| Hello Litquakers,
Submissions for our Craft & Creative Life weekend are officially closed! We’ll announce our selections and the complete lineup on April 11. If you missed this submission window, or if your idea didn't quite fit into the themes of this weekend, don’t demure. Submissions for our hallmark festival open the following week! Here is where you’ll find the opportunity to submit anything and everything your brain can conceive of, whether that’s a pitch for a literary seance, a reading of speculative poetry, am interview with your favorite author, or anything in between. Get pumped (and prepped)!
Find out more about what’s on the Litquake horizon below, and be sure to check your inbox every Tuesday for the latest dispatches from the Litquake universe. |
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| Join Litquake for our annual celebration of National Poetry Month. We’ll gather under the stunning stained glass of San Francisco’s historic Grace Cathedral and hear James Cagney, Henry Cole, Jewelle Gomez, Jacques Raincourt, and Rachel Zucker read from their latest collections. Book sales and signing to follow. |
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| The Epicenter: Taleen Voskuni with Jen Siraganian
Thursday, March 29
7:00-8:30pm
Free, $5-10 suggested donation
Litquake’s Epicenter is excited to launch our Spring 2023 season, with Sorry, Bro, the debut novel by Bay Area author Taleen Voskuni.
When Nareh Bedrossian’s non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunken tech boys, she realizes it’s time to find someone who shares her idea of romance. Her mother, armed with plenty of guilt and a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked Armenian men, convinces Nar to attend “Explore Armenia,” a month-long series of events in the city. But it’s not the mom-approved playboy doctor or the wealthy engineer who catch Nar’s eye—it’s Erebuni. Suddenly, with Erebuni as her wingwoman, the events feel like far less of a chore, and much more like an adventure. Who knew cooking up kuftes together could be so...sexy? Taleen Voskuni appears in conversation with Los Gatos Poet Laureate Jen Siraganian |
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Litquake Weekly Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at... “...a more than 300-page novel that provides readers with insight into Armenian culture and identity, all the while touching upon relatable themes such as love, family dynamics, self-realization and bravery.” Taleen Voskuni’s Sorry, Bro is a humorously biting portrait of complicated romance in the Bay Area • SFGATE
“Ross and Magsamen’s book brims with persuasive data from cross-disciplinary studies into the positive effects of taking even minimal time for oneself to regularly experience art.” Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us, is a new book from Mill Valley resident Ivy Ross about the psychological and physiological importance of art • San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
“Often, she would take one of the books he’d given her in her hands and consider it, thoughtfully but not without a little fear, yet most of them were still on the shelf, not yet read.” Catherine Lacey pens a microfictional rumination on the burden of the book recommendation • The New Yorker
“...many of us read independently of the publishing world’s schedule. Now is the perfect time to return to notable art books published in the past couple of years, of which there is no shortage.” From anthologies on cyber-feminism to essays on the relationships between text and image, these are the latest art books to add to your shelves • Hyperallergic
“Based in the Mission district of San Francisco, each event has a theme, at least five poets, and a 15-minute intermission of open discussion about a question that affects Bay Area residents or the world-at-large.” Join The Living Room SF at Syzygy this Friday at 7pm for intimate poetry performances, ideas, and conversation • The Living Room SF
“That day, in what had been the former boiler room of the Sprague Electric Company, our voices merged us with MASS MoCA and we became The Boiler House Poets.” After one writers residency, these poets are still helping each other seven years later • The Rumpus |
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