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.

5:00pm PDT

Passionate Thinking in Diaspora with Writers from Ukraine, Russia, and Moldova

Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Manny’s

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

PHASE 1

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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8:00pm PDT

Stanford Continuing Studies Presents: In a Tight Spot

Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT

Manny’s

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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