Hello Litquakers,
Are you a writer looking for a stage for your latest work? A collective looking for a home for your up and coming poets? An experimental press that specializes in manifestos and cookbooks? Some sort of fourth thing? Then scroll down, and submit! The submissions to Litquake 2023 close in just one week. We can't promise you’ll have many more reminders, because we’re busy as heck! We have two more shows left in our Epicenter series, a whole weekend of craft talks just a month away, and a monthly Poetic Tuesday at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. As always, you can find details at litquake.org and on social media @litquake. See you out there! |
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| This Friday, Litquake launches MariNaomi’s new graphic memoir I Thought You Loved Me, a scrapbook-esque exploration of the expectations of friendship, the unreliability of memory, and the struggle to let go. |
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| Join Litquake’s Epicenter as we dive into Rita Chang-Eppig’s debut novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, a riveting story about a legendary Chinese pirate, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power! |
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| Want to be a part of the 24th annual Litquake festival? Submissions are open for just one more week! |
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Litquake Weekly  Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at... “Regularly voted the best bookstore in the city, it stocks over 100,000 new and used titles, and we asked Ryan to recommend a book for every type of San Francisco-curious reader.” Co-owner of Green Apple Books Kevin Ryan recommends the best books about San Francisco • Inside Hook
“Ronen wants Desmond’s book distributed to City Hall offices with a direct role in the budget planning process, including Breed and her budget director, the Budget and Legislative Analyst, and the Controller.” Marking a first for San Francisco city government, Supervisor Hilary Ronen led the passing of a motion requiring all members of the Board of Supervisors to read Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, By America • San Francisco Examiner
“We’ll See Each Other in August was the result of a last effort to continue creating against the wind and tide. Reading it once again almost 10 years after his death we discovered that the text had many and very enjoyable merits and nothing to prevent enjoying the most outstanding of Gabo’s work...” The rumors are true, we’re getting one more novel from the late great master of magical realism Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez • Book RiotÂ
“This month’s selections are all both bodily and cerebral, whether entering bird language, critiquing economic theory, or guiding us through the underworld.” Rebecca Morgan Frank begins a monthly column on the latest poetry you need to read • Literary Hub
“The themes that run through Book Passage’s plot are the same ones that have driven success for innovative tech startups: experimentation, rule-breaking, networking, market expansion and a relentless focus on the customer.” Read this profile on Elaine Petrocelli and one of the longest running independent bookstores in the Bay Area • The San Francisco Standard
“In the face of the overwhelmingly white publishing industry, DVAN makes the final decisions and steers the direction of this nonprofit publishing collaboration...” Champions of Vietnamese voices DVAN partner with Texas Tech University Press to create the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series imprint • USA Today |
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