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

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

PHASE 1

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

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