Lit Crawl 2025: Epic 4-Hour Roaming Literature Fest w/ 250+ Authors in the Mission (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco’s Mission District that caps off our annual Litquake Festival. Lit Crawl SF brings together 250+ authors and close to 5,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event.

Started in 2004, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique, resonant brand: smart and silly, worldly and wacky, with events presented in venues usual (bars, cafes, galleries, and bookstores) and unusual (tattoo parlors, barbershops, and laundromats).

See the Litcrawl Map for 2025

TAILGATE EVENTS
Our Premium Tailgate Sponsors, Page Street Co-working and The Writers Grotto, are hosting their own pre-Crawl festivities!

• Want to Read at Lit Crawl? A Pre-Crawl Tailgate TG1 – 3:00pm–4:00pm – Page Street Co-working | 297 Page St
• So Bad You Have To Laugh About It: TG2 – Turn Life’s Garbage Into Literary Gold – 3:00pm–4:15pm – The Writers Grotto u | 1663 Mission Street Ste 602

PHASE 1 5:00pm–6:00pm

• The World With Different Words 2 – Blondie’s Bar u 21+ | 540 Valencia St
• Without a Net: 20 Super-short, Uncurated, Uncensored, 3 Unrehearsed Pieces, Freshly Written in the Last Hour – The Drawing Room: ANNEX u | 599 Valencia St Sponsored by Page Street
• SFPL Bookmobile | u | 599 Valencia Street 3 – (Parked alongside The Drawing Room: ANNEX)
• Perverts Put Out 4 – Good Vibrations u 18+ | 603 Valencia St
• Xicanas for Tierra y Libertad 5 – The Sycamore 5 | 2140 Mission St
• Melanin Matrices: Black Speculative Lit 7 – Bissap Baobab u 5 | 2243 Mission St
• 826 Quarterly Release Party 826 Valencia u | 826 Valencia St 8 – 48 Hills Presents: The Waymo That Ate San Francisco 10
• Teeth Bar SF u 5 | 2323 Mission St – Owning Fear, Reaching for Freedom: Post-Soviet Writers + 11
• Translators Speak Out Ruth’s Table u | 3160 21st St – Particles Of Speech Shotwell’s Saloon u 21+ | 3349 20th St 12
• Field Notes: Rediscovering Home 14 – Grand Coffee Too u 5 | 2544 Mission S
• Trans Love Stories: The Meet-Cute 15 – Silver Sprocket u | 1018 Valencia St
• Being Disability Changemakers: Breaking Down Systemic 16 – Stereotypes One Voice at a Time – Ritual Coffee Roasters u 5 | 1026 Valencia St
• Just Say It!: 25 Years of CCA MFA Writers Speaking Up 18 – and Acting Out Latin American Club u 21+ | 3286 22nd St – Between Borders &
• Belonging 19 – Red Poppy Art House | 2698 Folsom St
• The Infinite Wrench: 30 Original Plays in 60 Minutes 20 – Make-Out Room u 21+ | 3225 22nd St
• Rooted & Written: Where We Land 21 – Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative u | 3130 24th St
• Unheard Onstage: Black Writers on Opportunity and Audience 22 – Medicine for Nightmares u | 3036 24th St – Mad Girl Diaries Et al. etc. u | 2831a Mission St

PHASE 2 6:30pm–7:30pm

• Six-Word Memoirs—Not Quite What I Was Planning: Stories 1 of Unplanned and Unscripted Lifequakes Manny’s u 5 | 3092 16th St
• Los Lorcas: Poetry in Concert Blondie’s Bar u 21+ | 540 Valencia St 2
• Black Freighter Press and The Ana Present: The Music We Make 3 – The Drawing Room: ANNEX u | 599 Valencia St Sponsored by Page Street
• SFPL Bookmobile | u | 599 Valencia Street 3 – (Parked alongside The Drawing Room: ANNEX)
• Sexy Lit for the People: Tales from the Erotic Reading Circle 4 – Good Vibrations u 18+ | 603 Valencia St
• Forged in the Heart: Tales of Love and Heartache 5 – The Sycamore 5 | 2140 Mission St
• We’ve got notes for you! Live Critiquing… 6 – in an SF Makerspace Noisebridge u | 272 Capp St
• Perimenopause: The Musical 7 – Bissap Baobab 5 | 2243 Mission St
• Center for the Art of Translation Presents: So You Think 8 – You Can(‘t) Translate? 826 Valencia u | 826 Valencia St
• Campfire Stories and Other Ghostly Narratives 9 – McSweeney’s International Library of Youth Writing | 849 Valencia St
• Lord of the Fries—The Castro Writers’ Cooperative Presents 10 – a Literary Relay Race Teeth Bar SF u 5 | 2323 Mission St
• Gen Blend Open Mic Ruth’s Table u | 3160 21st St 11
• Murder Most Noir Shotwell’s Saloon u 21+ | 3349 20th St 12
• A Salute to Situationships Dog Eared Books u | 900 Valencia St 13
• SHADOWS & LIGHT: Things I Don’t Tell My Vietnamese 14 – Mother Grand Coffee Too u 5 | 2544 Mission St
• DEAR FUTURE: Letters from Tweens & Teens 15 – Silver Sprocket u | 1018 Valencia St
• Brilliant Bilinguals: Let’s Play Lotería! 16 – Ritual Coffee Roasters u 5 | 1026 Valencia St
• The Fabulist Presents: Strategies Against the Dark Dreams of 18 – Empire Latin American Club u 21+ | 3286 22nd St
• The Tall Grass in Your Eyes: A Reading from Trans Poetry 19 – Workshop Red Poppy Art House | 2698 Folsom St
• Happy Endings (Or at Least Silver Linings) 20 – Make-Out Room u 21+ | 3225 22nd St
• Femmes & Thems Destroy Fairy Tales 21 – Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative u | 3130 24th St
• Kindred: All the Ways Poetry Says Sisterhood 22 – Medicine for Nightmares u | 3036 24th St
• Future Ghosts and Family Heirlooms with the Brown 23 – Handler Residents Et al. etc. u | 2831a Mission St

PHASE 3 8:00pm–9:00pm

• Stanford Continuing Studies Presents: No one was 1 – supposed to know! Manny’s u 5 | 3092 16th St
• KQED Presents: ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? ¡Rebeldes! 3 – The Drawing Room: ANNEX u | 599 Valencia St Sponsored by Page Street
• SFPL Bookmobile | u | 599 Valencia Street 3 – (Parked alongside The Drawing Room: ANNEX)
• Hot Flash Book Bingo! The Sycamore 5 | 2140 Mission St 5
• When the Real and the Surreal Merge: Writing the 6 – Warnings of Our Ancestors Noisebridge u | 272 Capp St
• Forebear Fandangos and Tangled Family Tangos 7 – Bissap Baobab u 5 | 2243 Mission St
• Ruth Asawa School of the Arts: My Name Is My Own 9 – McSweeney’s International Library of Youth Writing | 849 Valencia St
• Invisible City Presents: Weirding Out 10 – Teeth Bar SF u 5 | 2323 Mission St
• Wednesday Edition: EXCESS Shotwell’s Saloon u 21+ | 3349 20th St 12
• Write from the Gut: Best Lines Dog Eared Books u | 900 Valencia St 13
• Palestinian Voices of the Diaspora 14 – Grand Coffee Too u 5 | 2544 Mission St
• This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Horror Silver Sprocket u | 1018 Valencia St 15
• Flying Rabbit Circus Presents: Damsels NOT in Distress 17 – San Francisco Mime Troupe u | 855 Treat Ave
• LeatherCrawl—More K!nks Than A… 18 – Latin American Club u 21+ | 3286 22nd St
• Nulla is Haunted! Red Poppy Art House | 2698 Folsom St 19
• Raza Beyond Borders 21 – Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative u | 3130 24th St
• Speaking Axolotl: ¡AQUI ESTAMOS! 22 – Medicine for Nightmares u | 3036 24th St
• Open Mic with the Grotto: Narrative Therapy—Trials, Failures, 23 – and Miscellaneous Bummers Et al. etc. u | 2831a Mission St

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.