Long discounted by a literary culture that actively rejected women’s writing, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. Collecting the entirety of her short works written between 1959 and 1967, when the Salazar dictatorship and the rigid edicts of the Catholic church reigned, the stories in So Many […]

Mechanics' Institute is delighted to collaborate with Catamaran to celebrate their Fall 2023 edition. Featured writers include Stephen D. Gutierrez, Sean Stiny, Yaccaria Salvatierra, Dion O'Reilly, Jeff Ewing, Dan Haifley, and John Briscoe, who will read from their works.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee returns with a propulsive and suspenseful new novel about a family that unravels when a stranger—who may hold the key to their missing mother—is found dead in their backyard. Both a riveting page-turner and moving family story, What We Kept to Ourselves masterfully explores the consequences of secrets […]

Join us at the new Clio's book bar in Oakland for a discussion about the stories we're not supposed to tell—because either women of color aren't supposed to tell the stories of white men, or because we hold our family secrets dear, or because society tells us we are not supposed to feel what we […]

Join local mystery authors Rhys Bowen, Michelle Chouinard, Glenda Carroll and Susan Shea for a reading and discussion on the “The Lady Sleuth.”

Join us on October 14 for a special Saturday SF in SF, when writers Nancy Kress and Jack Skillingstead come to read and talk with Bay Area writer and moderator Cliff Winnig. Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-three books, including twenty-six novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. Her work has […]

Full Circle is a celebration of authors who have found their way to who they are through community, care, and creativity. These poets will be reading pieces that reflect on their beginnings and find parallels with their present.