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Saturday, October 12
 

7:30pm PDT

Irregular Feedback: Writers on Music
Saturday October 12, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
"Music is a refuge for those who cannot find solace in the world around them." Join cultural critic and essayist Micheal Foulk (Queer Film Theory 101) for an evening of writers writing about music! Inspired by the music criticism and archival work of writer Hanif Abdurraqib, Irregular Feedback is a literary deep dive 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. Doors at 6:30PM. $12 adv / $15 door.
Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books
Authors and Participants
avatar for Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk is a non-binary queer comedian, writer, and programmer thriving in Oakland, California. They host a weekly podcast called I'm Not Busy where they discuss anything and everything except what's currently going on with their comedy partner Vanessa Gonzalez. Foulk has been... Read More →
avatar for Hieu Minh Nguyen

Hieu Minh Nguyen

HIEU MINH NGUYEN is a queer Vietnamese American poet from the Twin Cities, he is the author of two collections of poetry,This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which went on to win the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the... Read More →
avatar for Anna Held

Anna Held

Anna Held is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. Her personal essays and journalism have been featured in The Cut, Buzzfeed, Runner’s World, Bustle, Romper, and Vox, among other publications. She has edited for Wirecutter and is a features editor at The Rumpus. A prolific... Read More →
avatar for José Vadi

José Vadi

José Vadi is the author of Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens and Inter State: Essays from California. His work has been featured by the Paris Review, The Atlantic, Free Skate Magazine, Alta Journal of California, and the Yale Review.
avatar for Phoebe Cakes

Phoebe Cakes

Phoebe Cakes (She/Her in drag, indifferent out of Drag) is an award-winning dilettante, polyamorous renaissance woman, and misunderstood interdisciplinary storyteller. A poet at heart, hallmarks of her style include referentiality, irreverence, sex-positivity, and melodrama. Phoebe... Read More →
avatar for Safia Elhillo

Safia Elhillo

Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country, and Bright Red Fruit, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the California Book Award... Read More →
Saturday October 12, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
  Storytelling
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Sunday, October 13
 

7:00pm PDT

Celebrating Defiance, Resisting Silence
Sunday October 13, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
SAGRADA
Co-presented with 48 Hills

This dynamic event showcases writers driven by urgency, addressing pressing issues with narratives that explore the ignored, overlooked, and under-represented. Eirinie Carson, Christopher D. Cook, Sabina Khan-Ibarra, Jesus Francisco Sierra, and Rowena Leong Singerwill share stories of resilience and resistance and delve deep into identity, activism, and the pursuit of justice, offering powerful insights into how American culture and politics impact their daily lives as members of under-represented communities. Celebrating Defiance promises an afternoon of powerful storytelling, inclusivity, and the amplification of voices that challenge the status quo. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation

Book sales for this event coordinated by Sagrada.
Authors and Participants
avatar for Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson is a Black British writer living in California. She is a mother of two children, Luka and Selah. A member of the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, Carson is a frequent contributor to Mother magazine, and her work has also appeared in LitHub, Mortal Mag, Electric Literature... Read More →
avatar for Sabina Khan-Ibarra

Sabina Khan-Ibarra

Sabina Khan-Ibarra is a writer, poet, and teacher currently focused on completing her chapbook, New Vocabulary, and her novel, The Poppy Flower. Her work has been featured in various journals and anthologies, including Non-White and Women, Taboos and Transgressions. She is a member... Read More →
avatar for Christopher Cook

Christopher Cook

Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning journalist based in San Francisco. He has reported and written on social and economic justice issues for many national publications, including Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, Mother Jones... Read More →
avatar for Rowena Leong Singer

Rowena Leong Singer

Rowena Leong Singer is a Chinese-Filipino writer who is published in The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, Narrative Magazine, and KQED’s Perspectives. She is the grand prize winner in literary fiction for the Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest, a semifinalist for the James Jones... Read More →
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Jesus Francisco Sierra

Jesus Francisco Sierra is a Cuban writer who settled in San Francisco and grew up in the Mission District. His work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Stream Literary Journal, The Bare Life Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, The Caribbean Writer, The Acentos... Read More →
Sunday October 13, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
SAGRADA
  Storytelling
 
Tuesday, October 15
 

7:30pm PDT

Porchlight Storytelling: Touched by an Angel
Tuesday October 15, 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Swedish American Hall
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Co-presented with 48 Hills and SF Sketchfest

The Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight storytelling series returns to Litquake for this special edition, featuring tales on the theme of Touched by an Angel: Stories of Mentors, Teachers, Guardians, and Influencers. Featuring stories by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware and authors Nico Lang (American Teenager), Adam Nimoy (The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father), Eugene Rodriguez (Bird of Four Hundred Voices), Dawn Silva (The Funk Queen), and Christina Vo (My Vietnam, Your Vietnam). Co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. Music by Marc Capelle. Doors at 6:30PM. $20 adv / $25 door

Book sales for this event coordinated by Fabulosa Books.
Moderators
avatar for Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte founded the Porchlight Storytelling Series with her former SF Gate cubicle-mate writer Beth Lisick 22 years ago. A San Francisco native, she knows a lot of characters and is happy to coax them into sharing their stories on stage. 
avatar for Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently living in the Hudson Valley. She is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool, and co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series. Beth has also worked as... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Jack Boulware

Jack Boulware

Jack Boulware was a co-founder and executive director of San Francisco's Litquake literary festival. He runs the newsletter "What Jack Boulware Fails to Realize." Boulware works on book projects, contributes freelance articles, and performs readings. He lives in West Marin.
avatar for Nico Lang

Nico Lang

Nico Lang is a journalist, editor, culture critic, and essayist. Lang is the founder of Queer News Daily and has previously worked as the deputy editor of Out magazine, an LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, the news editor at Them, and a contributing editor at Xtra Magazine. Their work... Read More →
avatar for Adam Nimoy

Adam Nimoy

Adam Nimoy is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Loyola Law School. He practiced entertainment law for seven years before changing careers to become a television director. Adam Nimoy directed over forty-five hours of network television including episodes of Ally McBeal, NYPD Blue, and... Read More →
avatar for Eugene Rodriguez

Eugene Rodriguez

Eugene Rodriguez is founder and executive director of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a nonprofit based in San Pablo, California, that he began as a youth group in 1989. Rodriguez has produced over thirty albums and numerous films for Los Cenzontles, and he has collaborated... Read More →
avatar for Dawn Silva

Dawn Silva

The Funk Queen: An Autobiography by Dawn Silva is one of the most unusual books ever written. The arc of history is long, but bends towards justice. Hailed by scholars, music critics, fans and educators alike as an “academic masterpiece” with enough  music, history, and culture... Read More →
avatar for Christina Vo

Christina Vo

Christina Vo is a Santa Fe-based author whose work delves into themes such as loss, intergenerational trauma, healing, identity, and the notions of home and reconciliation. Her second book, My Vietnam, Your Vietnam, is an intergenerational memoir co-written with her father. Vo is... Read More →
Tuesday October 15, 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Swedish American Hall
  Storytelling
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Thursday, October 17
 

7:00pm PDT

Runway Stories: Litquake Edition
Thursday October 17, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Radium Runway
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Co-presented with Radium Presents and SF Sketchfest

Four storytellers of Moth Storyslam and Grandslam fame curated by JP Frary plus four Litquake authors take this beautiful outdoor stage for Runway Stories as we hear tales centered around the theme, "First Love.” Featuring storytellers Don Reed, Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Beau Ryder Davis, and Kimberli Joy, and authors Sarah Thornton (Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts), Tina Horn (Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink), Dominic Lim (Karaoke Queen), and Mas Masumoto (Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm). Doors at 6:00PM. $20 adv / $25 door / $49 VIP (includes premium seating and 2 drink tickets)

Book sales for this event coordinated by Pegasus Books.
Authors and Participants
avatar for Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Dhaya’s debute album DHAYATRIBE debuted #2 on iTunes.  She received the Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award (previously awarded to Samantha Bee, Wanda Sykes and Mark Russell) for her stand-up. Comedy Central Asia crowned her the Grand Prize Winner of “The Ultimate Comedy Challenge... Read More →
avatar for Mas Masumoto

Mas Masumoto

Mas Masumoto is an organic peach, nectarine, apricot, and grape farmer and a pioneer in organic farming since the 1980s. He is the author of thirteen books including Epitaph for a Peach, Wisdom of the Last Farmer, and a cookbook, The Perfect Peach. A documentary, Changing Season on... Read More →
avatar for Dominic Lim

Dominic Lim

Dominic Lim’s debut novel, All the Right Notes, has been named a 2023 best book by over 20 publications, including USA Today, Library Journal, Goodreads, and Entertainment Weekly, who called it “a swoony, joyful rom-com to take readers into a love story worthy of a Broadway stage... Read More →
avatar for Beau Davis

Beau Davis

Beau Ryder Davis is a comedian and storyteller based in Oakland, California. He is an eight-time Moth Story Slam winner, most recent Bay Area Moth GrandSlam winner, and has appeared on the nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour. He's currently working on a show about growing up in... Read More →
avatar for Don Reed

Don Reed

Don Reed is the host/producer/curator of Redwood Nights: Storytelling Under the Stars at Deer Park Villa. He was a Theatre Bay Area winner for Outstanding Solo Production East 14th and is currently co-producing filmmaker Robert Townsend‘s solo hit Living the Shuffle. A San Francisco... Read More →
avatar for Tina Horn

Tina Horn

Tina Horn is a writer, educatrix, and media-maker. She is the author of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink, a book based on her long-running indie fetish podcast. Tina is the creator/writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series Safe Sex / SfSx, and the... Read More →
avatar for Kimberli Joy

Kimberli Joy

Kimberli Joy has been weaving the truth into humorous stories for as long as she can remember. In June 2022, she was thrilled to share a stage with JP at The Moth. She is a familiar face at Redwood Nights Storytelling under the Stars and has entertained audiences at Oakland Story... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Thornton

Sarah Thornton

Sarah Thornton is a sociologist with “a reporter’s nose and a Double D brain.” She is the author of four critically acclaimed non-fiction books, including Tits Up, an exploration of the subcultures of breasts, deemed “required reading” and “a healing journey,” that ensures... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Radium Runway
  Storytelling
 
Monday, October 21
 

7:00pm PDT

Page Street Presents Golden State: Stories about Life on the Left Coast
Monday October 21, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Page Street
Co-presented with the writers of Page Street

Join Janis Cooke Newman and fifteen talented writers from the Page Street community as they read original under-three-minute pieces, written just for Litquake. In keeping with the evening’s California theme, Saintsbury Winery will be on hand pouring California wine, and Marin French will be serving up California cheese. Don't miss this one—you might even walk away with a hot-off-the press copy of California's own Alta Journal. Doors at 6:30PM. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation
Authors and Participants
avatar for Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman is the author of the two novels and a memoir. She is also the founder of LitCamp and Page Street.
Monday October 21, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Page Street
  Storytelling
 
Wednesday, October 23
 

7:00pm PDT

Tough Broads
Wednesday October 23, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Clio's
What would you call Amy Appelhans Gubser, who, at age 55, became the first-ever person to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands (that’s 29.6 miles) through shark-infested waters? We’d call her one tough broad. Author Caroline Paul would agree. In her new book Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age, Paul combines vivid anecdotes with the latest science to relate how and why older women can and should lead healthier, more daring lives. Join these two adventurers for a lively conversation—prepare to be inspired! FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Clio's.
Authors and Participants
avatar for Amy Appelhans Gubser

Amy Appelhans Gubser

Amy Applehans Gubser is a pediatric nurse, grandmother, and long-distance swimmer. In May 2024 she became the first person in history to complete a treacherous 29.7-mile solo swim through freezing, shark-infested waters without a wetsuit. Gubser completed the grueling feat of endurance... Read More →
avatar for Caroline Paul

Caroline Paul

Caroline Paul is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl and Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology, which as been translated into 15 languages. Her latest book is Tough Broad, From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking... Read More →
Wednesday October 23, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Clio's
  Storytelling

7:00pm PDT

Greetings, from Queer Mountain: Maybe Today, Satan
Wednesday October 23, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Gilman Brewing Company
Co-presented with SF Sketchfest

"Not Today, Satan" is a common refrain uttered when one is rejecting the chaos and distractions life throws our way. But what happens when we embrace the chaos and let the devil take the wheel? For this special Litquake edition of the long-running national LGBTQ+ storytelling show Greetings, from Queer Mountain, host and curator Micheal Foulk (Queer Film Theory 101) invites some of their favorite writers to share work about embracing our inner demons. Featuring R.O. Kwon, Michael Andor Brodeur, Julian Morris, and Amy Estes. Doors at 6:30PM. Bar closes at 9:00PM. $12 adv / $15 door
Authors and Participants
avatar for Julian Morris

Julian Morris

Julian is a teacher and writer from Berkeley who lives in San Francisco.
avatar for Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk is a non-binary queer comedian, writer, and programmer thriving in Oakland, California. They host a weekly podcast called I'm Not Busy where they discuss anything and everything except what's currently going on with their comedy partner Vanessa Gonzalez. Foulk has been... Read More →
avatar for Michael Brodeur

Michael Brodeur

Michael Andor Brodeur has been the classical music critic at the Washington Post since 2020. Previously, he held editorial and staff-writer positions at the Boston Globe and Boston’s Weekly Dig. His book Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle was released in May. His... Read More →
avatar for R. O. Kwon

R. O. Kwon

R. O. Kwon is the author of the nationally bestselling Exhibit, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, which was published in 2024. Kwon’s bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, has been translated into seven languages and was named a best book of the year by over forty publications. The... Read More →
avatar for Amy Estes

Amy Estes

Amy Estes is a writer and educator whose work has been seen in McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A participant and fellow for the Kenyon Review & a Lambda Literary Fellow, Estes is currently working on her first book. 
Wednesday October 23, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Gilman Brewing Company
  Storytelling
 
Friday, October 25
 

7:30pm PDT

Generation Women: Plot Twists
Friday October 25, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Verdi Club
Co-presented with Generation Women

We’re pleased to welcome the San Francisco return of Generation Women, a live multigenerational storytelling series. One woman or non-binary performer in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s+ will share an original true story on the theme of “Plot Twists,” ones they’ve written, encountered, wished for, or regretted. Founded by author Georgia Clark in New York City in 2017, the mission of Generation Women is to amplify underheard voices and create space for intergenerational connection and community. Featuring Eirinie Carson, Susan Kiyo Ito, Giovanna Lomanto, Jenny Pritchett, Rachel Levin. and Jane Smiley. Hosted by writer, editor, and curator Samantha Schoech. Doors at 7:00pm. $20 adv / $25 door
Book sales for this event coordinated by Books Inc.
Moderators
avatar for Samantha Schoech

Samantha Schoech

Samantha Schoech’s writing has appeared in The Sun, Seventeen, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, Travel & Leisure, the New York Times, and many other publications. Her collection of stories My Mother’s Boyfriends, which Vendela Vida called “witty and utterly enchanting... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson is a Black British writer living in California. She is a mother of two children, Luka and Selah. A member of the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, Carson is a frequent contributor to Mother magazine, and her work has also appeared in LitHub, Mortal Mag, Electric Literature... Read More →
avatar for Susan Ito

Susan Ito

Susan Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by the Ohio State University Press, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared... Read More →
avatar for Rachel Levin

Rachel Levin

Rachel Levin is a San Francisco journalist who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Outside, Eater, and elsewhere. She is the author of LOOK BIG: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds and coauthor of two cookbooks: EAT SOMETHING and STEAMED. Her... Read More →
avatar for Giovanna Lomanto

Giovanna Lomanto

Giovanna Lomanto is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and photographer who has published three poetry collections, two chapbooks, and a limited edition art book. Her latest collection, driver’s seat echo, is available now. A recent graduate of the MFA program at New York University... Read More →
avatar for Jenny Pritchett

Jenny Pritchett

Jenny True is Jenny Pritchett (and vice versa). Her screed on pregnancy, postpartum-ness, and parenthood, You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to New Parenthood, came out during the pandemic (not recommended). Then it was translated into Turkish and released in Turkey (highly... Read More →
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Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is the author of thirty-three works of fiction and nonfiction. She has won several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. She was born in St. Louis, Mo., lived for twenty-five years in Iowa, then moved to California. She is best known for A Thousand Acres, Perestroika in... Read More →
Friday October 25, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Verdi Club
  Storytelling
  • Age Limit 21+
 
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