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The World’s Largest Lit Crawl Comes to SF

Saturday night it’s 99 events, 3+hours and over 400 performers in The Mission
By - posted 10/15/2016 No Comment

The 12th annual Lit Crawl will span over three hours in the Mission District’s Valencia Street corridor, featuring dozens of literary readings and events, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comedy and more, in bookstores, bars, galleries, restaurants, stores, cafés, community spaces, a bookmobile, a vibrator store, and a police station.

It’s 99 events, 3+ hours and over 400 performers and authors.

One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl attracts close to 10,000 people, and is the world’s largest such event.

Lit Crawl 2016
Saturday, October 15, 2016 | 6-9:30 pm
All over the Mission
FREE (but donate if you can – yes.. even $1 helps)

> Download a PDF of Lit Crawl Map & Schedule

  • Pre-Crawl – 5:30pm aboard BART
  • Phase 1 – 6pm to 7pm
  • Phase 2 – 7:15pm to 8:15pm –  including Funcheap’s “Comedian with Criminal Records” at the Mission Police Station.
  • Phase 3 – 8:30pm to 9:30pm
  • After Party – 9:30pm at The Chapel