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

The Algorithm That Moves: Uncanny Possibilities for AI Poetry

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

Noisebridge

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

Alicia Guo

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 →

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 →

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

PHASE 1

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

PHASE 2

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

Noisebridge

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!

Speakers

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 →

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!

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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

PHASE 3