Coming up: InsideStorytime STUBBORNNESS AND SPLENDOR at Cafe Royale on Thursday March 15^th, 6.30 - 8.30 pm, with Carolyn Cooke (Daughters of the Revolution), Yanina Gotsulsky (The Speed of Life), Lauren Becker (Shut Up/ Look Pretty), David Booth, and Nancy Au.

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Some other San Francisco Bay Area literary events:

5-Minute Volunteer Reading Series

Artifact

Babble-On

Babylon Salon

Bang Out

Barbershop Reading Series

Center for the Art of Translation Lit&Lunch

Clattering Loom

DubLit

Ecstatic Monkey

East Bay on the Brain

Grotto Nights

Lip Service West

LiteraryDeathMatch

Litquake

LitUp Writers

Moe's Literary Events

Porchlight

Portuguese Artists Colony

Progressive Reading Series

Queer Open Mic

Quiet Lightning

Rebel Reading Series

SF in SF

Stanford Creative Writing Program Events

Tenderloin Reading Series

Why There Are Words

Writers With Drinks

Past InsideStoryTimes have featured authors Marta Acosta, Rabih Alameddine, Daniel Alarcón, Michael Alenyikov, Steve Almond, Andrew Altschul, Anita Amirrezvani, Charlie Anders, Jen Burke Anderson, Jodi Angel, Tamim Ansary, Jaynel Attolini, Wagner James Au, Sona Avakian, W. Ross Ayers, judy b., Peter Beagle, Sean Beaudoin, Lauren Becker, Aimee Bender, Larry Beresford, Holger Berndt, Elizabeth Bernstein, Chaim Bertman, Terry Bisson, Karen Bjorneby, Alan Black, Cara Black, Lucy Bledsoe, Ryan Blitstein, Jennifer Blowdryer, Michael Boehm, Jack Boulware, Melodie Bowsher, Catherine Brady, Rob Brezsny, Kiara Brinkman, Darrend Brown, Murray Brozinsky, Judy Budnitz, Robin Burcell, Robert Burton, Colby Buzzell, Goodloe Byron, Aneesha Capur, Chris Carlsson, Nona Caspers, Marty Castleberg, Joe Cervelin, Christy Chan, Ravi Chandra, Angie Chau, Rajshree Chauhan, Jimmy Chen, Justin Chin, M. Christian, Greta Christina, David Ira Cleary, Craig Clevenger, Mark Coggins, Chris Cole, Paul Corman-Roberts, Christine Comaford-Lynch, Sean Patrick Conlon, David Corbett, Lucy Corin, Elizabeth Costello, Les Cowan, Timothy Crandle, Mojie Crigler, Ann Cummins, Blag Dahlia, Jasmin Darznik, Joshua Davis, Patricia Volonakis Davis, Matthew James DeCoster, Nick Denney, Michael Disend, Jim Dodge, Andrea Drugay, Andrew Dugas, Tony DuShane, Helena Echlin, Robin Ekiss, Stephen Elliott, Cindy Emch, Ammi Emergency, Maria Espinosa, Paul Festa, Anne Finger, Eliot Fintushel, Rodes Fishburne, Sandy Florian, Heather Fowler, Thaisa Frank, Laura Fraser, Jake Fuchs, Michelle Gagnon, Jane Ganahl, Jesus Angel Garcia, Tanya Egan Gibson, Kim Gill, David Gleeson, Gravity Goldberg, Stan Goldberg, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Cassandra Gorgeous, Yanina Gotsulsky, Daphne Gottlieb, Julie Graham, Genie Gratto, Austin Grossman, Stephen Gutierrez, Carrie Hall, Tissa Hami, Daniel Handler, Terry Sue Harms, Stephanie Harrell, Seth Harwood, Daniel Heath, Cameron Heffernan, Paula Hendricks, Luke Heyerman, Skip Horack, Rachel Howard, Alta Ifland, Matthew Iribarne, Noria Jablonski, Julia Jackson, Manuel Jimenez, Adam Johnson, Maisha Z Johnson, Justin Jones, Persis Karim, Evan Karp, Alan Kaufman, Tim Kay, Jonathon Keats, Kim Wong Keltner, Stephen Kessler, Sean Kim, Taelur Kim, Jeff Kirschner, Ellen Klages, Elizabeth Koch, Lee Konstantinou, Stephanie Kuehnert, Allison Landa, Scott Landers, Joel Landmine, Jennifer Lee, Frances Lefkowitz, Ian Lendler, Genine Lentine, L. E. Leone, Scott Lettieri, Robin Coste Lewis, Yiyun Li, D.W. Lichtenberg, Ali Liebegott, Paul Linde, Beth Lisick, Sophie Littlefield, Sybil Lockhart, Regina Louise, Li Miao Lovett, Jacqueline Luckett, Michael David Lukas, Erick Lyle, Kathryn Ma, Ivory Madison, Shana Mahaffey, Erika Mailman, Tim Maleeny, Adam Mansbach, Anna Mantzaris, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Anne Marino, Chelsea Martin, R. J. Martin, Saqib Mausoof, Sharon May, Ethel Mays, Michael McAllister, Miranda F. Mellis, Wendy Merrill, Ethan Michaels, Midori, Lydia Millet, Emily Mitchell, Joshua Mohr, Hyla Molander, Lady Monster, Diana Morgaine, Kate Moses, Eddie Muller, Aífe Murray, Caitlin Myer, Louise Nayer, Ebede Ndi, Mitzi Ngim, Nicholas Nicastro, Jim Nisbet, Cornelia Nixon, Monica Nolan, Mary Van Note, Juliet November, Dawn Oberg, Alvin Orloff, Peter Orner, Lori Ostlund, Beverly Parayno, Shahrnush Parsipur, Raj Patel, Holly Payne, Hank Pellissier, Whitney Phaneuf, Alex Fokas, Roger Pinnell, Meg Pokrass, Frank Portman, Tim Pratt, Mark Pritchard, Peg Alford Pursell, Carol Queen, Joe Quirk, Anne Raeff, Andy Raskin, Kirk Read, Ishmael Reed, Michelle Richmond, Suzanne Rivecca, Jenesha de Rivera, Jason Roberts, Scott Roberts, Linda Robertson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karisma Rodriguez, Ethel Rohan, Jarret Rosenblatt, Elizabeth Rosner, Vanitha Sankaran, Rachel Sarah, Mark Sarvas, Ron Saxen, Darieck Scott, Kemble Scott, Lori Selke, Shanthi Sekaran, Mahbod Seraji, Justine Sharrock, R. L. Shattuck, Susan Shea, Michael Sheahan, Moazzam Sheikh, Simon Sheppard, John Shirley, Laura Shumaker, Holly Shumas, Benjamin Bac Sierra, Julia Flynn Siler, April Sinclair, Jesse Singer, Bucky Sinister, Gordy Slack, Sharon Sobotta, K. M. Soehnlein, Jennifer Solow, John Somerville, Mary Stein, Ransom Stephens, David Henry Sterry, Matt Stewart, Christina Sunley, Matt Bernstein Sycamore a.k.a. Mattilda, Sean Taylor, Cary Tennis, Meghan Thornton, Na'amen Tilahun, Thy Tran, Claire Tristram, Gary Turchin, Cameron Tuttle, Ian Tuttle, Aimee Valentine, Vauhini Vara, Alia Volz, Ayelet Waldman, Townsend Walker, Genanne Walsh, Annie Wang, Meghan Ward, Malena Watrous, Jillian Weise, Barry Willdorf, James Williams, Maw Shein Win, Lolly Winston, Ali Wong, Kenton K. Yee, John Yi, Chun Yu, Zarina Zabrisky, Katayoon Zandvakili, Matthew Zapruder, Olga Zilberbourg, Salvatore Zoida, and Todd Zuniga.

Produced by James Warner with Ransom Stephens and Yanina Gotsulsky, In our inaugural year, InsideStoryTime was voted SF Weekly BEST NEW READING SERIES 2006. A fun, cosy event where you can booze and schmooze with the San Francisco literati.

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