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Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)

Qulture Collective 1714 Franklin Street, Oakland

Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O'Neal and Janae Johnson. Every...

Free

Aysegül Savas

Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco

Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel, Walking on the Ceiling. Praise for Walking on the Ceiling “Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes...

Meet Journalist and Anti-Death Penalty Activist, Michael Kroll

Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, Oakland

Michael Kroll is a prolific writer; he has published numerous magazine and newspaper pieces, some award-winning, most of which focus on our own criminal justice...

Free

Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ismail Muhammad

City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco

reading from and discussing her new novel The Old Drift from Hogarth Books On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the...

All the Sweeter

Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco

Jean Minton joins us to discuss her book All the Sweeter: Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care. About All The Sweeter All the...

InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES

The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland

    InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES, featuring Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater), Lynn Breedlove (Forty-Five Thought Crimes), Vincent Chu (Like A Champion), Cheryl Ossola (The Wild Impossibility), and others, will occur at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster...

Happy Endings: Lights, Camera, Fashun

Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco

HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five...

Heather Hansman

Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco

Heather Hansman discusses her new book, Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West. Praise for Down River “Heather Hansman’s account of her 730-mile solo...

Sixteen Rivers Anthology Celebration

Falkirk Cultural Center 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael

America, We Call Your Name: Poems of  Resistance and Resilience, was conceived in response to the 2016 presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from...