Reminder: Radar Litquake Edition at the Luggage Store @ Wed Oct 12 7pm - 8pm (Queer Things)

more details » Radar Litquake Edition at the Luggage Store RADAR's events are supported by California Arts Council, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Friends of the Public Library, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Horizons Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation. Special thanks to Rainbow Grocery for their recent grant which is keeping RADAR's monthly events FREE for antoher year! RADAR @ the LUGGAGE STORE underground + emerging writers, artists + bakers Wednesday, October 12th @ the LUGGAGE STORE Part of LitQuake! with HOT PROBS with MYRIAM GURBA Myriam Gurba gives you advice. Myriam Gurba is a high school teacher who lives in Long Beach, California, home of Snoop Dogg and the Queen Mary. She graduated from UC Berkeley, and her writing has appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Erotica (St. Martin's Press), Bottom's Up (Soft Skull Press),Secrets and Confidence s(Seal Press), and Tough Girls (Black Books) and Life As We Show It: Writing On Film (City Lights). Gurba is the author of Dahlia Season, a collection of short stories and a novella (Manic D Press), and the poetry collection Wish You Were Me (Future Tense Books.) GENNY LIM lives in San Francisco with her two daughters, Colette and Danielle. She is the author of the play, Paper Angels, a bilingual children's book, Wings of Lai Ho, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. Her work is also published in the anthologies: Unbroken Thread: Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women and The Politics of Experience: Four Plays by Asian American Women. SHANNON O'MALLEY w/ YASMIN GOLAN = APOCALYPSE CAKES Shannon O'Malley is an advertising writer and urchin arts enthusiast in San Francisco. She created the first version of her book Apocalypse Cakes in 2008 as a birthday gift for her girlfriend. The original 'zine included 8 photoshopped pages printed at a Kinko's and stapled at Shannon's ad agency. With urging from friends, she continued the project as a blog which gained notice after she posted recipes for Global Jihad Date Cake and Seismic Haitian Mud Cake. She has no previous baking experience. Follow her at www.shannonomalley.com and on Twitter @apocalypsecakes. YASMIN GOLAN is a cook and force behind Queer Food for Love San Francisco. She publishes mini-comics and poetic inquiries. She has been Cartoonist in Residence at the Cartoon Art Museum. K.M. SOEHNLEIN, author of The World of Normal Boys(2000), which won the Lambda Literary Award and has been optioned for film by San Francisco directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (tellingpictures.com), You Can Say You Knew Me When (2005) and his recent follow up to Normal Boys, Robin and Ruby. Recent publications include essays in the anthologies Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up. He teaches creative writing in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of San Francisco (USF). From NYC MASHA TUPITSYN, author of LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009), which was voted one of the best film books of 2009 by Dennis Cooper, January Magazine, Shelf Awareness, and Chicago's New City. She is currently working on a new book of essays on film, Screen to Screen, as well as a book about John Cusack called Star Notes: John Cusack and The Politics of Acting. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in the anthologies Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century (2008) and the Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K (2010), as well as Fandor, Spectre Magazine, BOMB, Indiewire's Press Play, Venus Magazine, Bookforum, Artforum, The Rumpus, Animal Shelter, Fanzine, Make/Shift, NYFA, Fence, Five Fingers Review, and San Francisco's KQED's The Writer's Block. She was recently commissioned to write a radio play for Performa 11, the New Visual Art Performance Biennial in conjunction with Frieze Magazine. From NYC LAURIE WEEKS, author of ZIPPERMOUTH. Whose work has been published all over the UK + USA including the anthologies The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading; The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, and Vice Magazine. Who was a screenwriter on Boys Don't Cry and toured with Sister Spit in the 90s. Who directed Eileen Myles' opera, Hell, and was awarded a fiction fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hosted by Michelle Tea THERE WILL BE CAKE! And cookies for those who submit life problems to be solved by Myriam Gurba. Wednesday, October 12th The LUGGAGE STORE Galley 1007 Market Street @ 6th 7pm Free When Wed Oct 12 7pm – 8pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

Invitation from Google Calendar You are receiving this email at the account queerthingssf@gmail.com because you set a reminder for this event on the calendar Queer Things. You can change your reminders for specific events in the event details page in https://www.google.com/calendar/.