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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Amuse-Bouche: A Live Theater Experience of Tiny Tickling Treats

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

Monkeybrains

We are playwrights, directors, and a talented cast who squeeze our flesh, blood, brains, and soul into snackable morsels. Our scripted plays are compact and presented as curated readings. We promise to enlighten, agitate, expose, and most of all entertain. Join us for a feast of tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, and very spicy.

Authors & Performers

Kira Findling

Kira Findling is a writer, filmmaker, and somatic therapist-in-training based in Berkeley. Their short play DYKE TV was produced by SF’s Left Coast Theatre Co. in 2025. They’re inspired by the many incredible queer & trans artists of the Bay Area, past and present.

Harriet Heydemann

Harriet Heydemann is a playwright and fiction writer based in the Bay Area. Her stories have appeared in Fourth River, Delacorte Review, Hippocampus, and others. Her play, Lessons From a Jellyfish, won the 2025 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Award for Women Playwrights. Her... Read More →

Ali Littman

Ali Littman is a fiction writer and playwright based in San Francisco. She is currently finishing a novel about the girls and women of a Jewish sleepaway camp. Her work has appeared in the Paper Brigade, Brooklyn Review, and Barren, and her play, Banana Point... Read More →

Conrad A. Panganiban

Conrad A. Panganiban is a Bay Area Fil-Am playwright. His plays include Daryo’s All-American Diner and WELGA. Conrad’s work has been produced around the US and the Philippines. His book, WELGA: A Filipino American Playwright’s Journey, is out now at https://welga.us. MFA. San... Read More →

Karla Khine

Karla Myn Khine is a writer from South Texas, currently residing in Oakland. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Online, Driftwood Press, The Pinch, Poets.org, Sho Poetry Journal, and ANMLY (Anomaly). Her poetry chapbook, Quasi-Metalloid, was recently published by Diagram/New... Read More →

Clara Sperow

Clara Sperow is a writer, artist, and educator interested in everyday whimsy. You can read their writing in The Ana, BULLSHIT, and Berkeley Poetry Review. She has been featured at Et al., Medicine for Nightmares, Tamarack, The Poetry Center, and Greenhouse Festival of New Plays.

Grace Hoffman

Grace Hoffman is a teacher and playwright. She graduated from Emerson College in 2016 and completed her MFA at SFSU in 2025. Her plays, Curtain Call (2024) and The Transfer (2026), were Semi-Finalists for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill. She’s a proud... Read More →

Daniel Martinez Jr

Daniel Martinez Jr is a San Jose-based playwright and actor whose work blends biting humor, vulnerability, and queer storytelling. As a writer for PlayGround, his work received multiple People's Choice Awards and Best of PlayGround selections. He holds an MFA in Writing and Producing... Read More →

Sepehr Jafari

Sepehr Jafari is a playwright and cartoonist born and raised in Iran. They have a BA in Theater from the University of Tehran and an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University. Their plays Superposition: A Crawling Play in Two Parts and Ministry of Gummy Worm were honorable... Read More →

Jeffrey Lo

Jeffrey Lo (He/Him/His) is a Filipino-American playwright and director based in the Bay Area. He is also the associate artistic director of the Tony Award Winning TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and a member of the San Jose State University Theatre Arts Faculty. For more www.JeffreyW... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Monkeybrains 933 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Audience 21+
Genre playwriting

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Spill the TEA: A Tasting Menu of the Untranslatable and Unsayable

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

Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

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.

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Genre diasporic stories, healing, immigration, memoir, mixed genre, playwriting, translation, poetry, radical joy

5:00pm PDT

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