• Get Lit #65 (Music by: TBA)

    Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...

  • Yotam Ottolenghi – Ottolenghi Flavor (Virtual Event)

    The New York Times bestselling author of Plenty teams up with Ottolenghi Test Kitchen’s Ixta Belfrage to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through 100+ innovative, super-delicious, plant-based...

  • Beast Generation Uprising

    online

    Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012, we, Beast Generation writers, lived a never-ending literary feast....

    Free
  • Third Man Books Night @ City Lights

    Celebrating three awesome new books!      Third Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White's Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three...

  • VIRTUAL: Lunch Poems: San Francisco and Chicago

    Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican's new collection, Central Air. Join...

  • Swords Out: A Dungeons & Dragons Murder Mystery

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    John Darnielle (Wolf in White Van, Universal Harvester, the Mountain Goats), Leah Johnson (You Should See Me in a Crown), Daniel Lavery (Something That May...

    $10.00
  • Berkeley Poetry Festival

    The Berkeley Poetry Festival is a City of Berkeley sponsored celebration of the city's poets. We honor a local poet with a Lifelong Achievement award...

  • Funeral Diva

    A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that...

  • Azadeh Moaveni and Salar Abdoh

    Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is...

  • Jumpstart Your Memoir Writing! with Kerry Muir

    Have you ever experienced the nagging feeling you ought to be writing down your life stories, but have simply lacked the time and the tools...

    $295.00
  • Writing the Big Themes with Erin Rodoni

    Love. Loss. Transformation. These themes are so integral to the human experience that writers have returned to them again and again for centuries. But how...

    $295.00
  • Creative Writing 101 with Kathy Garlick

    “Have you wanted to test the waters of creative writing but don’t know where to begin, or how?" asks instructor Kathy Garlick. “Have you waded...

    $295.00
  • Eoin Colfer

    THIS EVENT IS ONLINE Eoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl which gained a huge worldwide readership...

  • Eastwind Book Club: Minor Feelings

    Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong About this Event Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers...

  • VIRTUAL: Omnidawn Fall Book Launch

    Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will be reading from their work....

  • Colossus: Home Reading

    D.L. Lang Yolanda Morrissette Tyrice Brown Jos Burns Aquila Lewis- Ross Elizabeth Costello

  • Magical Feminism: An Editorial Discussion

    online

    Electric Literature executive director Halimah Marcus talks to Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet, 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas, Safe as Houses) and Elissa Washuta (White Magic,...

    $10.00