Litquake 2026

Litquake 2026

7:00pm PDT

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

7:00pm PDT

Claudia Rankine: Triage First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship HallCathy Park Hong • Claudia Rankine • Lina Norris-Raman • Isaiah Kahn • Isabel Shen

1:00pm PDT

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

2:00pm PDT

Lesbians Are Elsewhere: Writing the For All Gaze Archive Clio’sJaelynn Walls • Sloane Holzer • Elena Gross

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

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

6:30pm PDT

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

4:30pm PDT

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

7:30pm PDT

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

2:00pm PDT

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

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

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

6:30pm PDT

Artificial Intimacy: Sherry Turkle and A.I. YBCA Screening RoomAmy Kurzweil • Sherry Turkle

7:00pm PDT

California Journeys KALWGrant Faulkner • Irena Smith • Angelica Glass

6:00pm PDT

California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements Book Club of CaliforniaSara Calvosa Olson • Antonio Roman-Alcalá

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

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

Filter By Date

Sep 10, 2026 - Jan 6, 2027

September 2026
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30

October 2026
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

18 19 20 21 22 23 24

25 26 27 28 29 30 31

November 2026
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

December 2026
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31

January 2027
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

31
Filter By Venue

San Francisco

All

447 Minna
524 Union
American Bookbinders Museum
Arc Gallery
BATS Improv Theatre
Book Club of California
Book Society
Calvary Presbyterian
Chapter 510
City Lights
Clio’s
Decentered Arts
Et al.
First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship Hall
Galeria de la Raza
Gilman Brewing
GLBT Historical Society
Grace Cathedral
Gray Area Theater
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens
Green Apple Books on the Park
JCC East Bay Community Campus
JCCSF Kanbar Hall
KALW
Kerouac Alley
KQED Commons
La Reyna Bakery
Make-Out Room
Marcus Books
Mechanics’ Institute
Medicine for Nightmares
Mrs. Dalloway's
Multiple Locations
Museum of the African Diaspora
Nosh Box
Oakstop California Ballroom
Omnivore Books on Food
Page Street Co-Writing
Pegasus Books
Roxie Theater
San Francisco Maritime Museum
Sausalito Books by the Bay
SFPL Haight Branch
SFPL Main Branch
SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium
St. Joseph’s Art Society
Sydney Goldstein Theater
Telegraph Hill Books
The Community Room, Sports Basement Berkeley
The Crown
The Drawing Room: Annex
The Lost Church
The Stud
The Treeline, Sports Basement Bryant
Vintage Berkeley Wine Shop
Vogue Theater
Warfield Commons
YBCA Screening Room
Filter By Type

Comics/Graphic Novels

All
FREE

Fiction

All
FREE

Pay What You Can

Film Screening

Food

All
FREE

Pay What You Can

Kidquake

All
FREE

Litquake Out Loud

All
FREE

Music

Nonfiction

All
FREE

Pay What You Can

Party

All
FREE

Performance

All
FREE

Poetry

All
FREE

Pay What You Can

Sci-fi / Fantasy / Horror

All
FREE

Pay What You Can

Storytelling/Memoir

All
FREE

Words Around the World

All
FREE

Writers Weekend

All
Pay What You Can
Age Limit

21+
City

Berkeley

Marin

Oakland

San Francisco