12th Annual Lit Crawl SF: Naughty, Good Magic

Six literary burlesque readers tease you with each story, taking it all off, one word at a time.

About Lit Crawl:
The 12th annual Lit Crawl will span over three hours in San Francisco’s Mission District, featuring 99 events and over 400 performers. From fiction to nonfiction and poetry to comedy, these events will take place in bookstores, bars, galleries, restaurants, stores, cafés, and community spaces.

One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl attracts close to 10,000 people, and is the world’s largest such event. In 2008, Lit Crawl NYC launched in Manhattan, also an immediate hit. Austin was next, swarming for the first time in 2011. In 2012, two more Lit Crawls were born, one in Brooklyn, another in Seattle. In 2013, the event expanded to Los Angeles, Iowa City, and London, and in 2014, Lit Crawls were launched in Miami and Helsinki.

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About the Writers:
 

Nancy Au is an Oakland-based writer and co-founder of The Escapery. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Anthropology and is completing her MFA at San Francisco State University. Nancy taught creative writing at SFSU and California State University Stanislaus. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Liminal Stories, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal for Compressed Creative Arts, Necessary Fiction, Fiction Southeast, Word Riot, Identity Theory, Prick of the Spindle, and more.

Carson Beker is a writer, playwright, storyteller, and actor with an MFA and MA from SFSU. She is the co-founder of The Escapery and has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is the former Fiction Editor of Fourteen Hills. Her work has appeared in Gigantic Sequins, sPARKLE + bLINK, Transfer Magazine, and Bourbon Penn, and her plays have been at the San Francisco Olympians Festival and Z Space. She will be a 2016 Lamdba Literary Resident in Fiction and is a recipient of a 2016 Tin House workshop scholarship.

Lynn Brown is a freelance writer and communications consultant with experience in journalism and publishing. She is a speculative fiction writer and the co-curator of the Voices from the Margins reading series. Her work can be found in Conde Nast Traveler, the Colorado Daily News, and the Matador Network.

Kimberly Gomes is a freelance writer and producer for Sunset Magazine and a community workshop facilitator. She’s currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State, where’s she working on her first novel and a chapbook revolving around the woman’s experience. When she’s not writing, she’s climbing mountains or plotting her next road trip.

Yume Kim received an MFA in Poetry from SF State and a BA in English from George Mason University. Before moving to San Francisco, she was born and raised in a strange land called Northern Virginia. She was a Kundiman fellow recipient and has been published in sPARKLE + bLINK, gesture, and Writing Without Walls among others. Yume is actually a unit of measurement, particularly when one needs to calculate factors on sexiness. During her spare time, she either stalks Improv Nation members or just draws cats and stick figures.

Dawn Robinson is a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Voices and VONA Fellow. Dawn wrote, directed, and edited the short film My-Grations, featured in the 2009 QWOCMAP Queer Women of Color Film Festival in San Francisco. Upcoming work includes a collection of queer short stories and a novel set in Oakland. Dawn prefers pie over cake, salty over sweet, crunchy over creamy, beach over snow, dogs over cats, and fire over ice.

 
Time: Doors 8:00PM / Event 8:30PM
Admission: Free
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. All ages are welcome.

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