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!

ATTENTION: We’ve turned off the My Schedule tool as Sched has changed its pay structure recently and it’s no longer feasible for us to use. No RSVPs are necessary, just show up! Seating + space are first come, first serve. Sorry for the confusion!

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

¡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

5:00pm PDT

826 Quarterly Release Party

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

826 Valencia (826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

We are partnering with Litquake for the release of The 826 Quarterly, an anthology of the most dynamic writing from across our programs.

Join us in celebrating this new publication with a special reading from the authors themselves!

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
826 Valencia (826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Audience All Ages
Genre Youth Readings, Youth Voices, poetry, fiction

5:00pm PDT

Body Language

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

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

Every body has a story to tell. Physically and figuratively, it holds our emotional truths, identity, fears, triumphs and losses. Through spoken word, poetry, fiction and essay, five writers show how a body can change to please others, how it feels to be severed by ancestral trauma, what it means to be lucky after an amputation, and how the body is a site of memory and inheritance. In holding it all together, the body becomes stronger, more resilient and a champion of change.

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Teeth Bar SF (2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Genre poetry, fiction, memoir

5:00pm PDT

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

SWANA Dykes & Friends: A Literary Rage Party

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

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

What if a book release party was an opportunity for collective catharsis? What if queer and trans writers from the Southwest Asian North African (SWANA) diaspora had the chance to celebrate and shout out their varied voices at this precarious, vulnerable time? Answer: it would be loud and unapologetic and angry AF. Join us in celebrating the SWANA Dykes anthology!

Authors & Performers

Janine Mogannam

Janine Mogannam is a diasporic Palestinian poet, librarian, and literary curator. Her writing has received support from VONA, Kearny Street Workshop, Tin House, and RAWI. Janine’s work can be found or is upcoming in Mizna, Sinister Wisdom, About Place Journal, Foglifter, the anthologies... Read More →

Jaz Sufi

Slammaster, Berkeley Poetry Slam

Jaz Sufi (she/hers) is a queer Iranian-American poet and arts educator. Her work is published in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. She is a National Poetry Slam finalist and the Poet Laureate of San Ramon on occupied Ohlone land, where... Read More →

Zara Jamshed

Zara Jamshed is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani and Indian American poet from NYC living in the East Bay. Their debut collection Neither Created Nor Destroyed was a semifinalist for the Pamet River Prize, a finalist for the Stories Award for Poetry, and is available now with Game... Read More →

Mahru Elahi

A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Mahru Elahi’s hybrid prose can be found in the Bellevue Literary Review, Seventh Wave, Foglifter Journal, Black Warrior Review and in Sinister Wisdom’s SWANA Dykes anthology, among other publications. Mahru urges you to act against... Read More →

Arwa Alsamarae

Arwa Alsamarae is an ophthalmologist and writer living in the North Bay. Her work has been featured in MIZNA, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Palette poetry among others. She is co-founder of the Samar Reading Series, a recurrent literary event in San Francisco featuring... Read More →

Saba Keramati

Saba Keramati is a Chinese-Iranian writer from California. She is the author of SELF-MYTHOLOGY (University of Arkansas Press, 2024). She is the poetry editor for Sundog Lit.

Nikki Luna

Nikki Luna is a Lebanese-American poet, multimedia artist, archival researcher and makeup artist based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Nikki’s work with poetry and archives includes organizing the Mizna Arab Arts’ Writing Collective, teaching writing workshops, and researching at archives... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Genre LGBTQIA+, poetry, SWANA, diasporic stories, book release

5:00pm PDT

Text Change: Trans Writers on Anything Except Transition

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

Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

So often, opportunities for trans writers are focused around work about transition, but no more! The amazing breadth and depth of insight trans people possess will be on display as five of the best trans writers in San Francisco share fiction, non-fiction, and poetry on any topic except one.

Authors & Performers

Michal "MJ" Jones

Michal ‘MJ’ Jones (they/he) is a poet, parent, and editor in Oakland, CA. Their debut collection, HOOD VACATIONS, won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award. They are also the author of a chapbook, SOFT ARMOR (2023), from Nomadic Press.

Charlie Jane Anders

writer, buttondown.com/charliejane

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of the forthcoming novel Good Things Are Coming Your Way, about vampires and time travel. Until recently she was the science fiction book reviewer for the Washington Post. She is writing a comic book called Star Trek: Zero Point and a weekly newsletter... Read More →

Chino Lee Chung

Chino Lee Chung is a queer and trans Chinese Mexican personal essay writer and is a recipient of the San Jose State Steinbeck Fellowship. His work appears in Gender Queer: voices from beyond the sexual binary, Invitation to Joy – Writer’s Creating in Community and is a featured... Read More →

Sloane Holzer

Sloane Holzer is a writer and artist living in Oakland, California. Her written and creative work has been published in BOMB, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and them. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

PHASE 1

Audience All Ages
Genre LGBTQIA+, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, mixed genre

5:00pm PDT

The Berkeley Slam Team Showcase

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

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

The multi-award winning, longest-running poetry slam on the West Coast presents the 2026/2027 Berkeley Slam Team Showcase. This team, formed through fierce competition among the top competitors in the Bay Area poetry slam scene, is embarking on an unprecedented endeavor to collaborate for a full year to create group poetic pieces that push the boundaries of the spoken word art form. Blending individual poetic voice, choral power, and genre-bending choreography, they will perform works exploring themes of marginalization, resilience, and community empowerment.

Saturday October 24, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The Sycamore (2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2140 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 1

Genre hybrid, poetry, radical joy

6:30pm PDT

Borrowed Time—with the Lisa Brown & Daniel Handler Residents

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

Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

An evening of original work from the Lisa Brown & Daniel Handler Residents at the San Francisco Public Library, exploring what is borrowed, what is returned, and what is transformed.

Across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid forms, these writers engage with memory, archives, identity, and the fragile timelines that shape our lives. Rooted in a yearlong residency in support of the public library, this work reflects both personal histories and the collective record.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Audience 21+
Genre fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, mixed genre

6:30pm PDT

Celebrating the World in Translation

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

Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative, (3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Celebrate the third year of the BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS, bringing you the literatures of the world for our delight! Featuring an editor and contributors to the 2026 edition of this annual anthology, the session will feature poetry and prose from four continents, including work from Brazil, Mexico, Korea, and Palestine.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative, (3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 3130 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Genre poetry, mixed genre, translation

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

Divination Poetics: Spells & the Tarot

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

Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110)

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.

Authors & Performers

Sezin Devi (Koehler)

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

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

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 →

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Curio Bar SF @ The Chapel (775 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110) 775 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Audience 21+
Genre poetry, healing

6:30pm PDT

It's Never Too Late: Howls from Owls

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

Muddy Waters Café & Lounge

Join the parliament of OWLS (Older Writers' Laboratory) as we celebrate, investigate and illuminate our lives and perspectives as older poets. Be prepared for unexpected revelations, extraordinary histories and audience
participation as we follow in the great San Francisco tradition of murmuring, whispering, enunciating and howling our words out to you in the foggy urban night.

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Muddy Waters Café & Lounge 521 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 2

Genre elder wisdom, memoir, mixed genre, poetry

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

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

8:00pm PDT

Black Sentimentality of Survival, Song & Overjoy

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

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

Black Sentimentality of Survival, Song & Overjoy is a poetic showcase of an eclectic grouping of multidimensional minds. Heralding from Los Angeles, New York, and the Bay Area, this is a diasporic radical figment of the Black consciousness playing out in real-time. If time is what the Black consciousness even has. We're overjoyed for the counting moments of our breathe. Multidisciplinary in our attack and overjoyed by the audacity of our creations. Overjoyed to be overjoyed and harkening on our survival through poetic sound waves transmitted for ear-hustling pirates looting for the falsehood and overstandings. Tssskkkkk. This is for us, by the utmost shoulder shrug non-shimmying against social or political relevance. Raucous against being endangered. Sentimental for the longing of bearing witness to our greatness. We're shielded from the world's wrongdoings. Cloaked in psychic protection. For the love of living. This is ours...life. Poetry...life. Life........BlLLLLlllLLLLAaaaCCCccckkkkkk.........life.

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Grand Coffee Too (2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2544 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 3

Genre mixed genre, poetry, BIPOC, Black culture

8:00pm PDT

CCA Presents: The Last Word is Never the Last

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

Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

The final graduating class of California College of the Arts' MFA in Writing takes the Litquake stage for the program's last appearance after decades of nurturing distinctive literary voices. Every generation of writers inherits the world as it is and imagines the world as it might become. In a cultural moment that often rewards speed over reflection and certainty over complexity, these emerging writers remind us that literature remains one of our most powerful ways of paying attention to one another, to history, and to ourselves. Through fiction, memoir, poetry, and hybrid forms, these writers move across borders, histories, families, and imagined futures with wit, ambition, and emotional precision. This is more than a farewell to a beloved program. It is an introduction to the writers who will carry its legacy forward and a reminder literature is always unfinished and always becoming. The last word is never the last.

Authors & Performers

Leela Smelser

Leela Smelser’s truest devotion is Sci-Fi/Fantasy, but he dabbles in poetry and has been known to microdose screenwriting on the side. With a BA in Creative Writing and Classics from Bryn Mawr College, he is now in his second and final year in the CCA MFA Writing program.

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Et al. etc. (2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110) 2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 3

Genre memoir, mixed genre, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, sponsor

8:00pm PDT

Cracking the Code: Tweens & Teens Share Their Life Hacks

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

Muddy Waters Café & Lounge

Our youth are our future. Clear-eyed and unjaded, they hold a special kind of wisdom. Come hear the poems and stories of eight 6th-9th graders as they share their life hacks: clever and moving new ways of living, doing, and being that will make life better for everyone.

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Muddy Waters Café & Lounge 521 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

PHASE 3

Audience All Ages
Genre Youth Readings, Youth Voices, mixed genre, poetry

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

8:00pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Fall All-Stars

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

Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

Short readings from a trio of illustrious past and current contributors to ZYZZYVA, showcasing the breadth and the excitement of the writing that the acclaimed San Francisco literary journal has been publishing for more than four decades. We invite you and your friends to hang out with our featured authors and the ZYZZYVA staff before and after the readings.

Saturday October 24, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

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Audience All Ages
Genre fiction, nonfiction, poetry

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