S A N F R A N C I S C O ’ S
L I T E R A R Y F E S T I V A L
Save the Date! October 8–24, 2026
Past
Festivals
Litquake has been shaking the Bay Area literary scene since 1999, proudly presenting over 12,000 authors in front of 325,000 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
Dear Ferocious Dreamer: A Festival Finale in Verse
Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025
"Dear ferocious dreamer. Dear maven of song and surveyor of every flung star. Dear meandering romantic, audacious witness, dear listener with the whole of your covetous heart." So begins Patricia Smith's invocation poem that grounded us on the penultimate night of Litquake 2025. Poets Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Achy Obejas, Matthew Zapruder, and Gabriel Cortez shared their work and we collectively bore witness to the beauty and resiliency of our words and community at the Mission's historic Victoria Theater.