Name: Tuesday Night Social Annual Experiment: Eight Writers Walk into a Story
Start: 2024-10-26T18:30:00-0700
End: 2024-10-26T19:30:00-0700

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.

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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