Lit Crawl San Francisco
60+ events · 200+ authors · 100% FREE

WHAT?!?! IT's HERE???? One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco's Lit Crawl is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco's Mission District that caps off our annual Litquake Festival.

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Litquake Out Loud Weekend
2 days of curated events · Small Press Book Fair · Live Music!

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Co-presented with 48 Hills

Launched in 2020, Litquake Festival's curatorial program highlights the Bay Area’s BIPOC & LGBTQ+ writers and thought leaders. Out Loud puts Litquake’s production resources into the hands of guest curators who in turn produce a vibrant, dynamic series of festival events.

We're proud to introduce 2024's...
Out Loud Program Manager: Giovanna Lomanto
Out Loud Event Curators: Noor Brody, Lourdes Figueroa, Rhea Joseph, Darius Simpson, Mimi Tempestt, and RAWdance

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Support our mission at this year's online auction!

Our online auction, to support our mission in our 25th year, runs through 10/1. Get biddin' or else.

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Festival Headliners & Major Events

Adrian Tomine w Daniel Handler & Carson Ellis on the artist's life · Annalee Newitz w Kelly Clancy & Trevor Paglen on AI & PSYOPS · Atlas Obscura's Wild Life · Daniel Levitin w Alexis Madrigal on the healing power of music · Dragging Celebrity Autobios · Hernan Diaz · Jenny Slate · Jonathan Lethem · Kaveh Akbar · Maxine Hong Kingston · Michelle Tea's witch's sabbath · Mike Silver w 49ers legend Steve Young · Morgan Parker w Carvell Wallace & sam sax · Paola Ramos on right wing Latine voters · Paul Lynch · Poetry World Series w Daniel Handler & Andrew Sean Greer · Rachel Kushner w John Freeman · Roddy Doyle w Dave Eggers · Storytelling Events: Porchlight Storytelling, Radium Presents, & Generation Women w Jane Smiley

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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.

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