800 K-5 students - 34 classes - 1,000 free books
2 days of assemblies & workshops
with acclaimed children's authors
This event inspires my young readers and writers to continue their love of books and writing." —Kidquake teacher attendee
Kidquake
As part of the festival each October, Litquake produces Kidquake, and brings over 800 K-5 students and teachers to the San Francisco Public Library for two days of talks, workshops, and free books with acclaimed children’s authors.
In true Litquake style, San Francisco students in grades K-5 get to sample from the work of four or five authors in an hour-long presentation and then participate in hands-on workshops with the writers they’ve just seen. Each student leaves with a new book and teachers receive a bag of books and other goodies. Sign-up forms are distributed early each fall to San Francisco schools.
Last year, 100% of teachers noted that Kidquake programming reinforces lessons from the classroom, and prized Kidquake’s ability to inspire their students by affording them a connection to authors and the writing process. Kidquake also caters to San Francisco’s most diverse student bodies: 10% African American, 18% Latinx, 20% Chinese, 16% Pacific Islander, 21% White, 4% Middle Eastern, 11% Mixed. 45% of students receive free/reduced lunch.
Participating authors have included Anthony Robles, Jon Agee, Lisa Brown, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Jennifer Holm, Leuyen Pham, Ina Cumpiano, and many more!
Teenquake
Have you heard? Teens are some of the most enthusiastic and voracious readers on the planet. And here at Litquake we celebrate, encourage, and reward that obsessive behavior with Teenquake.
Over the years we’ve hosted events with partners as diverse as the San Francisco Public Library, Not Your Mother’s Book Club, WritersCorps, and NaNoWriMo. We've organized after-hours teen takeovers of the SF Main Library to inspire, rethink the library, and celebrate the word. We've staged a six-hour, three-phased progressive TeenCrawl with writing workshops, teens reading from their published work, and a multi-author signing. We've packed the house at Word for Word’s staged reading of the YA novel The Sky is Everywhere and we rolled out the red carpet for the best teen writers in the Bay Area at a ceremony to announce the winners of the Teenquake Writing Awards in partnership with Writopia Lab.
What’s next? Ultimately we’re about bringing together our super fantastic community of teen readers and writers and the adults who love them. Bring on the awesome!
Over the years we’ve hosted events with partners as diverse as the San Francisco Public Library, Not Your Mother’s Book Club, WritersCorps, and NaNoWriMo. We've organized after-hours teen takeovers of the SF Main Library to inspire, rethink the library, and celebrate the word. We've staged a six-hour, three-phased progressive TeenCrawl with writing workshops, teens reading from their published work, and a multi-author signing. We've packed the house at Word for Word’s staged reading of the YA novel The Sky is Everywhere and we rolled out the red carpet for the best teen writers in the Bay Area at a ceremony to announce the winners of the Teenquake Writing Awards in partnership with Writopia Lab.
What’s next? Ultimately we’re about bringing together our super fantastic community of teen readers and writers and the adults who love them. Bring on the awesome!