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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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

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

PHASE 1

Audience 21+
Genre playwriting

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

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 →

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 →

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

PHASE 1

Audience 21+
Genre speculative fiction, satire, cultural commentary

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

PHASE 1

Audience 21+
Genre intergenerational, memoir, family drama, audience participation

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

PHASE 1

Audience 21+
Genre fiction, mystery, san francisco stories

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 library, this work reflects both personal histories and the collective record.

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

PHASE 2

Audience 21+
Genre fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, mixed genre

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

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).

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

PHASE 2

Audience 21+
Genre cultural commentary, healing, humor, memoir, secular Jewish, immigration

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 with issues of apocalypse, gender, the biodiverse, and the lyric as they intersect to construct a poetics.

Authors & Performers

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 →

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 →

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

PHASE 2

Audience 21+
Genre poetry, healing

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 2020s—explores this medium with a group of five writers.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Martuni's 4 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

PHASE 2

Audience 21+
Genre audience participation, speculative fiction, san francisco stories, immersive storytelling

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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Audience 21+
Genre fiction, sponsor

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