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Friday, October 16
 

8:15pm PDT

Generation Women: Wins & Losses
Friday October 16, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church
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Co-presented with Generation Women

We’re pleased to once again welcome Generation Women, a live multigenerational storytelling series. One woman or nonbinary performer in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s+ will share an original true story on the theme of “Wins & Losses,” whether personal, professional, psychological, or completely enigmatic. Founded by author Georgia Clark in New York City in 2017, the mission of Generation Women is to amplify underheard voices and create space for intergenerational connection and community. Featuring S.C. Bandreddi, Alexandra Romanoff, Kate Schatz, Bora Reed, Dashka Slater, and Sandra Jackson-Opoku. Hosted by writer, editor, and curator Samantha Schoech. Doors at 7:30pm.

Moderators
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Samantha Schoech

Samantha Schoech is a staff writer at NYT Wirecutter. Her debut book My Mother’s Boyfriends has been called “witty,” “feral,” and “acutely observed.” She first brought Generation Women to San Francisco in 2022. She lives by the beach in San Francisco with her bookish family... Read More →
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Alexandra Romanoff

Alexandra Romanoff is a journalist, a cultural critic, and the author of the 831 Stories’s Big Fan series. She’s also written three novels (under Zan Romanoff), most recently LOOK, which O: The Oprah Magazine called “one of the LGBTQ books that will change the literary land... Read More →
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Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of three award-winning novels. The River Where Blood is Born won the American Library Association Black Caucus Award. Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him was an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. Savvy Summers and the Sweet Pot... Read More →
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S.C. Bandreddi

S.C. Bandreddi hails from California’s Bay Area, where she grew up scribbling stories deep into the night and hasn’t stopped since. When she’s not putting words on paper, she’s usually gaming, rewatching her favorite movies, or at an arcade trying to win as many plushies as she can. She... Read More →
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Kate Schatz

Kate Schatz is a feminist author, educator, and public speaker. She's the New York Times–bestselling author of the Rad Women book series; the novel Where the Girls Were; the 33 ⅓ book Rid of Me: A Story; and Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book, co-written with W. Kamau Bell. She lives in the Bay Area with her wife, three children, and pets. In all she does, Kate is committed to sharing radical histories that shine light on the marginalized people who've truly made America (and the world) great: the people of color, the immig... Read More →
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Bora Lee Reed

Bora Lee Reed has an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College and an MA in theology from the Graduate Theological Union. She was a 2023 Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow. She lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
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Dashka Slater

New York Times–bestselling author Dashka Slater has been described as a “triple threat” for her success in journalism, adult fiction, and children’s literature. The author of many books of fiction and nonfiction for children, teenagers, and adults, her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and has sold... Read More →
Friday October 16, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church 988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
  Performance
 
Wednesday, October 21
 

8:15pm PDT

All Hallows Eve: An Evening with Ellen Datlow & Friends
Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church
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Co-presented with Locus Magazine and SF in SF

Celebrate the spooky season with Ellen Datlow, Hugo Award–winning editor of the new horror anthology All Hallows Eve: Stories of Halloween and Other Festivals of the Dead, a chilling lineup of 19 original short stories delving into our worldwide obsession with that time of year when the veil is lifted, spirits come alive, and the boundary between the living and the dead is far too thin. Joined by anthology contributors and world-class masters of the genre Linda D. Addison, Theresa DeLucci, Brian Evenson, and Jeffrey Ford, Datlow will offer a rare peek behind the publishing curtain, introducing the authors reading from their featured works with insights on how each one was hand-picked for inclusion in her anthology. But that’s not all—Datlow will also sit down with Locus Magazine editor-in-chief Liza Trombi to discuss four-plus decades of her legendary career in the horror genre, and the countless authors she’s shepherded to print. Doors at 7:30pm. 
Moderators
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Liza Trombi

LIZA GROEN TROMBI is the four-time Hugo Award winning Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Locus Magazine. A life-long reader of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, she studied literature, history, and translation at university, and worked in several fields before joining the magazine... Read More →
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Jeffrey Ford

Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Shadow Year, and Ahab's Return. His collections are The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, A Natural History... Read More →
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Theresa DeLucci

Theresa DeLucci's short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Tor.com, Weird Horror, and in Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, and received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Horror Vol. 14. She has talked pop culture for Reactor, W... Read More →
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Linda D. Addison

Linda D. Addison, an award-winning author of five collections, including "How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend," recipient of HWA Lifetime Achievement Award, and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry. Her 2025 books: "Everything Endless" written with Jamal J. Hodge; "An Illegal Feast "with... Read More →
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Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for more than four decades. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Reactor, Tor.com, and Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year ... Read More →
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Brian Evenson

Brian Evenson is the author of two dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection Good Night, Sleep Tight. His collection Song for the Unraveling of the World won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Ray Bradbury... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church 988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
  Sci-fi / Fantasy / Horror
 
Thursday, October 22
 

8:15pm PDT

Chad Harbach: The Brightness
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church
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$35 for presale signed book (ticket not included)

From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and into a larger world that will upend their connection and everything they thought they understood about their own place within it. In stunning scenes and spectacular characters—each drawn with an almost superhuman vividness and humanity—Chad Harbach captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in. In conversation with novelist Eirinie Carson. Doors at 7:30pm.

Order a signed copy of The Brightness here (note: does not include general admission ticket). 
Moderators
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Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson is an award-winning Black British writer living in California. She writes about sexual taboos, death and dying, illegal substances, hauntings both real and imagined, and ancestral inheritance in a world desperate to sever the connections between what came before and... Read More →
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Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin and studied at Harvard and the University of Virginia. He is a cofounder of n+1 and the author of the bestselling The Art of Fielding, which has been translated into more than twenty languages. 
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church 988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
  Fiction
 
Friday, October 23
 

8:15pm PDT

Playlist Storytellers
Friday October 23, 2026 8:15pm - 10:30pm PDT
The Lost Church
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Everyone has a song that found them at the right time. Welcome to Playlist Storytellers, a live event where a curated group of writers share personal stories about a song that found them just when they needed it. Featuring stories from authors Laleh Khadivi, Tomas Moniz, Courtney Desiree Morris, and A. Van Jordan. Doors at 7:30pm. 

Speakers
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A. Van Jordan

A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, (2005), which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times; Quantum Lyrics, (2007); and The Cineaste, (2013... Read More →
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Tomas Moniz

Tomas Moniz is a Latinx writer living in East Oakland, CA. His debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway and the LAMBDA. His second novel, All Friends Are Necessary, won the 2024 California Golden Poppy Award. His new novel, The King of Aloe Vera, will be published September 2026 from Algonquin Books. He teaches at Berkeley City College, the Antioch MFA program and St. Mary’s College. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back... Read More →
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Laleh Khadivi

Laleh Khadivi is the author of four novels, including The Age of Orphans, which received a Whiting Writers' Award; The Walking; A Good Country, a New York Times Editors' Choice; and, most recently, Female Life on Planet Earth. Her essays, stories, and criticism have appeared in ... Read More →
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Courtney Desiree Morris

Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual and performance artist and associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her mediums include large-format portraiture and landscape photography, experimental video, performance art, and installation art. Thematically, her... Read More →
Friday October 23, 2026 8:15pm - 10:30pm PDT
The Lost Church 988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
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