#literary-events

#literary-events

It was the first Wednesday of December and the last One-Page Wednesday of 2025. Hosted by Portland novelist Emme Lund (The Boy with a Bird in His Chest) at the Literary Arts bookstore, the free monthly event is an open mic that functions more like a public writers' group. Students, aspiring writers, and National Book Award-winning authors hang out and read aloud one page from a work in progress.

The Berkeley Public Library Comic Con is back for its third year! Over 30 local artists and vendors will be in attendance, and 11 workshops will be held throughout the day on insights from East Bay BIPOC cartoonists, how artists have worked in large projects such as Star Trek and Marvel, how to make your own zines and comics, and more.

This year's festival promises to deliver a day of literary discussions and presentations from over 200 authors, spanning genres from fiction to nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature.

Organizers have pulled together a really big lineup for the second annual Festival La Onda By BottleRock... the singer-songwriter-guitarist who co-founded Los Bukis in 1975.