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Faith Adiele

Mon 10/14 7:00pm - 8:30pm Litquake Event, The Room Where It Happens: Creating Inclusive Literary Communities, SF Center for the Book 375 Rhode Island Street, SF 94103

What does it take to create and sustain a writing community? Why is this particularly important for women and nonbinary POC? Many of us are out there, but how do we find each other, and how do we stay in touch? How do community-specific writing spaces such as Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and Kundiman function as tools to bring these communities together? What kind of work can we produce if we imagine our audience to be us? Faith Adiele, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Vanessa Hua read from their work and discuss. Moderated by Piyali Bhattacharya. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

Sat 10/19 8:00pm Litquake Event, LitCrawl Phase III, Dovre Club 1498 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

Travelers' Tales: Encounters in Faraway Places: Traveling out of comfort zones brings discovery and illumination. These writers find lessons that are moving, universal, and teach us to be better world citizens.

Jasmin Darznik

Sat 10/12 3:00pm - 4:00pm Litquake Event, Words Around the World: The Enduring Influence of Persian Poetry, Hotel Emblem 562 Sutter Street, SF 94102

Sponsored by Center for the Art of Translation

Two Iranian-born authors discuss their recent work and how their influences, Sufi poet Attar and trailblazing female poet/film director Forugh Farrokhzad, can appeal to a new generation. With Jasmin Darznik and Sholeh Wolpé. Coffee provided by Bluestone Lane. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

Donna de la Perriere

Tues 10/22 7:00pm Donna de la Perriere reading, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, SF

Fri 10/25 7:00pm Donna de la Perriere reading, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley

Joseph Lease

Fri 9/27 7:00pm reading from The Body Ghost, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley

Thurs 10/17 6:00-8:00pm reading from The Body Ghost, CCSF's Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia St., Room 109, SF

Leslie Carol Roberts

Sat 10/12 2pm - 3:30pm Litquake Event, Forests: The Heart of our Words, San Francisco Botanical Garden 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122

Two authors, one of fiction and one of memoir, meet in the Garden of Fragrance of SF's Botanical Gardens to discuss how forests and their mysteries inform their work. Leslie Carol Roberts' eco-memoir, Here is Where I Walk, is inspired by her daily rambles in the woods of the Presidio and places around the world, from Tasmania to Italy, and contains reflections on being a woman and mother in the world in times of climate change interwoven with field notebooks. In conversation with Peg Alford Pursell, author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest, which explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables, many set in forests both literal and metaphorical. FREE with ticket to gardens, $5-10 suggested donation