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Litquake 2026: SF’s Literature Festival w/ 170+ Events + 600 Authors (Oct. 8-24)

Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival runs October 8-24, 2026 with satellite events running from September through January. 170+ events, 600+ authors and performers, all over the Bay Area, and almost ALL for FREE!

Visit litquake.org or see the full schedule and tickets.

And it’s capped by the epic “Lit Crawl” on Saturday, October 24, 2026 – with 50+ authors and close to 5,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event.

Litquake, San Francisco’s annual literary festival, was founded by Bay Area writers in order to put on a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers, complete with cutting-edge panels, unique cross-media events, and hundreds of readings. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature, 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.

 

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Saturday, October 18, 2014
Litquake 2026: SF’s Literature Festival w/ 170+ Events + 600 Authors (Oct. 8-24)

Funcheap hosts its first ever Litcrawl event.

This city is too damn expensive. So let’s talk about cheap eats, free things to do and finding amazing street scores. Get insider tips on surviving in SF even if you’re not a tech bazillionare featuring Johnny Funcheap, Broke-Ass Stuart (live via satellite), Brandon Reynolds (SF Weekly) plus Eve Batey and Beth Spotswood of Slow News Day.

Funcheap’s Lit Crawl: “San Francisco on $0 a Day”
Saturday, October 18, 2014 | 7:15pm
Lit Crawl Phase II
Five and Diamond, 510 Valencia (near 16th)
FREE – but arrive early – RSVP on Facebook

SPEAKERS / PANEL
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• Eve Batey, co-author of 100 Things to Do in San Francisco Before You Die, is an editor, writer, consultant, and dogsitter.
• Johnny Funcheap, the founder of Funcheap.com, is a regular contributor of cheap tips for KGO, KQED, KFOG and SF Weekly.
• Beth Spotswood writes nonsense for SFGate, 7×7 Magazine, and her site Slow News Day. She loves sitcoms, casinos, and carbs.
• Brandon R. Reynolds is the Editor of SF Weekly.
• Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart is a TV host, travel writer, poet, and motherfucking hustler. His work appears in lots of places (appearing via satellite)

LITCRAWL
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This event is part of the amazingly awesome Lit Crawl which on October 18, 2014 span over three hours in the Mission District’s Valencia Street corridor, featuring an astonishing 101 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.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.