Current Projects & Programs

Podcast is up!

We have launched Our Stories, an ongoing news podcast in collaboration with Coastside News (publishers of the Half Moon Bay Review and Pacifica Tribune) and the KHMB Community Radio station.

Listen now!

Crowd-sourced Coastside Poetry publication is out!

Hundreds of people contributed their thoughts and words to a poetry project at the Make It Main Street event–and the resulting prose poems reflecting the spirit and beauty of the Coastside have now been published.

Posters on a glass door announcing a community event called 'Make Main Street Speakers' Space' with sticky notes and handwritten messages for people to write and read their thoughts. Inside the building, a wooden floor and some plants are visible.

Two women engaged in a conversation in front of a grand piano on a stage.

Our first play was produced!

We underwrote an independent theater project, a staged reading of a play that follows up on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, by asking and answering the question: What happens after Nora walks out the door at the end of Ibsen’s play? It’s called A Doll’s House, Part II, written by Lucas Hnath, performed in March 2025 at the Piano Palace, directed and produced by Elise Gasper of Half Moon Bay.

We launched Speakers’ Space!

We helped sponsor the monthly Make It Main Street event in downtown Half Moon Bay, in part by contributing to the Speakers’ Space – a community forum for prose, poetry and performance art in Half Moon Bay.

A young woman reads a book aloud to an audience sitting in a cozy, well-lit bookstore or library with bookshelves filled with books behind her.

Coastal Literary Arts Movement (“Coastal Lit,” sometimes “CLAM”) is a California 501(c)(3) registered charity with the IRS and state of California. All donations to us are deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

Have questions? Please contact us:
coastlit@gmail.com

Mailing Address: PO Box 3557, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019