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Coming Fall 2026!
Shell Shaker: 25th Anniversary Edition
For twenty-five years, Shell Shaker has told a story that refuses erasure—where history speaks, women lead, and the past is never finished.
This special 25th anniversary edition features an critical introduction by scholar Kirstin L. Squint.
American Indian Stories & The Language of String
Brought together across time and form, American Indian Stories & The Language of String braids mixed genres and mixed Indigenous identity into an ongoing exchange between Yankton Dakota writer and activist Zitkala-Ša and leading contemporary Native poet and beadwork artist Kim Shuck.
Centro Cultural de la Raza Celebrates the Legacy of
Norma Alarcón
On Saturday, October 3rd, 2026, 10:30 am to 1 pm PT, Centro Cultural de la Raza Celebrates the Legacy of Maestra Norma Alarcón.
Join for a book presentation on "Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)" and a Roundtable Plática with Special Guests: Norma Cantú, Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Cherrié Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, and Marcelle Maese.
Join in-person at Centro Cultural de la Raza or via livestream via Centro Cultural de la Raza's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@centrocultural4603
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Bay Area Book Festival Boo-k Fair
Join Aunt Lute Books at the Bay Area Boo-k Fair!
When: Saturday, October 24, 2026, 2-4 pm
Where: Two Pitchers Brewery, 2344 Webster St., Oakland, CA
A book fair where all books are scary from chilling nonfiction to frightening fiction. You can find it all at the Boo-k Fair: Bay Area Book Fest's Halloween Indie Press Fair.
The fair will feature 15 indie presses with specialty curated scary stock, a meetup by the silent book club, and a book swap table where you can leave a scary book to take a scary book. Come have a beer, hot toddy, burgers, find books to keep you company through the spooky season, and enjoy the bookish community on a perfect fall day in the Bay!
Refusing Erasure: Indigenous Women, Memory, and the Future of Story
When: Friday, November 13, 2026, 6 PM - 8 PM
Where: Brava! for Women in the Arts, 2782 24th St., San Francisco, CA
In partnership with Cosecha Collective, this panel and reading will focus on how Indigenous writers, LeAnne Howe (Shell Shaker), Kim Shuck (American Indian Stories and the Language of String), and Gwendolyn Paradice (The Divining Season), preserve suppressed histories while creating future-facing literary forms.
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Native Women Speaking for Ourselves
When: Saturday, November 14, 2026, 2-4 PM
Where: Glen Park Branch Library, 2825 Diamond St., San Francisco, CA 94134
Please join us for this free workshop: Native Women Speaking for Ourselves.
Limited to 24 participants.
Why is it important that Native women speak for ourselves? Because it isn't always what happens. Why not? Imposed narratives of our lives have real consequences: some of our identities are not allowed, we feel the pressure to not be authentic, to perform to expectations; we have the constant threat to life and health, both emotional and physical. Now try to make art of any kind. What are we doing to counteract? It's not just about indigeneity, not just about women, but also about having a self that is useful to a community, then having a self that is useful to self. In this workshop, we will generate new writing inspired by these issues and the Indigenous works of LeAnne Howe, Kim Shuck, and Gwendolyn Paradice.
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