• Our Voices Our Stories SF presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    African American Art & Culture Complex 762 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras' novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf...

    Free
  • Readings from ZYZZYVA’s Bay Area Issue

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS celebrates the latest issue of their dear friends at ZYZZYVA on Friday, January 24! ZYZZYVA dedicates its most recent issue to the...

    Free
  • Robert Hass – Summer Snow

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

    A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author, Robert Hass A new volume of poetry from Robert...

    Free
  • Amber Tamblyn discusses her latest book with Saru Jayaraman

    McRoskey Mattress Company, Inc 1687 Market St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Emmy-winning actress, writer, and Time's Up founder AMBER TAMBLYN discussing her latest book, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution with Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair...

    $20
  • Diverse Voices from Civil Liberties United

    Oakland Center for Spiritual Living 5000 Clarewood Dr., Oakland, CA, United States

    Prose, poetry and artwork from the Civil Liberties United anthology, featuring Lorraine Bonner, Sue Granzella, Anahita Miller, Sridevi Ramanathan & Shizue Seigel, The anthology includes...

    Free
  • Speak, easy Vol. 12

    Joyce Gordon Gallery 406 14th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    An artist showcase and open mic night honoring the voices of black women.

    Free
  • Bad Seeds: A Live Storytelling Event

    Minnesota Street Project 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Bad Seeds--Presented by Back Pocket A storytelling event about: outliers, social pariahs, failures, and good people doing bad things. Featuring strangers, journalists, artists, and the...

    $10
  • Saturday Write-In!

    Farley's East 33 Grand Avenue, Oakland , CA, United States

    Come Write With Us! Novelists, poets, nonfiction writers, artists, all genre/ genrequeer/ no genre. We'll bring a few writing prompts/ poems to help start you...

    Free
  • Saturday Night Special presents: Out of the Dark

    Nick's Lounge 3218 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Welcome back! I'm excited to see my SNS family following our annual holiday hiatus, for our first reading of 2020. Our January theme (suggested by...

    Free
  • Silent Book Club SF

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...

    Free
  • Bazaar Writers Salon

    Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Readings by Susan Browne, Peter Kline, Emily Pinkerton, and Marco Rafalà Hosted by Brittany Perham Susan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, Subtropics,...

    Free
  • Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley

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

    Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. Praise for Uncanny Valley "I've never read anything like Uncanny Valley, which is both a searching bird's-eye study of an...

    Free
  • Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now

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

    reading from his new book Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays published by 2 Dollar Radio With luminous insight and...

    Free
  • Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex

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

    This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This free event will take place at...

    Free
  • Bob Perelman, Norman Fischer, James Sherry

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are the serial poems On...

    Free
  • Crissy Van Meter: Creatures

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

    Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel, Creatures. Praise for Creatures “Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from...

    Free
  • Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell

    Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, SF Main Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco

    San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and...

    Free
  • Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game

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

    discussing his new book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth published by Public Affairs Fake news posts and...

    Free
  • Peggy Orenstein

    First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Discussing Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity. Watch this space for info on ticketing. Wednesday, January 29,...

    TBD
  • Poet Danez Smith: Homie

    Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Buy Tickets Co-presented with JCCSF Award-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects and performative power....

    $20
  • #we music – a talk and performance series of queer perspectives

    ProArts 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza (around the corner from Awaken Café), Oakland, CA

    Please join us for the seventh installment of #we, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...

    Free of charge and a hat will be passed
  • Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #105

    Rebound Bookstore 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, CA, United States

    Our first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas, and poet Kat Crawford. Terry Lucas is the author of two full-length...

    Free
  • Lizzie O’Shea: Future Histories

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

    Lizzie O'Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. Praise for Future...

    Free
  • The Berkeley Slam ft Mycah Miller!

    The Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST! Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and...

    $7 – $10
  • You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes – Santa Rosa

    The Lost Church - Santa Rosa 427 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, United States

    OUR FIRST You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... OPEN MIC @ The Lost Church - Santa Rosa!!!!! WOOOoooOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOO!!!! $10 in advance &...

    $10
  • Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang

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

    in conversation and celebrating the release of Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House published by Graywolf Press In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's...

    Free
  • Orin & Manjula Martin, Fruit Trees for Every Garden

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

    Just in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, and...

    Free