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Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026
One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco’s Mission District on Saturday, October 25th from 5:00-9:00pm. Join us to cap off another great festival, and don’t miss out on the afterparty at Drawing Room Annex!

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Saturday, October 24
 

2:30pm PDT

Lit & Libations at the Writer's Grotto
Saturday October 24, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
The Writers Grotto (1663 Mission St #602, San Francisco, CA 94103)
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
The Writers Grotto (1663 Mission St #602, San Francisco, CA 94103) 1663 Mission St #602, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
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3:00pm PDT

Want to Read at Lit Crawl? A Pre-Crawl Tailgate
Saturday October 24, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Page Street (297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Page Street (297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102)
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5:00pm PDT

¡ChALE con eso!: Mujeres en Rebeldía (Women in Rebellion)
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative, (3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative, (3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

826 Quarterly Release Party
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
826 Valencia (826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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!
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
826 Valencia (826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Amuse-Bouche: A Live Theater Experience of Tiny Tickling Treats
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Monkeybrains
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.
Authors & Performers
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Kira Findling

Kira Findling is a writer, filmmaker, and somatic therapist-in-training based in Berkeley. Their short play DYKE TV was produced by SF’s Left Coast Theatre Co. in 2025. They’re inspired by the many incredible queer & trans artists of the Bay Area, past and present.
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Harriet Heydemann

Harriet Heydemann is a playwright and fiction writer based in the Bay Area. Her stories have appeared in Fourth River, Delacorte Review, Hippocampus, and others. Her play, Lessons From a Jellyfish, won the 2025 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Award for Women Playwrights. Her... Read More →
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Ali Littman

Ali Littman is a fic­tion writer and play­wright based in San Fran­cis­co. She is cur­rent­ly fin­ish­ing a novel about the girls and women of a Jew­ish sleep­away camp. Her work has appeared in the Paper Brigade, Brook­lyn Review, and Bar­ren, and her play, Banana Point... Read More →
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Conrad A. Panganiban

Conrad A. Panganiban is a Bay Area Fil-Am playwright. His plays include Daryo’s All-American Diner and WELGA. Conrad’s work has been produced around the US and the Philippines. His book, WELGA: A Filipino American Playwright’s Journey, is out now at https://welga.us. MFA. San... Read More →
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Karla Khine

Karla Myn Khine is a writer from South Texas, currently residing in Oakland. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Online, Driftwood Press, The Pinch, Poets.org, Sho Poetry Journal, and ANMLY (Anomaly). Her poetry chapbook, Quasi-Metalloid, was recently published by Diagram/New... Read More →
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Clara Sperow

Clara Sperow is a writer, artist, and educator interested in everyday whimsy. You can read their writing in The Ana, BULLSHIT, and Berkeley Poetry Review. She has been featured at Et al., Medicine for Nightmares, Tamarack, The Poetry Center, and Greenhouse Festival of New Plays.
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Grace Hoffman

Grace Hoffman is a teacher and playwright. She graduated from Emerson College in 2016 and completed her MFA at SFSU in 2025. Her plays, Curtain Call (2024) and The Transfer (2026), were Semi-Finalists for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill. She’s a proud... Read More →
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Daniel Martinez Jr

Daniel Martinez Jr is a San Jose-based playwright and actor whose work blends biting humor, vulnerability, and queer storytelling. As a writer for PlayGround, his work received multiple People's Choice Awards and Best of PlayGround selections. He holds an MFA in Writing and Producing... Read More →
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Sepehr Jafari

Sepehr Jafari is a playwright and cartoonist born and raised in Iran. They have a BA in Theater from the University of Tehran and an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University. Their plays Superposition: A Crawling Play in Two Parts and Ministry of Gummy Worm were honorable... Read More →
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Jeffrey Lo

Jeffrey Lo (He/Him/His) is a Filipino-American playwright and director based in the Bay Area. He is also the associate artistic director of the Tony Award Winning TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and a member of the San Jose State University Theatre Arts Faculty. For more www.JeffreyW... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Monkeybrains 933 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Body Language
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

CCA Comics Live!
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Artists' Television Access
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!
Authors & Performers
avatar for Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) is the author of GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (2019), BREATHE: JOURNEYS TO HEALTHY BINDING (2024) with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier, and OPTING OUT (2026) with Swati "Lucky" Srikumar. In eir free time, Maia practices taekwondo, studies Spanish, makes zines, and fights cen... Read More →
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Eli Bishop

Eli is a Midwest/East Coast hybrid who has lived in SF for 23 years and has been trying to make comics for a little longer than that. He often appears on stage with the San Francisco Neo-Futurists. There's probably a lot of cat fur on him.
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Justin Hall

Justin Hall is an award-winning comic creator, educator, and scholar. He is the first Fulbright Scholar of Comics, a professor of comics at CCA, a curator of international museum and gallery shows of comics art, and the creator behind titles such as No Straight Lines, Theater of Terror... Read More →
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Cassy Lee

Reference Librarian (Art and Graphic Novels Subject Liaison team), City College of San Francisco
Cassy is a librarian, comics artist, and educator who graduated from the CCA MFA Comics program in 2025. She has been working on her graphic novel memoir Beyond the Fences and teaching comics, zines, and graphic medicine workshops.
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Cynta Camilia | Kanak-Kanak Press

Cynta Camilia, comic artist and illustrator from Malaysia, based in Oakland whose work dives deep into identity, memory, and the cosmic unknown. Through zines, comics, risograph prints, stickers, and art books, Cynta weaves powerful narratives rooted in their Malaysian heritage, trans/nonbinary... Read More →
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Mel Gillman

Mel Gillman is a trans graphic novelist and colored pencil artist. They are the author of several graphic novels, including As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams, Other Ever Afters, and The Goblin Throne. Their work has won numerous awards, including a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal... Read More →
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Vicco Sebes

Vicco Sebes is a cartoonist and educator creating comics about trans revenge and lesbian adventures. Their comics are influenced by their background in filmmaking, their love of music, and their commitment to using supernatural storytelling to process every emotion. You can find them... Read More →
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Dimitrea Tokunbo

Dimitrea Tokunbo is a Black sexagenarian, advocate, ally, cisgender, Covid cautious femme with roots in Nigeria. As a cartoonist who loves combining the musicality of language with her fascination for history, Tokunbo is working on a graphic hybrid memoir that blends a biography of... Read More →
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Elle Lim-Chan

Elle Lim-Chan (aka phishr_price) is a transfemme, nonbinary, Hakka artist with a MFA in Comics from CCA. Her illustration and comics practice focuses on honoring idiosyncratic moments of nonbinary femme people. Her illustrative work combines gestural pencil with digital collage, giving... Read More →
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Mike Rossi

Mike Rossi is a cartoonist, illustrator and lover of cheese based in SF. His comics work is mostly memoir and slice-of-life. While he is seeking a home for his graphic memoir, Branches, he recently finished Volume 1 of his second book, Gela, the story of how two dog people adopted... Read More →
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Kristen Zimmerman

Kristen Lynn Zimmerman is an author and illustrator of work rooted in the magic - and messiness - of being human. She create comics, graphic novels, and visual stories that explore chosen family and how to restore our sense of belonging even after great ruptures. She lives in Oakland... Read More →
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Pouya Alaee

Pouya is a transmac writer and comic artist from Iran, currently residing in South Bay. They've made comics with organizations such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Transformation and UC Irvine. Their personal work often involves the intersectionality of queer... Read More →
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Andy Warner

Andy Warner is author of six books about everything from utopias to revolutions to plant domestication. His work has been published widely, including by the United Nations, and translated into Russian, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Greek, French, Czech and Spanish. He teaches at CCa, Stanford... Read More →
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Malika Lyons

M. Lions got her MFA in Comics from CCA in 2025. She has performed live readings as part of the HellaComix series put on by East Bay BiPoc Cartoonists. She is inspired by the political and the personal, and is currently working on her longform comic series titled Frightful Height... Read More →
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Yana Ramoso

Yana Ramoso is an alien hybrid attempting to be human through comics by using their self introspective thoughts, emotions, and nostalgia. When Yana isn’t around, they’re hiding in their dreamscape to remind themselves of the stars
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Sophie Yanow

Sophie Yanow’s graphic novels include The Contradictions and War of Streets and Houses. She has been published by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and Drawn & Quarterly. She was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, longlisted for the Believer Book Award, and won... Read More →
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Sarah Maloney

S. Maloney (they/them) is a queer cartoonist and educator
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Dr. Strangebro: How I Learned to Stop Taking and Start Giving a Sh*t
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Martuni's
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
Authors & Performers
avatar for S. S. Mausoof

S. S. Mausoof

S. S Mausoof is a writer, actor, and filmmaker whose work moves between cinema, literature, and live performance. His films include award-winning noir thrillers and the doc In Search of Meluhha. His debut novel, The Warehouse/Nuit sans lune au Waziristan, was shortlisted for the Karachi... Read More →
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Dylan Freitas-D'Louhy

Dylan is an always evolving multi-dimensional artist, author, and activist. He continues through creative endeavors intersections of ingenuity, possibility, and persistence. Fusing the organic vibes with a synthetic world. Discovering the harmony together between the divine dance... Read More →
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Dragonfly De La Luz

Dragonfly de la Luz is a book editor and memoir ghostwriter who believes the Universe makes much better plans than we do. Her writing explores surrender, transcendence, and the lustier parts of wanderlust. When not immersed in words, she’s traveling the world guided by synchronicity... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Martuni's 4 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Grandmas are Griots
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Authors & Performers
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melissa charles

mel (she, her) is an educator-organizer of Haitian and Cuban descent who uses expressive writing as an outlet for healing and political education. she is the minister of education and co-founder of a TK-8 full-time liberation school (@916mxa) who has organized and served as a lecturer... Read More →
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Nida Liftawiya

Nida Liftawiya is a Palestinian activist, multi-disciplinary artist, social worker + educator. A lifelong creative, her artistry is deeply rooted in the rich heritage, resilience + beauty of her homeland. Through her work, Nida captures the spirit of her people, weaving together visual... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Hope as a Discipline: A Night of Readings with Fourteen Hills
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Fingersnaps Media Arts
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Fingersnaps Media Arts 3527 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Invisible City: Letters from the Wilderness
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church
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  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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church 1661 15th St San Francisco, CA 94103
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5:00pm PDT

Mommy Issues
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Authors & Performers
avatar for Lexi Pandell

Lexi Pandell

Writer, Freelance
Lexi Pandell is the author of the forthcoming hybrid memoir HOLY MOTHER! (fall 2027, Chelsea Green Publishing). Her journalism has been published by Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many others. Her short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the... Read More →
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Tanya Žilinskas

Tanya Žilinskas is the host of the BAIT reading series at the Sausalito Public Library. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sun, EPOCH, Chicago Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. More at tanyazilinsk... Read More →
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Lisa Teasley

Lisa Teasley is the author of acclaimed novels Dive and Heat Signature, the award-winning story collection, Glow in the Dark, (Bloomsbury) and the story collection Fluid (Cune Press). She is the librettist for the coming 2028 opera, The Passion of Nell, which won the 2026 Davise Fund... Read More →
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Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson is an award-winning Black British writer and college dropout living in California. She writes about sexual taboos, death and dying, illegal substances, hauntings both real and imagined, and ancestral inheritance in a world desperate to sever the connections between... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Perverts Put Out (& friends) Go All the Way, All the Ways
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Good Vibrations (603 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Authors & Performers
avatar for Zoe Kat

Zoe Kat

Zoe is a writer performer and longtime resident of the mission District. She has appeared at the marsh and the fringe festival with a focus on stories about sex work – disability. The piece is abstracted from a longer story.
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Gina Stella dell'Assunta

Gina Stella dell’Assunta is a writer, performance artist, and cultural worker from San Francisco. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow 2025; a recipient of the San Francisco Artist Grant 2023-2024 & 2020-2021; a featured artist in Ron Athey's international performance art intensive DARKNESS... Read More →
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Carol Queen

Dr. Carol Queen co-founded the Center for Sex & Culture and is staff sexologist and Company Historian at Good Vibrations,. A noted cultural sexologist whose work has been widely published, she's written several books, including Real Live Nude Girl, The Leather Daddy & the Femme... Read More →
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Suzannah Weiss

Suzannah Weiss MA, MPS, AMFT, CSE, CD is a sexologist, adult star, and award-winning author of Eve’s Blessing, a personal, political, and spiritual story of overcoming Eve’s curse by embracing pleasure where women once accepted pain, and Subjectified, a memoir/manifesto on ending... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Good Vibrations (603 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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5:00pm PDT

Quaking in Our Books: Mysteries Set in the San Francisco Bay Area
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110)
Members of NorCal Sisters in Crime will read excerpts from their mysteries that involve the San Francisco Bay Area.
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110) 775 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Ruth Asawa SOTA Presents: Morning Star—Teens Speculate Their Tomorrow
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Shame Chronicles
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Spill the TEA: A Tasting Menu of the Untranslatable and Unsayable
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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. True, wars, including Russia’s ongoing assault of Ukraine, have dominated our newsfeeds. Luckily, the TEA Collective of Transeurasian Writers & Translators can help us...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

SWANA Dykes & Friends: A Literary Rage Party
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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!
Authors & Performers
avatar for Janine Mogannam

Janine Mogannam

Janine Mogannam is a diasporic Palestinian poet, librarian, and literary curator. Her writing has received support from VONA, Kearny Street Workshop, Tin House, and RAWI. Janine’s work can be found or is upcoming in Mizna, Sinister Wisdom, About Place Journal, Foglifter, the anthologies... Read More →
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Jaz Sufi

Slammaster, Berkeley Poetry Slam
Jaz Sufi (she/hers) is a queer Iranian-American poet and arts educator. Her work is published in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. She is a National Poetry Slam finalist and the Poet Laureate of San Ramon on occupied Ohlone land, where... Read More →
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Zara Jamshed

Zara Jamshed is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani and Indian American poet from NYC living in the East Bay. Their debut collection Neither Created Nor Destroyed was a semifinalist for the Pamet River Prize, a finalist for the Stories Award for Poetry, and is available now with Game... Read More →
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Mahru Elahi

A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Mahru Elahi’s hybrid prose can be found in the Bellevue Literary Review, Seventh Wave, Foglifter Journal, Black Warrior Review and in Sinister Wisdom’s SWANA Dykes anthology, among other publications. Mahru urges you to act against... Read More →
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Arwa Alsamarae

Arwa Alsamarae is an ophthalmologist and writer living in the North Bay. Her work has been featured in MIZNA, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Palette poetry among others. She is co-founder of the Samar Reading Series, a recurrent literary event in San Francisco featuring... Read More →
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Saba Keramati

Saba Keramati is a Chinese-Iranian writer from California. She is the author of SELF-MYTHOLOGY (University of Arkansas Press, 2024). She is the poetry editor for Sundog Lit.
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Nikki Luna

Nikki Luna is a Lebanese-American poet, multimedia artist, archival researcher and makeup artist based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Nikki’s work with poetry and archives includes organizing the Mizna Arab Arts’ Writing Collective, teaching writing workshops, and researching at archives... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Text Change: Trans Writers on Anything Except Transition
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Authors & Performers
avatar for Michal

Michal "MJ" Jones

Michal ‘MJ’ Jones (they/he) is a poet, parent, and editor in Oakland, CA. Their debut collection, HOOD VACATIONS, won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award. They are also the author of a chapbook, SOFT ARMOR (2023), from Nomadic Press.
avatar for Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders

writer, buttondown.com/charliejane
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of the forthcoming novel Good Things Are Coming Your Way, about vampires and time travel. Until recently she was the science fiction book reviewer for the Washington Post. She is writing a comic book called Star Trek: Zero Point and a weekly newsletter... Read More →
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Chino Lee Chung

Chino Lee Chung is a queer and trans Chinese Mexican personal essay writer and is a recipient of the San Jose State Steinbeck Fellowship. His work appears in Gender Queer: voices from beyond the sexual binary, Invitation to Joy – Writer’s Creating in Community and is a featured... Read More →
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Sloane Holzer

Sloane Holzer is a writer and artist living in Oakland, California. Her written and creative work has been published in BOMB, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and them. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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5:00pm PDT

The Berkeley Slam Team Showcase
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Who Lies Better Than Writers? Two Truths and a Lie with Sibylline Press
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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!


Authors & Performers
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Elaine Elinson

Elinson, former editor of the ACLU News, is coauthor of Wherever There’s a Fight, Gold Medal winner in the California Book Awards and Development Debacle, which was banned by the Marcos dictatorship. Elinson’s writing has appeared in a wide variety of publications from The Nation... Read More →
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Marianne Lonsdale

Marianne Lonsdale’s debut novel, When The Road Curves, was published by Sibylline Press in 2026. Her personal essays and poetry have appeared in several print anthologies and various online publications including The New York Times, Literary Mama and Pulse. She’s committed to... Read More →
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Jordan Rosenfeld

Author, Sibylline Press
Jordan Rosenfeld is author of 11 books, most recently Writing Through the Pause: Mining Midlife for Powerful Writing and the novel Fallout. She’s published widely, from the Atlantic to Scientific American and many more. Learn more about her freelance writing, developmental editing... Read More →
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Lesley Miles

Architect Lesley Miles read her first story A London Love Story on a KQED Perspectives segment. It gave her the impetus to start writing about her experiences in Guatemala in the late 1970s that led to genocide in the early 80s. Her book All Things Hidden: A Witness to Paradise Lost... Read More →
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Jean Gordon Kocienda

A former geopolitical risk analyst and history researcher, Jean Gordon Kocienda speaks and reads Japanese fluently. Her debut novel, Girl in a Box, based on the life of Japanese poet Yosano Akiko (1878-1942), is filled with her original tanka poetry translations. She co-hosts the... Read More →
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Pam Troy

Pam Troy is the author of THE NEWCOMERS, a magical realism historic fiction novel and the first in the series “The Chronicles of Touperdu.” She is a longtime resident of San Francisco.

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Helen Gladden

Helen Gladden is a retired high school and middle school principal, as well as a former English teacher. She was born and raised in the East Bay, where she currently lives with her husband of forty-two years and their two Golden Retrievers. She enjoys traveling, taking long walks... Read More →
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Valerie Saul

Valerie Saul had an unconventional healthcare career in the U.S., New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore, before writing her debut novel, The Badass Widows, a Mystery. (Sibylline Press, 2026) When she’s not writing stories about gutsy older women, she can be found rowing a racing... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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5:00pm PDT

Without a Net: 20 Super-short, Uncurated, Uncensored, Unrehearsed Pieces, Freshly Written in the Last Hour
Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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6:30pm PDT

API Transmasculine Stories Take the Stage
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Authors & Performers
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Bobby C.

Bobby C. is an immigrant who grew up in Hong Kong and San Francisco. He is a titleholder, Mr. Transgender San Francisco 2004. He has been a longtime organizer/volunteer for the LGBTQ+ community. Bobby enjoys shooting photos at community events, creating visual art, writing poetry... Read More →
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Willy Wilkinson

Willy Wilkinson is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Born on the Edge of Race and Gender, illuminating trans experience from a Chinese American and mixed-heritage perspective. Its second edition arrives this fall. He received an Association of LGBTQ Journalists Award for... Read More →
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Prince Canada

Prince (they/he) is a truth-teller, visual artist, and social entrepreneur. Drawing upon their ugly lived experiences, they create prose, poetry, zines, and paintings. He fought personal legal battles in immigration and transgender housing discrimination. They recently opened their... Read More →
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Gino Visinia

G7NO is an artist born into music, carrying a natural connection to rhythm, storytelling, and performance from an early age. With more than 10 years as an official recording artist, his journey has evolved from simply creating music to intentionally using his voice as a tool for impact... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Borrowed Time—with the Lisa Brown & Daniel Handler Residents
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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. 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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Celebrating the World in Translation
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative, (3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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. 
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative, (3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Center for the Art of Translation Presents: So You Think You Can('t) Translate—Youth Edition!
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
826 Valencia (826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
826 Valencia (826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Chopped Liver: Stories from Secular Jewish Life
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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,  you will hear Jewish stories about music, immigration, humor in grief, mythology. and the quest for connection and belonging.

We are not the diaspora - we create the world in this place we belong.
Authors & Performers
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Леонид

Born in Leningrad in 1950, I have been living in San Francisco since 2022. I am the author of a numerous short stories and the novel based on the true story of a student rock band "The Green Ants"—one of the first in the Soviet Union (1967 – 1975).
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Becka Robbins

Becka is a former literacy specialist, a former bookseller, and a lifelong compulsive reader. She runs the nonprofit Books Not Bans, which was featured in the LA Times, CBS National and in the Guardian UK. She's long been obsessed with Jewish American literature. This is her first... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Circle and Fist: Holding Tenderness while Fighting for the World We Need and Deserve
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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. 
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

CôEm Collective Presents: Monsters, Myths, and Me
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Fingersnaps Media Arts
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...
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Authors & Performers
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Vina Vo

Vina Vo is a storyteller, facilitator, and organizer who bridges the cultural and geographic divide caused by displacement and diaspora. She is originally from Little Saigon in Southern California and now calls Hayward home. She is currently working on a collection of essays.
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Fingersnaps Media Arts 3527 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Dirty Old Women
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Monkeybrains
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! 
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Monkeybrains 933 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Divination Poetics: Spells & the Tarot
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110)
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...
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Authors & Performers
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Sezin Devi (Koehler)

Sezin Devi Koehler is the multiracial Sri Lankan/Lithuanian author of Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, a sociocultural deep-dive into Keanu Reeves’ work. Sezin writes from an Oakland historic landmark that looks like the house from Practical Magic, where she can see... Read More →
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Melissa Eleftherion

Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, she is the author of four poetry collections including Suture (Cooper Dillon, 2026) & Malocchia (White Stag, 2026) as well as 12 chapbooks from various presses. Melissa served... Read More →
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Georgina Marie Guardado

Georgina Marie Guardado, MFA (Latinx, Indigenous, she/her), is Poet Laureate Emerita of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024 and a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She serves as the Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library and Marketing Director for... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110) 775 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Dramatic Readings of Not-So-Dramatic Local Stories with the Editors of 7x7
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

It's Never Too Late: Howls from Owls
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Muddy Waters Café & Lounge
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
participation 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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Muddy Waters Café & Lounge 521 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Mesa Refuge Presents: In the Spirit of Kapwa
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Museum of Forgotten Fun: Immersive Storytelling from the San Francisco Underground
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Martuni's
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Martuni's 4 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Palabras del Pueblo: Cultura pa' la Raza
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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. 
Authors & Performers
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Ronnie Dukes

Ronnie Dukes is an international award-winning illustrator and CCO of DUKEScomics, an independent publisher and IBPA Innovative Voices fellow. Dukes has exhibited at international comic conventions, including Tokyo Comic Con, Leipzig Book Fair and Guadalajara FIL. He’s a featured... Read More →
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Dr. Elvira Carrizal-Dukes

Dr. Elvira Carrizal-Dukes is a Xicana narrative designer from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and C.E.O. of DUKEScomics, an IBPA Innovative Voices publisher. She’s an International Latino Book Awards author of graphic novel Daizee & the Dukes of Chuco: Chuco–Juárez World Rally... Read More →
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Juan G. Berumen

Juan G. Berumen is an East Oakland-based writer, director, educator, and actor who sees storytelling as a vehicle for self-expression, community empowerment, and social transformation. Shaped by his experience growing up undocumented in the Bay Area, Juan is committed to telling stories... Read More →
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Blanca Torres

Blanca Torres grew up on the dry, eastern side of Washington state. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College. She has worked as a reporter for several major newspapers and is now an award-winning producer and reporter... Read More →
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Osmani R. Ochoa

Casa Colibri
Osmani R. Ochoa is a queer Mexican-Xicano poet and longtime local and national organizer for immigrant and worker rights. They've recently released their debut chapbook ‘How to Survive an Asthma Attack in a Climate Apocalypse’ with Abode Press.
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

Poly AF
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

The Creative Youth Collective Presents: Building Worlds and Shaping Futures
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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6:30pm PDT

USF Presents: Emerging Writers Take the Stage
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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. 
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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6:30pm PDT

We Out Here: Black Women Travelers
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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?
Authors & Performers
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elaine lee

Elaine Lee is an attorney, globetrotter and an award-winning travel journalist. She is the editor of the first black travel book of the modern era “Go Girl” The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure” (1997) and its sequel, “Go Girl 2” (2024). She has visited seventy... Read More →
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CieraJevae Gordon


Ciera Jevae is a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet and Richmond’s first Black woman Poet Laureate. Author of Unto Ivy’s Rib and forthcoming And All My Flowers, she holds an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her work is informed by travels throughout Costa Rica, Ghana, Ken... Read More →
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Ajuan Mance

Ajuan Mance is an Oakland-based writer and illustrator. Her comics and illustrations have appeared in several periodicals and anthologies including, most recently, Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project. Gender Studies, Ajuan’s first solo compilation was nominated for the 2024... Read More →
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Kai Harris

Kai Harris is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the experiences of Black girls and Black women. Her debut novel, What the Fireflies Knew, won the 2023 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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8:00pm PDT

Black Sentimentality of Survival, Song & Overjoy
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

CCA Presents: The Last Word is Never the Last
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Authors & Performers
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Leela Smelser

Leela Smelser’s truest devotion is Sci-Fi/Fantasy, but he dabbles in poetry and has been known to microdose screenwriting on the side. With a BA in Creative Writing and Classics from Bryn Mawr College, he is now in his second and final year in the CCA MFA Writing program.
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

Cracking the Code: Tweens & Teens Share Their Life Hacks
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Muddy Waters Café & Lounge
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Muddy Waters Café & Lounge 521 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

Flying Rabbit Presents: It's a Mad Mad Madman World, Madam
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
San Francisco Mime Troupe (855 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
San Francisco Mime Troupe (855 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110) 855 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

Happy Endings (For Real! Probably.)
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Authors & Performers
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Alexandra Clemente

Alexandra was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She writes about her experience as a Venezuelan living in the diaspora. She's lived in San Francisco for more than a decade. You can find her at aleclemente.com
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Rebecca Rubenstein

Rebecca Rubenstein is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. Originally from Chicago, they hold an MFA in Fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars and various words of theirs can be found in The Rumpus, No Contact, X-R-A-Y, and HAD, among others. Their writing has been supported... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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8:00pm PDT

Journalists With a Bite: Bay Area Reporters Share Their Hottest Takes
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Fingersnaps Media Arts
Is cereal soup? Are people in SF or Oakland more fashionable? Does Charlie XCX sound like Taylor Swift with vocal effects?

What'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.
Authors & Performers
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Cecilia Lei

Cecilia Lei is a reporter, producer and podcast host based in the East Bay. She covers immigration, the criminal legal system, AAPI issues, as well as other local communities. Her work has appeared in KQED, Apple News podcasts, SF Chronicle, NPR and Vox Media. Cecilia is also a co-founder... Read More →
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Reo Eveleth

Reo Eveleth is an award-winning reporter and writer who covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm. They're also a sculptor, union organizer, plant propagator, powerlifter, and the curator of the COYOTE Media Collective weekly calendar.
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Fingersnaps Media Arts 3527 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

KALW's Crosscurrents Live: Where I'm From
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Monkeybrains
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Monkeybrains 933 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

Kitchen Table Presents: On Cookbooks, Poems, and Flock Cameras
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
See More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

KQED Presents: Glitter and Rage—Poems for Resistance
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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...
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Authors & Performers
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Preeti Vangani

Preeti Vangani is a poet & writer from Bombay based in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry collections, Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers, (River River Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, among other places. Vangani... Read More →
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Mobby Rosas

Mobby Rosas aka Mobbylicious, is a DILF, baddie, and queer musical artist from Berkeley CA. Their work includes collaborations with legends such as Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane. They are ever pushing the envelope with their provocative live performance and genre bending d... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

Making Mythos in the Mundane: Creating a Cosmic Literary Universe via Improv
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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? These ideas will be documented by the host and then the writers will craft an epic...
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Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

Pochex Deluxe: An Ode to the Californiana Lengua
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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. This reading honors the intersection of our tongues—a language that undoes, restores, revolts, and...
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Authors & Performers
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Josiah Luis Alderete

Josiah Luis Alderete is a ful blooded spanglish speaking Pocho left handed callejero de Aztlan. He is the curator and host of the long running Bay Area Latine reading series Speaking Axolotl and currently tends the Portal on Calle Veint Cuatro known as Medicina Para Pesadillas. His... Read More →
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hector son of hector

hector son of hector is from Long Beach, CA and currently lives in Oakland. He is the child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poetry in secret.
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María Guerrero

María Guerrero is a proud queer Chicanx, born in San Francisco, raised in Bayview–Hunters Point. Es maestra por el día y poeta a las 3 de la mañana. María writes about her experience living in her childhood home, her ancestors, her communities, y medicina
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Mimi Tempestt

Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a M.A. in Literature from Mills College, and a Ph.D in Literature & Creative/Critical Writing from UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, the monumental misrememberings, is published with Co-Conspirator... Read More →
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

Sacramento Noir: Mayhem in the Capital
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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....
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Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

Stanford Continuing Studies Presents: The Date From Hell
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110)
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110) 775 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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8:00pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Fall All-Stars
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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.
Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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Saturday, October 24
826 Valencia (826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative, (3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Artists' Television Access
Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110)
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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Good Vibrations (603 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Martuni's
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
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Muddy Waters Café & Lounge
Page Street (297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102)
Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
San Francisco Mime Troupe (855 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110)
St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
The Writers Grotto (1663 Mission St #602, San Francisco, CA 94103)
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