# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Aloud / Out Loud: Candles in the Dark
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm – Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Please join us on Saturday, December 13th! The theme for this Aloud/Out Loud is: Candles in the Dark: Stories for the Holidays

How do we fill our cup when the days are dark and the nights are long? With prosecco and prose! With poems and plumcake! Join us for a night that celebrates resilience and joy with readings from Writers Grotto authors and Rooted & Written alumni. Emceed by Leslie Kirk Campbell

This month's event is co-organized with The Writers Grotto, featuring:
? Ashia Ajani
? Victoria Bañales
? Vanessa Hua
? Janine Kovac
? D'mani Thomas
? Audrey T. Williams

Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature presents writers, poets, and other artists, while giving back to the creative community and to our neighbors. (https://telhilit.org)

Ashia Ajani is a sunshower, a glass bead, a carnivorous plant, an overripe nectarine. Hailing from Denver, CO, Queen City of the Plains and the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapahoe peoples, Ashia is the author of one poetry collection, Heirloom (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023). Their forthcoming nonfiction book, Tending the Vines (Timber Press, 2026), is a kaleidoscope of their work as an eco-griot and abolitionist.

Victoria Bañales is the 2025-2027 Watsonville Poet Laureate. A Chicanx writer, she is the author of the poetry collection, The Sun Will Not Harm You by Day, Nor the Moon by Night, and the founder of Journal X, a social justice literary arts magazine. Her writing has been supported by Hedgebrook, Storyknife, Macondo, and Rooted and Written. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UCSC and teaches composition and creative writing at Cabrillo College.https://www.vickybanales.com/

Vanessa Hua is the author of A River of Stars, Deceit and Other Possibilities, and Forbidden City. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, California Arts Council Fellowship, and a Steinbeck Fellowship. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Previously, she was an award-winning columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Her novel, Coyoteland, and her debut nonfiction, Uprooted, are forthcoming.

Janine Kovac writes about power dynamics and women's bodies. Before turning to writing, she enjoyed a 12-year career as a professional ballet dancer in Iceland, Italy, San Francisco, and in her hometown of El Paso, Texas. Her books include Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home and The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir. Janine was the 2021 recipient of the Calderwood Fellowship for Journalism from MacDowell and is a MacDowell fellow. She lives in Oakland with her family. Read more at janinekovac.com

D'mani Thomas (he \ they) is a writer, and creative from Oakland, California (Ohlone territory). Their work currently explores surveillance and intimacy within a history of mass surveillance in America. His work can be found in Muzzle Magazine, The Shade Journal, Oroboro Lit Journal, KALW 91.7 FM, The Auburn Avenue, and elsewhere. Outside of poetry, catch them studying horror movies, dancing, and eating too many fries.

Audrey T. Williams, MFA is a Southern Black Poet and Writer with Indo-Burmese heritage whose work appears in FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Space & Time Magazine, and Lightspeed Magazine. She is Co-Chair for the 2026 World Fantasy Convention in Oakland and teaches “Poetry for Wellness.” Her debut poetry book, “Attending Sorrow: Poems & Writing Prompts for Living with Grief” releases December 2025. Website: AncestralFutures.org​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The Writers Grotto is a community of working writers and narrative artists who connect in physical and virtual space, pooling their talents to support each other, mentor and teach others, and engage the wider world. The Grotto fosters a literary culture that is generous in spirit and deeply inclusive, elevating writers of all backgrounds. Rooted and Written, sponsored by The Writers Grotto, is the first tuition-free professional creative writing program offered for BIPOC writers in the USA.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/san-francisco/aloud-out-loud-candles-in-the-dark/200029353368822
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, health-wellness, entertainment, holiday
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 29

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: San Francisco
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1501 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94133
- **lat**: 37.80079
- **long**: -122.40774
- **full address**: 1501 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94133

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Aloud / Out Loud: Candles in the Dark being held?
  - **A:** Aloud / Out Loud: Candles in the Dark takes place on Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm at 1501 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94133.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Aloud / Out Loud: Candles in the Dark?
  - **A:** Aloud / Out Loud: Candles in the Dark is organized by Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Aloud / Out Loud: Candles in the Dark is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in San Francisco, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Aloud / Out Loud: Candles in the Dark sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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