STIR: Author Reading with The Fabulist

STIR: Seasonal Readings South of Market celebrates a year of FREE literary readings on July 2 at Cafe Suspiro and Arc Gallery at 1246 Folsom Street in San Francisco. 

For our one-year anniversary reading (and our second Foggy Season event), we’re thrilled to present live readings and performance by a stellar lineup of Bay Area talent that spans generations, cultures, genres and styles, featuring memoirist and short fiction artist Swetha Amit, speculative literature talent Eboni J. Dunbar, multi-award-winning novelist and fantasist Lisa Goldstein, and performance artist, comedy writer and dramaturg Edna Mira Raia. 

STIR is hosted by T.K. Rex (The Wildcraft Drones, Stelliform Press, 2026), and Josh Wilson (editor, The Fabulist Magazine). 

Our FREE July 2 reading will also include a panel discussion and audience Q&A about “foggy season” and storytelling as wayfinding and truth-telling in a time of dog whistles, disinformation, the fog of war, and mass-media spin. Our readers will discuss how their work in creative writing, humor, fantasy and speculative fiction, and performance offers both escape and clarity about the world we live in. 

On July 2, stop by Cafe Suspiro from 5-6 p.m. for coffee and vibes, and then join the hosts and authors at Arc Gallery next door from 6pm to 8pm for an evening of local literary adventure in the thriving SoMa West/Folsom Corridor neighborhood — a longtime home to after-hours art, literary happenings, music and performance. STIR now joins SoMa Nights, new cafes and restaurants, and a resurgent arts and nightlife scene as part of SoMa West’s post-pandemic flowering.