Reminder: Writers With Drinks at the Make Out Room @ Sat Nov 12 7:30pm - 9:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Writers With Drinks at the Make Out Room Date: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS Featuring: Cecil Castellucci, Tsaurah Litzky, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Alvin Orloff and Samhita Mukhopadhyay! Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco Admission: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture About the readers/performers: Cecil Castellucci's latest novel is The Last Day on Earth. Her other books include Boy Proof , The Queen of Cool and Beige all on Candlewick Press and Rose Sees Red on Scholastic Press. Her first Graphic Novel The Plain Janes launched the DC Comics Minx imprint and she was awarded the 2007 Shuster Award for best Canadian Comic Book Writer. It was followed up by the sequel Janes in Love. Her first Picture Book, Grandma's Gloves won the California Book Award Gold Medal for juvenile literature. She also co-edited the book Geektastic, with Holly Black. 2012 brings a new hybrid YA novel The Year of the Beasts illustrated by Nate Powell. Forthcoming in 2013 book for young readers, Odd Duck, illustrated by Sara Varon, and The Tin Star, book one in a new Sci Fi series. Tsaurah Litzky's erotic novella, The Motion Of The Ocean, was published by Simon & Schuster as part of Three The Hard Way, a series of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright. Baby On the Water - New and Selected Poems (1990-2003), was published by Long Shot Press. She has also published ten poetry chapbooks including Blessing Poems (Synaethesia Press 2006), Good Bye Beautiful Mother (Low Tech Press 2001). Snapdragon Press has published Tsaurah's Blake Haunts Me (2005), Crazy Lust (2007) and most recently Blue Blood of Morning (2009), now in its third printing. Tsaurah's new poetry collection, Cleaning The Duck, is due out from Bowery Books in November 2011. Tsaurah's writing has appeared in over a hundred publications including Best American Erotica (eight times), Penthouse, New York Times, Sex For America, The Worst Book I Ever Read, Politically Inspired, Rattapallax, The Blacklisted Journalist, Long Shot, Clean Sheets, Paramour, Tribes 12, Booglit, Crimes Of The Beats, Unbearables, Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Beet, Brooklyn Rail, Proverbial Monkey, Downtown Poets, Williamsburg Observer, Artspeak, Clara Venus, Mammoth Book Of Best New Erotica (3 times), Tales from the Infirmary, The Urban Bizarre, Down Is Down But So Is Up, Bitten, X – The Erotic Treasury. Alvin Orloff's latest book is Why Aren't You Smiling? He's also written the novels I Married An Earthling and Gutter Boys, and he's the co-author of transsexual showbiz memoir, The Unsinkable Bambi Lake. His writing can be found in numerous zines and anthologies, including Beyond Definition (Manic D Press, 1994), Tricks and Treats (Harrington Park Press 2000), and Pills, Chills, Thrills and Heartache (Alyson Press 2004). He began writing in 1977 as a teenage lyricist for The Blowdryers, perhaps the campiest of all the early San Francisco punk bands. After studying sociology at U.C. Berkeley he dabbled in underground theater with The Sick & Twisted Players, performance art with the Popstitutes, and deejaying at Baby Judy's Discotheque À Go-Go, before wholly succumbing to his literary pretensions. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled Sri Lankan writer, teacher and cultural worker. The author of Consensual Genocide and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities (South End, 2011), her work has appeared in the anthologies Persistence: Still Butch and Femme, Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don't Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl's Guide to Taking Over The World. Her second book of poetry, Love Cake, is forthcoming in fall 2011. Samhita Mukhopadhyay is a writer, speaker and technologist residing in Brooklyn, NY. She is the Executive Editor of Feministing.com and is the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. She has written for multiple news outlets including The Nation, The American Prospect, Alternet and the Guardian UK. She has been profiled in India Currents Magazine, Nirali Magazine, Brown Girl Magazine, Rabble.ca and on Alternet. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has 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. 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. When Sat Nov 12 7:30pm – 9:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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