Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.
Creative Writing faculty members May-lee Chai and Junse Kim read from their prose.
Come join us October 12 for a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Amy Bess Cook, Cameron Kelly and Alex Simand (and YOU on the open mic)!
Book Reading with Merle Kröger + Film by Philip Scheffner.
Al Young, Floyd Salas, + Andrena Zawinski.
Join us for a reading of poetry and prose!
Free reading!
InsideStorytime DELUGE, in phase 1 of the San Francisco Lit Crawl.
Join Red Light Lit for Leg 1 of LitCrawl!
Join us!
We will host two Litcrawl events with local writers who delve into topics obscure, naughty and San Franciscan.
Alan Harris has been an actor and a stand-up comedian.
Discussing their works and travels!
Daniel Handler discusses his new novel, All the Dirty Parts, w/ Matthew Zapruder.
Passage tells the story of Warrior, a young black man navigating the snowy winter streets of Harlem and Brooklyn in 1993.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Sympathizer, a New York Times bestseller. His current short story collection The Refugees has also become a bestseller.
Tate Swindell will be joining Laki in a discussion of the film, and Huncke’s life and work.
Reading from Manhattan Beach, the long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Paperback release for John Kaag's new book, American Philosophy.
Two poetry readings!
Submit by 11/08!
The Third Annual San José Poetry Festival will celebrate our community's diverse ethnic and cultural heritage with a wide range of topics and literary styles reflected in performances and workshops.
Bring bikes with gears, snacks, and enthusiasm!
iverse voices will resonate with the all-embracing spirit of the original San Francisco Beat Movement in the aura of memorabilia downstairs in the Beat Museum.
The International Center of the San Francisco Public Library, in collaboration w/ Carayan Press, present Cruzando Fronteras/Crossing Borders poetry series.
Come one and all and bring your friends, partner and neighbors to a gathering in which favorite poems will be shared.
An afternoon in conversation.
Join us for a night of punk rock stories & art!
Poet Aaron Shurin will read from his new book Flowers & Sky: Two Talks.
CaConrad and Dara Wier read from their new poetry collections from Wave Books, While Standing in Line for Death and In the Still of the Night.