Notable San Francisco 7/15-7/20

Monday 7/15: National Poetry Slam champion Dominique Ashaheed joins Bay Area poets for this summer’s Lit Slam, a competitive, audience-judged reading performance. $10, 8pm, Viracocha.

Tuesday 7/16: Granta celebrates the release of its 124th issue, Travel, with editor Ted Hodgkinson and Rebecca Solnit. Free, 7pm Green Apple Books.

Wednesday 7/17: Join award winning poets, fiction writers, comics, and musicians as they perform on the same stage to mix it up for an evening with Word Performances. 7:30 Viracocha

Thursday 7/18: More competitive reading, this time fiction with Shipwreck: Erotic Fanfiction for Literate Perverts, this time featuring six writers presenting fantasies inspired from The Hobbit. 7pm, $10, Booksmith.

Friday 7/19: Litquake presents Lit Tease, a sneak preview of this year’s Lit Crawl featuring Hyphen magazine, Zahra Noorbakhsh, Michelle Tea, and other Lit Crawl curators. $20, Swedish American Hall.

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Emmy Komada is a translator and assistant editor at Two Lines Press, part of the Center for the Art of Translation. She likes languages, and reading, and trying to read in various languages.

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