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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6:30pm PDT

We Out Here: Black Women Travelers

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

The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

What happens when Black female/NB bodies venture into spaces that don't expect us—and write about it anyway? Decolonial travel writing pioneer Faith Adiele hosts five storytellers who turn travel inside out: a globetrotter to 70 countries, a comics artist documenting Black life, a novelist searching for home, a spoken word artist claiming space. Whose world is this, anyway?

Authors & Performers

elaine lee

Elaine Lee is an attorney, globetrotter and an award-winning travel journalist. She is the editor of the first black travel book of the modern era “Go Girl” The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure” (1997) and its sequel, “Go Girl 2” (2024). She has visited seventy... Read More →

CieraJevae Gordon

Ciera Jevae is a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet and Richmond’s first Black woman Poet Laureate. Author of Unto Ivy’s Rib and forthcoming And All My Flowers, she holds an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her work is informed by travels throughout Costa Rica, Ghana, Ken... Read More →

Ajuan Mance

Ajuan Mance is an Oakland-based writer and illustrator. Her comics and illustrations have appeared in several periodicals and anthologies including, most recently, Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project. Gender Studies, Ajuan’s first solo compilation was nominated for the 2024... Read More →

Kai Harris

Kai Harris is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the experiences of Black girls and Black women. Her debut novel, What the Fireflies Knew, won the 2023 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
The Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

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Genre BIPOC, travel writing, memoir, Black culture

Lit Crawl San Francisco 2026

6:30pm PDT

elaine lee

CieraJevae Gordon

Ajuan Mance

Kai Harris

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