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Welcome to Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival, now in our 17th year. Festival dates are October 7-15, 2016. Events are all-ages unless noted otherwise. Book sales are offered when and where appropriate. Events without ticket reservations are first-come first served. Click the phone icon to the right below, to download our new mobile app version!

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MK Chavez

Oakland
MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis, and Dear Animal. She is a recipient of the 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award and Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. Her latest publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and online at Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day.  
Saturday, October 8
 

11:30am PDT

OTRS - Jungle of Stone: Discovering the Maya with William Carlsen Mechanics' Institute LibraryMary Jo McConahay • William Carlsen

12:45pm PDT

OTRS - Anon Was a Woman: A Celebration of Female Poets Mechanics' Institute LibraryTeow Lim Goh • Emilia Phillips • Margaret Ross • Solmaz Sharif • Tess Taylor
 
Sunday, October 9
 

12:45pm PDT

OTRS - Making Literature Now: The Art and Business of Contemporary Lit Mechanics' Institute LibraryAmy Hungerford • Emily Barton • Chiyuma Elliott • Eli Horowitz • Juliana Spahr

2:00pm PDT

OTRS - Equality or Progress: Urban Development in the Bay Area Mechanics' Institute LibraryRebekah Otto • Sarah Burke • Malo Andre Hutson • Sonja Trauss

3:15pm PDT

OTRS - Latina Fiction: Politics, Social Justice, and Sexuality Mechanics' Institute LibraryMaría Poblet • Yalitza Ferreras • Aya de Leon • Carolina de Robertis

7:00pm PDT

Arisa White and Robin Coste Lewis in Conversation San Francisco Center for the BookRobin Coste Lewis • Arisa White
 
Monday, October 10
 

5:00pm PDT

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders Book Club of CaliforniaElla Morton
 
Tuesday, October 11
 

12:30pm PDT

Poetic Tuesday Jessie SquareJ. Scott Brownlee • Jennifer S. Cheng • Erma Kyriakos • Martin Rock • Mahtem Shiferraw

7:00pm PDT

Mission Bookstores: United We Stand Make-Out RoomKate (Rosenberger) Akimbo • Ian Brennan • MK Chavez • Tiny Gray-Garcia • Freddy Gutierrez • Victor Krummenacher • Alejandro Murguía • Natasha Muse • Kate Schatz • Miriam Klein Stahl • Denise Sullivan • Preston Swirnoff • David Talbot • Katie Tomzynski
 
Wednesday, October 12
 

12:00pm PDT

Literary Lunch: Miguel de Cervantes Mechanics' Institute LibraryRoland Greene

7:00pm PDT

Writing Indigenous Experiences San Francisco Center for the BookLindsie Bear • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • Dina Gilio-Whitaker • Alison Owings • Greg Sarris • Kim Shuck
 
Thursday, October 13
 

7:00pm PDT

Striking Distance: Bruce Lee in the Bay Area American Bookbinders MuseumCharles Russo

8:00pm PDT

Litquake's Barbary Coast Awards Herbst TheatreWill Durst • Justin Chin • Jewelle Gomez • Maxine Hong Kingston • Michael Krasny • Bancroft Library • Alejandro Murguía • Patrick Wolff Quartet • The Threepenny Review • Thomas Sanchez • Paul Yamazaki
 
Friday, October 14
 

6:30pm PDT

Lit by the Lake Oakland Public LibraryLucy Bledsoe • Ali Eteraz • Yang Huang • Lisa McGuinness • Nayomi Munaweera • Kate Jessica Raphael
 
Saturday, October 15
 

6:00pm PDT

Lit Crawl San Francisco Multiple Venues

9:30pm PDT

Litquake After-Party The ChapelJamie L. Real