Lyrics and Dirges: 6th Anniversary Special
Come get hot and lyrical at our 6th year anniversary reading!
Come get hot and lyrical at our 6th year anniversary reading!
This month, Fireside welcomes six storytellers to our stage to share their tales of throwing steely nerve in the face of fear, caution, and (in some cases) reason.
SPD PRESENTS is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community.
Special open mic immediately following the Noise Pop Block Party on Satturday August 20th from 6-7:50pm
Join us for a paper filled evening!
David Colosi is the author of the novel Miss Pumpernickel Bread, the essay Towards A Three-Dimensional Literature and the collection of poems, Laughing Blood.
This family-friendly event will include presentations, book signings, tasty treats, art, and activities for all ages!
She will be in conversation, with book sales and signing to follow.
Join us for the Association of Black and Brown Writers' (Nomadic Press') fifth experimental, flash, and science fiction reading series.
In conversation with Peter Orner.
A night of readings of original works by Bay Area comics artists, plus a comics therapist.
Forrest Leo reads from his debut novel, The Gentleman.
Amy Stewart, the bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun, returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters.
Proceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
Content warning: this performance contains brief nudity and simulated torture.
To celebrate this achievement in awful celebrity prose, our guest readers for the night are some of the most iconic queens in the Bay Area!
LaFleur will donate a percentage of book sales to Juma Ventures.
Featuring LIVE PRINTING with master graphic community artists including Patrick Piazza, Txutuo Perez, Art Hazelwood & more. Original prints available from the show’s artists. See FREE POSTERS made on the spot or try printing one yourself.
Four great readings!
Donations will be called for throughout the night, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Over five novels and two collections of stories, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts.
FREE! But bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to, because there's a 1-drink minimum!)
Join us for a very special evening of readings with Marvin R. Hiemstra and Julian Mithra. With musical guest Hazy Loper.
A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers' Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.
$7.00 suggested donation. $10.00 with chapbook.
Rae Meadows w/ Kelly Corrigan.
Come and listen as poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians and storytellers share their pop culture obsessions.
This event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem.
Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for a launch party celebrating former Books Inc. bookseller Maggie Tokuda-Hall's adorable debut picture book, Also an Octopus!
Celebrate the end of summer / the start of SF summer with the Flash Fiction Collective and 11 amazing writers from the Grotto!