Past
Festivals
Litquake has been shaking the Bay Area literary scene since 1999, proudly presenting over 11,500 authors in front of nearly 300,000 attendees since our inception.
OUR
MISSION
Litquake’s diverse live programs aim to inspire critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bring people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuate a sense of literary community by providing a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. Because we believe in literature as a public good, we work to produce events that are accessible to all.
UPCOMING EVENTS
LIT CAST PODCAST
An Evening With Ada Limón: U.S. Poet Laureate
A beautiful evening was had with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón as she read and discussed Startlement, an essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America's most celebrated living writers. With no shortage of awards and accolades to her name (MacArthur Genius and Time Woman of the Year, anyone?), Limón looked back on her distinguished career and shared radiant new work for the first time. In conversation with Matthew Zapruder.