise Maisel, soledad con carne, and Sun Park.
Speakers
avatar for Alie Jones

Alie Jones

Alie Jones is a self-care advocate, writer, artist, and Creole mermaid. She is a founder of Bodacious Bombshells, a wellness collective in Oakland. Alie is passionate about centering our breath work as sacred and hopes to build a legacy of awareness and expression. She is the Director... Read More →
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May-Li Khoe

May-Li Khoe (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer born in the Netherlands to Indonesian-Chinese immigrant parents, and raised in Vancouver, Canada. She’s currently earning her MFA at San Francisco State University. When she’s not writing or drawing, you... Read More →
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Sun Park

Sun Park is a visual artist and writer based in San Francisco. Their practice is hybrid, ranging from multisensory installation to video, ceramics, drawing, sculpture and interactive ritual. Park was a fellow at Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writer’s Fellowship, and... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Et Al 2831A Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

8:00pm PDT

The O.G.’s of Litquake
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Sure, we all know Litquake as a slick, well-oiled festival machine that delights young and old. But what about the early years? The ones where we stumbled through as an all-volunteer squad, not really knowing what the hell we were doing? Come and hear stories about our triumphs and pratfalls, from those who have been involved since the early days. See a side of Litquake you didn’t know existed—and we’re glad no longer does. Hosted by Litquake co-founders Jack Boulware and Jane Ganahl.
Speakers
avatar for Andres Bella

Andres Bella

Andres was on the Litquake EC from 2000 to 2018, managing bookstore events, book vending, and the Litcrawl’s famous Clarion Alley. Andres currently runs a school in Oakland focused on holistic healing but never gets the holistic healing he needs. Various writing projects are in... Read More →
avatar for Scott James

Scott James

Scott James is a veteran Emmy Award winning journalist and the author of three books, including "Trial by Fire." He is the co-founder of the Castro Writers' Cooperative, a co-working space for writers in San Francisco.
avatar for Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is a writer and actor from the Bay Area, currently living in New York. She is the author of six books and slowly working on her seventh. She co-founded Porchlight, the More Than A Feeling Comedy Festival and wrote the libretto for the audio opera The Electronic Lover... Read More →
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Jen Siraganian

Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer, educator, and former Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was granted a Lucas Arts Fellowship, and won first prize of the New Ohio Review Poetry Contest. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming... Read More →
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Oscar Villalon

Managing Editor, ZYZZYVA
Oscar Villalon is the editor at the San Francisco literary journal ZYZZYVA, winner of a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize in 2022. His writing has been published in Stranger’s Guide, Freeman’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He lives with his family... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Chapel Parking Lot 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

8:00pm PDT

Vietnamese Narratives: Breaking Silence and Censorship
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Experience the power of prose written in defiance of silencing by four Bay Area Vietnamese writers and performers. Join us to delve into how silence and censorship impact our lives and artistry. Share your reflections as we uncover the stories that these forces have shaped and inspired.
Speakers
avatar for Vina Vo

Vina Vo

Vina Vo is a storyteller and facilitator who aims to bridge the cultural, generational, and geographic divide caused by displacement and diaspora. She is the co-editor for the anthology of this is my body published by Nomadic Press in 2019. She is the co-founder of the Novalia Collective... Read More →
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Zora

Attendee
Zora Mai Quỳnh is an award-winning writer, dancer, visual artist, and performer whose writings appear in Ploughshares, Diacritics, Kweli Journal and Strange Horizons. Zora is the winner of the 2021 San Francisco Foundation Nomadic Press Literary Award. You can find Zora deep in... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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  • about Vina Vo is a storyteller and facilitator who aims to bridge the cultural, generational, and geographic divide caused by displacement and diaspora. She is the co-editor for the anthology of this is my body published by Nomadic Press in 2019. She is the co-founder of the Novalia Collective and Creo Tea & Coffee

8:00pm PDT

¡Speaking Axolotl: El Lit Crawl Edition!
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
¡Come hear Spanglish Poesia, Bilingual Verses, Latinx Lyrics, y Neigjborhood Chisme at Speaking Axolotl, La Area Bahia’s long running monthly Latinx reading series as we present a hella special y chingon Lit Crawl edition!
Speakers
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hector son of hector

hector son of hector is from Long Beach, CA and currently lives in Oakland. He isthe child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories andwrites poetry in secret.
avatar for Josiah Luis Alderete

Josiah Luis Alderete

Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Spanglish speaking Pocho y left handed callejero de Aztlán who has been part of La Area Bahia’s spoken word scene for over twenty years. He is the curator and host of the long running Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl and is the author... Read More →
avatar for María Guerrero

María Guerrero

María Guerrero is a queer Chicanx femme who is proud of her Mexican raíces while being born in San Francisco and raised in Bayview-Hunters Point. She is an educator by day and a poeta at 3am when the musas won’t let her sleep.
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Joseph Rios

Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn). He is from Fresno`s San Joaquin Valley. He`s been a gardener, a janitor, a packinghouse supervisor, and a handyman. He is a recipient of scholarships from the Community of Writers Workshop at Squaw Valley... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

9:00pm PDT

After Party!
Saturday October 26, 2024 9:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
All are welcome at "The Last Stanza Lounge" in the Chapel Parking Lot. Raise a glass and join us close out the 20th anniversary of Lit Crawl and the 25th anniversary of Litquake!

Ambiance and "The Last Stanza Lounge" conceived and executed by Decentered Arts
Saturday October 26, 2024 9:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
The Chapel Parking Lot 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
 
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