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  • Bay Area Generations

    Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Readings + a full bar!

    $7 – $10

  • Helen Klonaris + Amir Rabiyah

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A reading to celebrate the new anthology Writing Down the Walls: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices, edited by Klonaris and Rabiyah, co-sponsored by Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies.

  • Robert Olen Butler

    Books Inc. Berkeley 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler shares his powerful new novel, Perfume River.

  • Patrick Hoffman

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Patrick Hoffman to the store to discuss and sign his new thriller, Every Man a Menace.

  • Gary Snyder

    Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Reading with a great poet!

  • Anne Raeff + Lisa Graley

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Co-winners of the 2015 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction talk and read from their respective works.

  • Fruitvale Fridays

    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Readings + music!

  • BustingOut: HalloWeird

    Geoffrey's Inner Circle 410 14th St, Oakland, CA, United States

    Five storytellers plus 3min. audience stories.

    $10 – $20

  • Saturday Night Special Reading + Contest

    Nick's Lounge 3218 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    After the reading and costume contest, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm!

  • Ballard, Fenner, + Opstedal

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Three great readings!

  • Carmen Giménez Smith

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    An afternoon of reading.

  • Civil Coping Mechanisms: #Recurrent

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    The evening's feature writers are Harold Abramowitz, Jordan Okumura, and Doug Rice.

  • Rolling Writers: Bay Crossing

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    Special East Bay edition!

  • Sneathen, Wolkin, + Low

    Aggregate Space Gallery 801 W Grand Ave, Oakland , CA, United States

    chapbook release by ERIC SNEATHEN / LINDSEY WOLKIN + reading by TRISHA LOW.

  • Poetry Unbound #34

    Art House Gallery & Cultural Center 2905 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Sixties Retrospective Poetry Reading w/ Sharon Doubiago, Eliot Schain, + Julia Vinograd.

    $5 – $10

  • Shaddock, Maher, + Silberg

    Temple Sinai 2808 Summit Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    Refreshments + poetry reading!

  • Frances Dinkelspiel

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Frances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning journalist who cofounded the local news site Berkeleyside.

  • Karen Brennan + Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event.

  • Aichlee Bushnell + Solmaz Sharif

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Final reading of the fall season!

  • Alan Bernheimer

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes poet/translator Alan Bernheimer, to the store to discuss and sign, Lost Profiles.

  • InsideStorytime Ignominy

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    A night of great readings!

  • Peter Dale Scott

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Reads from his new poetry collection, Walking on Darkness.

  • ABBW Presents: The Hydra #8

    Woods Bar & Brewery 1701 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Donations will be called for throughout the night, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

  • Juan Felipe Herrera

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Juan Felipe Herrera is currently the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States and is the first Latino to hold the position.