There’s no adjective big enough to describe it, no euphemism discreet enough to hide it. Celebrating Litquake’s closing night, Lit Crawl is the world’s largest free literary crawl — and the wildest, most wanton literary night of the year.

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Join us Saturday, October 13, 2012, in San Francisco’s Mission District, where it all began. With more than 70 venues (bars, bookstores, art galleries, cafés, stores… even a beekeeping supply shop with live chickens!) and 500 authors reading their work in a single night, we aim to give poetry and prose a grandstand and book lovers a binge. And best of all, it’s all free.

Want a taste of the mayhem and madness to come?

Download the 2011 SF Lit Crawl Map now!

Interested in organizing a reading for one of our venues?

Click here to see how you can get involved.

“The striking thing about Lit Crawl, actually, was not the variegated writerly menu; nor was it the variety of venues—54 of them, including bookstores, bars, coffee shops, galleries and a bee-keeping supply store. Rather it was the specter of writing and literature—literature!—transforming an ordinary Saturday night in the neighborhood into a carnival of sorts. Up and down Valencia Street, crowds overflowed out of open doorways, and between readings, people hustled from one event to another or gathered on street corners clutching red Lit Crawl maps like participants in a mammoth scavenger hunt.”
—New York Times