Lit Crawl 2026: Epic 4-Hour Roaming Literature Fest w/ 250+ Authors in the Mission (SF)

Lit Crawl SF 2026
Saturday, October 24, 2026 | 5:00pm–9:00pm | Mission District | FREE

TAILGATE EVE
Page Street Co-working and The Writers Grotto are hosting free pre-Crawl festivities!

• Lit & Libations at The Writers Grotto – 2:30pm–4:00pm – The Writers Grotto | 1663 Mission St, Ste 602
• Want to Read at Lit Crawl? A Pre-Crawl Tailgate – 3:00pm–4:00pm – Page Street Co-working | 297 Page St

PHASE 1: 5:00pm–6:00pm

• Dr. Strangebro: How I Learned to Stop Taking and Start Giving a Shit – Martuni’s, 21+ | 4 Valencia St
• Invisible City: Letters from the Wilderness – St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church | 1661 15th St
• ¡ChALE con eso!: Mujeres en Rebeldía – Muddy Waters | 521 Valencia St
• Mommy Issues – Blondie’s Bar, 21+ | 540 Valencia St
• Without a Net: 20 Super-short, Uncurated, Uncensored, Unrehearsed Pieces, Freshly Written in the Last Hour – The Drawing Room: Annex | 599 Valencia St. Sponsored by Page Street.
• Perverts Put Out (& Friends) Go All the Way, All the Ways – Good Vibrations, 18+ | 603 Valencia St
• The Berkeley Slam Team Showcase – The Sycamore | 2140 Mission St
• Celebrating the World in Translation – Curio | 775 Valencia St
• 826 Quarterly Release Party – 826 Valencia | 826 Valencia St
• Body Language – Teeth Bar SF | 2323 Mission St
• Text Change: Trans Writers on Anything Except Transition – Dog Eared Books | 900 Valencia St
• Hope as a Discipline: A Night of Readings with Fourteen Hills – Fingersnaps Media Arts | 3527 20th St
• CCA Comics Live! – Artists’ Television Access | 992 Valencia St
• Ruth Asawa SOTA Presents: Teens Speculate Their Tomorrow – Ritual Coffee Roasters | 1026 Valencia St
• SWANA Dykes & Friends: A Literary Rage Party – Grand Coffee Too | 2544 Mission St
• Shame Chronicles – Latin American Club, 21+ | 3286 22nd St
• Amuse-Bouche: A Live Theater Experience of Tiny Tickling Treats – Monkeybrains | 933 Treat Ave
• Spill the TEA: A Tasting Menu of the Untranslatable and Unsayable – Red Poppy Art House | 2698 Folsom St
• Grandmas Are Griots – Medicine for Nightmares | 3036 24th St
• Who Lies Better Than Writers? Two Truths and a Lie with Sibylline Press – Et al. etc. | 2831a Mission St

PHASE 2: 6:30pm–7:30pm

• Museum of Forgotten Fun: Immersive Storytelling from the San Francisco Underground – Martuni’s, 21+ | 4 Valencia St
• It’s Never Too Late: Howls from Owls – Muddy Waters | 521 Valencia St
• Borrowed Time, with the Lisa Brown & Daniel Handler Residents – Blondie’s Bar, 21+ | 540 Valencia St
• We Out Here: Black Women Travelers – The Drawing Room: Annex | 599 Valencia St. Sponsored by Page Street.
• Chopped Liver: Stories from Secular Jewish Life – The Sycamore | 2140 Mission St
• Divination Poetics: Spells & the Tarot – Curio | 775 Valencia St
• Center for the Art of Translation Presents: So You Think You Can(’t) Translate, Youth Edition! – 826 Valencia | 826 Valencia St
• Poly AF – Teeth Bar SF | 2323 Mission St
• The Creative Youth Collective Presents: Building Worlds and Shaping Futures – Dog Eared Books | 900 Valencia St
• CôEm Collective Presents: Monsters, Myths, and Me – Fingersnaps Media Arts | 3527 20th St
• Dramatic Readings of Not-So-Dramatic Local Stories with the Editors of 7×7 – Ritual Coffee Roasters | 1026 Valencia St
• Palabras del Pueblo: Cultura pa’ la Raza – Grand Coffee Too | 2544 Mission St
• USF Presents: Stories from the Hilltop – Latin American Club, 21+ | 3286 22nd St
• Dirty Old Women – Monkeybrains | 933 Treat Ave
• Circle and Fist: Holding Tenderness while Fighting for the World We Need and Deserve – Red Poppy Art House | 2698 Folsom St
• Mesa Refuge Presents: In the Spirit of Kapwa – Medicine for Nightmares | 3036 24th St
• API Transmasculine Stories in Motion – Et al. etc. | 2831a Mission St

PHASE 3: 8:00pm–9:00pm

• Cracking the Code: Life Hacks from Tweens & Teens – Muddy Waters | 521 Valencia St
• Happy Endings (For Real! Probably.) – The Drawing Room: Annex | 599 Valencia St. Sponsored by Page Street.
• Making Mythos in the Mundane: Creating a Cosmic Literary Universe via Improv – The Sycamore | 2140 Mission St
• Stanford Continuing Studies Presents: The Date From Hell – Curio | 775 Valencia St
• Kitchen Table Presents: On Poems, Cookbooks, and Flock Cameras – Teeth Bar SF | 2323 Mission St
• ZYZZYVA’s Big Fall Reading – Dog Eared Books | 900 Valencia St
• Journalists with a Bite: Bay Area Reporters Share Their Hottest Takes – Fingersnaps Media Arts | 3527 20th St
• Black Sentimentality of Survival, Song, & Overjoy – Grand Coffee Too | 2544 Mission St
• KQED Presents: Glitter and Rage, Poems for Resistance – Latin American Club, 21+ | 3286 22nd St
• Flying Rabbit Presents: It’s a Mad Mad Madman World, Madam – San Francisco Mime Troupe | 855 Treat Ave
• KALW’s Crosscurrents Live: Where I’m From – Monkeybrains | 933 Treat Ave
• Sacramento Noir: Mayhem in the Capital – Red Poppy Art House | 2698 Folsom St
• Pochex Deluxe: An Ode to the Californiana Lengua – Medicine for Nightmares | 3036 24th St
• CCA Presents: The Last Word Is Never the Last – Et al. etc. | 2831a Mission St

AFTERPARTY: 9:00pm–11:00pm

• Lit Crawl Afterparty – The Drawing Room: Annex, 21+ | 599 Valencia St | $10, no one turned away for lack of funds