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

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

Directions & Parking | Admission-Free Seating | Performance Times | See the Full Calendar

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.

OCTOBER 2024

• San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day – October 14

VENDORS:

• Aunt Lute Books
• Center for Sex & Culture
• City Lights Publishers
• Collective Book Studio
• Foglifter Journal & Press
• Kelsey Street Press
• Last Gasp Press
• Mumblers Press
• North Atlantic Books
• Parapraxis
• Pelekinesis
• Philippine American Writers & Artists (PAWA)
• PM Press
• Sixteen Rivers Press
• Stanford University Press
• Transit Books
• Two Lines Press
• ZYZZYVA

FESTIVAL SPONSOR BOOTHS:

• Alta Journal
• Heyday Books