Reminder: Writers With Drinks at the Make Out Room @ Sat May 11, 2013 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Writers With Drinks at the Make Out Room Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS! Featuring: Veronica Belmont, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Thaisa Frank, Seth Harwood and Janis Cooke Newman! Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco Admission: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC About the writers/readers: Veronica Belmont is a technology and gaming-centric video host based in San Francisco. Currently her projects include Tekzilla (a weekly tech help and how-to show on Revision3.com), Fact or Fictional on TechFeed, and The Sword and Laser, a science fiction and fantasy video show, podcast and community, co-hosted with Tom Merritt. Recently Veronica appeared on BBC America as the co-host of Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers, and she was the original host of Qore on the PlayStation Network. As a voice actor, Veronica has appeared in Fallout: New Vegas (Old World Blues) and the animated series SuperF*ckers. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of a memoir, The End of San Francisco. She's also the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press 2012), a Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book. Mattilda is the author of two novels, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 2008) and Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). She is the editor of four additional nonfiction anthologies, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007), That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004; 2008), Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004), and Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients (Haworth 2000), which now also appears in Italian (Effepi Libri 2007). Thaisa Frank's third collection of short fiction is The Fiction of Enchantment. Her most recent novel, Heidegger's Glasses, takes place in the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII, the safety of which is threatened forever. It was published in 2010, reissued in paperback in 2011 and sold to ten foreign countries before publication. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage, both on the Bestseller List of the San Francisco Chronicle. Thaisa has received two PEN awards and her stories have been widely-anthologized—the most recent of which are in A Dictionary of Dirty Words, Harper/Collins Reader's Choice and Rozne Ksztatly Milocsi. She has published critical essays on writing and art and is the author of the Afterward to Viking/Penguin's most recent edition of Voltaire. Her poetry, which she writes secretly, appears in small publications. Thaisa has also co-authored Finding Your Writers Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction, translated into Portuguese and Spanish, and used in numerous writing programs. Seth Harwood is the author of the Jack Palms novels, Jack Wakes Up and This Is Life. He started the Jack Palms Mystery Podcast in 2006, serializing his crime fiction and getting a huge listenership for Jack Wakes Up, A Long Way From Disney, This is Life and Czechmate. He's also published A Long Way From Disney as a short story collection. He's also the author of another novel, Young Junius. Harwood has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches at Stanford and the City College of San Francisco. Janis Cooke Newman is the author of the Bay Area Bestseller, Mary (published in hardcover by MacAdam/Cage, and in paperback by Harcourt), a historical novel about Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, chosen as USA Today's Best Historical Fiction of the Year, and a Booksense Year-End Highlight. Newman is also the author of The Russian Word for Snow (St. Martin's Press, 2001), a memoir about adopting her son from a Moscow orphanage. Her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives (Inner Ocean, 2006) and four Travelers' Tales editions. 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. When Sat May 11, 2013 7:30pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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