“In my California, free sounds and free touch.
Free questions, free answers.
Free songs from parents and poets, those hopeful bodies of light.”

—from “My California” by Lee Herrick

Hello Litquakers,

Submissions are officially open for our 2023 Festival and Lit Crawl! Any and all ideas are welcome, whether you’re a writer, publicist, agent, editor, or simply a fan. Is there a rising author with a new book you think we HAVE to have? Pitch us! Do you run a magazine that wants to have an issue launch in October? Submit! A site-specific poetry reading? We’re listening. Just wow us.

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We just added another event to our Spring Epicenter series! Next month, Litquake will host the launch of MariNaomi’s new graphic memoir I Thought You Loved Me, a scrapbook-esque exploration of the expectations of friendship, the unreliability of memory, and the struggle to let go.

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Join Litquake's Epicenter as we help launch Rita Chang-Eppig’s debut novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, a riveting, roaring adventure story about a legendary Chinese pirate, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power!

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Litquake Weekly

Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...

“This summer, Scribner will launch a new poetry program, publishing one original volume of poetry by a contemporary poet each season.” With a month-long submission window (in August) and inaugural books by Airea D. Matthews and sam sax, this new imprint is sure to make waves • Publishers Weekly

“...Dederer doesn’t arrive at some neat conclusion, because there are no easy answers to the vexing questions she wrangles with.” Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma explores the age-old moral conundrum of loving art by complicated people • San Francisco Chronicle Datebook

“Join us for a rare opportunity to hear from a gathering of poets laureate – profound thinkers whose electric perspective, humor and tenderness bridge the distance between the sometimes difficult details of our lives and sudden states of grace.” This Thursday, The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley hosts California Laureate Lee Herrick, Hawaiian Laureate Kealoha, and Oakland Youth Laureate Nadia Elbgal • Arts Research Center

“WGA members voted by a historic margin — 98% to 2% — (among 9,218 ballots cast) in favor of a strike authorization, which allows union leaders to call a walkout if they are unable to negotiate a new film and TV contract.” Over 11,000 screenwriters across the West Coast are demanding higher wages as their contracts set to expire in May • Los Angeles Times

“Billy Porter has been cast as James Baldwin in the late writer’s upcoming biopic.” Yes, the author of Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room and If Beale Street Could Talk is finally getting the biopic he deserves • Paper

“Scholastic issued an apology to Maggie Tokuda-Hall for asking the children’s book writer to edit an author’s note that condemned racism in the U.S.” A wrong is righted in the world of children’s lit • Kirkus

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About Litquake
Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city's music, film, and cultural festivals. 2023 Dates: Oct. 5-21. www.litquake.org

Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Bernard Osher Foundation, Brabson Library & Education Foundation, California Arts Council, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Literary Arts Emergency Fund, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation, the Rock Foundation, Sam Mazza Foundation; Individual Giving: Jared Bhatti, Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler, Evette Davis, Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Karyn DiGiorgio and Steve Sattler, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, Craig Newmark, Swinerton Family Fund, and Ellen Ullman Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7x7, KQED, SF Arts Monthly, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.

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