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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3:00pm PDT

Want to Read at Lit Crawl? A Pre-Crawl Tailgate

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Page Street (297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102)

We'll open the doors at 2:45 pm to give you time to get a drink (wine, Prosecco, energy drinks) and get settled at a writing space.

At 3 pm, Page Street founder, Janis Cooke Newman, will announce the theme for our Phase One Lit Crawl event, Without a Net. (We're keeping the theme under wraps until then.)

Everyone will have 40 minutes to write 250 words (no more!) on our theme.

If you like what you've written, and want to read it at the Crawl, just drop your name into our sorting hat (bookish Happy Potter reference).

When the 40 minutes are up, we will randomly draw up to 20 names out of the hat to be our readers!

The event is free, but space is limited to 40 writers, so you do need to pre-register.

Please note, if you are chosen, you'll have to go directly from our location to the Drawing Room on Valencia Street so you'll be ready to read in Phase One of the Crawl at 5 pm.

Saturday October 24, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Page Street (297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102)

TAILGATE

Genre erotica, fiction, memoir, poetry, women of a certain age, workshop, tailgate sponsor, open mic opportunity

5:00pm PDT

Perverts Put Out (& friends) Go All the Way, All the Ways

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

Good Vibrations (603 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Perverts Put Out and friends features writers from San Francisco's longest-running erotic reading series doing what they do best--hot, brainy, thought-provoking, new-sexual-obsession-introducing poetry and prose. All with the frisky wonders of Good Vibes as background! PPO is a project of the Center for Sex & Culture with big love to Horizons Foundation.

Authors & Performers

Zoe Kat

Zoe is a writer performer and longtime resident of the mission District. She has appeared at the marsh and the fringe festival with a focus on stories about sex work – disability. The piece is abstracted from a longer story.

Gina Stella dell'Assunta

Gina Stella dell’Assunta is a writer, performance artist, and cultural worker from San Francisco. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow 2025; a recipient of the San Francisco Artist Grant 2023-2024 & 2020-2021; a featured artist in Ron Athey's international performance art intensive DARKNESS... Read More →

Carol Queen

Dr. Carol Queen co-founded the Center for Sex & Culture and is staff sexologist and Company Historian at Good Vibrations,. A noted cultural sexologist whose work has been widely published, she's written several books, including Real Live Nude Girl, The Leather Daddy & the Femme... Read More →

Suzannah Weiss

Suzannah Weiss MA, MPS, AMFT, CSE, CD is a sexologist, adult star, and award-winning author of Eve’s Blessing, a personal, political, and spiritual story of overcoming Eve’s curse by embracing pleasure where women once accepted pain, and Subjectified, a memoir/manifesto on ending... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Good Vibrations (603 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

PHASE 1

Audience 18+
Genre erotica

6:30pm PDT

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

Dirty Old Women

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Monkeybrains

Older women: Wise enough to tell the truth about sex--what they want, what they've done, what makes them hot. Tonight, we tell you. Our erotica takes many forms--fiction, poetry, memoir--from sweet to kinky to weird. If you missed the legendary series at the Octopus Literary Salon, this is your chance!

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Monkeybrains 933 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Audience 18+
Genre erotica, women of a certain age, fiction, memoir, poetry

6:30pm PDT

Poly AF

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Open marriages, polycules, orgies, reconceiving the shape of family, falling in love with two people at the same time, a Google Calendar so crammed it brings the main character to her knees. Come hear the newest polyamory stories from the beating heart of America’s homeland for relationship rebels, misfits, and pioneers.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Genre erotica, family drama, fiction, humor, memoir

6:30pm PDT

USF Presents: Emerging Writers Take the Stage

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT

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

We're an all-ages group of grad student writers at the University of San Francisco. We’re putting our non-writing lives on hold for two years while we dig deep into the art world and see what could happen. We experiment and write normal stuff and weird stuff. We have incredible dogs and cats that inspire and terrorize us.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Audience 18+
Genre erotica, fiction, memoir, poetry, women of a certain age, emerging voices, mixed genre, sponsor

Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026

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5:00pm PDT

Zoe Kat

Gina Stella dell'Assunta

Carol Queen

Suzannah Weiss

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