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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¡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

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

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

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Ruth Asawa SOTA Presents: Morning Star—Teens Speculate Their Tomorrow

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Daring to imagine positive alternatives, teen artists shine a light forward. Writers and artists across disciplines from the Ruth Asawa SF School of the Arts share original work that conveys truth, generates possibility, and transforms their tomorrows. This dynamic event showcases how teens grapple with the intense present and infuse hope into their futures. Come and participate! A Futures Bingo card result in a candy prize.

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Ritual Coffee Roasters (1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Genre Youth Voices, Youth Readings, mixed genre, audience participation

5:00pm PDT

Shame Chronicles

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Shame is a powerful emotion. As writers, we can unpack that raw energy on the page. During this event, we’ll intersperse readings with prompted free-writes anchored in this complex emotion. Bring something to write with, and leave with multiple starts for stories, poems, or essays in your pocket.

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Latin American Club (3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Genre audience participation, healing, memoir

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

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

Making Mythos in the Mundane: Creating a Cosmic Literary Universe via Improv

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT

The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Ever long to be a Troubadour? This program is part standup, part musical act, part word-association, but all creative joy. Crowd participants will be asked to shout out mythos ideas—what does every literary universe need? Who are the epic heroes? What quests must they undertake? What boons do the characters gain?

These ideas will be documented by the host and then the writers will craft an epic poetic narrative from the free-association, live on stage. The host will sing/perform the final act aloud for the audience with musical accompaniment. Saddle up for a wild wild adventure.

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

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Genre audience participation, immersive storytelling, improv, radical joy

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