Litquake 2014
The 15th annual Litquake, features hundreds of authors and journalists in a myriad of separate events throughout San Francisco from October 10-18, 2014.
>> Funcheap hosts our first Litquake event: “San Francisco on $0 a Day” during Litcrawl on Saturday, October 18th – FREE with RSVP
Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature for people of all ages, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music, film, and cultural festivals. Most events are free and take place in San Francisco.
Litquake 2014
October 10-18, 2014
All over San Francisco
FREE (most events)
Friday, October 10, 2014
booksXdesign
– Friday, 10/10 (6:00 PM) | $5
– Chronicle Books at Metreon | San Francisco
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Launch Your Adventure: Travel Writers
– Saturday, 10/11 (10:00 AM) | FREE
– Rebound Bookstore | San Rafael
Life Stories
– Saturday, 10/11 (11:00 AM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
Storytellers #1: Explore the Universe
– Saturday, 10/11 (11:15 AM) | FREE
– Friends Books | San Rafael
Whizz! BAM! Comic Writers Read Their Work
– Saturday, 10/11 (11:15 AM) | FREE
– Blue Moon Comics | San Rafael
Off With Your Heads: Five Poets
– Saturday, 10/11 (12:30 PM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
New Works and Picnic
– Saturday, 10/11 (12:30 PM) | FREE
– San Rafael Public Library | San Rafael
Bikes to Books Tour
– Saturday, 10/11 (1:00 PM) | FREE
– Jack London Alley at South Park | San Francisco
A Gallery of Words: Bay Area Poets Share Their Lyrics
– Saturday, 10/11 (1:45 PM) | FREE
– Art Works Downtown | San Rafael
Matters of the Soul: Writers Explore the Wonders of Inner Miracles
– Saturday, 10/11 (1:45 PM) | FREE
– Open Secret Bookstore | San Rafael
Mysteries at Opera Plaza: The Thrill of Shared Reading!
– Saturday, 10/11 (2:00 PM) | FREE
– Books, Inc., Opera Plaza | San Francisco
Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, & Intimacy
– Saturday, 10/11 (2:00 PM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
Book Fair in Courthouse Square
– Saturday, 10/11 (2:00 PM to 5:00 PM) | FREE
– San Rafael Courthouse Square | San Rafael
Into Tomorrow: Renowned Sci-Fi Author Hannu Rajaniemi
– Saturday, 10/11 (3:00 PM) | FREE
– Gamescape North | San Rafael
What Makes the Heart Grow? Tales of Love, Longing, and the Complexities of the Heart
– Saturday, 10/11 (3:00 PM) | FREE
– Pleasures of the Heart | San Rafael
The Californian Novelist
– Saturday, 10/11 (3:30 PM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
Words en Plein Aire: Writers with an Edge
– Saturday, 10/11 (4:30 PM) | FREE
– San Rafael City Plaza | San Rafael
Hand To Mouth/Words Spoken Out: Rebound Bookstore’s Reading Series
– Saturday, 10/11 (4:30 PM) | FREE
– West End Cafe | San Rafael
Walk on the Wild Side: New Work on the Edge of Now
– Saturday, 10/11 (4:30 PM) | FREE
– Triumph 4th Street | San Rafael
Radical Comics and World War 3
– Saturday, 10/11 (5:00 PM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
Copperfield’s Presents Mystery Writer Cara Black and Hank Phillippi Ryan
– Saturday, 10/11 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– Copperfield’s Books | San Rafael
Storytellers #2: Story Potpourri
– Saturday, 10/11 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– Gamescape North | San Rafael
Writing Salon Write-A-Thon! (Saturday)
– Saturday, 10/11 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– The Writing Salon | San Francisco
Cipactli
– Saturday, 10/11 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– Alley Cat Books | San Francisco
Modern Tales from the Heartland
– Saturday, 10/11 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– Emerald Tablet | San Francisco
Conspiracy of Beards Perform the Lyrics of Leonard Cohen
– Saturday, 10/11 (8:00 PM) | FREE
– The Belrose Theatre | San Rafael
Litquake San Rafael After-Party
– Saturday, 10/11 (9:00 PM to 11:00 PM) | FREE
– West End Cafe | San Rafael
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Our City, Ourselves: Different Faces of San Francisco
– Sunday, 10/12 (12:30 PM to 1:45 PM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
Litquake in the Castro
– Sunday, 10/12 (1:00 PM) | FREE
– Magnet | San Francisco
Hybrid Publishing Models: A Writer’s Dream?
– Sunday, 10/12 (2:00 PM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
Writing Salon Write-A-Thon! (Sunday)
– Sunday, 10/12 (2:30 PM) | FREE
– The Writing Salon | San Francisco
Modern Times Bookstore Collective’s 43rd Birthday Rally
– Sunday, 10/12 (3:00 PM) | FREE
– Modern Times Bookstore | San Francisco
The Best American Nonrequired Reading
– Sunday, 10/12 (3:00 PM) | FREE
– Z Space | San Francisco
Read Like a Teen: Why YA is Good for the Mind and Soul
– Sunday, 10/12 (3:30 PM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
The State of the (Dis)Union: Culture, Education, and Politics
– Sunday, 10/12 (5:00 PM) | FREE
– Hotel Rex | San Francisco
Badass Briefs
– Sunday, 10/12 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– Emerald Tablet | San Francisco
Barely Published
– Sunday, 10/12 (7:00 PM) | $5
– The Make-Out Room | San Francisco
Naked Truth: real.stories.live
– Sunday, 10/12 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– Mill Valley Library | San Francisco
Monday, October 13, 2014
First-Time Authors Reveal All
– Monday, 10/13 (3:00 PM) | $5
– Foundation Center | San Francisco
Digi.lit: The Digital Publishing Revolution, Finally Explained
– Monday, 10/13 (5:00 PM) | $5
– Foundation Center | San Francisco
Into the Wilderness
– Monday, 10/13 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– Brower Center | San Francisco
I Watched the World…30 Years After Brautigan
– Monday, 10/13 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– Morrison Library | San Francisco
Being With Death: The Art of Dying in the Modern Age
– Monday, 10/13 (6:30 PM) | $5
– Fouladi Projects Gallery | San Francisco
The Heyday of Malcolm: A Tribute to Malcolm Margolin
– Monday, 10/13 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– Book Club of California | San Francisco
Original Shorts: Plan C
– Monday, 10/13 (7:00 PM) | $5
– The Make-Out Room | San Francisco
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
RADAR Reading Series
– Tuesday, 10/14 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– SFPL Latino Reading Room | San Francisco
Talking booksXdesign
– Tuesday, 10/14 (6:00 PM) | $5
– Chronicle Books | San Francisco
Taxidermy Gone Rogue!
– Tuesday, 10/14 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– Paxton Gate | San Francisco
CCA MFA Program in Writing, Faculty and Alumni
– Tuesday, 10/14 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– The Make-Out Room | San Francisco
Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar
– Tuesday, 10/14 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– Vesuvio | San Francisco
The Litanies of Noir: A Talk Show
– Tuesday, 10/14 (7:30 PM) | FREE
– UNDISCLOSED LOCATION | San Francisco
Shebooks at Litquake
– Tuesday, 10/14 (7:30 PM) | FREE
– Booksmith | San Francisco
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Women in War: Truth and Fiction
– Wednesday, 10/15 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– SFPL Koret Auditorium | San Francisco
Marc Levy in Conversation with John McMurtrie
– Wednesday, 10/15 (6:00 PM) | $5
– Modernism Gallery | San Francisco
The Art and Spark of Children’s Books
– Wednesday, 10/15 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– Italian Cultural Institute | San Francisco
2014 Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition
– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:00 PM) | $5
– The Make-Out Room | San Francisco
Writing and Fighting: Creative Couples Collaborating
– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– Emerald Tablet | San Francisco
FRED SANDERS, JASON SEXTON, AND KEVIN STARR!
– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– Green Apple Books | San Francisco
Goodreads LitQuiz
– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– McTeague’s Saloon | San Francisco
Macondo in San Francisco: A Tribute to Colombian Novelist Gabriel García Márquez
– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– SFPL, Mission Branch | San Francisco
Every Picture Tells A Story: New Yorker artists in conversation
– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:00 PM) | $5
– Airbnb | San Francisco
Dark and Stormy: A Night of Contemporary Swedish Poetry
– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– Green Apple Books on the Park | San Francisco
Here On the Edge: World War II, Conscientious Objectors On the Oregon Coast, and Seeds of the Sixties
– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– City Lights Bookstore | San Francisco
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– Wednesday, 10/15 (7:30 PM) | $5
– Hattery | San Francisco
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Masters of the YA Universe: Paolo Bacigalupi and A.S. King
– Thursday, 10/16 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– Sports Basement | San Francisco
Litquake in the Bookstore: Kristiina Ehin
– Thursday, 10/16 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– Book Passage, Ferry Building | San Francisco
Lit on the Lake: A Lakeside View of the World at Large
– Thursday, 10/16 (6:00 PM) | $5
– Lake Chalet | San Francisco
MFA Mixer 2.0: Litquake Edition
– Thursday, 10/16 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– Cat Club | San Francisco
Maggie Nelson at Center for Literary Arts
– Thursday, 10/16 (7:00 PM) | FREE
– Center for Literary Arts | San Francisco
Robin Becker and W.S. Di Piero at Marin Poetry Center
– Thursday, 10/16 (7:30 PM) | FREE
– Falkirk Cultural Center | San Francisco
Generations: Five San Francisco Poets, 27 to 69
– Thursday, 10/16 (7:30 PM) | FREE
– Bird and Beckett Books & Records | San Francisco
Friday, October 17, 2014
We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm, with Lola Lafon
– Friday, 10/17 (6:00 PM) | $5
– Modernism Gallery | San Francisco
Beyond The Labyrinth of Solitude: A Tribute to Octavio Paz
– Friday, 10/17 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– The Mexican Art Museum | San Francisco
Andrew Sean Greer at California College of the Arts
– Friday, 10/17 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– California College of the Arts | San Francisco
Ulrike Draesner: The Ravages of War
– Friday, 10/17 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– Goethe-Institut, Art Lounge | San Francisco
The Human Body, with Paolo Giordano
– Friday, 10/17 (6:30 PM) | FREE
– Italian Cultural Institute | San Francisco
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Raising A Reader Story Time
– Saturday, 10/18 (2:00 PM) | FREE
– Green Apple Books on the Park | San Francisco
Writing Journeys from U.C. Berkeley Extension
– Saturday, 10/18 (2:00 PM) | FREE
– U.C. Berkeley Extension Art & Design Center | San Francisco
Litcrawl
– Saturday, 10/18 (6:00 PM) | FREE
– All over the Mission District. | San Francisco
