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SF’s “Litquake Book Fair + Litquake Out Loud” at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (2024)

Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Cost: FREE
Yerba Buena Gardens | Mission St. & 3rd St., San Francisco, CA

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SF’s “Litquake Book Fair + Litquake Out Loud” at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (2024)

YBG Festival

San Francisco’s largest literary festival returns in 2024, celebrating writing communities throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Join a curated spread of small presses and literary magazines for the newly revived Litquake Book Fair in Yerba Buena Gardens. Participating presses include PM Press, Transit Books, Last Gasp Press, Stanford University Press, Collective Book Studio, Center for Sex & Culture, City Lights Publishers and more to be announced! Browse the best in local literature set to a day of poetry readings from Litquake Out Loud. Litquake Out Loud highlights the Bay Area’s BIPOC & LGBTQ+ writers and thought leaders, representing Litquake’s continued investment in elevating underrepresented voices so that all people are included in the creation of and access to the Bay Area’s historic, thriving arts scene.

Litquake Book Fair + Litquake Out Loud
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. between 3rd & 4th Sts., SF
FREE

This program occurs on two days: October 19 and October 20.

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024

May 4 – November 2, 2024
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission btwn Third and Fourth, SoMa, SF
FREE

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2024 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Programming Highlights

All events are free and take place outdoors in Yerba Buena Gardens, off Mission Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, and the Yerba Buena Children’s Garden located at Howard & Fourth Street.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Fairs & Festivals, In Person, Kids & Families, Live Music, Outdoors, Sponsored
Address: Mission St. & 3rd St., San Francisco, CA

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