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Save the Date! October 8–24, 2026
Past
Festivals
Litquake has been shaking the Bay Area literary scene since 1999, proudly presenting over 12,000 authors in front of 325,000 attendees since our inception.
OUR
MISSION
Litquake’s diverse live programs aim to inspire critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bring people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuate a sense of literary community by providing a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. Because we believe in literature as a public good, we work to produce events that are accessible to all.
UPCOMING EVENTS
LIT CAST PODCAST
Kicking the Hornet's Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
KALW's Sunni Khalid, NPR's former Cairo bureau chief, sat down with Daniel Zoughbie, UC Berkeley complex systems scientist and historian to explore how US presidents have shaped the Middle East, often unleashing instability and conflict along the way—and the one US president who successfully charted a better course.