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

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

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 →

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

PHASE 1

Genre BIPOC, healing, intergenerational, mixed genre, Black culture

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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

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

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

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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)

PHASE 2

Genre BIPOC, travel writing, memoir, Black culture

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 attack and overjoyed by the audacity of our creations. Overjoyed to be overjoyed and harkening on our survival through poetic sound waves transmitted for ear-hustling pirates looting for the falsehood and overstandings. Tssskkkkk. This is for us, by the utmost shoulder shrug non-shimmying against social or political relevance. Raucous against being endangered. Sentimental for the longing of bearing witness to our greatness. We're shielded from the world's wrongdoings. Cloaked in psychic protection. For the love of living. This is ours...life. Poetry...life. Life........BlLLLLlllLLLLAaaaCCCccckkkkkk.........life.

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

PHASE 3

Genre mixed genre, poetry, BIPOC, Black culture

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 Porras Hernandez, this gathering brings together voices that refuse to be silenced, stories that refuse to disappear, and a community that refuses to stop fighting for joy, dignity, and belonging. With performances by Preeti Vangani, Gio! And special musical guest Mobby Rosas!

Authors & Performers

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 →

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

PHASE 3

Genre BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, sponsor, radical joy

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 transmutes, continuously rehumanizing our gaze. It celebrates the present Californiana poem a that mimics and becomes cosmos, a poem that can only have the limbs of California.

Pochex, Pocha, Pocho, Poches is further defined here as a descendent body of migrating bodies that insists on being not only the ear, but the mouth of tomorrow’s poem.

Pochex Deluxe because it tears at the seams of tongues.

Authors & Performers

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 →

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.

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

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

PHASE 3

Genre BIPOC, latine readings, memoir, poetry

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