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LitCrawl 2018

Saturday night, SF hosts the largest (and free-est) literary pub crawl in the world.
By - posted 10/20/2018 No Comment

The 2018 LitCrawl 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.

One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl brings together 500+ authors and close to 10,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event.

Lit Crawl 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018 | 5 to 9 pm
All over the Mission
FREE (but donate if you can – yes.. even $1 helps)

Download a PDF Map

New this year, is the first annual Lit Crawl Book Fair. Join local presses, businesses, and literary magazines for the first-ever Lit Crawl Book Fair, in the heart of the Mission District just preceding the world-famous Lit Crawl.

Featured exhibitors include McSweeney’s, Stanford University Press, Write On Mamas, ZYZZYVA, Santa Monica Review, Cinco Puntos Press, and many more.

Browse the tables, bid on raffle prizes, grab food and drink from the Chapel’s newly reopened Curio Restaurant, and brace yourself for the evening Lit Crawl madness.