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

¡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

PHASE 1

Audience 18+
Genre poetry, latine readings, audience participation, memoir, humor, BIPOC

6:30pm PDT

Palabras del Pueblo: Cultura pa' la Raza

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

Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Palabras del Pueblo brings its Raza-centered writing workshop to the Mission for a reading by instructors and participants working in fiction, poetry, comics, and radical writing. Palabras is about the community speaking to itself, arming creators with knowledge and cultura, and encouraging writers. The work reflects memory, struggle, and imagination shaped in community.

Authors & Performers

Ronnie Dukes

Ronnie Dukes is an international award-winning illustrator and CCO of DUKEScomics, an independent publisher and IBPA Innovative Voices fellow. Dukes has exhibited at international comic conventions, including Tokyo Comic Con, Leipzig Book Fair and Guadalajara FIL. He’s a featured... Read More →

Dr. Elvira Carrizal-Dukes

Dr. Elvira Carrizal-Dukes is a Xicana narrative designer from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and C.E.O. of DUKEScomics, an IBPA Innovative Voices publisher. She’s an International Latino Book Awards author of graphic novel Daizee & the Dukes of Chuco: Chuco–Juárez World Rally... Read More →

Juan G. Berumen

Juan G. Berumen is an East Oakland-based writer, director, educator, and actor who sees storytelling as a vehicle for self-expression, community empowerment, and social transformation. Shaped by his experience growing up undocumented in the Bay Area, Juan is committed to telling stories... Read More →

Blanca Torres

Blanca Torres grew up on the dry, eastern side of Washington state. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College. She has worked as a reporter for several major newspapers and is now an award-winning producer and reporter... Read More →

Osmani R. Ochoa

Casa Colibri

Osmani R. Ochoa is a queer Mexican-Xicano poet and longtime local and national organizer for immigrant and worker rights. They've recently released their debut chapbook ‘How to Survive an Asthma Attack in a Climate Apocalypse’ with Abode Press.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Genre latine readings, fiction, poetry, illustrated storytelling

8:00pm PDT

Pochex Deluxe: An Ode to the Californiana Lengua

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

Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Pochex Deluxe is a celebration of Pochos continuing to shape the California tongue within our collective BIPOC communities. It collapses the refrain that we are neither from here nor from there into a declaration: we are the makers of larynx, the makers of now and tomorrow’s literary landscape.

This reading honors the intersection of our tongues—a language that undoes, restores, revolts, and transmutes, continuously rehumanizing our gaze. It celebrates the present Californiana poem a that mimics and becomes cosmos, a poem that can only have the limbs of California.

Pochex, Pocha, Pocho, Poches is further defined here as a descendent body of migrating bodies that insists on being not only the ear, but the mouth of tomorrow’s poem.

Pochex Deluxe because it tears at the seams of tongues.

Authors & Performers

Josiah Luis Alderete

Josiah Luis Alderete is a ful blooded spanglish speaking Pocho left handed callejero de Aztlan. He is the curator and host of the long running Bay Area Latine reading series Speaking Axolotl and currently tends the Portal on Calle Veint Cuatro known as Medicina Para Pesadillas. His... Read More →

hector son of hector

hector son of hector is from Long Beach, CA and currently lives in Oakland. He is the child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poetry in secret.

María Guerrero

María Guerrero is a proud queer Chicanx, born in San Francisco, raised in Bayview–Hunters Point. Es maestra por el día y poeta a las 3 de la mañana. María writes about her experience living in her childhood home, her ancestors, her communities, y medicina

Mimi Tempestt

Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a M.A. in Literature from Mills College, and a Ph.D in Literature & Creative/Critical Writing from UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, the monumental misrememberings, is published with Co-Conspirator... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Medicine for Nightmares (3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 3

Genre BIPOC, latine readings, memoir, poetry

5:00pm PDT

6:30pm PDT

8:00pm PDT

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