Radar Reading Series: Indie Writers & Free Cookies | SF Main Library

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“Show Us Your Spines” Indie Writers Reading | SF Main Library

The Radar Reading Series has been going on for over 14 years now and starting 2018 they will be changing the format from a one-time reading 12 times a year to six month-long residencies that result in a bi-monthly presentation of work.

Show Us Your Spines is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTPOC writers will work with Hormel Center LGBT archives around a specific queer theme, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at the Hormel Center.

Each residency cohort will be comprised of four writers/artists, who will spend one month with a section/theme of the archives chosen by both RADAR and the library. During that month they will write/create a piece inspired by the chosen ephemera.

Thursday, July 16, 2015
“Show Us Your Spines” Indie Writers Reading | SF Main Library

July 16, 2015 lineup:

• Patrick O’Neil
• Tiffany Scandal
• Nikki Darling
• Nicole J. Georges

Patrick O’Neil is the author of the memoir, Gun, Needle, Spoon (Dzanc Books), and the excerpted in part French translation, Hold-Up (13e Note Editions). His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including: Juxtapoz, Salon.com, The Weeklings, Razorcake, Sensitive Skin, Fourteen Hills, and Word Riot. He is a regular contributor to the recovery website After Party Chat, and has been blogging at Full Blue Moon Dementia, for over ten years. Patrick holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.

Tiffany Scandal is a good-for-nothing broad. Writer, Suicide Girl, photographer, shitty painter, she dabbles with too many other creative outlets to have them be worth listing. Her second book JIGSAW YOUTH ( Ladybox Books) is out now and has earned her the acclaim of being “Lindsay Hunter’s literary punk-rock sister” (The Next Best Book Club). Her first book THERE’S NO HAPPY ENDING (Eraserhead Press) was released as part of the 2013/2014 New Bizarro Author Series, and placed in Brian Keene’s Top Ten Books of 2013. She has also had fiction and non-fiction published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Ladyblog, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Living Dead Magazine, and a handful of anthologies.

Nikki Darling is a student in the Creative Writing/Literature PhD program at USC. Her poetry and experimental essays center around subjectivity, persona, and post-structualist methods of deconstructing literary form and meaning. She is finishing her first novel, “Fade Into You,” a memoir of mixed race identity in the San Gabriel Valley during the 1990’s. Her criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Art Book Review, Tomorrow Magazine and Public Books, among others. Her essay Appropriate For Destruction was included in Best Music Writing 2010.

Nicole J. Georges is a writer and illustrator from Portland, Oregon. Her Lambda Award winning graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, was called “engrossing, lovable, smart and ultimately poignant” by Rachel Maddow, and “disarming and haunting, hip and sweet, all at one” by Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home. She has been publishing her own zines and comics for almost twenty years; and has toured the country extensively, including two appearances on Michelle Tea’s Sister Spit tour. Nicole’s diary comic zine, Invincible Summer, has been collected into two anthology books. Nicole was the 2013 Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies, where she was also on faculty. She won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Arts Education in 2012, and currently teaches at California College for the Art’s MFA in Comics Program. In her spare time, Nicole writes an advice column for Bitch Magazine, publishes a yearly animal calendar, and volunteers with senior citizens at Portland’s Marie Smith Center (she publishes a zine about these seniors, called Tell It Like It Tiz). She is currently at work on a graphic memoir called Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home. It will be out with Mariner books in 2017.

Please note, the date has moved to July 16, 2015.

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