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• 18th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest
  San Francisco Zine Fest returns for its 18th annual festival celebrating independent and underground publishing, with a spotlight on the do-it-yourself ethos. Nearly 250 artists and collectives from around the world present their zines, comics, and other goods. This year's guest of honor is Lawrence Lindell ("From Black Boy With Love" and "Couldn't Afford Therapy, […]
• Oakland Peace Festival
  The finale of a three-event series organized by Nomadic Press, the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival celebrates Oakland and peace through music, art, writing, food, and community building. September's theme is Peace, with readings by Terry Taplin, Jevohn Tyler Newsom, Madi Dangerously, Joyce E. Young, and Asantewaa Boykin, a talk by Sandhya Jha and Yvette Felarca, […]
• Oakland Peace Festival
  The 2nd of a three-event series organized by Nomadic Press, the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival celebrates Oakland and peace through music, art, writing, food, and community building. August's theme is Equity, with readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, Flavia Mora, Darius Simpson, Daniel B. Summerhill and Vernon Keeve III, a talk by Cat Brooks and music […]
• Beat Up & Beat Down
  The Beat Museum hosts a special evening in collaboration with 70-year-old NY-based performance poet and organizer George Wallace, who is making a rare West Coast appearance. Wallace was Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace from 2011-2014. Joining him are Iranian-San Franciscan poet and translator Mahnaz Badihian and San Luis Obispo-based Moroccan-American poet Youssef […]
• Launch for Susan Steinberg with Ryan Van Meter
  Author of the short story collections "The End of Free Love" (2003), "Hydroplane" (2006), and "Spectacle" (2013), Susan Steinberg reads from her debut novel "Machine." The words 'experimental' and 'masterful' are often used to describe Steinberg's work, for which she has received a Pushcart Prize. A professor in the USF MFA in Writing program, Steinberg […]
• gods with a little g
  Tupelo Hassman ("Girlchild") returns to San Francisco to read from her second novel "gods with a little g", about a young misfit growing up without a mother in a self-isolated California town even the Internet is blocked and the ways in which she and her friends come together to create a sense of family and […]