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.
Sit back, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories, raw and without notes.
Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, David Lau and Garrett Caples.
Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around.
Join Cathy Arellano, Korima Press and Galería de la Raza for a book release party and reading for Cathy's new book published by Korima Press "Salvation on Mission Street."
Free Admission. Cash Bar Exotica.
Jeramy DeCristo is a black Bay Area-based artist and writer working in sound, text, image, structure and movement.
Readings with Raina Leon, Kevin Kvist Peters, Annelyse Gelman, and Arisa White.
Colin Winnette talks with Jensen Beach about his short story collection, Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf Press).
Readings + open mic.
Cosmic Hotel is Russ Franklin’s quirky yet touching novel that follows Sandeep Sanghavi, the son of an Indian businesswoman and a famous eccentric astronomer named Van Ray.
Yaa Gyasi reads from her highly touted debut novel, Homegoing, at this book launch party.
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).
The featured guest poets will be Susan Cohen and Catherine Abbey Hodges.
Poetry readings.
Ceremony + Book signing.
Celebrate Queer pride, these fabulous poets, and 20-years of Books Inc. Castro!
10% of all store book sales from 6 pm to close will go to benefit The Women’s Building, a community space for women in San Francisco, http://womensbuilding.org.
Launch of her chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song.
Grady Hendrix celebrates the release of his new book My Best Friend's Exorcism with his best friend from high school and local SF author Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks, Abroad).
Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers.
Ekiss, Peterson, Rader, Saito + Taylor.
Flynn Berry is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, and has been awarded a Yaddo residency. This is her first novel.
*This event is made possible with matching grant by Poets & Writers, Inc.
We will be celebrating the 50th Reading of The Bloom, and the anniversary of Mixed Writes (Faith Adiele, Maria T. Allocco, Jackie Graves and Audrey T. Williams).
A new thriller by local author Joe Clifford.
Come see Reek bell and Jai Arun Ravine at our June 20th Cantíl reading!
Copies of The Telling will be available for purchase at the event.
Celebrating the release of Dated Emcees.