Litquake 2026

Litquake 2026

Oakstop California Ballroom

7:00pm • Changing Gender: Susan Stryker (SOLD OUT)

San Francisco Maritime Museum

12:00pm • San Francisco Moby-Dick Marathon 2026

Roxie Theater

6:00pm • ZYZZYVA Movie Night: Songs of Earth

Calvary Presbyterian

7:00pm • R.F. Kuang: Taipei Story (SOLD OUT)

Warfield Commons

12:00pm • Warfield Commons Opening Party (JOIN THE WAITLIST)

Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens

Sydney Goldstein Theater

7:30pm • An Evening with Ayad Akhtar

524 Union

7:00pm • Litquake's Opening Night Bash: Booksellers Ball

SFPL Main Branch

10:15am • Kidquake: Upper Elementary

BATS Improv Theatre

7:00pm • Hernan Diaz: Ply

Chapter 510

4:30pm • An Afternoon with Mahogany Browne

Gilman Brewing

7:00pm • Olivie Blake: Dreamland

SFPL Main Branch

10:15am • Kidquake: Lower Elementary

Vintage Berkeley Wine Shop

6:00pm • "I took the lake between my legs": Women of a Certain Age Read Poems on Sex and Death

447 Minna

Calvary Presbyterian

7:00pm • Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon

First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship Hall

7:00pm • Claudia Rankine: Triage

Galeria de la Raza

7:30pm • ¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! La Lunada

La Reyna Bakery

6:15pm • ¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Pan Dulce Poets

Make-Out Room

7:00pm • Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition

Medicine for Nightmares

5:00pm • ¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Poets in the Window

The Stud

6:00pm • Literary Speakeasy Presents: Dragging Celebrity Autobiographies

447 Minna

Clio’s

2:00pm • Lesbians Are Elsewhere: Writing the For All Gaze Archive

Grace Cathedral

1:00pm • The Savage Mind: An American Legacy with David Treuer

Nosh Box

7:30pm • Out on the Table: Writers on Food with Garrett Schlichte

SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium

3:00pm • Natalie Baszile: Friends and Family

American Bookbinders Museum

7:30pm • While you were novel-ing, I studied the blade: A Celebration of the Short Story

Et al.

6:00pm • Invitation | Abandonment: A Collective Poem in Assembly

KQED Commons

7:00pm • Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-Out

Mechanics’ Institute

6:30pm • Tilar J. Mazzeo: The Sea Captain’s Wife

Page Street Co-Writing

7:00pm • NBCC Presents: The Author/Critic Dilemma

Pegasus Books

7:00pm • Asale Angel-Ajani: Fugitive Archives Launch

JCCSF Kanbar Hall

7:30pm • Jon Ronson: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men

Make-Out Room

7:30pm • Trading Pages: A Poetry/Fiction Exchange

The Treeline, Sports Basement Bryant

6:30pm • Writing The Body: Sports and Identity

Decentered Arts

6:00pm • for colored girls who considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf 50th Anniversary

JCC East Bay Community Campus

6:30pm • Helene Wecker: The Gates of Midnight

KALW

7:00pm • A 22nd-Century Conservation Ethos for California

Make-Out Room

7:30pm • Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar

Mechanics’ Institute

6:30pm • Freedom: Essays with Zinzi Clemmons

Omnivore Books on Food

6:30pm • Ukraïne: Recipes and Stories from Kyiv to the Black Sea

St. Joseph’s Art Society

7:00pm • Decentered Arts presents Poolside Poets

Make-Out Room

7:30pm • Irregular Feedback: Writers on Music

Telegraph Hill Books

7:00pm • Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry

The Community Room, Sports Basement Berkeley

4:30pm • Peter King: The Game

The Lost Church

8:15pm • Generation Women: Wins & Losses

Kerouac Alley

12:00pm • Read the Room: Books Not Bans

Mrs. Dalloway's

7:00pm • Picturing the Past: Graphic Novelists on History and Memory

Museum of the African Diaspora

2:00pm • Dorothy Lazard: Behind the Desk at the Main

Roxie Theater

12:30pm • ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee: Amarcord

SFPL Main Branch

10:00am • FilBookFest

Telegraph Hill Books

7:00pm • Jean-Baptiste Phou: Coming Out of My Skin

The Crown

7:00pm • An Evening Spell: Trans Poetry & Hardware Hang

City Lights

2:00pm • How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir with Truong Tran

Gray Area Theater

3:00pm • Menopause Extravaganza: The Science and Culture of a Subject No One Used to Want to Talk About

SFPL Haight Branch

2:00pm • Listen to Your Elders: An Elder Project Reading

SFPL Main Branch

12:00pm • FilBookFest

City Lights

7:00pm • A Celebration of César Vallejo's Trilce

Page Street Co-Writing

7:00pm • Woof: A Celebration of Our Canine Companions

City Lights

7:00pm • Brian Evenson: Phantom Limb

Clio’s

7:00pm • Celebrating 50 Years of Publishers Group West

Gilman Brewing

7:00pm • Pitchapalooza

Mrs. Dalloway's

7:00pm • Memoirs: Writing Against Silence or Erasure

SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium

6:00pm • Living in the Shadow of Silicon Valley

Telegraph Hill Books

7:00pm • Alain Damasio: Horde of the Counterwind

Arc Gallery

6:30pm • Kearny Street Workshop presents APAture Literary Showcase

Decentered Arts

6:00pm • Rapture: the art that moves us

KALW

7:00pm • California Journeys

Museum of the African Diaspora

6:00pm • Nafissa Thompson-Spires: The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford

Telegraph Hill Books

7:00pm • Vigdis Hjorth: Repetition

The Lost Church

8:15pm • All Hallows Eve: An Evening with Ellen Datlow & Friends

YBCA Screening Room

6:30pm • Artificial Intimacy: Sherry Turkle and A.I.

Book Club of California

6:00pm • California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements

Book Society

6:00pm • Fire, Earth, Air & Water: Nik Sharma on the Science of Better Cooking

City Lights

7:00pm • Ben Ehrenreich: Hold Still

GLBT Historical Society

6:00pm • Her Story, History, Their Story, Whose Story? Facts and Fictions in Historical Queer Books

Sausalito Books by the Bay

6:00pm • Vigdis Hjorth: Repetition (Marin Edition)

The Lost Church

8:15pm • Chad Harbach: The Brightness

The Stud

8:00pm • Hieu Minh Nguyen & Friends

Vogue Theater

7:30pm • Lights, Camera, Action: Porchlight Storytelling on the Big Screen

First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship Hall

7:00pm • Lift Every Voice: A Festival Finale in Verse

Omnivore Books on Food

6:30pm • Five Tastes: Delicious Recipes for Chinese Flavors with Fuchsia Dunlop

SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium

6:30pm • Walter Mosley: Hanging and Burning

Telegraph Hill Books

7:00pm • Carolina Pihelgas: The Cut Line

The Lost Church

8:15pm • Playlist Storytellers

The Stud

7:00pm • Queerly Beloved: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Writing in Foglifter

Multiple Locations

5:00pm • Lit Crawl SF

The Drawing Room: Annex

9:00pm • Lit Crawl Afterparty

Page Street Co-Writing

3:00pm • How They Did It: Getting Unstuck

Telegraph Hill Books

7:00pm • Nelio Biedermann: Lázár

City Lights

7:00pm • Jennifer Croft: Notes on Postcards

Marcus Books

6:30pm • And If I Die Before I Wake: George M. Johnson with Maggie Tokuda-Hall

KALW

7:00pm • Saira Mohamed: What a Country Owes Its Soldiers

Green Apple Books on the Park

7:00pm • Jen Siraganian: Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead

Sydney Goldstein Theater

7:30pm • Marlon James: The Disappearers

Grace Cathedral

7:30pm • The Best Journey in the World: An Antarctic Story with Kim Stanley Robinson

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Et al.
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Make-Out Room
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Oakstop California Ballroom
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Page Street Co-Writing
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Roxie Theater
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