Weekly/Monthly
- Alta Live
- At the Door
- Bawdy Storytelling
- Bay Area Poets Coalition (Berkeley)
- Bazaar Writers Salon
- Beat Museum
- Berkeley Arts & Letters (Berkeley)
- Black Freighter Press
- CCA Writing Events
- Club Chicxulub
- Coastside Poetry (Half Moon Bay)
- Eves at the Beat
- Flash Fiction Forum (San Jose)
- The Holloway Series (Berkeley)
- Left Margin LIT (Oakland)
- The Long Now Foundation
- Lunch Poems (Berkeley)
- Lyrics and Dirges (Berkeley)
- Marin Poetry Center (San Rafael)
- Mills Contemporary Writers Series (Oakland)
- My Word Open Mic (Berkeley)
- Nerd Nite (SF and Oakland)
- Odd Mondays
- Odd Salon
- Perfectly Queer
- The Poetry Center
- Poetry Center San Jose (San Jose)
- Porchlight Storytelling
- Quiet Lightning
- The Racket
- RADAR Productions
- Red Light Lit
- The Ruby
- Saturday Night Special (Berkeley)
- SF in SF
- St. Mary’s Creative Writing Reading Series (Moraga)
- Studio One Reading Series (Oakland)
- THERE (Oakland)
- Word for Word
- The Word Party
- Writers With Drinks
- You’re Going To Die: Poetry, Prose, and Everything Goes
- Youth Speaks
Other Series
- Aunt Lute
- Babylon Salon
- Bay Area Book Fest
- Center for the Art of Translation
- Center for the Literary Arts (San Jose)
- Chinese Historical Society of America
- City Arts and Lectures
- Friends of the Public Library
- Kearny Street Workshop
- Left Margin Lit
- Litquake
- Lone Glen (Oakland)
- Lone Mountain (USF)
- Manny’s
- Matatu Festival (Oakland)
- Mill Valley Library After Hours (Mill Valley)
- Nomadic Press
- O’Hanlon Center for the Arts (Mill Valley)
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Berkeley)
- Rebound Bookstore: Hand to Mouth (San Rafael)
- Reimagine
- San Francisco Public Library
- Small Press Traffic
- Tenderloin Museum
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Bookstores
- Adobe Books
- A Great Good Place for Books (Oakland)
- Alexander Book Company
- Arkipelago Books
- Argonaut Book Shop
- Bird & Beckett
- Black Bird Bookstore
- Black Swan Books (Oakland)
- Bolerium Books
- Books Inc. (all locations)
- Bookmark (Oakland)
- Book Passage (SF | Corte Madera)
- The Booksmith
- Borderlands
- Cape & Cowl Comics (Oakland)
- Christopher’s Books
- City Lights
- Dog Eared Books (Valencia | Castro)
- East Bay Booksellers (Oakland)
- Eastwind Books (Berkeley)
- Fabulosa Books
- Fantastic Comics (Berkeley)
- Folio Books
- Globus Books
- Green Apple Books
- The Green Arcade
- Issues (Oakland)
- Liberia Pino
- Lost Paddle Books (Albany)
- Marcus Books (Oakland)
- Medicine for Nightmares
- Moe’s Books (Berkeley)
- Mrs. Dalloway’s (Berkeley)
- Omnivore Books
- Pegasus Books (Berkeley + Oakland)
- Pt. Reyes Books (Pt. Reyes Station)
- Readers Bookstore, Fort Mason
- Readers Bookstore @ The Main
- Russian Hill Bookstore
- Spectator Books (Oakland)
- Tavistock Books (Alameda)
- University Press Books (Berkeley)
- Walden Pond Books (Oakland)
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South Bay + The Peninsula
- Kepler’s (Menlo Park)
- Florey’s Book Co. (Pacifica)
- Bookshop Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz)
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Other Calendars
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- Academy of American Poets
- Poetry Flash
- Poets & Writers
- SFArts
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Open mics // weekly
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- 16th & Mission
- La Promenade
- Poetry Express (Berkeley)
- Take Place
(On Hiatus)
For series on hiatus, defunct groups or those not producing regular programs.
- Note: These are readings with websites only.
Please email [evan@litseen.com] with link and info if you know of something not listed. Thanks!