We're taking Individual and Program/Session proposals for Litquake Festival 2025 starting NOW until midnight March 31! More info on what we're looking for and how to submit at link below. PS. Lit Crawl SF 2025 submission will open later this month!
Litquake seeks an enthusiastic and skilled Social Media Manager to enhance our digital presence and grow our online audience. This part-time role is crucial for promoting our public events and other programs. The Social Media Manager will work in conjunction with Litquake’s program staff to create a regular schedule of dynamic, engaging social media posts promoting both upcoming events and the organization as a whole.
Application Process See listing and submit an application, CV, and samples of IG content creation, account management, and ads management below!
We are accepting applications now, with a goal to fill the position mid March 2025. Any questions should be directed to info@litquake.org.
Death of the Author: Nnedi Okorafor with Faith Adiele Thursday Feb 13 · 7:00 – 8:00pm Books Inc. Opera Plaza FREE
Co-presented by Books Inc. and Museum of the African Diaspora Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister’s lavish Caribbean wedding, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots.
When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu’s novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next.
"Don’t be frightened by the title. Nnedi Okorafor is fine… and doing her best work yet. Death of the Author reads like three novels in one, or maybe four, about fame and family, culture and change, the power of story, the writer’s life… and robots. This one has it all.” -George R.R. Martin
Free for All: The Public Library Saturday Feb 22 · 1:30pm Vogue Theatre $18 w code FFAPLWF25
Co-presented with Jewish Film Institute: Winterfest One of the most valued yet endangered institutions, public libraries were founded on a visionary principle: to create a space where anyone can access a universe of information, free of charge. Director Dawn Logsdon travels across the United States, uncovering the stories of historic and modern-day figures who have shaped libraries into pillars of democracy. From the Lower East Side of New York to the Chinatowns of the American West, this inquisitive documentary examines how libraries have supported immigrant communities and how those communities, in turn, have shaped public libraries. Directors Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor expected to attend.
Porchlight Storytelling: Touched by an Angel recorded at Litquake Festival 2024 now available!
Another Litquake, another Porchlight. The much beloved, homegrown storytelling series returned with Touched by an Angel: Stories of Mentors, Teachers, Guardians, and Influencers. No notes, all off the dome, featuring Litquake cofounder Jack Boulware with Nico Lang (American Teenager), Adam Nimoy (The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father), Eugene Rodriguez (Bird of Four Hundred Voices), Dawn Silva (The Funk Queen), and Christina Vo (My Vietnam, Your Vietnam). As always, co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick with music by Marc Capelle. Plus a special impromptu song from Dawn Silva (Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament Funkadelic)!
About Litquake Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city's music, film, and cultural festivals. 2025 Dates: Oct. 9-25. www.litquake.org
Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Alta: Journal of Alta California, Amazon Literary Partnership, Bernard Osher Foundation, California Arts Council, California Humanities, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Center for the Art of Translation, Grants for the Arts, Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme, HarperOne, Hawthornden Foundation, Joseph and Vera Long Foundation, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Mary A. Crocker Trust, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Rock Foundation, Norway House, Sam Mazza Foundation, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation; Individual Giving: Jared Bhatti, Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler, Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Karyn DiGiorgio and Steve Sattler, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman, Greg Sarris, and Ellen Ullman Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, 7x7, KALW, KEXP, KQED, SF Arts Monthly, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.
