Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
A publication party for Edan Lepucki's book "Woman No. 17".
Reading featuring Tania Martin and Caesar Kent.
Irene Mathieu and a collection of special guest readers for an evening of Poetry!
Join a panel of EXIT Press playwrights and Lily Janiak.
Come and recite your favorite poem by a published author. California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia will match the audience poem for poem.
Coming Attraction.
José Gutiérrez + Dean Rader - An Evening of Poetry.
One of England’s finest and most loved writers, Alan Bennett, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story.
Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with Vendela Vida about her new book, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun.
Join us at the next Fireside!
Dani Shapiro reads from Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage.
An evening of youth spoken word, song, + community Open Mic.
Discussing Ginny Moon.
Translator Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov.
We'll have three featured readers with an open mic after the intermission. Open mic list goes live at 6:30!
Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD!
Copies of The American Plan will be for sale at the event.
Celebrating the release of Writers Who Love too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997
Award-winning author and illustrator Marissa Moss shares her touching memoir, Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love.
Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on May 11, 2017, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Suggestible.
Two contemporary master story tellers, who focus on the immigrant experience, talk about how their novels and stories portray the current immigrant experience.
Glori Simmons discusses her new story collection, Suffering Fools, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.
Laura McBride reads from her new novel 'Round Midnight.
Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito converse about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era
A 3 day intensive workshop on healing through writing.
We are proud to announce that this year’s show will include works from our ADAPTS program (Autism & Drama with Artists, Parents, Teachers, & Students) at Grattan Elementary School!
A night of reading!
Uptown Fridays reading featuring Ariel Gore and Sara Marinelli, with music by Nkechi.
It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest.