• Pandemonium Press Reading

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    Featured readers: Dennis J. Bernstein, Sharon Coleman, James Cagney, and Sara McAulay. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the...

  • Community Voices: Poets Speak Charif Shanahan

    Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017), winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.

  • Meredith May

    Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United States

    Meredith May spent sixteen years as a feature writer at The San Francisco Chronicle.

  • Shipwreck’s 50th Show Spectacular

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Guys, it's our 50th show, and our 4-year anniversary!

    $10
  • Books & Brews Event #2

    Discretion Brewing 2703 41st Avenue, Soquel, CA, United States

    Book talk & signing with Lindsay Hatton for Monterey Bay. Event #2 of Bookshop’s 2017 Books & Brews Passport Series.

  • YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Sign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly, so if you want to perform, you’d better get there early.

    $10
  • POETRY EVENT: Tender Buttons

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    An afternoon of bay area poetry <3 Hosted by Bloodflower.

  • Writers With Drinks

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

    All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.

    $5 – $20
  • Don Bogen + Joseph Di Prisco

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash.

  • CWP COLLECTIVE

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    CWP Collective Press (“Cringe-Worthy Poets”) is a small chapbook press on the West Side of Buffalo New York.

  • Curtis Chen + Megan O’Keefe

    The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    All proceeds from the event benefit the American Bookbinders Museum.

    $10
  • Nadine Lockhart

    Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Nadine Lockhart received her MA and MFA from Arizona State University.

  • Devereaux Baker + Stephen Shur

    North Beach, SF Public Library 850 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work!

  • Publication Party! Shani Raviv discusses and signs “Being Ana”

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Shani Raviv is a struggling adolescent living in an eccentric female household in Johannesburg, South Africa. At fourteen, influenced by her clique, she gets hooked on...

  • Deena Metzger

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In A Rain of Night Birds, Deena Metzger has written a novel in which two people, who are from each side of this polarity, begin a loving relationship.

  • Well-RED Reading Series

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

    Well-RED Reading Series featuring Robert Perry and Joel Katz celebrating the release of a book of English/Dutch poetry.

  • Anna Redsand: A Creative Non-Fiction Reading

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

    Anna Redsand will read from her memoir, To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond.

  • Nicholas Bredie

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith is excited to host Nicholas Bredie in celebration of his debut novel Not Constantinople.

  • Sylvia Brownrigg w/ Peggy Orenstein

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Discussing Brownrigg's new novel, Pages for Her.

  • Poetry Santa Cruz

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

    Ellen Grace O’Brian, Kevin Opstedal, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman, + Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts.

  • Cara Black: Murder in Saint Germain

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    A book sale by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.

  • Jonathan Safran Foer

    Santa Cruz High School 415 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Ticket packages are $19.98 and include two tickets to the event and one copy of Here I Am in paperback.

    $19.98
  • Julia Glass

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

    Julia Glass discusses her new novel, A House Among the Trees.

  • Fireside Storytelling: Sex

    The Institute of Possibility 3359 Cesar Chavez St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    This month, six fine storytellers regale us with their tales of sexual exploits, adventures, misadventures, and whatever other titillating details they wish to divulge.

    $15
  • Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘Size Queen’

    Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors, Porn Stars, Sex Educators, Comics & More, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.

    $20 – $30