Wednesday 5/20: Reports of the cultural death of San Francisco have been greatly exaggerated. We may be down, but we are definitely not out. (In a manner of speaking.) Need proof?…
Wednesday 5/13: Did you know that Reed Magazine was founded in San Jose in 1867 and is the oldest literary journal published west of the Mississippi River? It was and is…
Wednesday 5/6: Leila Rae curates 1st Wednesdays in the Loft for Pandemonium Press featuring Paul Corman-Roberts, Jannie Dresser, George Korolog, Colleen McKee, and guitarist Hao Tao. Open mic before and after. Free,…
Wednesday 4/29: Paul Corman-Roberts, curator for the monthly reading series Passages On The Lake, presents a typically outstanding group of writers: Neeli Cherkovski (PEN Oakland award winner), A. Razor (founder of…
Wednesday 4/22: Viet Thanh Nguyen will read from his debut novel, The Sympathizer, set in the time of the Vietnam War. In his review for the New York Times, Philip Caputo…
Wednesday 4/15: In this time of the movement for “Black Lives Matter,” the release from Ecco Press/Harper Collins of Ryan Gattis‘s new novel, All Involved, about the Rodney King beating and…
Wednesday 4/8: Beloved elder David Meltzer, a Beat Generation poet described by Lawrence Ferlinghetti as “one of the greats,” will read from his City Lights publication, a new edition of Two-Way…
Wednesday 4/1: Tonight, in Oakland, the upcoming Beast Crawl hosts its 2015 kick off fundraising party (open to all ages), with an amazing collection of literary enthusiasts, ridiculous hats, raffles, good…
Wednesday 3/25: The University of San Francisco presents Day 2 of their annual Emerging Writers Festival, featuring Stegner Fellow Shara Lessley and the winner of the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Award,…
Wednesday 3/18: A Bay area sighting of poet Kazim Ali is always notable, and even more so when it includes a chance to check out the Center for Literary Arts at…
Wednesday 3/11: Alley Cat Books presents the inaugural reading for the Alley Cat Resident Writers program. Each of the writers will read from an original chapbook produced by Alley Cat. Featuring…
Wednesday 3/4: Alameda Island Poets present Sharon Coleman and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. Coleman has been a huge influence on the East Bay poetry…