#litquake

[michaelwarr-creativework]

The first LitCrawl in Merced, CA, happens this Friday, May 9th, 2025. I will recite my poems with poets I've never shared the stage with  -- including Merced's first Poet Laureate Joyce Dale, California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, and Patricia Ann Zamora. Yes, PAZ, the love of my life, who writes but does not make appearances. She grew up in Livingston, Merced County, and I grew up in San Francisco. We now live in both towns. Lots of firsts and connections this Friday.

Looking forward to hearing the entire lineup:  Angela Drew, Christina Lux, Mai-Linh Hong, Tanisha McClain, Orlando Taylor, Juan Luzuriaga, Marcy Poe Martinez, Vielka Solano, Shani Campbell, Necola Adams, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Sherre Vernon, and Robin Shepard. Thanks, Kim McMillon, for your curatorial powers. I may debut one of my in-progress SF/Valley poems.

[edwardjones88]

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[sistahscifi]

Join us at Sistah Scifi as we celebrate Black Futures Month 🌌✨. Established by the Movement for Black Lives in 2015, Black Futures Month is a visionary approach to celebrations of Blackness in February that centres Black, queer, and transfeminist perspectives that have long been at the forefront of imagining and building a world in which we are all free and self-determined. This month, as we do every month, we're diving into the vast worlds of Afrofuturism, where the past, present, and future collide to create a vision of a brighter tomorrow for Black people. Discover the stories that propel us forward, from the imaginative realms of science fiction by @OctaviaEBulter to the fantasy of #NKJemisin. Visit our events calendar for a list of virtual and in person events happening all month long! Event partners include @sfpubliclibrary, @VisitOakland, @LitQuake @Adobe, @DistantWorldsCoffee, @thirdeyebag, @Udemy, @solidgroundsco, @chabotspace, @critical_ecology, AND @blackjoyparade!!!

[earcandle]

ECP0903 Litquake at Blue Macaw, Camera 2, 100910

Ear Candle Productions captures one of the Litquake Festivals featuring four of our literary masters sharing their works on 10/9/10 in San Francisco, CA, Camera 2.

Jack Boulware is the MC for this evening. 



Here we see Susie Bright, Lynn Breedlove, John Law, and Chicken John Rinaldi talking story at the Blue Macaw on Mission St, the same space that used to be known as the 12 Galaxies and is currently the ECHO SFC.

Currently, on their website, we were happy to report that Litquake returned October 5-21, 2023 in San Francisco, CA! Please support this program to continue to honor the characters we grow that can still talk story. We have lost so many great characters during this pandemic as well as the health crisis in general. 

 Ear Candle Productions is a small music label, video production, and eLearning website designed to be a place for the arts to stay and to be a venue for the creative products of the owners, John Bassham (AKA J Neo Marvin) and Debra Nicholson Bassham (AKA Davis Jones). We live in San Francisco. Come visit our website, check out our YT, Bandcamp, Ear Candle Radio, and other pages at https://earcandleproductions.com

[sfsucw]

Litquake is calling for submissions for their 25th anniversary Litquake Festival & Lit Crawl San Francisco! This year's festival runs from October 10–26, 2024. Submissions open until March 31.

Submit today! https://buff.ly/2JEpOgg

[olgagonzalezlatapipoeta]

Me reading for Litquake including Box of Parrots originally published by BARNHOUSE literary journal

[smallpressdistribution]

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Gray Area Art + Technology for Litquake San Francisco! Until next year!

xoxo

[ramblrmagazine]

San Francisco’s Litquake Literary Festival has begun! This year’s 20th anniversary of “literary mayhem” will be held throughout the Bay Area. Opening night was October 10th and dozens of events are coordinated every day until October 19th. Events ranging from panels of authors and publishers; poetry readings; local authors’ book releases; discussions featuring graphic novels, nonfiction, comedy, LGBTQ+ literature, and international topics. Find the schedule online at litquake.org and download the program today! Don’t miss out on all that the literary community has to offer!

[the-horizontal-poet]

Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 7 PM to 8:30 PM. I'll be co-featured with Sally Ashton, Rachelle Escamilla, Keenan Norris, Jennifer Massoni Pardini, Eric Redfern, and Alan Soldofsky, hosted by Jen Siraganian, at 20 in 20 Campbell: South Bay Voices, part of the Bay Area's LitQuake festival, at Books Inc. Campbell, at The Pruneyard, 1875 Bascom Ave., Campbell, CA, near San Jose.

[nobonesaboutorbit]

MEET JIM NOBONES

NOBONES YOURSELF BEFORE

THE END OF ALL BEFORES

CRAWL IN THE FISSURES OF THE LITQUAKE

[sfplhormelcenter]

Photo:   Tom of Finland Drawings (Call No. GLC 108) Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library 

 [This film contains 18+ Content] As we prepare for Litquake presents Beefcake: 50 Years of Tom of Finland we're brushing up on our history via Kanopy with this scintillating biopic about the man behind the leather.

Tom of Finland's iconic work dominated the daydreams of an entire generation of gay men influencing both art and fashion before crossing over into the mainstream. In this film, Dome Karukoski follows Tom's life from the trenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California, where he and his creations were finally welcomed during the sexual revolution of 1970s. Tom's story is one of love, courage, and perseverance, not too unlike the gay liberation movement for whom his leather-clad studs still serve as a rebellious emblem.

[edwardjones88]

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[videoranch]

Book event this week! Nez discussing Infinite Tuesday with Beth Lisick

Nez's Litquake discussion and book signing is this Thursday, October 18, at 7pm, at the Cafe du Nord in San Francisco!

Nez will be in conversation with writer and actor Beth Lisick. There will be book sales and signing to follow.

$20 adv / $25 door

Please note that this event is 21+.

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[sistahscifi]

@litquake is hosting @NnediOkorafor in partnership with @moadsf. Nnedi will be in conversation with Faith Adiele.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nnedi-okorafor-at-books-inc-opera-plaza-tickets-1206070121199?aff=ebdsshother&utm_share_source=listing_android