Featuring readings by Katie Flynn, Cynthia Gomez, Nick Mamatas, LeeAnn Perry, and Khan Wong, and a panel and audience Q&A moderated by Josh Wilson.
WHEN? Lit Crawl Phase II: Saturday, October 25, 6:30p.m.
WHERE? The Latin America Club, 3286-22nd St. (between Mission & Valencia)
WHAT? Dark dreams of empire and oppression grow from seeds of lies, fear, greed, cruelty, supremacy and folly. Oppression starts in the mind, and it’s there that the first lines of resistance are drawn. Not all dreams are good dreams, but we can meet the imperial, authoritarian and fascist imagination with will, hope, truth-telling, and the vision to resist, overthrow, restore, and build something new and better.
WHO?
Katie M. Flynn is a writer, editor, and educator based in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and Tor.com, among other publications. She’s been awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her first novel, The Companions, came out in March 2020, and opens during a prolonged quarantine where the living can’t go out, but the dead can come in as companions. Her interlinked collection of short stories, Island Rule, is out now from Gallery Books. https://www.katiemflynn.com/
Cynthia Gómez’s debut horror collection, The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, was released by Cursed Morsels Press in Summer 2024. It’s very Latine, pro-queer, ACAB, and rooted in her home in Oakland. She has published/will publish 20 stories in places like Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Tree and Stone, The Cosmic Background, and numerous anthologies. She has a special love for themes of revenge, retribution, and resistance to oppression, and loves to write dark and frightening things while cuddling with her shadow, aka her adorable little dog. https://cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including I Am Providence and The Second Shooter. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com and many other venues. Much of it was recently collected in The People’s Republic of Everything. Nick is also an anthologist; his work includes The Future is Japanese, Phantasm Japan, and Hanzai Japan, all co-edited with Masumi Washington. He also writes Short Reviews of Short Books — 500-word reviews of books 300 pages or less — for The Fabulist Magazine. https://nick-mamatas.com/
LeeAnn Perry (she/they) is a scientist, musician, and writer living in San Francisco. She has an MSc in neuroscience from Stanford University, and is currently working at the intersection of microbiomics and precision health. LeeAnn is a classically-trained pianist, and has been producing experimental ambient and dark left-field dance music since 2016, as Verdun 1916, as XXU, and part of the duo XXU & UXX. Her writing practice uses speculative fiction and unconventional narrative modes to imagine alternative futures, elicit raw emotion, and explore the intersection of technology and humanity. Her influences and interests include identity, gender and sexuality, cyberpunk, machine learning, neuroscience, spirituality, psychedelics, witchcraft, subculture, music, and atypical modalities of sensing, feeling, and being. https://lnpry.space
Khan Wong has a past as poet, cellist, arts funder, and internationally known hula hooper. He is the author of The Circus Infinite, longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association’s Best Novel, and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His second novel, Down in the Sea of Angels, was published in April 2025. He writes speculative fiction, lives in San Francisco, and is a full-time bohemian weirdo. https://khanwong.com
MODERATOR: Josh Wilson
Josh is an editor, journalist and writer in San Francisco, and publisher of The Fabulist Magazine, a home to fantastical fiction and art in print and digital editions. Stories published in The Fabulist have been finalists for the Pushcart Prize and the Shirley Jackson Awards. He is a recipient of the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, and founder of the 501(c)3 organization Independent Arts & Media.
A PANEL AND AUDIENCE Q&A ON OUR EVENING’S THEME WILL FOLLOW THE READINGS
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