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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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

PHASE 1

Audience All Ages
Genre Youth Readings, Youth Voices, poetry, fiction

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

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 →

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.

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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

PHASE 1

Audience All Ages
Genre illustrated storytelling

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

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.

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 →

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 →

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)

PHASE 1

Audience All Ages
Genre LGBTQIA+, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, mixed genre

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 nature offers multiple possibilities: since there is no single “correct” rendering of a poem, be prepared to share and defend your language choices. Who knows? Maybe it will change your entire relationship with language? With collaboration? With creation? 2025-2027 Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows (https://www.catranslation.org/education/teaching-fellowship/) will host this fun workshop and spontaneous performance for youth writers.

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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Audience All Ages
Genre Youth Voices, translation, mixed genre

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 distinct explorations of intergenerational relationships and trauma, mothering, queerness, climate change and the role of colonialism, and mythology.

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

PHASE 2

Audience All Ages
Genre AAPI, filipinx, environmental, colonialism, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, mixed genre, intergenerational

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 practice that engages questions of meaning, identity, ecology, and culture.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

PHASE 2

Audience All Ages
Genre Youth Readings, Youth Voices, fiction

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

PHASE 3

Audience All Ages
Genre Youth Readings, Youth Voices, mixed genre, poetry

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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Audience All Ages
Genre fiction, nonfiction, poetry

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