Lit Crawl Sebastopol 2025: Full Schedule

Lit Crawl Sebastopol is a project of SebArts and The Litquake Foundation. San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival runs October 9-25, 2025, with affiliated Lit Crawls across the United States and around the world.

2:00pm PDT

SebArts Writers Salon

Saturday May 17, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Silk Moon

Our group is composed of Sonoma County writers who attend the SebArts Writers Salon.
Our mission is to offer writers a place of support and goodwill to read and critique their work.

Speakers

Brian Martens

Owner, brianrmartens.com

Brian R Martens has always been a poet, his first book Three Raven Gate, (2019) consists of Haiku and other favorite poems. His second manuscript is Merlin’s Wing. His podcast is The Spoken Symbol. He has a Masters in Organization Development. He offers workshops on Myth/Ancient... Read More →

Chuck Kensler

Owner, Sundawg Ridge Vineyard

Chuck Kensler is an award-winning author, storyteller, and infrequent actor. His short stories and essays have appeared in literary journals, newspapers, on stage, and radio. Many of his stories are based on Lakota Sioux oral traditions. He received the Ellen Meloy Scholarship Award... Read More →

Linda Loveland Reid

Linda Loveland Reid …Is Past President of Redwood Writers, an author of two novels available on Amazon, and a Jack London Awardee. Her essays, poems and prose appear in over 30 publications. Linda teaches art history for SSU and Dominican Universities in the Osher Lifelong Learning... Read More →

Susan E. Gunter

Susan E. Gunter, Ph.D.,,, is a Professor of English Emerita. Her poems are published in journals in America, Bulgaria, England, Montenegro, and Sweden. Her poetry reviews have appeared in many journals. Her biography of William James’s wife Alice, Alice in Jamesland, received an... Read More →

Kim Winter

Kim Winter earned her M.F.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a BA in Art at Humboldt State University, Arcata, Ca. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.Kim is an artist and has won several awards and is on the Sebastopol Center... Read More →

Gary Weiner

Gary Weiner has been writing, playing, singing and recording music since fourth grade. He recorded Released at Last, a full-length album with the aid of master musicians including Nina Gerber for his 70th birthday. The album release was held at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts to... Read More →

Sheila Jones

Originally from NYC, Sheila spent her younger years in Music, art, and writing. A member of “The Group Image Ent. Inc.”, she was the singer in “The GI Band. 1968 released “A Mouth In the Clouds” on Community Records. Since 1969, She spent many years in Mexico and California... Read More →

Elizabeth Denison

Elizabeth Denison is an emerging poet and author, currently working on her memoir, Woman Walking in Two Worlds. An elder, horsewoman, yogini, therapeutic energy worker, nature enthusiast and fabric artist, her passion is weaving words to unite the visible and invisible worlds. Her... Read More →

Corinne Asturias

Corinne Asturias is a former teacher, journalist and cultural anthropologist living in Sebastopol who is fascinated by the interconnectedness of humans, the animal kingdom and the natural world.

Judith Hardenbrook

Now in her 70s, Judith Hardenbrook was raised on the east coast in an artistic family. She is a self taught fine artist, gardener and traveler. She lived in Maine and now California wine country is home. This year she was inspired to write poems, generally on the light side. Judith... Read More →

Sarah Paris

Sarah Paris is a Swiss-American poet, writer, photographer, editor, and former journalist.She is the author of two novellas, The Hermit, and The Traveler (as Chris Solano); Waywards, a collection of short stories; and the German-language novel Ahnenbeschwörung, published in Switzerland... Read More →

Gabriela Vannier

Gabriela Vannier’s work has appeared in several publications. She draws inspiration from authors such as Jeannette Walls and Mary Karr, appreciating their candid and vulnerable storytelling. Ms. Vannier is currently working on a memoir and a collection of poetry and short stori... Read More →

Judith Vaughn

Judith Vaughn lives in Sonoma with Tim, her husband, and Louie, their Catahoula puppy. She has been published in several on-line literary journals and print anthologies, most recently Reverberations 3 – A Visual Conversation, 2024. Poetry, like food and drink, sustain her; but her... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Silk Moon 195 N Main St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Arts Organizations

3:30pm PDT

California Poets in the Schools Comes to Lit Crawl Sebastopol

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT

Silk Moon

We're a group of poet-teachers with California Poets in the Schools (aka CalPoets) who want to break out of the classroom and share some of our own original poetry at Lit Crawl Sebastopol. We’ll be joined by the Sonoma County Youth Poet Laureate, and hopefully some other student poets who will read their poetry! California Poets in the Schools develops and empowers a multicultural network of independent Poet-Teachers, who bring the many benefits of poetry to youth throughout the state. (From the mission statement; https://www.californiapoets.org)

Speakers

Brian Martens

Owner, brianrmartens.com

Pamela Michael

Pamela Michael has been teaching poetry and writing for over thirty years. She is the co-founder, with Robert Hass, of the award-winning international youth poetry and art program, River of Words.

Lisa Shulman

Lisa Shulman is a poet, children’s book author, and teacher. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Verse News, ONE ART, Poetry Breakfast, Catamaran, Minnow Literary Magazine, California Quarterly, The Best Small Fictions, and a number of other journals and anthologies... Read More →

Margo Perin

Margo Perin’s book publications include Plexiglass; The Opposite of Hollywood; Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail; and How I Learned to Cook & Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships. Her poetry has been anthologized in numerous anthologies. She is the poet... Read More →

Elizabeth Bennett

Poet-teacher, California Poets in the Schools

Elizabeth Bennett taught high school English for 20 years, and ESL at Sonoma State for 12. She has been published in short story and poetry contests, and in the Redwood Writers 2021 Poetry Anthology, Beyond Distance. The Price of Saffron is her third chapbook, published in 2024. Since... Read More →

Lisa Zheng

Lisa Zheng is the Sonoma County Youth Poet Laureate for 2024-2025.

Chelsea Wills

Chelsea Wills is an artist, writer, and educator based in Northern California. The Home of Milk, her recent chapbook, was released by Bottlecap Press in 2024. Her art has been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Art, Kala Art Institute, and more. She is currently... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Silk Moon 195 N Main St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Arts Organizations

3:30pm PDT

Stacks & Stories: Sonoma County Library Staff Share Their Craft

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT

Goldfinch

By day, we navigate the world of information, helping readers find the perfect story. By night, we craft our own. Join our team of library professionals—who are also writers—as we step out of the library and into the spotlight to share our original work. After the reading, we'll host a Q&A and introduce a few writing-related library resources to support your own creative journey. Come for the stories, stay for the library insider tips!

Speakers

Bridget Hayes

Digital Literacy Specialist, Sonoma County Library

Bridget Hayes is a tech librarian and educator who specializes in helping people overcome their fear of technology. Most of her writing can be found funambulating between flash fiction and prose poetry. She loves hiking, books, traveling, tropical fruit, and wildflowers.

Terra Emerson

Teen Services Librarian, Sonoma County Library

Terra Emerson (she/her) is an emerging poet who grew up among the oak trees and manzanita of Mendocino County. As a Teen Services Librarian she gets to witness the brilliance of young people every day. Her work has been published in Ink & Marrow and Rise Up Review.

Joyce Johnson

Shelver, Sonoma County Library

Joyce Johnson PhD is a Shelver at the Sebastopol Library.  For many years she taught Sociology at SSU and SRJC, where she retired as head of the discipline. Since then, she’s driven Meals on Wheels, owned a corgi, rooted for the Warriors, learned how to weave, and been working... Read More →

Simone Kremkau

Librarian, Sonoma County Library

Simone Kremkau, a librarian at the Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library, spends her days organizing knowledge and making local history accessible to all. With countless stories following her home, she cannot resist weaving past tales into present-day fiction, as though they are... Read More →

Luis Vasquez (Lalin)

Lalin has been at Sonoma County library for the past 7 years and his hometown is Guerneville.

Lars Rosager

Lars Rosager works at the Petaluma branch of the Sonoma County Library, and is active locally and online in education, music, and language arts. Currently, Lars's primary writing efforts are lyric poetry and commentary for a biweekly radio show. His inspirations often stem from the... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Goldfinch 119 S Main St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Arts Organizations