Litquake Foundation

We're working hard to keep all of us
connected through literature
Please consider supporting our efforts today!

Litquake 2020
“...keeping the soul of San Francisco alive.” - San Francisco Chronicle

October 8 - 24
60 events • 150 authors
12 hr Lit Crawl Global & SF

Support Our Work

Click for Full Festival Schedule

Stay Up To Date

Molly Ball, national political correspondent for Time, author of "Pelosi"

Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of "The Tradition"

The Cockettes, San Francisco's avant garde hippie drag theater group

Cory Doctorow, activist, author of "Radicalized"

Joy Harjo, current U.S. Poet Laureate, editor of "When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through"

Juan Felipe Herrera, former U.S. Poet Laureate, author of "Every Day We Get More Illegal"

Tommy Orange, PEN/Hemingway-winning author of "There, There"

Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn, authors of "Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope"

Kevin Kwan, New York Times best-selling author of "Sex and Vanity"

Fernanda Melchor, author of the International Booker Prize-nominated "Hurricane Season"

Christopher Moore, New York Times best-selling author of "Shakespeare for Squirrels"

Tom Perrotta, New York Times best-selling author of "Mrs. Fletcher," "The Leftovers," and "Election"

Tommy Pico, poet, author of "IRL" and "Junk"

Pamela Sneed, activist, poet, author of "Funeral Diva"

Amy Tan, author of "The Joy Luck Club"

Natasha Trethewey, former U.S. Poet Laureate, author of "Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir"

View the Litquake Festival 2020 schedule & directory.

Words matter.
Litquake sparks critical conversations, and inspires writers and readers to celebrate the written word with
diverse literary programming, interactive workshops, and a ten-day festival.