Our Favorite Literary Links - Check Out Local Bay Area Reading Series, Publishers, Magazines, Bookstores, Organizations and More
Litquake’s mission is to unite a community of writers, readers and lovers of the written and spoken word through events that celebrate the literary arts of the SF Bay Area. As part of our mission, we include the following links to vital San Francisco Bay Area literary organizations and publications.
Litquake Allies
826 Valencia
Artists for Literacy
City Lights Books
Edinburgh Castle Pub
The Grotto
Media Bistro
McSweeney’s
Porchlight
San Francisco Public Library
Streetside Stories
Local Reading Series
Artifact Reading Series
Asian American Storytelling
InsideStoryTime at the Rickshaw Stop
Intersection Literary Series
Lit & Lunch at the Center for the Art of Translation
Literary Death Match
Lunada Literary Lounge & Open Mic @ Galeria de la Raza
Monticello Inn Book Reading Series
Northern California Open Mikes
Poetry & Pizza
Porchlight Storytelling Series
Radar Reading Series at SFPL
SF in SF - Science Fiction. San Francisco
SF State Poetry Center Reading Series
Writers with Drinks
Local Literary Organizations and Venues
CounterPulse
Bay Area Literacy
Bay Area Writing Project
California Poets in the Schools
Cell Space
City Arts & Lectures
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
Intersection for the Arts
Locus Arts
Marin Poetry Center
Monticello Inn
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
The Poetry Center
Poetry Flash
Red Room Writers Society
San Francisco Center for the Book
San Francisco Literary Tours
San Francisco Public Library
SF Screenwriters
Small Press Distribution
Small Press Traffic
Word for Word
The Writing Salon
Local Publishers
AK Press
Apogee Press
Arion Press
Aunt Lute Books
Backbeat Books
Berrett-Koehler
Children’s Book Press
Cleis Press
Electric Works
Greenery Press
Heyday Books
Instant City
Jossey Bass
Last Gasp
Lonely Planet
MacAdam Cage
Manic D Press
Mercury House
No Starch Press
Nolo Press
North Atlantic Books
RE/Search Publications
Sierra Club Books
Sixteen Rivers Press
Small Desk Press
Suspect Thoughts
Tachyon Publications
Ten Speed Press
Travelers’ Tales
UC Press
Ulysses Press
Local Literary Journals & Magazines
The Believer
Cherry Bleeds
Defenestration
Eleven Eleven
Em Literary Magazine
Fiction Attic
Fourteen Hills
h2so4
Kitchen Sink
Lodestar Quarterly
Narrative Magazine
Opium Magazine
Persimmon Tree Magazine
SoMa Literary Review
Thought Magazine
The Threepenny Review
To-Do List Magazine
Two Lines
Watchword Press
Zoetrope All-Story
Zyzzyva
Local Writers Conferences
Jack London Writers Conference
Napa Valley Writers Conference
San Francisco Writers Conference
Squaw Valley Writers
Bay Area Independent Bookstores
San Francisco
Alexander Book Company
Bird & Beckett Books & Records
Book Bay Bookstore
Books Inc.
Bookshop West Portal
Booksmith
Borderlands Books
Browser Books
Builders Booksource
Cover to Cover
A Different Light
Dog-Eared Books
Foto-Grafix Books
Get Lost Travel Books
Green Apple Books
Modern Times Bookstore
Phoenix Books
Red Hill Books
SFSU Bookstore
Stacey’s Bookstore
Zen Center Bookstore
East Bay
A Great Good Place for Books
Black Oak Books
Dark Carnival Bookstore
Diesel, A Bookstore
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
Lafayette Bookstore
Moe’s Books
Orinda Books
Pegasus Fine Books
Rakestraw Books
North Bay
The Book Beat
Book Passage
Copperfield’s Books
Depot Bookstore
Habitat Books
Point Reyes Books
Reader’s Books
Sonoma Bookends Bookstore
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