Saroyan Gallery (6th fl) at SFPL Main Branch hosts Litquake Writers Weekend THIS Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy our writing panels and then head downstairs to the Koret to enjoy Filipino American International Book Festival! Or vice versa!
100% FREE!
SATURDAY Oct 12 12:30 - 1:30pm· Behind the Veil: Ghostwriting 101 · 2:00pm - 3:00pm · Radical Creative Womanist Workshopping and Reflection in Community · 3:30pm - 4:30pm · Black Poetics, Black Worldbuilding ·
SUNDAY Oct 13 12:30pm - 12:45pm · FilBookFest Keynote: Elaine Castillo 1:00pm - 2:00pm · How Mighty Is the Small, Independent Press? 2:30pm - 3:30pm · Is Nonfiction Literature? Exploring the Intersection of Fact and Art 4:00pm - 5:00pm ·Subterfuge and Secrets: Memoirists Who Go Undercover to Learn the Truth
An Evening with Booker Prize Winner Paul Lynch Friday Oct 11 · 7:00 - 8:30pm Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley (and virtual!) Awarded the 2023 Booker Prize, Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song recounts in exacting, all-too-plausible detail the inexorable descent of Ireland’s liberal democracy into authoritarian rule. Join us for one of Lynch’s few North American events in honor of the paperback release. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation.
Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar Friday Oct 11 · 7:30 - 9:00pm Make-Out Room One of Litquake's premier poetry events, live on our darkest, dankest stage. Featuring multi-hyphenate award winners Kim Addonizio, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Charif Shanahan, Zeina Hashem Beck, and Danusha Laméris for a lurid evening of ebullient verse. Doors at 6:30PM. $12 adv / $15 door
Irregular Feedback: Writers on Music Saturday Oct 12 · 7:30 - 9:00pm Make-Out Room Inspired by the music criticism and archival work of writer Hanif Abdurraqib, Irregular Feedback is a literary deep dive by some of the Bay's best writers and poets into our favorite albums, genres, and musical artists of the past 60 years. Featuring Hieu Minh Nguyen, Phoebe Cakes, Safia Elhillo, José Vadi, and Anna Held. Curated by Micheal Foulk (Queer Film Theory 101). Doors at 6:30PM. $12 adv / $15 door.
Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour's Fight to End Homelessness in SF Sunday Oct 13 · 2:00 - 3:30pm KALW Join journalist Alison Owings and Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocates in San Francisco, as they slip behind the cold statistics and sensationalism. Special performance inspired by Del’s advocacy and life by Skywatchers, the multi-disciplinary, mixed-ability ensemble that creates work amplifying the Tenderloin neighborhood’s stories. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Modern Magic with Michelle Tea Sunday Oct 13 · 8:15 - 10:00pm The Lost Church Michelle Tea, whose new book Modern Magic is a companion to her classic Modern Tarot, will be joined in conversation by Diana Helmuth, author of The Witching Year. Plus a glimpse of author Rana Tahir’s “Choose Your Own Adventure”–inspired tarot deck, as well as a taste of the bewitching beverages in Julia Halina Hadas’s WitchCraft Cocktails. Emceed by MK Chavez. $18
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. 2024 Dates: Oct. 10-26. www.litquake.org
Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Bernard Osher Foundation, California Arts Council, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Center for the Art of Translation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts, Hawthornden Foundation, Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, 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, and Ellen Ullman Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7x7, KALW, KEXP, KQED, SF Arts Monthly, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.
