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Submissions Open for Litquake 2012

This could be you!

Litquake is now taking submissions for the 2012 Festival (Oct. 5-13). If you're local and have published a book or other significant work in the last two years, you could be a reader at Litquake 2012.

Don't wait: submission deadline is June 1.

Love Hurts!

Litquake commemorates the year's most overrated holiday this Feb. 13 with Love Hurts: Litquake Preps You for Valentine's Day with Readings From Some of the Most Wretched Passages on Love and Lust Ever Written. Justin Chin, Daphne Gottlieb, Brock Keeling, Dr. Marty Klein, MariNaomi, Kirk Read, Michelle Richmond, Ellen Sussman, Michelle Tea, and Malena Watrous tackle their favorite overwrought passages...

Join Steve Erickson & Kevin Berger at the Epicenter

Litquake continues its Epicenter series on February 28 with novelist, essayist, film critic, and editor Steve Erickson in conversation with journalist Kevin Berger. Don’t miss acclaimed author Erickson’s only Bay Area appearance for his latest novel, These Dreams of You.

Litquake Already Underway…

LITQUAKE 2012
San Francisco’s Literary Festival: Oct. 5-13

Brooklyn, NY, Lit Crawl: May 19
NYC Lit Crawl: Sept. 15
San Francisco Lit Crawl: Oct. 13
Austin, TX Lit Crawl: Oct. 27

Litquake San Francisco isn’t until October, but we…

Siler & Scheeres at Jan. 24 Epicenter

Join us for the first Epicenter of 2012, featuring the Bay Area's own "Julia & Julia" combo: nonfiction authors Julia Flynn Siler and Julia Scheeres at Tosca Café. Free.

Japan Loves Litquake!

Litquake scored international coverage last fall when NHK, Japan's broadcast giant, sent a crew to film the festival, especially the Lit Crawl. We're still working on the English subtitles, but we couldn't wait to share the video with you. See it here.

Way Behind the Music: From Ozzy to Jewel

On February 22, Litquake and Noise Pop present the raucous return of Way Behind the Music: From Ozzy to Jewel, a night of hilariously odd music memoirs brought to life onstage!

Litquake 2012: Oct. 5-13

Litquake 2012 will be held Oct. 5-13, with the San Francisco Lit Crawl on Saturday, Oct. 13. Not that we're going dark until then: we've just announced authors for the first 2012 Epicenters. Other special events coming soon.

Final 2011 Epicenter with GuyWriters

Join us for the final Epicenter event of 2011, when GuyWriters community teams up with Litquake for Writing Down the Past: Gay Men Reveal Their Histories, a one-time event on Monday, Nov. 14, 6-8 pm.

Neal Pollack in conversation with Dan Fost

Join Litquake favorite Neal Pollack on Nov. 13 for a special conversation with Dan Fost about Pollack's new novel Jewball, a funny, gritty historical noir about a tough Jew on the brink, as a great American game comes into its own.