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.
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.
Join Anne Lamott, the bestselling author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, for an afternoon that includes an onstage interview, a lecture, and a Q&A session.
In this workshop, poets will study the poetic work of Aracelis Girmay, Patricia Smith, and Danez Smith as a way of tracing the trembling thread that these poets leave us through the intense witnessing of pain to human connection, creative response, and action.
The first official book release party for Butchertown, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay.
This event is sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts/General Fund Portion of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
Deborah Fleming PASEO ARTISTICO.
Indira Allegra, Myriam Gurba, Roberto F. Santiago, Grace Rosario Perkins, and José Iñiguez.
Hosted by Deborah Ledvick + Jeanne Lupton.
Poetry readings by Chris Higgls, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, + Cassandra Troyan hosted by Kevin Killian
Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature, stand-up comedy with science fiction and poetry with essays. Plus mystery, romance, memoir, rants and "other."
Standing O Storytelling's inaugural graduating class is ready to take the stage! Join us for stories from a new crop of storytellers that you can expect to see on stages all over the bay area soon.
Reading and Signing with Mary Gaitskill for "Somebody with a Little Hammer"
Poetry readings + open mic.