San Francisco’s largest literary festival returns in 2021 with hybrid online and in-person events, celebrating the literary community from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Litquake 2021 festival runs from October 7-23, with two full days of in-person events hosted by Yerba Buena Gardens festival on Saturday, October 16 and Sunday, October 17.

See the program schedule below and click the event for more information.

Saturday, October 16
Noon-1pm – The Revolution Poeticized
1:15-2:15pm – The Hydra: A Series for Black and Brown Experimental, Flash, Sci-fi, and Horror Writers and the People Who Love Them
2:30-3:30pm – Three Voices, Three Worlds
3:45-4:45pm – Naming Out Ancestors: A Reading

Sunday, October 17
Noon-12:45pm – Debut Poetry in COVID
1-1:45pm – Philippine America Writers and Artists
2-2:45pm – Black Freighter Press
3-3:45pm – Patrice Lumumba: An Anthology of Writers on Black Liberation with MoAD x Nomadic Press
4-4:45pm – Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network

Full Litquake Line-Up