Litquake 2026

Jim Provenzano is the author of seven novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winner Every Time I Think of You and its sequel Message of Love (a Lambda finalist), his debut novel PINS and its award-winning commissioned stage adaptation. Other works include four audiobook adap... Read More →

Mark Abramson is the author of eight volumes of “Beach Reading”—a mystery series set primarily in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, plus publishing nine non-fiction memoirs and diaries covering various chapters of his remarkable life story, including Sex, Drugs & Disco... Read More →

Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s eighth novel, Tell the Rest, received starred reviews in both Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Times said her work “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, three Pushca... Read More →

Joey Cain is an exhibition curator, activist and LGBT historian specializing in the history of Queer Men’s Consciousness and self-conception. He’s curated exhibits for the San Francisco Public Library and the GLBT Historical Society, and co-edits the Edward Carpenter Circle website. His... Read More →

Katie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer, bona fide sex researcher, and deeply engaged college professor. She cofounded City Art Cooperative Gallery, a still-thriving arts space on Valencia Street, and launched the Queer Ancestors Project, devoted to forging... Read More →