Litquake 2026

Litquake 2026

7:00pm PDT

Changing Gender: Susan Stryker (SOLD OUT) Oakstop California BallroomCheryl Dunye • Susan Stryker

12:00pm PDT

San Francisco Moby-Dick Marathon 2026 San Francisco Maritime Museum

6:00pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Movie Night: Songs of Earth Roxie TheaterIngrid Rojas Contreras • Rebecca Solnit

7:00pm PDT

R.F. Kuang: Taipei Story (SOLD OUT) Calvary PresbyterianMaggie Tokuda-Hall • R.F. Kuang

12:00pm PDT

Warfield Commons Opening Party (JOIN THE WAITLIST) Warfield Commons

11:00am PDT

Hands in the Soil, Legs on the Pole: Queerness in the Material Realm Great Lawn, Yerba Buena GardensMay-Li Khoe • Mukethe Kawinzi • Brandon Logans • Nnenna Loveth • Kevin Madrigal Galindo Small Press Book Fair Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens

12:30pm PDT

Fluent in Rebirth: Trans and Non-Binary Incantations Great Lawn, Yerba Buena GardensReggie Edmonds-Vásquez • Zara Jamshed • Trinh Lê • Mason J. • Isa Borgeson

2:00pm PDT

Queer Trans Black & Indigenous Poetics: We Have Always Paved Our Own Ways Great Lawn, Yerba Buena GardensJu(mia) • aleah bradshaw • Vania Luna Gutierrez • Zander Moreno Lozano

7:30pm PDT

An Evening with Ayad Akhtar Sydney Goldstein TheaterKaren Russell • Ayad Akhtar

10:15am PDT

Kidquake: Upper Elementary SFPL Main BranchDan Santat • Elisa Kleven • Lisa Moore Ramée

7:00pm PDT

Litquake's Opening Night Bash: Booksellers Ball 524 Union

10:15am PDT

Kidquake: Lower Elementary SFPL Main BranchMonisha Bajaj • Maggie Tokuda-Hall • Mahogany L. Browne

4:30pm PDT

An Afternoon with Mahogany Browne Chapter 510Alie Jones • Belinda Bellinger • Youth Speaks • Mahogany L. Browne

6:00pm PDT

"I took the lake between my legs": Women of a Certain Age Read Poems on Sex and Death Vintage Berkeley Wine ShopTracey Knapp • Emily Fernwood • Jen Siraganian • Melissa Stein • Mahogany L. Browne • Prageeta Sharma • Rebecca Foust • Barbara Jane Reyes

7:00pm PDT

Hernan Diaz: Ply BATS Improv TheatreEd Yong • Hernan Diaz Olivie Blake: Dreamland Gilman BrewingKristina Ten • Olivie Blake

11:00am PDT

From Punchlines to Gut Punches: Weaponizing Wit With Humor and Satire 447 MinnaYuliya Patsay • Malik Robinson • Claire Oshetsky • Rebecca Handler • Scott Meyer

12:30pm PDT

Beyond the Isms: Crafting Stories that Spark Real-World Activism 447 MinnaJane Ganahl • Savala Nolan • Jilanne Hoffmann • Khan Wong • Safia Elhillo

2:00pm PDT

Lick, Smack, Slurp: Writing the Desires We Only Confess to the Page 447 MinnaTijanna O. Eaton • Tomas Moniz • Jennifer Barone • Sandra Jackson-Opoku

5:00pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Poets in the Window Medicine for NightmaresMukethe Kawinzi • Barbara Jane Reyes • Cathy Arellano • Genny Lim

6:00pm PDT

Literary Speakeasy Presents: Dragging Celebrity Autobiographies The StudFagatha Christie • Laundra Tyme • Lisa Frankenstein • Vanilla Meringue • Elsa Touche • Piranha Psychotronica • BeBe Sweetbriar • James J. Siegel

6:15pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Pan Dulce Poets La Reyna BakeryRicardo Tavarez • Ellie Lopez • Alejandro Murguía

7:00pm PDT

Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon Calvary PresbyterianAndrew Sean Greer • Min Jin Lee Claudia Rankine: Triage First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship HallCathy Park Hong • Claudia Rankine • Lina Norris-Raman • Isaiah Kahn • Isabel Shen Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition Make-Out RoomDaniel Handler • Bhion Achimba • Rhoni Blankenhorn • Safia Elhillo • Prageeta Sharma • Angel Dominguez • Katie Peterson • Randall Mann • Ben Gucciardi

7:30pm PDT

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! La Lunada Galeria de la RazaKevin Madrigal Galindo • Rebeca Abidaíl Flores

11:00am PDT

Voice Lessons: Crafting an Artist Statement that Proves You're Human 447 MinnaJanine Kovac • Rachel Neumann • Cristina Deptula • Britta Stromeyer

12:30pm PDT

The Unconventional Author: Side Doors and Secret Passages to Publication 447 MinnaMatthew Félix • Marianne Lonsdale • Wendy Johnson • Tara Dorabji • Regina Louise

1:00pm PDT

The Savage Mind: An American Legacy with David Treuer Grace CathedralMalcolm Clemens Young • David Treuer

2:00pm PDT

After The Launch: Raising Your Book to Survive and Thrive 447 MinnaJulia Park Tracey • Ariel Gore • Jasmine Valandani • Mary Alice Stephens Lesbians Are Elsewhere: Writing the For All Gaze Archive Clio’sJaelynn Walls • Sloane Holzer • Elena Gross

3:00pm PDT

Natalie Baszile: Friends and Family SFPL Main Branch, Koret AuditoriumCheryl Dunye • Natalie Baszile

7:30pm PDT

Out on the Table: Writers on Food with Garrett Schlichte Nosh BoxMicheal Foulk • Jennifer Barone • Garrett Schlichte • Gaby Maeda

6:00pm PDT

Invitation | Abandonment: A Collective Poem in Assembly Et al.Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani لادن خدام خراسانی • Gabriel Cortez • Dora Prieto • aracelis girmay

6:30pm PDT

Tilar J. Mazzeo: The Sea Captain’s Wife Mechanics’ InstituteDr. Tilar J. Mazzeo

7:00pm PDT

Asale Angel-Ajani: Fugitive Archives Launch Pegasus BooksCarvell Wallace • Asale Angel-Ajani NBCC Presents: The Author/Critic Dilemma Page Street Co-WritingIris Jamahl Dunkle • Jane Ciabattari • Jonathan Leal • May-lee Chai • Greg Sarris • Jessi Haley Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-Out KQED CommonsJames Sullivan • The Sam Chase • Marcus Shelby • Diana Gameros

7:30pm PDT

While you were novel-ing, I studied the blade: A Celebration of the Short Story American Bookbinders MuseumGraham Todd • Rucy Cui • Cristina Fríes • William Lohier

6:30pm PDT

Writing The Body: Sports and Identity The Treeline, Sports Basement BryantMichael Copperman • Jenny Liou • Yi Shun Lai

7:00pm PDT

West Coast Beat: The SF Roots of Rolling StoneJames Sullivan • Ben Fong-Torres • Marinanne Partridge • Charles L. Ponce de Leon • Peter Richardson

7:30pm PDT

Jon Ronson: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men JCCSF Kanbar HallJon Ronson Trading Pages: A Poetry/Fiction Exchange Make-Out RoomGraham Todd • Kate Folk • Judy Halebsky • Cintia Santana • Dean Rader • Vanessa Hua • Zach Williams

6:00pm PDT

for colored girls who considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf 50th Anniversary Decentered ArtsBriana Grogan • Jaine • London Pinkney • Mukethe Kawinzi • Wendy M. Thompson • amalee b.

6:30pm PDT

Helene Wecker: The Gates of Midnight JCC East Bay Community CampusHelene Wecker Ukraïne: Recipes and Stories from Kyiv to the Black Sea Omnivore Books on FoodPaolo Lucchesi • Anna Voloshyna Freedom: Essays with Zinzi Clemmons Mechanics’ InstituteFaith Adiele • Zinzi Clemmons

7:00pm PDT

A 22nd-Century Conservation Ethos for California KALWLeslie Carol Roberts • Dillon Osleger • Laura Cunningham • Obi Kaufmann Decentered Arts presents Poolside Poets St. Joseph’s Art SocietyBridget Clancy • Shane King Zackery • Jair Griffin • Denise Masiel • Spinelli • James Morehead • Maya Anne • Papi Grande

7:30pm PDT

Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar Make-Out RoomGraham Todd • Prairie Moon Dalton • Leigh Lucas • Nancy Miller Gomez • Preeti Vangani • Ibe Liebenberg

4:30pm PDT

Peter King: The Game The Community Room, Sports Basement BerkeleyCarmen Policy • Peter King

7:00pm PDT

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry Telegraph Hill BooksZeina Hashem Beck • Janine Mogannam • Deema Shehabi • Priscilla Wathington • Omar Zahzah • Jen Siraganian

7:30pm PDT

Irregular Feedback: Writers on Music Make-Out RoomMichael-Vincent D'Anella-Mercanti • Brittany Newell • Kochina Rude • Micheal Foulk • Joan Granite

8:15pm PDT

Generation Women: Wins & Losses The Lost ChurchSamantha Schoech • Alexandra Romanoff • Sandra Jackson-Opoku • S.C. Bandreddi • Kate Schatz • Bora Lee Reed • Dashka Slater

10:00am PDT

FilBookFest SFPL Main Branch

12:00pm PDT

Read the Room: Books Not Bans Kerouac AlleyBecka Robbins • Sean Owens • Kevin Dublin • Shoshana von Blanckensee • W.S. Gong • Sumiko Saulson • Syr Hayati Beker • Hyazinth Baumann

12:30pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee: Amarcord Roxie TheaterIngrid Rojas Contreras • Andrew Sean Greer

2:00pm PDT

Dorothy Lazard: Behind the Desk at the Main Museum of the African DiasporaPendarvis Harshaw • Dorothy Lazard

7:00pm PDT

An Evening Spell: Trans Poetry & Hardware Hang The CrownJaelynn Walls • Cat Laugian • Daria Lourd Picturing the Past: Graphic Novelists on History and Memory Mrs. Dalloway'sBriana Loewinsohn • Nadine Takvorian • Maria van Lieshout • Frederick Noland • Emil Wilson Jean-Baptiste Phou: Coming Out of My Skin Telegraph Hill BooksCésar Cadabes • Jean-Baptiste Phou

12:00pm PDT

FilBookFest SFPL Main Branch

2:00pm PDT

How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir with Truong Tran City LightsGarrett Caples • Truong Tran Listen to Your Elders: An Elder Project Reading SFPL Haight Branch

3:00pm PDT

Menopause Extravaganza: The Science and Culture of a Subject No One Used to Want to Talk About Gray Area TheaterKeli Dailey • Lasara Firefox Allen • Louann Brizendine • Sarah Isquick • Alecia Greenlee • Rebecca Foust • The Menopause Monologues®

7:00pm PDT

Woof: A Celebration of Our Canine Companions Page Street Co-WritingJanis Cooke Newman A Celebration of César Vallejo's Trilce City LightsHelen Dimos • William Rowe

6:00pm PDT

Living in the Shadow of Silicon Valley SFPL Main Branch, Koret AuditoriumVinita Goyal • Brian Barth • Manissa Maharawal • Jonathan Weber

7:00pm PDT

Pitchapalooza Gilman BrewingArielle Eckstut • David Henry Sterry Celebrating 50 Years of Publishers Group West Clio’sJack Boulware • Sean Shoemaker • Elise Cannon • Charlie Winton Brian Evenson: Phantom Limb City LightsColin Winnette • Brian Evenson Memoirs: Writing Against Silence or Erasure Mrs. Dalloway'sGrant Faulkner • Brooke Warner • Elena Dudum • Judy Juanita • Caroline Paul • Terria Smith Alain Damasio: Horde of the Counterwind Telegraph Hill BooksEdward Gauvin • Alain Damasio • Alexander Dickow

6:00pm PDT

Nafissa Thompson-Spires: The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Museum of the African DiasporaMargaret Wilkerson Sexton • Nafissa Thompson-Spires Rapture: the art that moves us Decentered ArtsLondon Pinkney • Kimi Sugioka • Joe Wadlington • Trinh Lê • Matt Pacelli • Sun Park

6:30pm PDT

Kearny Street Workshop presents APAture Literary Showcase Arc GalleryAlyson Sagala • Bianca Datta • Brandon Vu • Leslie V. Nguyen-Okwu • Mai-Linh Hong • May-Li Khoe • Monica Korde • Neha M. Sampat • Rose Wong • Vina Vo Artificial Intimacy: Sherry Turkle and A.I. YBCA Screening RoomAmy Kurzweil • Sherry Turkle

7:00pm PDT

California Journeys KALWGrant Faulkner • Irena Smith • Angelica Glass Vigdis Hjorth: Repetition Telegraph Hill BooksDaniela Blei • Vigdis Hjorth

8:15pm PDT

All Hallows Eve: An Evening with Ellen Datlow & Friends The Lost ChurchLiza Trombi • Jeffrey Ford • Theresa DeLucci • Linda D. Addison • Ellen Datlow • Brian Evenson

6:00pm PDT

California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements Book Club of CaliforniaSara Calvosa Olson • Antonio Roman-Alcalá Her Story, History, Their Story, Whose Story? Facts and Fictions in Historical Queer Books GLBT Historical SocietyJim Provenzano • Mark Abramson • Lucy Jane Bledsoe • Joey Cain • Katie Gilmartin Vigdis Hjorth: Repetition (Marin Edition) Sausalito Books by the BayBritta Stromeyer • Vigdis Hjorth Fire, Earth, Air & Water: Nik Sharma on the Science of Better Cooking Book SocietySoleil Ho • Nik Sharma

7:00pm PDT

Ben Ehrenreich: Hold Still City LightsDaniel Gumbiner • Ben Ehrenreich

7:30pm PDT

Lights, Camera, Action: Porchlight Storytelling on the Big Screen Vogue TheaterMukethe Kawinzi • Arline Klatte • Beth Lisick • Ali Liebegott • Jack Boulware • Allison Mick • T.K. Moyer • Sam Sax

8:00pm PDT

Hieu Minh Nguyen & Friends The StudBrontez Purnell • Micheal Foulk • Garrett Schlichte • Hera Wynn • Mary Vice • Han (Hands) Ayasse • Brittany Newell • Hieu Minh Nguyen

8:15pm PDT

Chad Harbach: The Brightness The Lost ChurchEirinie Carson • Chad Harbach

6:30pm PDT

Five Tastes: Delicious Recipes for Chinese Flavors with Fuchsia Dunlop Omnivore Books on FoodHarold McGee • Fuchsia Dunlop Walter Mosley: Hanging and Burning SFPL Main Branch, Koret AuditoriumCarvell Wallace • Walter Mosley

7:00pm PDT

Lift Every Voice: A Festival Finale in Verse First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship HallGraham Todd • Phillip B. Williams • D. M. Spratley • D A Powell • Fatimah Asghar • Stephanie Horvath Carolina Pihelgas: The Cut Line Telegraph Hill BooksSasha Vasilyuk • Carolina Pihelgas Queerly Beloved: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Writing in Foglifter The StudReggie Edmonds-Vásquez • KB Brookins • Brent Armendinger • Allegra Wilson • Judas Ātman • Alix Perry

8:15pm PDT

Playlist Storytellers The Lost ChurchA. Van Jordan • Tomas Moniz • Laleh Khadivi • Courtney Desiree Morris

5:00pm PDT

Lit Crawl SF Multiple Locations

9:00pm PDT

Lit Crawl Afterparty The Drawing Room: Annex

3:00pm PST

How They Did It: Getting Unstuck Page Street Co-WritingJanis Cooke Newman • Samina Ali • Diana Kapp • Jason Roberts • Parini Shroff

7:00pm PST

Nelio Biedermann: Lázár Telegraph Hill BooksBlaise Zerega • Nelio Biedermann

7:00pm PST

Jennifer Croft: Notes on Postcards City LightsBritta Stromeyer • Jennifer Croft

6:30pm PST

And If I Die Before I Wake: George M. Johnson with Maggie Tokuda-Hall Marcus BooksMaggie Tokuda-Hall • George M. Johnson

7:00pm PST

Saira Mohamed: What a Country Owes Its Soldiers KALWMark Danner • Saira Mohamed

7:00pm PST

Jen Siraganian: Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead Green Apple Books on the ParkChristin Rice • Nancy Miller Gomez • Jen Siraganian • Tongo Eisen-Martin

7:30pm PST

Marlon James: The Disappearers Sydney Goldstein TheaterShereen Marisol Meraji • Marlon James

7:30pm PST

The Best Journey in the World: An Antarctic Story with Kim Stanley Robinson Grace CathedralKim Stanley Robinson

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