An outdoor day of readings on the Yerba Buena lawn curated by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ writers, running alongside a book fair of Bay Area presses and booksellers including City Lights, with live music between sets.
Free, all ages, outdoors, and one of the easiest ways into the Litquake festival if you have never been.
Getting There
- MYerba Buena/Moscone Station SouthboundMuni Metro T · 0.2 mi, about 4 min walk
- MMarket St & 4th StF Market & Wharves streetcar · 0.2 mi, about 5 min walk
- BPowell Street BART0.3 mi, about 7 min walk
Transit directions, including buses
Nearest Muni Metro, streetcar and cable car stops and BART stations, from SFMTA and BART published stop data. Distances are straight-line, and walking times are our estimate. Buses aren’t listed here.
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More in SoMa
Coming up Nearby
- YBG Dance Day Sun, Oct 11 · Yerba Buena Gardens
- Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration Mon, Oct 12 · Yerba Buena Gardens
- Richard Howell’s John Coltrane Tribute at Yerba Buena Gardens Thu, Oct 15 · Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens
- Joe Bataan at Yerba Buena Gardens Sat, Oct 17 · Yerba Buena Gardens
Places in the Neighborhood
- Asian Art Museum Museums
- Berggruen Gallery Art Galleries
- Children’s Creativity Museum Museums
- SFMOMA Museums
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Getting there by Muni
Nearest BART: Powell Street, about 5 min walk.
Straight-line distance from the venue; check SFMTA for times and service changes. From our Events by Muni data, October 1, 2026.
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Cite this page: Project SF, “Litquake Out Loud + Book Fair”, projectsf.com/events/litquake-out-loud-book-fair/ (updated ).