Lit Crawl San Francisco 2024: Full Schedule

Sponsored by California Humanities

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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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

The Drawing Room Annex - Sponsored by Page Street

"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

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 →

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.

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 →

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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.

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 →

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

Black Lawrence Press Presents: Myth, Magic, and World-Building

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

The SFPL Bookmobile

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

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

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6:30pm PDT

Decentered Arts Presents: Between Hills—A Walk through San Francisco

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

The Chapel Parking Lot

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

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

Every Tuesday for 78+ Years: San Francisco Writers Workshop

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Noisebridge

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

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.

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.

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.

Kurt Wallace Martin

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

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

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6:30pm PDT

Happy Endings

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Make-Out Room

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

If I Had Known: The Light and Shadow of Queer Parenting

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Blondie's Bar

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

Manic D 40th Anniversary

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Manny’s

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

Jennifer Blowdryer

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

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 →

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 →

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.

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.

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

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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

Latin American Club

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

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

SWANA Stories

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Medicine for Nightmares

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

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 →

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).

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 →

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 →

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

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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

826 Valencia St

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

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6:30pm PDT

The Crawling Parliamentarians

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Dog Eared Books

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

Helen Dannenberg

Grace D'anca

Mimi Mueller

Paul Corman-Roberts

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.

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 →

Brenda McManus

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

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.

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

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6:30pm PDT

The End of the World as We Know It

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Gestalt Craft Beer Bar

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

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

The Upward Spiral: Writers Speak to San Francisco’s Resilient Urban Culture

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

Tuesday Night Social Annual Experiment: Eight Writers Walk into a Story

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Shotwell's Saloon

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

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 →

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.

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.

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

What’s the Buzz: The Hive Poetry Collective Chats Up the Audience

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Red Poppy Art House

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

Why We Love YA

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

The Drawing Room Mission Street Annex

Speakers

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.

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 →

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

Witches Who Write

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Sour Cherry Comics

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

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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

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6:30pm PDT

Write from the Gut: A Night with SF Creative Writing Institute

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Et Al

Speakers

Kim Shuck

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Et Al 2831A Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

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6:30pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Fall All-Stars

Saturday October 26, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Teeth Bar SF

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

Michael Jaime-Becerra

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 →

Lucy Corin

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

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