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Saturday
, January 19
1:00pm PST
Resolve to Write a Novel in 2019!
Mechanics' Institute Board Room
Grant Faulkner
Sunday
, January 20
4:00pm PST
Audible presents: The Indignities of Being a Woman (SF Sketchfest)
Swedish American Hall
Laraine Newman • Megan Koester • Merrill Markoe
Saturday
, January 26
7:30pm PST
Selected Shorts: Too Hot for Radio (SF Sketchfest)
Marine's Memorial Theater
Aparna Nancherla • Hope Davis • John Cameron Mitchell • Neil Patrick Harris
Wednesday
, January 30
7:00pm PST
Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Kanbar Hall
Tracy K. Smith
Saturday
, February 2
8:00pm PST
What If: The Fiction of the Future
San Francisco Public Library, main branch, 1st Floor Deaf Services Center
Nilgun Bayraktar • Charlie Jane Anders • Meg Elison
Friday
, February 15
TBA
SUBMISSIONS OPEN!
Saturday
, February 16
12:00pm PST
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (JFI: Winterfest)
Alama Drafthouse & Cinema at New Mission
8:15pm PST
Untogether (JFI: Winterfest)
Alama Drafthouse & Cinema at New Mission
Wednesday
, April 3
7:30pm PDT
Evan James / Cheer up, Mr. Widdicombe
The Bindery
Evan James
Saturday
, April 13
12:30pm PDT
The Art of Flash Fiction
Z Below
Thaisa Frank • Kim Magowan • Jane Ciabattari • Kara Vernor • Nancy Au
2:15pm PDT
The Art of the Short Story
Z Below
Rita Bullwinkel • Kim Addonizio • Ethel Rohan • Yang Huang • Kate Folk
4:00pm PDT
The Art of the Novel
Z Below
Melanie Abrams • Hannah Michell • Namwali Serpell • Laleh Khadivi • Lucy Jane Bledsoe
8:00pm PDT
Grace Notes: Poets at Grace Cathedral
Brenda Hillman • Henri Cole • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo • Paola Capó-García • Robert Hass • D.A. Powell • Barbara Jane Reyes
Sunday
, April 14
12:30pm PDT
Tried and True: What's So Great About Traditional Publishing
Z Below
Natalie Baszile • Trisha Low • Ted Weinstein • Anna Ghosh • Pamela Feinsilber
2:15pm PDT
Debut Authors: Fame and Fortune in Five Easy Steps
Z Below
Sarita Cannon • Lauren Markham • Huda Al-Marashi • Rebecca Gomez Farrell
4:00pm PDT
The Author Hustle: Finding Readers in the Interwebs and Beyond
Z Below
Janine Kovac • Melinda Mullin • Hilary Zaid • Devi S. Laskar • Leslie Carol Roberts
Saturday
, May 4
4:30pm PDT
L'HOMME DU LARGE (SF Silent Film Festival)
Guenter Buchwald • Frank Bockius • Paul McGann
9:15pm PDT
L'INFERNO (SF Silent Film Festival)
Paul McGann • Matti Bye Ensemble
Tuesday
, May 14
12:30pm PDT
Poetic Tuesday–May
Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
Baruch Porras Hernandez • Natalia M. Vigil • Katherine Agard • Imani Sims • Luna Merbruja • Azuah
7:00pm PDT
Julie Orringer & Michael Chabon at JCCSF
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Kanbar Hall
Julie Orringer • Michael Chabon
Wednesday
, May 15
6:30pm PDT
Namwali Serpell at MoAD
Museum of African Diaspora
Namwali Serpell
Tuesday
, June 11
12:30pm PDT
Poetic Tuesday–June
Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
Lourdes Figueroa • Sanjana Shukla • Baruch Porras Hernandez • Maggie Tokuda-Hall • Josiah Luis Alderete • Camilo Villa
Wednesday
, June 12
6:30pm PDT
The White Devils’ Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Mechanics' Institute Salon
Julia Flynn Siler • Bonnie Tsui
Saturday
, June 29
1:00pm PDT
The All-Important Rewrite: Befores and Afters with Laurie R. King
Mechanics' Institute Board Room
Laurie R. King
Tuesday
, July 9
12:30pm PDT
Poetic Tuesday–July
Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
Nazelah Jamison • Amanda Muñiz • Vernon Keeve III • Thea Matthews • Gabi Díaz-Hernández
Sunday
, July 14
12:30pm PDT
Lit Crawl Jr.
Shannon Price • Katy Rose Pool • Tony Piedra • Naomi Lau • Aida Salazar • Kalyn Josephson
Tuesday
, July 16
7:00pm PDT
LQ@20–20 Years of San Francisco’s Literary Festival
Make-Out Room
Alan Black • Merle Kessler • Vata & the Vine • Heather Bourbeau and Raman Osman • Tongo Eisen-Martin & Steven Gray • Delco (A Delaware Corporation) • The Deadliners • Tamim Ansary • devorah major • April Sinclair
Thursday
, July 18
6:00pm PDT
The Godfather: A Benefit for Litquake's 20th Anniversary **SOLD OUT**
Italian Athletic Club
Orchestra Nostalgico • Word for Word
Thursday
, July 25
TBA
Standing Up, Falling Down
Multiple Venues
Sunday
, July 28
TBA
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Multiple Venues
Wednesday
, July 31
TBA
Safe Spaces
Multiple Venues
Tuesday
, August 13
12:30pm PDT
Poetic Tuesday–August
Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
Baruch Porras Hernandez • Raina León • Preeti Vangani • Tanea Lunsford Lynx • Lauren Wheeler • Jade Way
Saturday
, August 17
1:00pm PDT
Writing Nonfiction Like a Novel with T.J. Stiles **SOLD OUT**
Mechanics' Institute Board Room
T.J. Stiles
Saturday
, August 24
1:00pm PDT
Finding the Funny in Facts with Mary Roach **SOLD OUT**
Mechanics' Institute Board Room
Mary Roach
Saturday
, September 7
1:00pm PDT
Writing Nonfiction Like a Novel with T.J. Stiles **SOLD OUT**
Mechanics' Institute Board Room
T.J. Stiles
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