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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.