Mark Your Calendars: Lit Crawl 2013

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Mark Your Calendars: Lit Crawl 2013

Each October during San Francisco’s epic weeklong literary festival, Litquake, we Bay Area word lovers suffer from an embarrassment of riches. There are readings all over the Bay Area, by authors of every stripe, and the biggest challenge is trying to figure out whether if it’s somehow possible to get to readings seven nights in a row (and throw in a few daytime events too.)

But no matter what, I always keep my calendar clear for the climactic Saturday night event, which will be held this year on Saturday, October 19: Lit Crawl. It’s like a literary death march, with cocktails, in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco. The idea is that from 6-9:30 pm, authors read in venues all over the Mission, in one hour phases. So from 6-7, for instance, you can choose from The Science Writers Handook event called “Eat, Drink, Geek, Write” or Write On Mamas with “Let Go or Be Dragged” or an open mic event in Clarion Alley, or one of 26 other readings. At 7:15, everyone grabs their stuff and runs to a Phase 2 reading, and the same happens at 8:30. All readings are free, and open to the public. So many great readings, so much choice, so much fun.

And I hope that when the clock strikes 8:30 you’ll consider coming to hear me and my fellow Lit Camp alumni read at Laszlo’s Bar! Our topic: The First Time. We’ve been advised that by Phase 3, the audience is going to be a little sloppy, so we should go for violent, sexy, or funny with our readings. I’m trying to hit all three, and throw in a foreign language portion for good measure. My fellow LitCamp readers are fabulous, so I feel really lucky to be part of this event.

Would love to see you there and even if you can’t come, do check out Litquake that entire week. If you’re not in SF, the good news is that Lit Crawl is expanding to other cities – check and see if there’s one near you!

Tom keeps crawling back to you…