Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Featured Featured

Open Throat: Henry Hoke with Tony Bravo

Telegraph Hill Books 1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco, United States

A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting a nearby homeless encampment, observing hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious father, […]

Featured Featured

Podcasters as Promotional Partners

Zoom CA, United States

Melody Ann Owen speaking about how to work with podcasters as promotional partners   Podcasting is an exciting and still growing medium and an excellent way to connect with partners and readers. With podcasts on every topic, authors can find listeners no matter their genre, topic, or perspective. One podcast can mean thousands of listeners […]

Featured Featured

Sisters In Crime: Marketing and Publicity Powerhouse

Zoom CA, United States

Each chapter of SinC has the unique ability to wiggle the social media algorithm to increase visibility for their own book launches. Find out how. Pam Stack is the host of Authors on the Air and the owner of the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network, an international digital media company whose content is available […]

Read For Filth: A 24-Hour Celebration Of Banned Books

Fabulosa Books 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, United States

Fabulosa Books announces Read For Filth, a 24 hour celebration of queer literature in the Castro. At a moment when LGBTQIA+ books are under attack and anti-gay harassment is spiking, let's come together to celebrate stories that bring us together. Read For Filth will be a grand affirmation of queer joy and a resounding rejection […]

Featured Featured

The Right to Read

San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium

The current fervor around book banning might feel like something that's happening elsewhere, but its stifling effects have hit writers right here at home. As part of Banned Books Week, a panel of children’s and YA authors discuss what it's like to write as a creator whose work has been banned or censored. Authors include MariNaomi, Sarah […]

Featured Featured

Tips & Tricks for Developing Design Ideas

Zoom CA, United States

Join us on Saturday, October 7, for the first of two virtual lectures with designer and book artist Brenda Gallagher. This first will cover generating design ideas for bookbinding. A basic how-to for bookbinders looking for ways to create design ideas for bookbinding, the talk will begin with the content and mood of the book. […]

Featured Featured

Carmen Boullosa: The Book of Eve

Medicine for Nightmares 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, United States

What if everything they’ve told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and 91 chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam’s rib, nor is it correct that she was expelled for […]

Featured Featured

Eddie Muller

House of Shields 39 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, United States

Mystery Month kicks off with a special event with Eddie Muller, the Czar of Noir. In collaboration with Mystery Writers of America, Eddie Muller, author of Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised & Expanded Edition), will be making a presentation and signing his new book, Eddie Muller’s Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World […]

Featured Featured

Leaning Toward Light: A Reading of Poets Who Tend the Earth

San Francisco Botanical Garden 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, United States

Let's gather in the serene environs of the San Francisco Botanical Garden to honor the spiritual solace that can be found in reading poetry—and in tending the earth. In her new anthology Leaning Toward Light, poet Tess Taylor brings together dozens of acclaimed contemporary poets who also share her love for gardening. During this uplifting reading, Alan Chazaro, Jane […]

Featured Featured

AI and the Future of Literature

Gray Area 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, United States

The tech and literary worlds converge as ZYZZYVA Editor-in-Chief Oscar Villalon moderates a panel of Silicon Valley technologists and authors on how AI will change our writing process. Would literature and writers be automated, or will AI mainly be an assistive tool? What issues are present in both the training and use of AI in writing? With Raiya Kind (Google), Jessica Powell (Audioshake), […]

Featured Featured

Editors of Color Coffee Hour

Zoom CA, United States

Are you an Editor of Color? Would you like to meet up with your fellow Editors of Color in a welcoming, intimate, online setting? Jesi Vega, recent president of the Northwest Editors Guild and a Puerto Rican Jew from the Bronx, hosts a monthly Zoom coffee hour for editors who identify as Black, Indigenous, or Person of […]

Featured Featured

So Many People, Mariana: A Happy Hour Reading with Magdalena Edwards

The Devil's Acre 256 Columbus Ave

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 […]