“Rather it was the specter of writing and literature — literature! — transforming an ordinary Saturday night in the neighborhood into a carnival of sorts. Up and down Valencia Street, crowds overflowed out of open doorways, and between readings, people hustled from one event to another or gathered on street corners clutching red Lit Crawl maps like participants in a mammoth scavenger hunt.”
– New York Times
On the heels of San Francisco’s wildly successful Lit Crawl, first inaugurated in 2002, Litquake’s New York version debuted in 2008, and quickly attracted a rabid audience of lit fans who flock to the East Village and Lower East Side to attend one or more of 15-plus free literary events that take place over the course of three hours, followed by a blow-out afterparty. Litquake’s Lit Crawl allows a group of literary-minded organizations to curate their own events-within-an-event, creating a literary melting pot of epic proportions. NYC attendance in 2010 was 800. Attendance for Litquake’s 2010 SF crawl – a 50-venue finale of a nine-day yearly literary festival with more than 14,000 audience members – reached more than 5,300.
Fast Facts
- Lit Crawl NYC is promoted heavily in social media, printed bookmarks and programs, e-newsletters, and press releases.
- Press coverage thus far has included Vanity Fair, TONY, and New York Magazine, as well as listing coverage in the New Yorker.
- Lit Crawl NYC curating organizations have included: Paris Review, Granta, Open City, Fence, Harper Perennial, FSG, Muumuu House, BOMB Magazine, YourTango, Gigantic Magazine, New York Tyrant Magazine, Opium Magazine, WORD Bookstore, and more.
- Sponsors have included Granta and HarperPerennial.
A Lit Crawl sponsorship can consist of cash sponsorship, media and promotional offers, mailing list exchange, or products and services. To tailor a sponsorship that will work for you business objectives, please contact Lit Crawl NYC Coordinator Suzanne Russo at suzanne@litcrawl.org or 510-396-0883.
