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San Francisco’s literary festival runs every October with year-round events, service projects, & Lit Crawls worldwide.

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Litquake Festival 2026 schedule + ticketing are now LIVE at the link in bio 🥳

Poster designed by @breenache by @litquake

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Join us on Thursday, Oct 15th at 6:30pm for our next Poolside Poets in collaboration with @litquake, a night of poetry, live music, dance, and fashion at the breathtaking @saintjosephsartsfoundation. We're celebrating our 3 year anniversary!

Featuring music by @sakaitheband, @hidden.thread.music, poetry by @bridgetclancy7, @shanekingzackery, @jair.the.dragon, @denise.masiel, @spinelli.spooks, @viewlesswings, Maya Cowan, @pap1grand3, and dance by @francis_senses.

Curated by @litquake @rheality_check_ @liz.cahll

Dress Code: Disco🪩 Mood board coming soon. This is a place to go all out but remember to shop your wardrobe, upcycle and thrift first♻️

RSVP link in bio! 💃✨

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#sfpoetry #sfevents #bayareaart #bayarea #SanFrancisco taken in Saint Joseph’s Arts Society by @litquake

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In case ya didn't know: we have merch! Including limited edition 2026 designs and other all-new styles. All purchases benefit Litquake's festival and year-round programs. 🔗shop.litquake.org by @litquake

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Schedule drop for one of the most anticipated literary nights of the year!! Join us on Saturday, October 24th for this massive, one-night literary pub crawl through SF's Mission District🤩

🔗Link in bio for the schedule!

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@dogearedvalencia
@redpoppyart
@etalgallerysf
@sycamorebeer
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@826valencia
@catranslation
@grandcoffee
@medicinefornightmares
@teethbarsf
@kitchentable.sf
@kqed
@kalwpublicmedia
@cca_writinglit
@usfmfa.writing
@ruthasawasota by @litquake

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A night of readings and drag performances that highlight the power and resonance of stillness.

Hieu Minh Nguyen & Friends
🗓️Oct. 22 | 8 PM - 10 PM
📍The Stud, SF
🎟️FREE, $10-15 suggested donation (RSVP at link in bio!)

Featuring drag from:
Pam
@herawynnsf
@itsmaryvice
@manyhands_lightwerk

Readings from:
Brittany Newell (@frottage_industry)
Hieu Minh Nguyen (@hieuminhbeing)
Brontez Purnell (@brontezpurnell)
Garrett Schlichte (@gschlichte)

Hosted by curator Micheal Foulk and Hands. Co-presented with The Stud. by @litquake

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Join Foglifter and @studsf at @litquake for QUEERLY BELOVED, a celebration of the latest queer writing coming out in Foglifter's newest journals, online exclusives, and Start a Riot! Chapbook series.

📅 Friday, October 23, 2026; 7-9 pm ET
📍 The Stud, 1123 Folsom Street, San Francisco
🎟️ RSVP at the link in our bio. $10-15 suggested donation.

Featuring: Brent Armendinger, Juda Ātman, KB Brookins, Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez, Alix Perry, and Allegra Wilson!

Hosted by: Baruch Porras Hernandez

@sissy_spaceship @judas_atman @earthtokb @_alixperry_ @allegrapie @reggiepoetry @baruchporrashernandez

🔥 Limited print copies of the newest issue will be available for purchase—get them before anyone else!
🔥 ASL interpretation provided.
🔥 Livestream available on our YouTube Channel

@LitQuake runs from October 8-24, 2026. Full festival schedule on their website.

[image description:
1. event poster with title, date, location, and featured speakers.
2. festival poster. ] LitQuake San Francisco's Literary Festival

Queerly Beloved: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Writing in Foglifter

Friday, October 23, 2026 | 7-9pm
The Stud | 1123 Folsom Street, San Francisco

Featuring: Brent Armendinger, Juda Ātman, KB Brookins, Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez, Alix Perry, and Allegra Wilson!

Co-presented with STUD by @litquake

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Kick off the 2026 festival at the Booksellers Ball on October 8th, our big opening night bash! 🎟️Tix at link in bio

This catered event with abundant libations will have....

✨ A special literature-themed drag performance from @Carlotadicarlo

✨Festive grooves from @bffdotfm DJ Lead Teddy

✨Open bar from beverage sponsors @griffodistillery and @saintsburywinery

✨ A chance to kick up your heels with local literati and celebrate another year of Litquake!

All sales help support the rest of Litquake's (75% free!) festival programming!

Co-presented with an amazing roster of cherished Bay Area bookstores:
@blackBirdbooksf
@bookpassage
@bookshopwestportal
@citylightsbooks
@dogearedvalencia
@etalgallerysf
@fabulosa_books
@greenapplebooks
@noevalleybooks
@pegasusbooks
@sistahscifi
@telhibooks
@booksmithsf
@thelovepotionlibrary
@medicinefornightmares
@wombhousebooks by @litquake

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We are exactly 4 weeks away from the APAture 2026: GENERATION Literary Arts Showcase, co-presented by @litquake on Wednesday, October 21st, so what better time than now to introduce you to our cohort?

Meet the artists:
Alyson Sagala
Bianca Datta
Brandon Vu
Leslie Nguyen-Okwu
Mai-Linh Hong
May-Li Khoe
Monica Korde
Neha M. Sampat
Rose Wong
Vina Vo

Mark your calendars: the Literary Arts Showcase is happening Wednesday, October 21st, 6–9pm at Arc Gallery SF. Come celebrate these artists as they reflect on what GENERATION means to them — ancestry, mentorship, responsibility, and renewal through their work. Stay tuned for a post introducing our Film cohort, coming soon! 👀 #APAture2026 #GENERATION #KearnyStreetWorkshop #APIart #APIwriters by @litquake

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Chad Harbach: The Brightness
🗓️ Oct. 22 | 8:15PM - 9:45PM
📍The Lost Church, SF
🎟️ Tix at link in bio | $15 / $3 early bird discount until October 18th, $35 for presale signed book (ticket not included)

From the bestselling author of The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and into a larger world that will upend their connection and everything they thought they understood about their own place within it. Chad Harbach captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in. In conversation with novelist Eirinie Carson.

@nplusonemag @thelostchurchsf by @litquake

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Nafissa Thompson-Spires: The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford
🗓️Oct. 21 | 6 PM - 7:30 PM
📍Museum of the African Diaspora, SF
🎟️FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation (RSVP at link in bio)

Co-presented with @moadsf

From the author of the multi-award-winning story collection Heads of the Colored People, comes a sly, spry, literary debut novel. We find ourselves in 1920s Oklahoma…For as long as anyone can remember, the Milfords have led plentiful lives on the backs of the townspeople of Newville. At the height of Prohibition, Richard Milford is an infamous moonshiner and womanizer who, it seems, finally crossed the wrong person at the wrong time. He’s dead with only his women to mourn him, but a question remains: Who killed him, and why? Top suspects are his four “wives,” but as their stories burst to light, the very idea of a true story comes apart before our eyes. In conversation with Margeret Wilkerson Sexton.

@nafissa.thompson.spires @mwilkers13 by @litquake

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Our event with R.F. Kuang and Maggie Tokuda-Hall on September 23 is SOLD OUT! 🎟️

We appreciate your enthusiasm and support. No tickets will be available at the door. We have closed our waitlist at this time. Any tickets that become available will be from last minute cancellations, and those already on the waitlist will be contacted if/when tickets become available.

If you are joining us, we can’t wait to see you! This will be a fun evening! Please take another look at the details you received via email so you know what to expect about venue parking, book signing, etc., and prepare for a lovely evening with two talented writers and many fellow Kuang fans. ✨

Ticketholders, please reach out to events@greenapplebooks.com with any questions you may have. 📚
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[ID: Graphic reads “R.F. Kuang, celebrating Taipei Story with Maggie Tokuda-Hall, SOLD OUT, Wednesday, September 23 at Calvary Presbyterian Church. Doors 6pm, Event 7pm. Tickets at link in bio. Litquake, Green Apple Books” and features Kuang and Tokuda-Hall’s author photos and the cover of Taipei Story, a small wondrous illustration of a city floating above a rolling sea with a bus, teahouse, flowers, and a large bowl of noodles comprising the city.] taken in Calvary Presbyterian Church by @litquake

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Meet your curators!! In addition to our annual Litquake Out Loud curators, this year we launched a Litquake Festival Curator Residency—an opportunity to combat an often homogenous and culturally inequitable literary landscape. We're so happy to have them on board and are very excited for the events they've been cooking up. Speaking of...link in bio for Litquake Out Loud deets and to view the full schedule!

Festival curators:
@josiah_luis_pocho
@curatedbyjaelynn
@london.pinkney
@michealfoulk

Out Loud Curators:
@giovanna_lomanto
@zeejamz
Mukethe Kawinzi
@_agua.cura by @litquake

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