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Wednesday, October 14
 

7:30pm PDT

Trading Pages: A Poetry/Fiction Exchange
Wednesday October 14, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
$12 adv / $15 door

Yin and yang? Or oil and water? Join us for this special, hopefully amicable exchange between fiction writers and poets…and no, they are not the unwitting subjects of an elaborate bet. This summer, Zach Williams traded pages with Judy Halebsky, Vanessa Hua with Dean Rader, and Kate Folk with Cintia Santana. Join us as these writers come together to read and respond in appreciation and celebration of each other’s narrative arcs and line breaks. Moderated by Litquake Artistic Director Graham Todd. Doors at 6:30pm.


Moderators
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Graham Todd

Graham Todd is a fiction writer and the Artistic Director of Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival. He studied literature and religion at Stanford and received his MFA from Bowling Green. His writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Southampton Review, Notre Dame Review, Epiphany... Read More →
Speakers
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Kate Folk

Kate Folk is the author of the novel Sky Daddy, which received the California Book Awards’ Silver Medal in Fiction and has been longlisted for The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her story collection... Read More →
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Judy Halebsky

Judy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections, including Sky=Empty which won the New Issues Prize. At Dominican University of California, she directs the MFA program and teaches courses in poetry and live storytelling. A fan of urban hikes, walking as transportation, and... Read More →
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Cintia Santana

Cintia Santana is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. Her debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023) received the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal, the 2023 North American Book Award's Silver... Read More →
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Dean Rader

Dean Rader is a San Francisco-based poet, essayist, translator and critic. He has authored or co-authored 14 books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by The Barnes & Noble... Read More →
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Vanessa Hua

Vanessa Hua is a nationally bestselling author of Coyoteland, A River of Stars and Forbidden City, and story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors’ Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as... Read More →
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Zach Williams

Zach Williams' debut short story collection, Beautiful Days, was a New Yorker Best Book of 2024, a finalist for the 2025 California Book Award for First Fiction, and longlisted for the 2025 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, ... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco
 

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