It's that time again...
Submissions to our fall festival are now open!
We’re overjoyed to announce that we will be accepting ideas for live readings, panels, debates, exposés, multimedia performances, and everything in between from March 15-April 17. More details about guidelines and how to submit are available on our website. |
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Grace Notes: Poetry at Grace Cathedral
Friday, April 1 · 7:30-9:30pm
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street
SF, CA 94108
Litquake’s first event of the year celebrates the start of National Poetry Month. Join five Bay Area authors as they exercise their divine right to poetic performance in the stunning halls of San Francisco’s historic Grace Cathedral. Featuring words from Jesús Castillo, MK Chavez, Randall Mann, Daniel Redman, and Maw Shein Win. Curated and hosted by D.A. Powell. This event is FREE. $10-15 suggested donation (pre-registration required). |
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*SOLD OUT*
Paragraphs On Ice With Andrew Sean Greer and Daniel Handler
Tuesday, April 19 · 7:30-9:30pm
Amado's
998 Valencia Street
SF, CA 94110
Join these two bestselling authors for a rollicking evening with cocktails, as they dive deep into favorite paragraphs from literary history, sharing enthusiasm for language and storytelling with the help of an overhead projector, a full bar, and you, the audience. |
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Litquake Weekly Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...
“...perhaps what we need to survive is not only science but also art...Words that sing and bemoan the beauty and pain; sentences that ask us to not look away from all that is breaking in front of us...” Benje Williams emphasizes that how we write can be integral to fighting climate catastrophe • Los Angeles Review of Books
“The rebirth of dinner and a movie? As Hemingway said: ‘Isn’t it pretty to think so.’” Bay Area artists reflect on 24 months of living in a pandemic • San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
“My desire to be seen as a real writer has at times burned so brightly that it shrank my field of vision, impairing my ability to perceive my own experience and choices, getting me into situations that I would later regret.” A writer had his entire manuscript stolen over email • The New Yorker
“I wanted the class to whistle and pop, for every student to walk away from it on fire for the movement. It was a big ask.” One teacher’s experience teaching LGBTQ classes to Gen Z • The Millions
“The metaphor of a customs checkpoint may be a deliberate misdirection in a collection of poems that is also guided by doors and passages: between memory and forgetting; between the living and the dead; between the language in which one writes and the language in which one laments.” Solmaz Sharif’s latest poetry collection rejects inherited narratives and explores alternatives • The New Yorker
“The book goes to the library through a number of conversations.” Read about the long and tumultuous life of a library book • Book Riot |
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