You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Online! an ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk & the You're Going to Die team... Thursday, June...

Join five of the Bay Area's most prolific writers, thinkers, and entertainers as we celebrate all that is Black and Faggoty. There will be spoken...

The Speaking Axolotl community stands con our Black familias aqui en Aztlan and other occupied territories and is committed to providing a space for AfroLatinx...

Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...

VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event with poet laureates Danusha Laméris and David Sullivan. This event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading...

A free special online event (registration required) with Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of "BoJack Horseman," discussing his first book "Someone Who Will Love You In...

Craig Childs is a writer, wanderer and contributing editor at High Country News, commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, and teaches writing at University of Alaska...

Artists and activists reflect on organizing for gay liberation amidst the AIDS pandemic. Artists and activists including Pamela Sneed and Bill T. Jones speak with moderator Kia LaBeija about their reflections...

Booksmith and The Bindery host jessica Care moore for her new book of poems, We Want Our Bodies Back. Please join us! This will be a virtual event, which we...

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes debut novelist C Pam Zhang for an online event about her new book, How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Zhang will be...

Join us on Zoom on Wednesday June 24th at 5:00pm PDT for Donovan Hohn discussing his new essay collection The Inner Coast with Jordan Kisner. Zoom Login Please click the link...

Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri for her second book, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays. She'll be in conversation with Alexis Coe (You Never...

John Freeman celebrates his new collection of poetry The Park published by Copper Canyon Press he will be joined by DA Powell reading from his...

We're going to gather to celebrate the release of Cassandra Dallett's new book, A Pretty Little Wilderness, out on Be About It Press June 2020!...

Bookshop Santa Cruz and the NAACP of Santa Cruz County welcome Zach Norris, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, for an online event to discuss...

Literary Speakeasy if five years old! So let’s have a virtual celebration and raise money for LYRIC, a great charity located in the heart of...

VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event with Farnaz Fatemi, Ingrid Browning, and Lisa Ortiz, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist Jory Post.  This...

Saturday, June 27 at 3pm RSVP with Eventbrite to access the Zoom link. Author John Tateishi discusses his book, Redress: The Inside Story of the...

Summer is officially here and SNS wants to celebrate! Your challenge this month is to write about SUMMER. Perhaps you want to capture the chaos...

Gina Rae La Cerva discusses her new book, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food (Greystone Books) with David George Haskell. This event will be...