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Submissions Open for Feb 7, an IN-PERSON Literary Mixtape

Next event: June 20 @ Mechanics’ Institute Library (link coming soon) Featuring: Anastasia Lê Zêdan Xelef London Pinkney, host for the evening Paola Ramirez Sandy Vasquez Tadeh Kennedy bios + photos + ticket link coming soon New Better Ancestors book! s&b 116 is out – far out! Get it here while you can.   devorah Read More

Karla Myn Khine, courtesy the author

May 6 @ Arion Press

Sarah Henry Siamak VossoughiElizabeth Gonzalez JamesKristen Staby RemboldKate FolkBianca BarelaEmma Webster Sarah Arantza AmadorMelody NixonChristopher BernardRuth CrossmanJeffrey KingmanGark MaviganTony PressRachael Maier Monday May 6 @ Arion Press, 1802 Hays Street, The Presidio, San Francisco Doors at 6:30. Readings begin at 7pm sharp! Parking / Entrance information There is plenty of parking at the venue! Please Read More

Karla Myn Khine, courtesy the author

Quiet Lightning @ Manny’s

Jan 7, 2019 at Manny’s   Side A Jennifer Lewis » Meredith Heller » Katie Seifert » Charles Kruger » Calder G. Lorenz » Siamak Vossoughi » Caroline Kessler  Side B Chloe Wieland » Heather Bourbeau » Dion O’Reilly » Abe Becker » Hadas Goshen » Fernando Meisenhalter » Alex Simand » Connie Zheng » Brian Waksmunski   Monday, January 7Manny’s, 3092 16th St.Readings begin at 7pm[RSVP]   This is an all ages show, free to attend. There’s a suggested $5-20 donation to Read More

Karla Myn Khine, courtesy the author

Turk & Divis

From 2016-17, beginning with Quiet Lightning’s 100th show, Turk & Divis (QL’s founding director Evan Karp and his brother Miles) created a track of original music featuring excerpts of the previous month’s Quiet Lightning, posting them online and starting the next show by playing a rough cut—kind of a last time on QL kind of thing. Read More

Karla Myn Khine, courtesy the author

edinburgh castle

Monday, March 6 @ 7:30pm | Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary  FREE show, 21+ Peggy Schimmelman » Jenny Xie » Logan Ellis » Sandra Wassilie » Laurie Posner » Hadas Goshen » Sherril Jaffe | Sara Marinelli » Lisa Piazza » Siamak Vossoughi » Anthony Veasna So » Fernando Meisenhalter » Matt Leibel curated by Meghan Thornton + Olga Zilberbourg sPARKLE & bLINK cover Read More

Karla Myn Khine, courtesy the author

The Stud

Joe Wadlington Heather Bourbeau Peter Bullen Stephen Guai-Wu MK Chavez Rae Liberto AshleyRose Sanchez Miah Jeffra Siamak Vossoughi Adam Moskowitz Peter Max Lawrence Paul Corman-Roberts Kyrsten Bean Ingrid Keir Kate Folk Sage Curtis Laura Zink Kate Seifert Kathryn Reeve Cassandra Dallett Isabella Borgeson ! Monday, February 6 @ The Stud Bar 7:30 – 9pm // Read More

Karla Myn Khine, courtesy the author

#QL99 Kickstarter Party @ PianoFight

Help us launch!   A literary mixtape curated by Chris Cole, Kelsey Schimmelman, Christine No & Evan Karp, starring: Iris Bloomfield Robert Dubrow Kelly Egan Siamak Vossoughi Minna Dubin Jared Roehrig Lindsey Adams Norma Smith E.C. Messer held at PianoFight on September 12, 2016, a party to launch our first crowdfunding campaign—an effort to establish a full-time staff position (wait—we have one of Read More

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KUWENTUHAN (TALKSTORY) + WRITE OF WAY LITERARY FESTIVAL

Awarded a Creative Work Fund grant for the third time since 2004, The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University has partnered with Barbara Jane Reyes to produce a text and a series of performances based on kuwentuhan, or talkstory. “I started thinking about these oral traditions, and orality, that happen mostly in informal spaces, like family spaces, places with Read More

Karla Myn Khine, courtesy the author

quiet lightning at adobe books

SIDE A Siamak Vossoughi Peter Bullen Norma Smith Kristina Ten Zephir O’Meara Sally Love Saunders Allison Landa Karthik Sethuraman Jon Sindell SIDE B Jaida Samudra Margaret McCarthy John Panzer Caroline Kessler Townsend Walker foreignfire A.D. Winans literary mixtape * July 3, 7:30pm * Adobe Books * free + all ages sPARKLE & bLINK 87 featuring art by Maricruz Mendoza free Read More