Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026: Full Schedule

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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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

TAILGATE

Audience 18+
Genre tailgate sponsor

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

PHASE 1

Audience 18+
Genre poetry, latine readings, audience participation, memoir, humor, BIPOC

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

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.

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 →

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 →

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)

PHASE 1

Audience 18+
Genre erotica

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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

PHASE 1

Audience 18+
Genre mixed genre, audience participation, women of a certain age

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 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!

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

PHASE 1

Audience 18+
Genre tailgate sponsor, mixed genre, memoir, fiction, nonfiction

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

PHASE 2

Audience 18+
Genre erotica, fiction, memoir, poetry, women of a certain age, BIPOC, Black culture, diasporic stories, elder wisdom, south asian, indigenous american, healing

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

PHASE 2

Audience 18+
Genre erotica, women of a certain age, fiction, memoir, poetry

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

PHASE 2

Audience 18+
Genre erotica, fiction, memoir, poetry, women of a certain age, emerging voices, mixed genre, sponsor

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

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

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)

PHASE 3

Audience 18+
Genre mixed genre

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