Let’s Eat! Decolonizing Diets
Sara Calvosa Olson is a food writer and editor exploring the intersections of storytelling, Indigenous food systems, security, sovereignty, reconnection, and recipe development. Olson’s maternal ancestry is from the Karuk tribe whose lands…
My Body, My Desire: Sexuality, Desire, and Queerness in Literature
Join us for a captivating panel discussion moderated by author Lucy Jane Bledsoe (author of Tell the Rest and No Stopping Us Now) and featuring three acclaimed writers—R.O. Kwon, Brontez Purnell, and Sam Sax—as they delve into the rich and…
Black Women: Reclaiming our Legacies and Futures
This panel centers the throughlines of Black women’s lives—past, present, and future—through the multidisciplinary lenses of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. In the nonfiction realm, Maryemma Graham’s The House Where My Soul Lives: The…
Climate Poetry Across Generations: An Inspirational Reading
June Jordan said poetry saves lives. Can it fortify the movement to save our planet? Come hear poetic visions of hope and resistance from a diverse, intergenerational lineup of dynamic authors, educators, and organizers. Readers include award-winning…
Behind You Is the Sea: Stories and Visions for a Just Peace in Palestine
Three panelists–Palestinian and Jewish–have written about Palestine from vastly different perspectives and across different genres. Susan Muaddi Darraj’s debut novel, Behind You Is the Sea, gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian…
Climate Fiction as a Tool for Climate Justice
Climate fiction is a unique way to approach the climate crisis through both real and imagined endings and beginnings. This panel, moderated by author and activist Keya Chatterjee, explores why writers are drawn to climate fiction (Cli-Fi), and…
First Person Plural: Poets Speaking for Self and Community in Poetry and Memoir
Come hear some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic poets with new collections of poetry and memoir. Panelists include Brontez Purnell, whose Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt is a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in genre-defying verse;…
Let Me Count the Ways: Love Stories for Real Readers
Join an engaging discussion on the art of crafting love stories with a diverse panel of acclaimed authors, whether their novels are shelved with literary fiction or romance. Panelists A.H. Kim (Relative Strangers, a contemporary Korean retelling…
Memoir and Imagination: Where Truth and Creativity Collide
Moderated by Piper Kerman (Orange Is the New Black), four panelists share their process and experience of memoir as the telling of a true story, but also as a work of imagination. Our esteemed panelists, Grace Prasad (The Translator’s Daughter),…
Immigration Narratives: Expansive Genres, Expansive Identities
Immigrant narratives span time, place, and genre to reach deeper universal truths. Four writers join in conversation to explore the many facets of immigrant narratives. Migration and immigration narratives are foundational to how we understand…