Too often, it is difficult to feel — much less mobilize — the power of the civic voice amid the forces of government and the…
About two years ago, Chris Peck the Town Crier was driving back to San Francisco from Seattle, where he had been touring his double EP…
Every year, on the ninth and final day of San Francisco’s literary festival, Litquake, hundreds of storytellers, poets, biographers and writers of all kinds converge…
What started three years ago as an annual four-day juried writers’ retreat at Mayacamas Ranch in Calistoga, called Lit Camp, has become a nonprofit that…
David Meltzer is a poet and a time traveler. He came here from 1937, and remembers feeling “doomed by the atom bomb” when he was…
For Siamak Vossoughi, whose debut collection Better Than War won a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction and was published this week, writing is…
Working as a middle school secretary six years ago, Liz Mayorga found out about the annual celebration of DIY culture known as Zine Fest when…
In a 2014 conversation with Lorin Stein, published in BOMB magazine, author Ottessa Moshfegh said, “Each story requires a different style of stupidity. I just write…
Summer and fall walked into a campus of artist-renovated military buildings to read from their latest works and to talk about the weather. One of…
It began in a San Francisco apartment in 2009 and continued for three years as an open mike at cafes and bars, then gained traction…