🌟 Unsolicited Press Takes on Lit Crawl Sebastopol! 🌟
Catch us lighting up the stage at Lit Crawl Sebastopol, a satellite event of San Francisco’s iconic Litquake literary festival (running Oct 9–25, 2025)! We’re rolling in deep with five fierce Bay Area voices who are reshaping the literary landscape with short fiction, poetry, and straight-up brilliance.
✨ Meet the Crew:
📚 Sommer Schafer – Senior Editor at The Forge, Best American Short Stories honoree, and author of THE WOMEN (2023).
📚 Patricia Q. Bidar – A third-gen Bay Area native bringing her bold debut Pardon Me for Moonwalking this fall.
📚 LeeAnn Pickrell – Poet of Gathering the Pieces of Days (2025) and Punctuated, she threads the personal and the poetic with precision.
📚 Kerry Donoghue – A Poets & Writers publicity cohort alum with MOUTH, her voice stuns in journals nationwide.
📚 Terry Tierney – Prolific poet/novelist of Why Trees Stay Outside (2024) and The Bridge on Beer River. Grotto member. Literary legend.
We’re more than just a reading—we’re a full-on literary experience. Join us for conversation, craft, and community as we dig into what it means to write from and for the Bay Area. One of us calls the North Bay home. One’s story sings of Sonoma. The rest rep the East Bay and Pacifica. Bottom line: This is homegrown lit at its best.
📍 SebArts + The Litquake Foundation = Lit Crawl Sebastopol
📚 Unsolicited Press = Women-owned, fiercely independent, and Portland-based—but our writers? 100% Bay magic.
Come vibe with us: https://litcrawlsebastopol2025.sched.com/event/20DKg/unsolicited-press-presents
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