Ongoing

Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)

Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco

One of England’s finest and most loved writers, Alan Bennett, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story.

Rewrite Your Life

Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco 1100 California Street, San Francisco

A 3 day intensive workshop on healing through writing.

$750

Anne Lammott: On Writing

Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera

Join Anne Lamott, the bestselling author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, for an afternoon that includes an onstage interview, a lecture, and a Q&A session.

$160

“Say her name!”: Writing the poetry of witness

Temescal Art Center 511 48th Street, Oakland

In this workshop, poets will study the poetic work of Aracelis Girmay, Patricia Smith, and Danez Smith as a way of tracing the trembling thread that these poets leave us through the intense witnessing of pain to human connection, creative response, and action.

$3.80 – $8.54

Butchertown Book Release Party!

Stookey's Club Moderne 895 Bush St. at Taylor, San Francisco

The first official book release party for Butchertown, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay.

Tenderloin Museum Turns Two

Tenderloin Museum 398 Eddy St, San Francisco

This event is sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts/General Fund Portion of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.

Deborah Fleming

Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco

Deborah Fleming PASEO ARTISTICO.

Mama Says: QTPOC Lineage + Storytelling

Galería de la Raza 2857 24th Street, San Francisco

Indira Allegra, Myriam Gurba, Roberto F. Santiago, Grace Rosario Perkins, and José Iñiguez.

$5 – $20

Jennifer Barone + Ingrid Keir

Frank Bette Center for the Arts 1601 Paru Street, Alameda

Hosted by Deborah Ledvick + Jeanne Lupton.

Writers With Drinks

Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco

Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature, stand-up comedy with science fiction and poetry with essays. Plus mystery, romance, memoir, rants and "other."

$5 – $20