BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:litcrawlsf2026
X-WR-CALDESC:Event Calendar
METHOD:PUBLISH
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//Sched.com Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026//EN
X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261024T213000Z
DTEND:20261024T230000Z
SUMMARY:Lit & Libations at the Writer's Grotto
DESCRIPTION:Kick off your Lit Crawl with a literary afternoon social at the Writer’s Grotto\, live DJ sets\, signature\, themed cocktails\, Bay Area writers\, storytellers\, and curious minds.
CATEGORIES:TAILGATE
LOCATION:The Writers Grotto (1663 Mission St #602\, San Francisco\, CA 94103)\, 1663 Mission St #602\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:fc934fe24decb10b0c2f20ee83e22810
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/fc934fe24decb10b0c2f20ee83e22810
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261024T220000Z
DTEND:20261024T230000Z
SUMMARY:Want to Read at Lit Crawl? A Pre-Crawl Tailgate
DESCRIPTION: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!The event is free\, but space is limited to 40 writers\, so you do need to&nbsp\;pre-register.Please note\, if you are chosen\, you'll have to go directly from our location to the Drawing Room on Valencia Street so you'll be ready to read in Phase One of the Crawl at 5 pm.
CATEGORIES:TAILGATE
LOCATION:Page Street (297 Page St\, San Francisco\, CA 94102)\, 297 Page St\, San Francisco\, CA 94102\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:af224e04ae4f950386d9e22d18ba1c7e
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/af224e04ae4f950386d9e22d18ba1c7e
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:¡ChALE con eso!: Mujeres en Rebeldía (Women in Rebellion)
DESCRIPTION:What happens when women stop swallowing their words\, their anger\, their stories\, their poems\, and their truths? ¡ChALE con eso!: Mujeres en Rebeldía brings Bay Area writers to the mic for poetry\, personal narrative\, humor\, memory\, and a little literary desmadre. Come for community\, let it out through call-and-response\, and leave with a pocket-sized poem of rebellious inspiration.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative\, (3130 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 3130 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:40794a914817b7b8be2b81b6463dc901
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/40794a914817b7b8be2b81b6463dc901
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:826 Quarterly Release Party
DESCRIPTION:We are partnering with Litquake for the release of The 826 Quarterly\, an anthology of the most dynamic writing from across our programs.Join us in celebrating this new publication with a special reading from the authors themselves!
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:826 Valencia (826 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 826 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:13cd4b3a930e90281f5db9fd273aeca7
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/13cd4b3a930e90281f5db9fd273aeca7
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Amuse-Bouche: A Live Theater Experience of Tiny Tickling Treats
DESCRIPTION:We are playwrights\, directors\, and a talented cast who squeeze our flesh\, blood\, brains\, and soul into snackable morsels. Our scripted plays are compact and presented as curated readings. We promise to enlighten\, agitate\, expose\, and most of all entertain. Join us for a feast of tastes: sweet\, sour\, salty\, bitter\, umami\, and very spicy.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Monkeybrains\, 933 Treat Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:97fe4cdbca4ff089297f91b6453fe4b6
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/97fe4cdbca4ff089297f91b6453fe4b6
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Body Language
DESCRIPTION:Every body has a story to tell. Physically and figuratively\, it holds our emotional truths\, identity\, fears\, triumphs and losses. Through spoken word\, poetry\, fiction and essay\, five writers show how a body can change to please others\, how it feels to be severed by ancestral trauma\, what it means to be lucky after an amputation\, and how the body is a site of memory and inheritance. In holding it all together\, the body becomes stronger\, more resilient and a champion of change.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2323 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:665fb9c0dbc8b652b32cfc4988ad6320
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/665fb9c0dbc8b652b32cfc4988ad6320
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:CCA Comics Live!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an entertaining evening of live comics readings by an incredible lineup of professors and alumni of the California College of the Arts BFA and MFA in Comics programs. Come see comics from old faves and new voices. CCA may be going away but we’re here to stay!
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Artists' Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:48e5f007142c4751312807a9a362d3e6
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/48e5f007142c4751312807a9a362d3e6
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Dr. Strangebro: How I Learned to Stop Taking and Start Giving a Sh*t
DESCRIPTION:Our theme is inspired by the meme “She has lost her shine\,” based on the photos of earth taken by the Artemis II spacecraft. Through stories\, satire\, and speculative fiction\, we'll take aim at the war mongers\, greedy corporations\, and megalomaniac tech bros who want to turn the Earth into one giant startup exit
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Martuni's\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:f2be19a29929444d67a52e53b4acf0d1
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/f2be19a29929444d67a52e53b4acf0d1
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Grandmas are Griots
DESCRIPTION:This evening of dynamic writers upholds the traditions of oral storytelling resisting patriarchal violence and white supremacy through sustained culture. From our grandmother's prayers and cherished recipes to writing in conversation with cultural workers. Join Black Freighter Press as we honor matriarchy and movement through embodied practice and collective commitment.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:a2db5ed6fe0db0ecca7fe5b535cf8cff
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/a2db5ed6fe0db0ecca7fe5b535cf8cff
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Hope as a Discipline: A Night of Readings with Fourteen Hills
DESCRIPTION:Forging bonds in the local literary scene is the lifeblood of any literary landscape. To bridge the gap between writers and their community\, Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review’s award-winning magazine will host five local contributors from the special feature of its latest issue to uplift the unique voices who contribute to the Bay Area writing community. Join our writers and staff for a night of literary readings that are sure to challenge conventions\, subvert entrenched narratives\, and push the boundaries of what literature can be!
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Fingersnaps Media Arts\, 3527 20th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:bcdc37581e736b0119dd331656ea59ea
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/bcdc37581e736b0119dd331656ea59ea
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Invisible City: Letters from the Wilderness
DESCRIPTION:You haven’t heard from these writers before\, but they have a lot to say. Their words—powerful\, tender\, upsetting\, funny\, real—reveal the invisible city whose streets we all share. Writers from the Gubbio Gazette\, a literary journal created &nbsp\;by unhoused people in the Mission\, will read their work in the church courtyard where they meet every week. Take home copies of Vol. 1 and 2.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church\, 1661 15th St San Francisco\, CA 94103
SEQUENCE:0
UID:739a26eda0ed4e4c8eae11ecca04e07a
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/739a26eda0ed4e4c8eae11ecca04e07a
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Mommy Issues
DESCRIPTION:Five past and future writers from the BAIT Reading Series tackle the personal haunting of motherhood: bad moms\, sad moms\, no moms\, being a mom\, overachieving moms\, New Age moms\, and other matriarchal specters. Let's collectively exorcise our mommy issues\, with rounds of mother-related trivia and prizes between readings.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 540 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:f91eac5068e3af75915d9a7e2893b4c4
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/f91eac5068e3af75915d9a7e2893b4c4
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Perverts Put Out (& friends) Go All the Way\, All the Ways
DESCRIPTION:Perverts Put Out and friends features writers from San Francisco's longest-running erotic reading series doing what they do best--hot\, brainy\, thought-provoking\, new-sexual-obsession-introducing poetry and prose. All with the frisky wonders of Good Vibes as background! PPO is a project of the Center for Sex & Culture with big love to Horizons Foundation.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Good Vibrations (603 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 603 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:0b6073c9faece4e489454941fd6b691a
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/0b6073c9faece4e489454941fd6b691a
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Quaking in Our Books: Mysteries Set in the San Francisco Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:Members of NorCal Sisters in Crime will read excerpts from their mysteries that involve the San Francisco Bay Area.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St\, San Francisco 94110)\, 775 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:f826d719b6c7d6917dd92a8e55d23691
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/f826d719b6c7d6917dd92a8e55d23691
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa SOTA Presents: Morning Star—Teens Speculate Their Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Daring to imagine positive alternatives\, teen artists shine a light forward. Writers and artists across disciplines from the Ruth Asawa SF School of the Arts share original work that conveys truth\, generates possibility\, and transforms their tomorrows. This dynamic event showcases how teens grapple with the intense present and infuse hope into their futures. Come and participate! A Futures Bingo card result in a candy prize.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 1026 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:cd5b4a43dcecc92fc3d6c054671663aa
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/cd5b4a43dcecc92fc3d6c054671663aa
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Shame Chronicles
DESCRIPTION:Shame is a powerful emotion. As writers\, we can unpack that raw energy on the page. During this event\, we’ll intersperse readings with prompted free-writes anchored in this complex emotion. Bring something to write with\, and leave with multiple starts for stories\, poems\, or essays in your pocket.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Latin American Club (3286 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 3286 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:73f81cdf3fd0f30d14ea7f479dc216f6
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/73f81cdf3fd0f30d14ea7f479dc216f6
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Spill the TEA: A Tasting Menu of the Untranslatable and Unsayable
DESCRIPTION:English is great at absorbing words from other languages\, like ‘shadenfreude’ or ‘chutzpah’. But the words you probably know from Transeurasian languages\, from Turkic to Slavic\, are more ominous: kompromat\, horde\, vampire. \n\nTrue\, wars\, including Russia’s ongoing assault of Ukraine\, have dominated our newsfeeds. Luckily\, the TEA Collective of Transeurasian Writers & Translators can help us move past the headlines and enrich our vocabulary and understanding of life elsewhere to include joy\, camaraderie\, and resilience in the face of fear and loss. \n\nThe TEA Collective invites you to a literary tea party with stories by mixed-genre writers with roots from Serbia\, Ukraine\, Russia\, and the Armenian Diaspora that put into words what is difficult to say and nearly impossible to translate. We’ll integrate music and "tasting notes\," words in other languages hidden under your seats that will help us give voice to experiences and feelings that we didn’t know we had.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:3ef4be2cc70c8d8c08569136f3900f7b
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/3ef4be2cc70c8d8c08569136f3900f7b
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:SWANA Dykes & Friends: A Literary Rage Party
DESCRIPTION:What if a book release party was an opportunity for collective catharsis? What if queer and trans writers from the Southwest Asian North African (SWANA) diaspora had the chance to celebrate and shout out their varied voices at this precarious\, vulnerable time? Answer: it would be loud and unapologetic and angry AF. Join us in celebrating the SWANA Dykes anthology!
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2544 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:0db93955bf99b23933d79a0c2de4836b
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/0db93955bf99b23933d79a0c2de4836b
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Text Change: Trans Writers on Anything Except Transition
DESCRIPTION:So often\, opportunities for trans writers are focused around work about transition\, but no more! The amazing breadth and depth of insight trans people possess will be on display as five of the best trans writers in San Francisco share fiction\, non-fiction\, and poetry on any topic except one.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:d60b118504c6230344d247aa50729d94
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/d60b118504c6230344d247aa50729d94
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:The Berkeley Slam Team Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The multi-award winning\, longest-running poetry slam on the West Coast presents the 2026/2027 Berkeley Slam Team Showcase. This team\, formed through fierce competition among the top competitors in the Bay Area poetry slam scene\, is embarking on an unprecedented endeavor to collaborate for a full year to create group poetic pieces that push the boundaries of the spoken word art form. Blending individual poetic voice\, choral power\, and genre-bending choreography\, they will perform works exploring themes of marginalization\, resilience\, and community empowerment.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:The Sycamore (2140 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2140 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:be260294961b194c36db16eeb4d0d9b1
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/be260294961b194c36db16eeb4d0d9b1
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Who Lies Better Than Writers? Two Truths and a Lie with Sibylline Press
DESCRIPTION:This fast-paced\, fun literary twist on the classic "two truths and a lie" game will introduce you to eleven great new books by fabulous women over fifty. Guess who’s lying and take home a free book!\n\n\n
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2831a Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:483a5edd8ba07274933c864a9762cac8
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/483a5edd8ba07274933c864a9762cac8
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T000000Z
DTEND:20261025T010000Z
SUMMARY:Without a Net: 20 Super-short\, Uncurated\, Uncensored\, Unrehearsed Pieces\, Freshly Written in the Last Hour
DESCRIPTION:Always wanted to read at Lit Crawl? Here's your chance. Step one...attend the pre-Crawl Tailgate at Page Street SF where you will be given a prompt and 30 minutes to write a no-more-than-2-minute piece on that prompt. (We might also give you a glass of wine if you like.) If you like what you wrote\, drop your name into our sorting hat (literary reference there). If you're chosen to be one of our readers (and there will be 20 of you)\, you'll need to head to the Phase One venue for our Lit Crawl event\, Without a Net: 20 Supershort\, Uncurated\, Uncensored\, Unrehearsed Pieces Written in the Last Hour. Don't forget to text your family and friends to let them know you're reading at Lit Crawl!
CATEGORIES:PHASE 1
LOCATION:The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 599 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:304cb9198bdb1b0bd8d3a429e8c91463
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/304cb9198bdb1b0bd8d3a429e8c91463
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:API Transmasculine Stories Take the Stage
DESCRIPTION:Asian and Pacific Islander transmasculine artists take the stage with original work spanning poetry\, memoir\, storytelling\, and embodied performance. Lambda Literary Award–winning author Willy Wilkinson performs “The Poetry of Scars” through Body as Truth\, an emerging art form in which the body presents truth as evidence. Voices from the API diaspora explore alignment\, inheritance\, and connection across cultures and generations.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2831a Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:0ccfcd356fec4dfd007a4aee23f958d6
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/0ccfcd356fec4dfd007a4aee23f958d6
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Borrowed Time—with the Lisa Brown & Daniel Handler Residents
DESCRIPTION:An evening of original work from the Lisa Brown & Daniel Handler Residents at the San Francisco Public Library\, exploring what is borrowed\, what is returned\, and what is transformed. \n\n Across fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and hybrid forms\, these writers engage with memory\, archives\, identity\, and the fragile timelines that shape our lives. Rooted in a yearlong residency in support of the public library\, this work reflects both personal histories and the collective record.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 540 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:43221d427a5a4d74cd51a82d091ed02d
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/43221d427a5a4d74cd51a82d091ed02d
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Celebrating the World in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the third year of the BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS\, bringing you the literatures of the world for our delight! Featuring an editor and contributors to the 2026 edition of this annual anthology\, the session will feature poetry and prose from four continents\, including work from Brazil\, Mexico\, Korea\, and Palestine.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative\, (3130 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 3130 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:ac1d3228b10d8f58f50bcac9fde6beee
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/ac1d3228b10d8f58f50bcac9fde6beee
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Center for the Art of Translation Presents: So You Think You Can('t) Translate—Youth Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Budding Bards! Fledgling Wordsmiths! Rising Scribes! Unlock your creativity and share your skills 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 with the encouragement of friends (bring your own!)\, you’ll dismantle and reassemble a 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? 2025-2027 Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows (https://www.catranslation.org/education/teaching-fellowship/) will host this fun workshop and spontaneous performance for youth writers.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:826 Valencia (826 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 826 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:961bb88ff861c87b767311ceca10d011
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/961bb88ff861c87b767311ceca10d011
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Chopped Liver: Stories from Secular Jewish Life
DESCRIPTION:Chopped Liver is a new storytelling series about the rest of American Jewish culture. We are a people with rich traditions and histories. At this LitCrawl event\, &nbsp\;you will hear Jewish stories about music\, immigration\, humor in grief\, mythology. and the quest for connection and belonging. \n\nWe are not the diaspora - we create the world in this place we belong.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Latin American Club (3286 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 3286 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:751dc9763f4b0192b6bbd6e2ca75ddf5
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/751dc9763f4b0192b6bbd6e2ca75ddf5
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Circle and Fist: Holding Tenderness while Fighting for the World We Need and Deserve
DESCRIPTION:In restorative justice\, our hearts expand to hold grief and rage. As artists we also feed fires of hope. This event is a window and the wind through that window\, fresh air\, breathing together toward freedom for us all\, pulling from Afro-Caribbean\, South Asian\, and Indigenous American cultural traditions.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:b2dcf8b15579de19ff594cb1d5cdd599
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/b2dcf8b15579de19ff594cb1d5cdd599
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:CôEm Collective Presents: Monsters\, Myths\, and Me
DESCRIPTION:Through themes of creation\, ritual\, and tradition\, these writers trace patterns carried across generations—from our mythical origin\, to a lost motherland\, to the present day and beyond. This reading invites us to witness how inherited stories—both told and untold—bind us\, fracture us\, and offer the possibility of new life. It asks: What do we inherit? What do we choose to carry forward? And what do we lay to rest?
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Fingersnaps Media Arts\, 3527 20th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:ff30ae9082a39b93ff26ee5a37c2cd22
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/ff30ae9082a39b93ff26ee5a37c2cd22
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Dirty Old Women
DESCRIPTION:Older women: Wise enough to tell the truth about sex--what they want\, what they've done\, what makes them hot. Tonight\, we tell you. Our erotica takes many forms--fiction\, poetry\, memoir--from sweet to kinky to weird. If you missed the legendary series at the Octopus Literary Salon\, this is your chance!&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Monkeybrains\, 933 Treat Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:c2170169c2ea92cddc50e24b6aab8c13
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/c2170169c2ea92cddc50e24b6aab8c13
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Divination Poetics: Spells & the Tarot
DESCRIPTION:From T.S. Eliot to Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe\, poets have long experimented with the tarot as a generative praxis. How can we\, amidst current & ongoing crises\, incorporate the tarot or spellwork in our writing practices\, as a means of healing interspecies relationships\, cultural lineages\, or even ourselves? Explore ways poets from various backgrounds use divination as a practice to collaborate with issues of apocalypse\, gender\, the biodiverse\, and the lyric as they intersect to construct a poetics.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St\, San Francisco 94110)\, 775 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:69a3f0fca82157a8a0a44b4242b40026
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/69a3f0fca82157a8a0a44b4242b40026
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Dramatic Readings of Not-So-Dramatic Local Stories with the Editors of 7x7
DESCRIPTION:Since 2001\, 7x7 has been covering the food\, culture\, and style trends poised to take over the city. Try not to laugh as we bring you 25 years of poor predictions\, ridiculous recommendations\, and fizzled sensations from the archives.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 1026 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:4f6560b5e0ac3b4764dcc447ed33d60c
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/4f6560b5e0ac3b4764dcc447ed33d60c
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:It's Never Too Late: Howls from Owls
DESCRIPTION:Join the parliament of OWLS (Older Writers' Laboratory) as we celebrate\, investigate and illuminate our lives and perspectives as older poets. Be prepared for unexpected revelations\, extraordinary histories and audience\nparticipation as we follow in the great San Francisco tradition of murmuring\, whispering\, enunciating and howling our words out to you in the foggy urban night.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Muddy Waters Café & Lounge\, 521 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:c4079b14a83287c83add971a9a03e319
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/c4079b14a83287c83add971a9a03e319
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Mesa Refuge Presents: In the Spirit of Kapwa
DESCRIPTION:This reading includes seven Filipino-American writers\, who were brought together through the Helen Toribio Kapwa Fellowship at Point Reyes writing retreat\, Mesa Refuge. Kapwa is a Tagalog word that does not have an exact English translation\, but describes "the universal truth of interconnectedness and solidarity with all living beings." In the spirit of kapwa\, these writers bring into conversation distinct explorations of intergenerational relationships and trauma\, mothering\, queerness\, climate change and the role of colonialism\, and mythology.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:c37dfb0bc9ee698d05251873d906ac76
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/c37dfb0bc9ee698d05251873d906ac76
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Museum of Forgotten Fun: Immersive Storytelling from the San Francisco Underground
DESCRIPTION:Immersive storytelling—where a performer embodies a character\, crafts a backstory\, and speaks from a script as well as improvising in dialogue with audience members who are also roleplaying—is an ascendant form of literature in San Francisco's underground art scene. The Museum of Forgotten Fun—a museum located 1\,000 years in the future\, and featuring re-enactments of ritual fun of the 2020s—explores this medium with a group of five writers.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Martuni's\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:c0c8b2d266ecdf9d33c4e290db4c4924
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/c0c8b2d266ecdf9d33c4e290db4c4924
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Palabras del Pueblo: Cultura pa' la Raza
DESCRIPTION:Palabras del Pueblo brings its Raza-centered writing workshop to the Mission for a reading by instructors and participants working in fiction\, poetry\, comics\, and radical writing. Palabras is about the community speaking to itself\, arming creators with knowledge and cultura\, and encouraging writers. The work reflects memory\, struggle\, and imagination shaped in community.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2544 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:ae6931dc43e58c55737174bdf9894baf
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/ae6931dc43e58c55737174bdf9894baf
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:Poly AF
DESCRIPTION:Open marriages\, polycules\, orgies\, reconceiving the shape of family\, falling in love with two people at the same time\, a Google Calendar so crammed it brings the main character to her knees. Come hear the newest polyamory stories from the beating heart of America’s homeland for relationship rebels\, misfits\, and pioneers.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2323 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:713073ffc28141ae3d6760278f340142
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/713073ffc28141ae3d6760278f340142
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:The Creative Youth Collective Presents: Building Worlds and Shaping Futures
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Youth Collective is a mentorship program that guides young writers in developing their authorial voice. CYC authors (ages 12–16) will share excerpts from original fiction and poetry\, alongside reflections on authorship as a practice of authority—one that authorizes them to participate in shaping their world. Through readings and an interactive discussion\, they explore writing as a practice that engages questions of meaning\, identity\, ecology\, and culture.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:e4d2520d31df56893961a96b44649476
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/e4d2520d31df56893961a96b44649476
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:USF Presents: Emerging Writers Take the Stage
DESCRIPTION:We're an all-ages group of grad student writers at the University of San Francisco. We’re putting our non-writing lives on hold for two years while we dig deep into the art world and see what could happen. We experiment and write normal stuff and weird stuff. We have incredible dogs and cats that inspire and terrorize us.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:The Sycamore (2140 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2140 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:32e0c0fc4b5350fc68cce1267ec21710
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/32e0c0fc4b5350fc68cce1267ec21710
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T013000Z
DTEND:20261025T023000Z
SUMMARY:We Out Here: Black Women Travelers
DESCRIPTION:What happens when Black female/NB bodies venture into spaces that don't expect us—and write about it anyway? Decolonial travel writing pioneer Faith Adiele hosts five storytellers who turn travel inside out: a globetrotter to 70 countries\, a comics artist documenting Black life\, a novelist searching for home\, a spoken word artist claiming space. Whose world is this\, anyway?
CATEGORIES:PHASE 2
LOCATION:The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 599 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:1f409371cd00554d0e2bee61bddb96ea
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/1f409371cd00554d0e2bee61bddb96ea
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Black Sentimentality of Survival\, Song & Overjoy
DESCRIPTION:Black Sentimentality of Survival\, Song & Overjoy is a poetic showcase of an eclectic grouping of multidimensional minds. Heralding from Los Angeles\, New York\, and the Bay Area\, this is a diasporic radical figment of the Black consciousness playing out in real-time. If time is what the Black consciousness even has. We're overjoyed for the counting moments of our breathe. Multidisciplinary in our attack and overjoyed by the audacity of our creations. Overjoyed to be overjoyed and harkening on our survival through poetic sound waves transmitted for ear-hustling pirates looting for the falsehood and overstandings. Tssskkkkk. This is for us\, by the utmost shoulder shrug non-shimmying against social or political relevance. Raucous against being endangered. Sentimental for the longing of bearing witness to our greatness. We're shielded from the world's wrongdoings. Cloaked in psychic protection. For the love of living. This is ours...life. Poetry...life. Life........BlLLLLlllLLLLAaaaCCCccckkkkkk.........life.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2544 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:a39d7a2cf676cf4935d9ddceeb6e64a7
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/a39d7a2cf676cf4935d9ddceeb6e64a7
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:CCA Presents: The Last Word is Never the Last
DESCRIPTION:The final graduating class of California College of the Arts' MFA in Writing takes the Litquake stage for the program's last appearance after decades of nurturing distinctive literary voices. Every generation of writers inherits the world as it is and imagines the world as it might become. In a cultural moment that often rewards speed over reflection and certainty over complexity\, these emerging writers remind us that literature remains one of our most powerful ways of paying attention to one another\, to history\, and to ourselves. Through fiction\, memoir\, poetry\, and hybrid forms\, these writers move across borders\, histories\, families\, and imagined futures with wit\, ambition\, and emotional precision. This is more than a farewell to a beloved program. It is an introduction to the writers who will carry its legacy forward and a reminder literature is always unfinished and always becoming. The last word is never the last.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2831a Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:8b78342c87d972ec37b30fb35c5c64a0
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/8b78342c87d972ec37b30fb35c5c64a0
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Cracking the Code: Tweens & Teens Share Their Life Hacks
DESCRIPTION:Our youth are our future. Clear-eyed and unjaded\, they hold a special kind of wisdom. Come hear the poems and stories of eight 6th-9th graders as they share their life hacks: clever and moving new ways of living\, doing\, and being that will make life better for everyone.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Muddy Waters Café & Lounge\, 521 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:596a2b17fe726b05332b37b2091b6fdb
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/596a2b17fe726b05332b37b2091b6fdb
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Flying Rabbit Presents: It's a Mad Mad Madman World\, Madam
DESCRIPTION:If you’ve been wondering why everyone has been pushing you to accept AI into your everyday life…why there continues to be massive layoffs and rising prices…why humanity is not investing more into the preservation of our planet…You’re not alone. This year\, our performers are holding the magnifying glass up to American greed\, consumerism\, and government and corporate hypocrisy.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:San Francisco Mime Troupe (855 Treat Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 855 Treat Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:fc1f2fe91dde1673dd96c1b529c6c7c7
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/fc1f2fe91dde1673dd96c1b529c6c7c7
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Happy Endings (For Real! Probably.)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Endings brings together a variety of Bay Area storytellers to explore the outrageous and elusive notion of happiness. Join them tonight (and every second Tuesday at the Make-Out Room) as they tackle this tall order. The audience’s favorite will return or tap a writer they love to take their place.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 599 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:f047e2674cddd069806c4efcf88d1599
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/f047e2674cddd069806c4efcf88d1599
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Journalists With a Bite: Bay Area Reporters Share Their Hottest Takes
DESCRIPTION:Is cereal soup? Are people in SF or Oakland more fashionable? Does Charlie XCX sound like Taylor Swift with vocal effects?\n\nWhat's your funniest\, hottest\, or most polarizing take? COYOTE Media Collective rounds up local journalists to kick objectivity to the curb and share their most extreme opinions.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Fingersnaps Media Arts\, 3527 20th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:1a331b121e0567cb8d8e49a7f183699f
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/1a331b121e0567cb8d8e49a7f183699f
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:KALW's Crosscurrents Live: Where I'm From
DESCRIPTION:Where I'm from explores stories of home. Whether it's the heritage people bring to the Bay\, or the culture the Bay sends out to the world. Through dynamic performances\, insightful conversations\, and cinematic music\, we'll show you where we're from.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Monkeybrains\, 933 Treat Ave\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:d5f7b63053623435f6670ace4df2d878
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/d5f7b63053623435f6670ace4df2d878
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Kitchen Table Presents: On Cookbooks\, Poems\, and Flock Cameras
DESCRIPTION:Through themes of creation\, ritual\, and tradition\, these writers trace patterns carried across generations—from our mythical origin\, to a lost motherland\, to the present day and beyond. This reading invites us to witness how inherited stories—both told and untold—bind us\, fracture us\, and offer the possibility of new life. It asks: What do we inherit? What do we choose to carry forward? And what do we lay to rest?
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2323 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:22f1abb5e6c8f4c1ddc4b3980ccc003a
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/22f1abb5e6c8f4c1ddc4b3980ccc003a
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:KQED Presents: Glitter and Rage—Poems for Resistance
DESCRIPTION:In dark times words become weapons and visions become lifelines. In these turbulent times\, queer\, immigrant\, and trans writers take the stage to speak truth\, bear witness\, and dare to imagine something better. This is a night of resistance and radical dreaming — where poetry and prose push back against fascism and reach toward a future where all of us are free. Curated and hosted by Baruch Porras Hernandez\, this gathering brings together voices that refuse to be silenced\, stories that refuse to disappear\, and a community that refuses to stop fighting for joy\, dignity\, and belonging. With performances by Preeti Vangani\, Gio! And special musical guest Mobby Rosas!&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Latin American Club (3286 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 3286 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:77b65d560e958d44672ab8b835061632
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/77b65d560e958d44672ab8b835061632
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Making Mythos in the Mundane: Creating a Cosmic Literary Universe via Improv
DESCRIPTION:Ever long to be a Troubadour? This program is part standup\, part musical act\, part word-association\, but all creative joy. Crowd participants will be asked to shout out mythos ideas—what does every literary universe need? Who are the epic heroes? What quests must they undertake? What boons do the characters gain? \n\nThese ideas will be documented by the host and then the writers will craft an epic poetic narrative from the free-association\, live on stage. The host will sing/perform the final act aloud for the audience with musical accompaniment. Saddle up for a wild wild adventure.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:The Sycamore (2140 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2140 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:09fa3eff5a7113f4d84da357b7bf7ff7
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/09fa3eff5a7113f4d84da357b7bf7ff7
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Pochex Deluxe: An Ode to the Californiana Lengua
DESCRIPTION:Pochex Deluxe is a celebration of Pochos continuing to shape the California tongue within our collective BIPOC communities. It collapses the refrain that we are neither from here nor from there into a declaration: we are the makers of larynx\, the makers of now and tomorrow’s literary landscape.\n \nThis reading honors the intersection of our tongues—a language that undoes\, restores\, revolts\, and transmutes\, continuously rehumanizing our gaze. It celebrates the present Californiana poem a that mimics and becomes cosmos\, a poem that can only have the limbs of California.\n\nPochex\, Pocha\, Pocho\, Poches is further defined here as a descendent body of migrating bodies that insists on being not only the ear\, but the mouth of tomorrow’s poem.\n\nPochex Deluxe because it tears at the seams of tongues.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:0197eff3908bd0ac2b76a36fd394f2b4
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/0197eff3908bd0ac2b76a36fd394f2b4
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Sacramento Noir: Mayhem in the Capital
DESCRIPTION:That city you all drive past on 80 and rarely think twice about? It's both lovelier and creepier than you know. Join 7 authors from 2025's award-winning SACRAMENTO NOIR anthology for an hour of unsettling tales of capital crimes and misdemeanors. Readings by Luis Avalos\, Shelley Blanton-Stroud\, Maureen O'Leary\, Janet Rodriguez\, Nora Rodriguez Camagna\, and Jen Soong. Moderated by Naomi Williams. Come for the spine-tingling stories\; stay for some fun audience giveaways!
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:ee81287d18fa78b1cc82cf4ea82ae467
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/ee81287d18fa78b1cc82cf4ea82ae467
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:Stanford Continuing Studies Presents: The Date From Hell
DESCRIPTION:Stories in which something goes badly awry\, excerpted from novels created in Stanford Continuing Studies' Online Writer's Certificate Program\, read by students who've just completed their 2 years of coursework.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St\, San Francisco 94110)\, 775 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:6dd304bdcb229e712d7de54f890913be
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/6dd304bdcb229e712d7de54f890913be
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260904T215500Z
DTSTART:20261025T030000Z
DTEND:20261025T040000Z
SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA Fall All-Stars
DESCRIPTION:Short readings from a trio of illustrious past and current contributors to ZYZZYVA\, showcasing the breadth and the excitement of the writing that the acclaimed San Francisco literary journal has been publishing for more than four decades. We invite you and your friends to hang out with our featured authors and the ZYZZYVA staff before and after the readings.
CATEGORIES:PHASE 3
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110)\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:a4a9ca617cafaf88d3537ec1967f6d8e
URL:http://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/a4a9ca617cafaf88d3537ec1967f6d8e
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR