Thank you! We cannot do this without your support!
From our many thousands of attendees to our hundreds of arts and small business partners to our dozens of sponsors and volunteers, all this is only possible through your collective efforts. We are floored year after year by the abundance of community support we receive—so much that it makes our small staff of 4 seem like an army.
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Thank you to our presenting partners & Lit Crawl curators!
Candlewick Press Feldman's Books KALW Irish Culture Bay Area Sistah Sci-fi SF Neo-Futurists ZYZZYVA The Roxie Theater Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. 48 Hills SF IndieFest SF Sketchfest KQED Live! Left Margin Lit Museum of the African Diaspora Gray Area C-SPAN Book TV KALW's How Wild KQED's Forum 826 Valencia 826 Tenderloin Babylon Salon Baucchaar Travellers California College of the Arts MFA La Raiz Magazine Mixtopia Bay Area Women in Publishing Red Light Lit The Afrosurreal Writers Workshop The Fabulist The Castro Writers' Cooperative Black Lawrence Press Decentered Arts San Francisco Writers Workshop
Word for Word Page Street Writers Literary Speakeasy City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Mechanics Institute Library MoAD's African Book Club The Writer's Grotto Kearny Street Workshop RAWdance National Book Critics Circle Villa Albertine Generation Women The Gardens of Golden Gate Park Mill Valley Film Festival DRUMMM Radium Presents Mystery Writers of America-NorCal KQED Fest Books Not Bans Authors Against Book Bans The Stud The Writing Salon Older Writers Lab (OWL) Tuesday Night Social Writing Group The Hive Poetry Collective SF Creative Writing Institute Bow & Arrow Circus Giant Robot ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? SF Leonard Coen Festival Riot of Roses Press Desert Salon Writing Retreat The Ana Speaking Axolotl Happy Endings Friends of SFPL
Thank you to our volunteers!
Thank you to our venues!
111 Minna Gallery 4 Star Theater 447 Minna Theater Arc Studios & Gallery BATS Improve Theater Book Club of California Chabot Space & Science Center Planetarium City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Clio's Club Fugazi Fabulosa Books Feldman's Books Gilman Street Brewing Golden Sardine Grace Cathedral Gray Area KALW KQED Left Margin Lit Make-Out Room Mechanics' Institute Library Museum of the African Diaspora OASIS ODC Theater Palace of Fine Arts Radium Runway SAGRADA San Francisco Botanical Gardens San Francisco Public Library Strut Swedish American Hall Yerba Buena Gardens Z Below Page Street Writers
826 Valencia Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative Bernal Cutlery Bissap Boabab Blondie's Bar Dog Eared Books Et al. Gestalt Craft Beer Bar Good Vibrations Latin American Club Manny's Martuni's Medicine for Nightmares Noisebridge Red Poppy Art House Ritual Coffee Roasters San Francisco Mime Troupe Sour Cherry Comics Sports Basement Bryant Street Syzygy Teeth Bar The Chapel The Drawing Room Annex SFPL Bookmoble The Sycamore Telegraph Hill Books The Lost Church New Parkway Theater The Stud The Writers Grotto Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley Verdi Club
Thank you to our indie booksellers & presses!
Books Inc Bookshop West Portal Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore of Literary and Garden Arts Dog Eared Books SAGRADA Medicine for Nightmares Telegraph Hill Books Fabulosa Books Clio's City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Ink Spell Book Passage Pegasus Books East Bay Booksellers Museum of the African Diaspora Green Apple Books Apocrypha Press PM Press Sixteen Rivers Press Stanford University Press Transit Books Manic D Press
Adobe Books Bird and Beckett Black Bird Books Book Castle The Booksmith Comix Experience Et al. Isotope Comics Silver Sprocket Alta Journal Aunt Lute Books Center for Sex & Culture Collective Book Studio Foglifter Press & Journal Heyday Books Kelsey Street Press Last Gasp Press Mumblers Press North Atlantic Books Parapraxis Magazine Pelekinesis Philippine American Writers & Artists (PAWA)
Thank you to our major Festival sponsors & media sponsors!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz at Gilman Street Brewing, on tour and also helping to fundraise for the fire-stricken East Bay Booksellers.
Happy Endings' Joe Wadlington aka Jubilee, vamping as emcee of our opening night party, The Booksellers Ball
Many-time National Book Award and Booker Prize nominee and SF-raised Rachel Kushner talking her latest, Creation Lake, with editor/critic/poet John Freeman.
Early Fest attendees trying desperately to plan their way through 140 events...wonder how they did?
Are Writers of Color Allowed to NOT Write About Race panel at Clio's—one of a dozen writing/publishing oriented panel events in this year's Fest.
...and so many more moments to come! Stay tuned for photos, podcast episodes, and video we captured during this year's Festival and Lit Crawl!
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. 2024 Dates: Oct. 10-26. www.litquake.org
Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Bernard Osher Foundation, California Arts Council, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Center for the Art of Translation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts, Hawthornden Foundation, Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Rock Foundation, Norway House, Sam Mazza Foundation, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation; Individual Giving: Jared Bhatti, Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler, Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Karyn DiGiorgio and Steve Sattler, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman, and Ellen Ullman Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7x7, KALW, KEXP, KQED, SF Arts Monthly, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.
