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Thursday, October 15, 2026

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Join us at Litquake’s free Out Loud book fair this Sunday at Yerba Buena Gardens!

Dozens of local publishers, poets, writers, and thinkers come together to uplift LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Bay Area writers in the sunshine.

48 Hills is proud to partner with Litquake 2026, San Francisco’s largest literary festival, and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival to bring you OUT LOUD (Sun/4, 11am-4pm, Yerba Buena Gardens), a bonanza of a book fair!

In a city built on tall tales, hard-boiled prose, revelatory memoirs, and penetrating reportage, Litquake is the soul of San Francisco’s cultural life. The region’s largest literary festival returns in 2026, celebrating the exuberantly creative literary community from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Come explore a curated spread of small presses and literary magazines at the Litquake Book Fair in Yerba Buena Gardens.

Browse the best in local literature set to a day of poetry readings from Litquake Out Loud. Highlighting the Bay Area’s BIPOC & LGBTQ+ writers and thought leaders, Litquake continues to elevate underrepresented voices so that all people are included in creating and imbuing the Bay Area’s historic, thriving arts scene.

Book Fair Vendors

Banana Pitch Press

Campfire Press

Center for Sex and Culture

Cita Press

City Lights

DoppelHouse Press

Double Negative Press

Feather Press

Foglifter Journal & Press

The Green Arcade / Ithuriel’s Spear

Heresy Press

Heyday Books

Last Gasp Press

Locus Magazine

Mumblers Press

North Atlantic Books

Panamerica

PAWA

PM Press

Reed Magazine

Scrambler Books

Sixteen Rivers Press

Society for the Promotion of Speculative Fiction

Unsolicited Press

Weavers Press

ZYZZYVA

​For complete schedule, please go to Litquake’s website at www.litquake.org.

Marke B.
Marke B.
Marke Bieschke is the publisher and arts and culture editor of 48 Hills. He co-owns the Stud bar in SoMa. Reach him at marke (at) 48hills.org, follow @supermarke on Twitter.

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