Radar Productions

Hi Readers!

I created RADAR Productions in 2003 as a place to house the underground queer literary programming I’d been engaged in for a solid decade. At RADAR, reading series, international performance tours and book parties all come together and spawn ever-more ambitious projects such as publishing imprints, poetry contests and writers’ retreats. Connecting queer and marginalized writers with each other and with a larger audience has long been my passion, and it is beyond rewarding to spend my days thinking up new ways to champion the writing and writers I believe in. I’ve always sought to learn about myself and the larger world through literature; as I came to know myself as queer I became increasingly distraught about the absence of queer, feminist, working-class and other marginalized experiences on the bookshelves. Not only does supporting outsider literature provide life-affirming and sustaining validation for the people whose stories it tells, it serves the larger culture by introducing new realities to readers hungry for writing that expresses a diversity of truths. I love serving writers and am so grateful that RADAR has given me a platform to do just that!

xoxo,

 

Michelle Tea

Executive Director

RADAR Productions

 

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WHO WE ARE

RADAR Productions is a San Francisco-based non-profit that produces literary happenings around the Bay Area and beyond. 

Founded in 2003 by writer Michelle Tea, RADAR conducts presenting, commissioning, professional development and touring programs that stimulate the production of queer and underground literature and heighten San Francisco’s reputation as a national literary center.

WHAT WE DO

-Monthly RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library

-Annual Sister Spit literary performance tour

-Eli Coppola Memorial Poetry Chapbook Prize

-Commissions of new work

-The Lab, an annual free retreat for RADAR’s writers and artists

-Sister Spit Publishing imprint in collaboration with City Lights Books

-The Valencia movie project