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

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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

PHASE 1

Genre LGBTQIA+, poetry, SWANA, diasporic stories, book release

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

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 connection across cultures and generations.

Authors & Performers

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

PHASE 2

Genre AAPI, mixed genre, LGBTQIA+, diasporic stories

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

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

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