Dear John, We’ve now run Litquake Out Loud, a curated program highlighting local BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors, for two successful years. Authors and attendees alike can’t stop telling us how much it means to them. Show your support for this new program today.
We’re proud of the changes we’ve enacted in our organization and programs to reflect our ongoing mission of inclusivity. Why? Because we see this as our path to force much-needed change in the local literary landscape and the book industry at large. Care to know more? Here’s a progress report from our 2021 festival: - 66% of authors featured were BIPOC - 72% of ‘headliner’ authors were BIPOC - 46% of authors identify as queer/gender nonconforming With you, we celebrate this multitude of voices, Jack & Jane, Litquake co-founders
PS. Help ensure that we can begin planning our third year of Litquake Out Loud on the first day of 2022. Make a special gift today.
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. www.litquake.org
Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Alta Magazine, Amazon Literary Partnerships, BergDavis Public Affairs, California Arts Council, California College of the Arts, California Humanities, Center for the Art of Translation, City National Bank, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Grants for the Arts, HarperOne, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Mary A Crocker Trust, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Poetry Foundation, San Francisco Public Library, Swinerton Family Fund, University of San Francisco's MFA Program, Yerba Buena Community Benefit District, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Jared Bhatti, Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler, Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, Craig Newmark, and Nicole Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson, Ellen Ullman. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7x7, KQED, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.
