5:00pm PDT
Bazaar Writers Salon
Authors 
Aamina Ahmad grew up in London. She completed her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction appears in the Normal School, the Missouri Review, and the anthology And the World Changed. She was a 2015–2017 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Tracey Knapp's first full-length collection of poems, Mouth, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Tracey has received awards and scholarships from La Romita School of Art in Terni, Italy, the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg...
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Founder, Afrosurrealism
Columnist-In-Residence @SFMOMA @Open_Space, author of The AfroSurreal Manifesto, poet, curator, teacher. Inquiries: DScotMiller@gmail.com
Lila Savage is originally from Minneapolis. Prior to writing fiction, she spent nearly a decade working as a caregiver. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review. She is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner fellowship and graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2018. Her first...
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Shimon Tanaka has received fellowships from the Asian Cultural Council, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow from 2005-2007. His stories have appeared and/or are forthcoming in Best New American Voices, The Missouri Review...
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5:00pm PDT
Berkeley Poetry Slam
Authors 
Zach Goldberg is a slam poet.
Kay Nilsson is a poet performer. He has featured at several events including Queer Rebels Performance Festival, KQED’s Literary Hour with LitCrawl, and ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? Latino Spoken Word and Poetry Festival.
As the descendent of back-porch storytellers, Jenna Robinson is a poet and musician whose writing explores the intersections of intergenerational trauma and identity. She is a competitive member of the national slam community, holding two Hawaii Slam grand slam titles and placing...
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Slammaster, Berkeley Poetry Slam
Jaz Sufi is a Kundiman fellow, a National Poetry Slam finalist, and the slammaster of the Berkeley Slam, the longest running poetry event on the West Coast. She was a featured poet at the 2011 USF Creative Justice Art Show and has featured at venues across the country, from the Scottish...
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5:00pm PDT
Dirty Old Women: Erotica By Older Women
Authors 
Stella Fosse is a celebrant of ripe sex, with a story in the recently published Dirty Old Women anthology. Next? A how-to book for mature women starting erotic writing groups.
Susan writes erotica under the pen name Lynx Canon. She's the founder and host of the quarterly erotica reading series Dirty Old Women, held at Oakland's Octopus Literary Salon, and editor of the
eponymous anthology. She wrote the science fiction/detective novel
Chimera Catalyst, and her literary and genre stories have appeared in anthologies, journals and zines...
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Rose K. Mark is a sensualist. Her poems and stories share the sensual allure and pleasure of everyday objects and interactions. Her book, Tasting Life, holds a collection of stories and poems about her favorite subject, FOOD. Her poems have been featured in a number of anthologies...
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I am a founding member of the Elderotica writing group in the East Bay. My specialty is short fiction with humor and hotness. I also publish more conventional "around town" pieces from time to time in Oakland Magazine. Back in the 70s I had a blast publishing Plexus newspaper, created...
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Frances Spector, born in the Fifties firmly wrapped in a red diaper, is a healer, dancer, drummer, musician and adventurer . She is spending her retirement spinning tales real and imagined, having great sex, and exploring her own gender.
Cheral Stewart believes that age does not limit joy but allows us time to expand it. In her fifties, she began adventuring into the world of kink and playful sexuality. Dedicated to ongoing sexual/kink exploration, she enjoys writing short stories of sexual encounters, some true...
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5:00pm PDT
Foglifter Press: Queer, Sweet Home
Authors 
Indira Allegra has been honored with the Jackson Literary Award, Lambda Literary Fellowship and Windgate Craft Fellowship. Her commissions include works for SFMOMA, de Young Museum, The Wattis Institute, City of Oakland, SFJAZZ Poetry Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival...
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Vianney Casas was born in San Diego but raised in Tijuana. Before moving to San Francisco in 2013, she crossed the border every day for 6 years to go to school. She has been featured in Canto, Cipatli, Bossy, Chevere, Gentromancer, and Yerba Mala. Her work is a surrealist testimony...
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Vernon Keeve III is a high school English and history teacher for the Oakland Unified School District. His book of poetry and rants Conversations with a Southern Migrant was published by Nomadic Press in spring 2016
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson was born in Los Angeles and attended Ramona Convent College Preparatory School for Girls in a former incarnation of his life. He is a Cave Canem fellow and was the recipient of an individual artist's grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2011. Author...
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Dan Lau is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship, a William Dickey Fellowship, an Archie D. and Bertha Walker Scholarship from the FAWC in Provincetown, and an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission. He holds degrees from Hunter College of The City University...
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5:00pm PDT
KQED: Survival of the Queerest
Authors 
Luna Malbroux is a comic, writer, one of KQED's Women to Watch, creator of the award winning play, "How to Be A White Man", and the creator of the
EquiTable, a downloadable app that won Comedy Hackathon at SF SketchFest and made international headlines for satirically solving the wage gap and providing ‘reparations, one meal at a time...
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Luna Merbruja is a Mexican-Athabaskan writer, artist, healer, and community organizer. She’s the author of Trauma Queen and the forthcoming poetry book Heal Your Love. She has written about gender, sexuality, healing, and feminism for
Autostraddle and
Everyday Feminism, and is published in the anthology Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic...
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Baruch Porras-Hernandez is the author of two chapbooks from Sibling Rivalry Press. He is a two time winner of Literary Death Match, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, and Playwriting, has been part of the legendary Sister Spit Tour with Radar Productions, and regularly hosts shows...
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Anand Vedawala is the executive director of San Francisco Zine Fest and the author of several zines, including Hair, which was recently nominated for a Broken Pencil Zine Award. His self-published book, 100 Years from Now Our Bones Will Be Different, with co-author and illustrator Lawren...
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Marcus Williams is a stand-up comedian, a semi-finalist in the 2016 Sacramento Comedy Festival and has performed at the San Francisco Punchline, Cobb's Comedy Club, all over New York, Denver and several other locations with a stage and a microphone. He's funny as hell.
5:00pm PDT
Literary Stubbornness at Santa Monica Review
Authors 
Michael Cadnum is the author of nearly forty books of fiction and poetry. A National Book Award Finalist for The Book of the Lion, his most recent books include Earthquake Murder, a book of short fiction, and the just- released Kingdom, a book of poetry.
Louis B. Jones is the author of five novels – "Ordinary Money," "Particles and Luck," and "California’s Over," all three named as New York Times Notable Books of their respective years; and most recently, "Radiance" and "Innocence." He is an NEA fellow and a fellow of the MacDowell...
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Janice Shapiro is the author of Bummer and Other Stories (Soft Skull Press). Her stories and comics have been published in Catapult, The North American Review, 52 Stories, The Santa Monica Review, Everyday Genius, Real Pants and other places. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Editor, Santa Monica Review
Andrew Tonkovich edits the West Coast literary journal Santa Monica Review and hosts Bibliocracy, a books show on Pacifica Radio KPFK in Southern California. He is author of a novella collection, The Dairy of Anne Frank, and co-edited the first-ever anthology of literary Orange County...
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5:00pm PDT
Moxie Road Productions: Prudes at the Armory
Authors 
Producer, Literary Death Match
Board of Directors, Foglifter Press. Founding board member at Lit Camp. Former Litquake Committee member; host of Barely Published Authors 2015 and WRITE ON. Published in sPARKLE & bLINK, SFWIRE and Bang Out.
Principally a memoir and satire writer, Courtenay's book, "Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went From Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things" was released in July from Little, Brown. She also writes a bi-weekly column for the Portland Mercury, teaches humorous...
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Shannon Hughes is a Bay Area native and a resurrected writer and performer, who has recently swapped out the corporate stage for an artistic one. After a decades long career devising recruitment marketing strategies for Fortune 500 clients, she is following her heart and mind toward...
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co-founder, Moxie Road Productions
Janine Kovac is the author of SPINNING: Choreography for Coming Home, a memoir about the death of a career but the birth of miracle twins and a 2017 semifinalist for Publisher Weekly's BookLife Prize and the 2019 memoir winner of the National Indie Excellence Awards. A former ballet...
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Justin P. McCarthy lives in Marin with his wife, three children, and two cats. After helping people sue one another for a decade, he retired to be a full-time dad. Now, with the kids a bit older, he's pursuing his true passion of making no money as a writer, which has been a rousing...
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Tarja Parssinen is a writer, performer, and co-founder of Moxie Road Productions. Her written work has appeared in places such as The Washington Post and Salon.com, and anthologized in You Have Lipstick On Your Teeth, Scary Mommy’s Guide To Surviving the Holidays and She's Got This...
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5:00pm PDT
Musical Muses: BARtab's Tenth Lit Crawl Event
Moderators 
Jim Provenzano is the author of the novels Now I'm Here, PINS, Monkey Suits, Cyclizen, the 2012 Lambda Literary Award winner Every Time I Think of You, its sequel Message of Love (a Lammy finalist), and the stage adaptation of PINS. His short fiction collection, Forty Wild Crushes...
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Bud Gundy is a two-time Emmy Award-winning television producer, writer, director, and on-air host at KQED, San Francisco's PBS and NPR affiliate. His most recent novel Somewhere Over Lorain Road was published by Bold Strokes Books in February of 2018. His upcoming science fiction/thriller/mm...
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San Francisco born Trebor Healey is the author of 3 novels, 3 story collections and a book of poetry. His debut novel, Through It Came Bright Colors, won both the Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Fiction Award and the Violet Quill Award. In 2013, his third novel, A Horse Named...
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Kathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city's combination of history, natural beauty, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel, Awake Unto Me, won the Golden...
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Gar began writing early in life, but thought he wanted to be an astronomer. (He also thought he was straight. Go figure.)At UCLA, he co-created a left-leaning paper called Free Association. He also wrote commentaries for The Daily Bruin and feature articles for the African-American...
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When she’s not writing poems or drumming in an all-girl garage rock band, K.R. Morrison teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to inner city high school students at Galileo in San Francisco, CA. She has featured twice in Bay Area Generations, Saturday Night Special, and...
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Musician, Kitten on the Keys
Bay Area Native- Suzanne Ramsey aka Kitten on the Keys plays piano , accordion, and ukulele at a variety of venues in San Francisco and beyond . Catch her at the Madrone Art Bar, Dandy Drag King Cabaret , the Rite Spot , Flower Piano , and at special events. Tickle her ivories at...
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5:00pm PDT
On The Cusp: Moments That Matter
Authors 
James Cagney is a poet and writer from Oakland. A Cave Canem fellow, Cagney has appeared as a featured poet at venues throughout the San Francisco-Bay Area, Sacramento, Vancouver and Mumbai.
Rosa del Duca is a writer, journalist, teacher and musician. She grew up a tomboy in rural Montana, where she joined the Army National Guard when she was seventeen. During her six-year contract, she became not only a conscientious objector, but a feminist and unlikely rebel. That...
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Award-winning author of Zero Avenue, House of Blazes, Triggerfish, The Deadbeat Club and Ride the Lightning – from Vancouver, BC.
Arthur Klepchukov was born between Black Seas, Virginian Beaches, and San Franciscan waves. He adores trains, swing sets, and music that tears him outta time. Read Art’s words in The Common, Necessary Fiction, KYSO Flash, Fiction Southeast, and more at ArsenalOfWords.com
Allison Landa is a Berkeley, CA-based real estate writer and editor.
Saturday October 20, 2018 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Dalva
5:00pm PDT
Writers Without Borders: Presented By The Stanford Continuing Studies' Online Writing Certificate Program
Authors 
Lawrence Amaeshi holds an MBA in marketing. He will read from Five Brown Envelopes, to be released later this year. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
Working from Seattle and Milan where she splits the year – and thanks to the Stanford Certificate program – Nancy recently completed her first novel Verdi’s Flame.
Janice Billingsley is a journalist and ghostwriter. She is completing her first novel, I Live In Beaufort, through the Stanford Online Certificate Program in Novel Writing.
Stanford OWC
M.J. Brodie grew up in Ireland but now lives in the Bay Area. She writes about immigration and family and is finishing her first novel.
James Ennen has written one novel, fragments of a second, and multiple short stories. He lives in Crow Wing County and often canoes.
Jane Gilmore is launching a novel writing program for teens with the San Jose Area Writing Project while editing her manuscript, The Weeks List.
