Milvia Street art and literary journal first came out in 1989 from Vista Community College. We're celebrating the newest issue with a reading by Diana Arnold, Paul Elias Taylor, Lark Omura, Raymond Richard, Patricia France, and others.
Come say goodbye to us and help us kick off the tour with an open mic event!
Pegasus Books presents a reading with "Daughter's Tongue Coalition" - a local women's writing collective.
We hope you can join us for an evening of poetry, community, and beverages!
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland and Coffee House Press welcome Amanda Nadelberg and Ben Mirov to the store to discuss and sign their new poetry books, Songs from a Mountain and Ghost Machines.
Tom Odegard (aka Tom/Ms.G).
Readings by four different poets!
Award-winning author Fenton Johnson discusses his unforgettable new novel, The Man Who Loved Birds.
Chernoff, Murphy, Omura, Rosner, + Velasco
Our readers for this evening are Mk Chavez, Ruth Crossman, J de Salvo, Keeley Ann Finn, Kelly Klein, Colleen McKee, and Jan Steckel.
Our first East Bay event!
Yaghoub Yadali, a fiction writer from Iran, has directed for television and worked for Roshd Magazine as the editor of the film section.
Winner takes home $200 cash prize, second place $70, third place $50 and all other contestants get $20! Audience picks the winner!
Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond.
Crowded by Beauty chronicles the course of Whalen's life, focusing on his unique, eccentric, humorous, and literary-religious practice.
Rosalind Brackenbury reads from her extraordinary novel, The Third Swimmer.
Both reading from new poetry collections!
We are proud to print all of our books locally in Oakland, CA. We strongly believe in supporting local authors, publishers, and printers and growing together.
SPD PRESENTS is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community.
This month at SNS, we're celebrating the sullied. The damaged, the impure, the tainted, tarnished, spoiled, polluted and defiled. Bring us your filthy poems, your ruined stories, your glorious poisonous words. We want to eat them up.
Author, poet and educator Kwame Alexander, winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal and a 2015 Coretta Scott King author medal.
This month, join us for an hour of our favorite classics - Greek, Roman, epics, etc. ...As always, stories served up with a delicious cocktail.
Join us at this amazing Oakland First Fridays event as Nomadic Press presents a host of amazing Bay Area writers prior to a performance by the phenomenal Fantastic Negrito as they launch their newest album, Last Days of Oakland.
Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, David Lau and Garrett Caples.
Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around.
Featured writers: Vanessa Hua, Deborah Kenmore, Lily Miller, Anna Pulley, Mike Ottum, and Erin Spannan.
Jeramy DeCristo is a black Bay Area-based artist and writer working in sound, text, image, structure and movement.
Readings + open mic.
Oakland's premiere literary showcase kicks off summer early with some seriously hot performance writers!
Pegasus Books presents a reading with poets Ruth Thompson (Crazing) and Jayne Benjulian (Five Sextillion Atoms).