Saturday, April 12, 2014

Reminder: Writers With Drinks at the Make Out Room @ Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Queer Things)

Writers With Drinks at the Make Out Room


When: Saturday, April 12, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS!
Who: Eileen Gunn, April Sinclair, Caitlin Donohue, Nona Caspers and Siouxsie Q!
How much: $5 to $10, all proceeds benefit the CSC
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco

About the readers/performers:

Eileen Gunn's latest book is Questionable Practices, a story collection. She also published another collection, Stable Strategies and Others. Her fiction has appeared at Tor.com, Flurb.net, Eclipse One, Wired, Asimov's Magazine and elsewhere. She published the Infinite Matrix science fiction webzine. Her story "Coming to Terms" won a Nebula Award in 2004.

April Sinclair is the author of three novels, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Coffee Will Make You Black, Ain’t Gonna Be The Same Fool Twice, and I Left My Back Door Open. The American Library Association named Coffee Will Make You Black 1994 Book of the Year (Young Adult Fiction Category.) April also received the Carl Sandburg Award in Literature from The Friends of the Chicago Public Library for Coffee Will Make You Black.

Nona Caspers' books include Little Book of Days and Heavier Than Air, which won the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University.

Caitlin Donohue is a staff writer at Rookie Magazine and editor of AHDM4U.com. She was formerly the culture editor of the SF Bay Guardian.

Siouxsie Q is the creator and host of the acclaimed podcast The WhoreCast. She has appeared as a guest expert on the Savage Love column, and Ira Glass thinks she's "charming". She is an adult performer for sites such as Kink.com, Filly FIlms, Queer Porn TV, and The Crash Pad Series. She is a part of the Cum and Glitter collective, a live sex show that merges live music, theatre, and performative sex. She recently took her podcast to a live audience with "The WhoreCast LIVE!" which launched the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival.

About Writers With Drinks:

Writers With Drinks has won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local 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 Apr 12, 2014 7:30pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time
Calendar
Queer Things
Who
Larry-bob Roberts - creator

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