• Queerbound Queer Open Mic at Alley Cat Books

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

      FEB 8 Open Mic, Poetry, Reading Queerbound Queer Open Mic Saturday, February 8, 2020 6:00 PM 9:00 PM Queerbound open mic meets again!!!!!!

    Free
  • Jan Steckel & Shazam at Works in Progress Women’s Open Mic

    Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church 424 Monte Vista, Oakland

    A WOMEN-ONLY open mic featuring poet Jan Steckel and singer-songwriter Shazam. Jan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain....

    $7
  • Writers With Drinks featuring Charles Yu and Meng Jin!

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    January's Writers With Drinks features the long-awaited second novel by Charles Yu, plus acclaimed debut author Meng Jin. Plus sex and feminism, science fiction, and...

    $5 – $20
  • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from his new book Children of the Land published by HarperCollins This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the...

    Free
  • Sarah Abrevaya Stein

    JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United States

    Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century In conversation with Janine Zacharia 6:00 pm: Complimentary wine and cheese reception 7:00 pm: Talk The...

    Free
  • Niloufar Talebi: Self-Portrait In Bloom

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Niloufar Talebi visits to share from her new hybrid and poetic memoir, Self-Portrait In Bloom, the literary accompaniment to her recent opera, both inspired by...

    $5 – $25
  • Contemporary Writers Series: Brenda Shaughnessy

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

    Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and raised in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Octopus Museum. She’s the...

    Free
  • Marcelo Hernadez Castillo, Children of the Land at Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children...

    Free
  • Jean Day and Evan Kennedy

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Jean Day is a poet, union activist, and editor whose Triumph of Life was published last spring by Insurance Editions. Her Late Human will follow from Ugly Duckling in...

    Free
  • Well-RED: Tshaka Campbell & James Cagney

    Works/San José 365 S Market St, San Jose, CA, United States

    Reading Series Tuesday, February 11, 7:00pm features: Tshaka Campbell and James Cagney open mic follows Poetry cat Works/San José 365 South Market Street in downtown...

    $3
  • Perfectly Queer Winter 2020 Reading

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Winter in San Francisco. Baby, it's cold outside--comparatively, at least. Warm up with five Queer authors at Perfectly Queer Tuesday, February 11, 7pm to 8pm...

    Free
  • Evelyn Skye: Cloak of Night w/ Stacey Lee

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    You know Evelyn Skye from the wonderful New York Times bestselling The Crown’s Game, The Crown’s Fate, and Circle of Shadows. The wait for her...

    Free
  • Happy Endings: February

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five...

    $10
  • Amina Cain: Indelicacy

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Amina Cain discusses her new novel, Indelicacy, with Rita Bullwinkel. Praise for Indelicacy "In Indelicacy we meet a woman who spends time studying landscape paintings and then walking...

    Free
  • Arthur Kleinman

    UCSF Parnassus Campus 530 Parnassus Avenue, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The Department of History, Anthropology, and Social Medicine at UCSF in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Viking Books present Arthur Kleinman discussing the subject...

    Free
  • Jeneé Darden at Alameda Authors Series IV

    Alameda Free Library, Stafford Room 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, ca

    Details: The fourth annual Alameda Authors Series, sponsored by, AAUW Alameda and the Friends of the Alameda Free Library, returns with award winning journalist and...

    Free
  • Meng Jin – Little Gods

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Meng Jin to read from her new book, Little Gods on Wednesday, February 12tht at 7pm. On the...

    Free
  • Danielle Svetcov: Parked

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. Danielle Svetcov discusses her new book, Parked. Praise for Parked "A big-hearted novel with characters...

    Free
  • Danielle Svetcov: Parked

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Danielle Svetcov discusses her new book, Parked. Praise for Parked "A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life." --Gennifer Choldenko, author of the...

    Free
  • b, Book, and Me Happy Hour

    DaDa Bar 65 Post St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us after work to raise a glass to Two Lines latest from Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me, translated from Korean by Sunhee Jeong. There...

    Free
  • Harlem of The West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

    Mechanics Institute Library 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In the 1940s and 50s, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco's Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne...

    $15
  • Howard Eiland

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland celebrating two...

    Free
  • Red Light Lit: Valentine’s Show

    PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Celebrate Valentine's a day early with Red Light Lit. The show is a mashup of poetry, storytelling, and art set to a live score by...

    $15 – $20
  • Babar in Exile #22: Up Close and Personal

    Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley

    Babar in Exile will be ending in May, and for its penultimate installment we proudly feature a lineup of queer readers who will take a...

    Free of charge
  • Howard Eiland at City Lights Books

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland celebrating two...

  • Craig Vachon, The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    ookshop welcomes Craig Vachon for a reading and signing of The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley, his entertaining tale of a befuddled but highly capable venture capitalist who...

    Free
  • Sisters in Crime

    Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church 728 Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale

    We are excited to have our Legal Advocacy Fundraiser, Sisters in Crime. Featured this year will be four local authors: The moderator Heather Haven has...

    $15
  • So This Sucks: A Night of Heartbreak & Disappointment

    The Black Box Theater at The Palace of Fine Arts 3601 Lyon St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Heartbroken? Join us. Single? Join us. Not single? Well let's be real, you live in the Bay Area, so chances are you will be VERY...

    $15 – $20