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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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.
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 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 →
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.
English is great at absorbing words from other languages, like ‘shadenfreude’ or ‘chutzpah’. But the words you probably know from Transeurasian languages, from Turkic to Slavic, are more ominous: kompromat, horde, vampire.
True, wars, including Russia’s ongoing assault of Ukraine, have dominated our newsfeeds. Luckily, the TEA Collective of Transeurasian Writers & Translators can help us move past the headlines and enrich our vocabulary and understanding of life elsewhere to include joy, camaraderie, and resilience in the face of fear and loss.
The TEA Collective invites you to a literary tea party with stories by mixed-genre writers with roots from Serbia, Ukraine, Russia, and the Armenian Diaspora that put into words what is difficult to say and nearly impossible to translate. We’ll integrate music and "tasting notes," words in other languages hidden under your seats that will help us give voice to experiences and feelings that we didn’t know we had.
Chopped Liver is a new storytelling series about the rest of American Jewish culture. We are a people with rich traditions and histories. At this LitCrawl event, you will hear Jewish stories about music, immigration, humor in grief, mythology. and the quest for connection and belonging.
We are not the diaspora - we create the world in this place we belong.
Born in Leningrad in 1950, I have been living in San Francisco since 2022. I am the author of a numerous short stories and the novel based on the true story of a student rock band "The Green Ants"—one of the first in the Soviet Union (1967 – 1975).
Becka is a former literacy specialist, a former bookseller, and a lifelong compulsive reader. She runs the nonprofit Books Not Bans, which was featured in the LA Times, CBS National and in the Guardian UK. She's long been obsessed with Jewish American literature. This is her first... Read More →
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.
From T.S. Eliot to Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, poets have long experimented with the tarot as a generative praxis. How can we, amidst current & ongoing crises, incorporate the tarot or spellwork in our writing practices, as a means of healing interspecies relationships, cultural lineages, or even ourselves? Explore ways poets from various backgrounds use divination as a practice to collaborate with issues of apocalypse, gender, the biodiverse, and the lyric as they intersect to construct a poetics.
Sezin Devi Koehler is the multiracial Sri Lankan/Lithuanian author of Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, a sociocultural deep-dive into Keanu Reeves’ work. Sezin writes from an Oakland historic landmark that looks like the house from Practical Magic, where she can see... Read More →
Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, she is the author of four poetry collections including Suture (Cooper Dillon, 2026) & Malocchia (White Stag, 2026) as well as 12 chapbooks from various presses. Melissa served... Read More →
Georgina Marie Guardado, MFA (Latinx, Indigenous, she/her), is Poet Laureate Emerita of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024 and a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She serves as the Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library and Marketing Director for... Read More →
Through themes of creation, ritual, and tradition, these writers trace patterns carried across generations—from our mythical origin, to a lost motherland, to the present day and beyond. This reading invites us to witness how inherited stories—both told and untold—bind us, fracture us, and offer the possibility of new life. It asks: What do we inherit? What do we choose to carry forward? And what do we lay to rest?
