- 100 Days Action
- A New Cadence (Santa Cruz)
- anthology
- Association of Black and Brown Writers
- Autonomous Adobe Zone
- Bay Area Poetry Marathon
- Bitchez Brew (Oakland)
- BustingOut Storytelling (Oakland)
- Carville Annex Press
- de Young Poetry Series
- The Emerald Tablet
- Featherboard Writing Series (Oakland)
- First Person Singular (Berkeley)
- Fireside Storytelling
- Feast of Words
- First Draught: Pints and Prose (Fairfax)
- Flash Fiction Forum (San Jose)
- Get Lit (Petaluma)
- The Grinder (Oakland)
- Give Me Fiction
- Hazel Reading Series
- Heart’s Desire (Oakland)
- Hybrid Moments (Oakland, bimonthly)
- Joyride
- Liminal Space (Oakland)
- Lip Service West (every other month)
- Literary Death Match
- The Lit Slam
- LitUp Writers
- Lunada
- Manifest Reading and Workshop Series (Oakland)
- Nepotism Night
- Oakland Writes (Oakland)
- Pandemonium Press (Oakland)
- Peninsula Literary
- Poets Upstairs
- Theotherfabulous Reading Series (Oakland)
- The Rumpus
- Poetry & Place: El Cerrito (El Cerrito)
- Portguese Artists Colony
- Rolling Writers
- San Francisco Institute of Possibility
- Saturday Night Writer’s Special
- The Shout Storytelling (Oakland)
- Spokespeople
- Story Showdown (Oakland)
- Tongues of Fire
- Trap : Trauma : Transformation
- Under the Influence
- Underpass Reading Series (Oakland)
- Weekday Wanderlust
- Why There Are Words (Sausalito)
- Word Performances
- Writing Without Walls