What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS!
Featuring: featuring Jane McGonigal, Saqib Mausoof, Rachel Swirsky
and Simon Sheppard!
Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco
Admission: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC.
Doors open at 6:30 PM
http://www.writerswithdrinks.com/
About the readers/performers:
Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality
games. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Reality is
Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
(Penguin Press, 2011) — and currently serves as the Creative Director
for Social Chocolate, where she is making games powered by the science
of positive emotion and social connection.She currently serves as the
Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the
Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California. She is
the founder of Gameful, "a secret headquarters for worldchanging game
developers." She's ranked at #16 out of the top 20 most engaging TED
talks, and frequently appears on lists of the top innovators to watch
and top creative people in business.
Saqib Mausoof is a Pakistani-American filmmaker. His narrative, Kala
Pul - The Black Bridge, a topical thriller shot on Super 16 in
Karachi, was short listed at the Asian Festival of First Films and won
Best Short at New Jersey Independent Cinefest. He is raising funds on
Kickstarter to make a movie called In Search of Meluhha: The Story of
Mohenjodaro.
Rachel Swirsky's short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, PANK, the
Konundrum Engine Literary Review, the New Haven Review, Weird Tales,
Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among others, and been
collected in Year's Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan
Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She was the founding editor of
Podcastle, an audio fantasy magazine. Her novella "The Lady Who
Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" won the 2010 Nebula
Award, and was nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy awards. Her
novella "A Memory of Wind" was a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Awards
ballot. Her novelette "Eros, Philia, Agape," was nominated for the
Hugo, as well as the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Locus Award, the
storySouth Million Writers Award, and the Tiptree Award. And most
recently, her novelette "Fields of Gold" has been nominated for the
Hugo and Nebula awards.
Proclaimed "our erotica king" by San Francisco magazine, Simon
Sheppard is the editor of Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica, winner of
the Lambda Literary Award, and the author of Hotter Th an Hell and
Other Stories, which won the Erotic Authors Association award. His
other books include In Deep, Sex Parties 101, and Kinkorama:
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion. His work has also been
published in over 300 anthologies, including five editions of The Best
American Erotica and a record number of appearances in the Best Gay
Erotica series.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian
readers' poll six years in a row and was named "Best Literary
Drinking" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead
Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. The spoken word "variety
show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The
award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction,
fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines
and blogs in a freewheeling format.
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