Reading Series + Open Mics
You might enjoy an interactive guide, created with 
Monthly
Quarterly
- A New Cadence (Santa Cruz)
- Anger Management
- Babylon Salon
- Bang Out (every other month)
- Bay Area Poetry Coalition (Berkeley)
- Canessa Gallery
- East Bay on the Brain (Oakland)
- First Draught: Pints and Prose (Fairfax, every other month)
- Flat Earth Collective
- Kaleidoscope Reading Series
- ‘Lectric Collective (Berkeley)
- Lip Service West (every other month)
- LitUp Writers
- The Living Room Reading Series
- Own Your Story
- Speckled Egg Studios
- Studio One Reading Series (Oakland)
- Tenderloin Reading Series
Open Mics // Weekly
- The Business
- Cafe International
- CCA Writers’ Studio
- de Young Poetry Series
- 16th & Mission
- Poetry Express (Berkeley)
- Queer Open Mic
- Retard | The Church Shows
- Thursdays at Reader’s Cafe
- Tuesdays at Pat’s
- Velro
Check Dan Brady’s list for a more complete guide to open mics here. There is also this amazing guide.
Other Series:
- Center for the Art of Translation
- Center for the Literary Arts
- City Arts and Lectures
- Friends of the Public Library
- Small Press Traffic
Bookstores:
- Bird & Beckett
- Books Inc. (all locations)
- Book Passage (SF | Corte Madera)
- The Booksmith
- City Lights
- Diesel Books (Oakland)
- Green Apple Books
- The Green Arcade
- Moe’s Books (Berkeley)
- Mrs. Dalloway’s (Berkeley)
- Pegasus Books (Berkeley + Oakland)
South Bay + The Peninsula
- Kepler’s (Menlo Park)
- Capitola Book Café
- Florey’s Book Co. (Pacifica)
- Bookshop Santa Cruz
- Logos (Santa Cruz)
Other Sources:
Note: These are readings with websites only.
Please email [evan@litseen.com] with link and info if you know of something not listed. Thanks!
