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.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016
“Show Us Your Spines” Indie Writers Reading | SF Main Library

March 8, 2016 features:

• Alex Gino
  Alex Gino loves glitter, ice cream, gardening, awe-ful puns, and stories that reflect the diversity and complexity of being alive. They have been involved with queer and trans activism for twenty years, and are honored to be a We Need Diverse Books team member.Born and raised on Staten Island, NY, Alex has lived in Philadelphia, PA; Brooklyn, NY; Astoria (Queens), NY; and Northampton, MA. In 2008 they moved across the country in an old RV with their then-partner and two cats to California where they now enjoy the heck out of living in Oakland. GEORGE is Alex’s debut. When they started writing it in 2003, they had no idea how long of a journey it would be, but the hole in children’s literature was clear, and they knew how they wanted to fill it. After countless revisions, breaks of frustration, and days spent staring at drafts willing them to be better, Alex is delighted and proud to share Melissa with the world. When not promoting GEORGE, Alex is working on a second middle grade novel that incorporates issues of Deafness, police violence, baby sisters, and first crushes.
• Ingrid Rojas Contreras
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras is a recent Bread Loaf Bakeless Fellow and recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Mary Tanenbaum literary award. Her writing is forthcoming from the Los Angeles Review of Books and Guernica Annual, an anthology of the year’s best writing from the magazine. Currently, she is working on a nonfiction book about her grandfather, a medicine man who could move clouds.
• Dipika Guha
  Dipika Guha was born in Calcutta and raised in India, Russia and the Kingdom. Her plays include I ENTER the VALLEY (Weissberger nom ’14), MECHANICS of LOVE (Upcoming: Crowded Fire), BLOWN YOUTH (published by Playscripts) and THE RULES (Upcoming: San Francisco Playhouse). She is
  the inaugural recipient of the Shakespeare’s Sister Playwriting Fellowship through Lark Playwrights Development Center, A Room of Her Own and Hedgebrook. Her work has been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, the Drama League, Cutting Ball Theatre’s RISK Festival, New Georges, Roundabout Underground, Leviathan, Red Bull Theatre, Judson Church, Naked Angels, Fault Line Theatre, One Coast Collaboration, The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway and the Tobacco Factory (UK) amongst others. She’s been awarded residencies at the Hermitage Artist Residency, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Ucross Artists Residency and the Rasmuson Foundation in Sitka, Alaska. She’s an alum of Ars Nova Playgroup, the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, Soho Rep W/D Lab, the Women’s Project Lab, a proud member of Ma-Yi and a current resident playwright at the Playwrights Foundation. She holds commissions from South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is developing a new play with the Satori Group in Seattle. She is currently a Visiting Artist at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School writing a new play on human rights. Dipika received her MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama under Paula Vogel. Despite a long run in the north east of the United States she still drinks tea. www.dipikaguha.com
• Carson Beker
  Carson Beker is a writer, playwright, storyteller, and actor with an MFA and MA from SFSU. She is the co-founder of The Escapery, an SF Bay Writing Unschool and has also taught creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is the former Fiction Editor of Fourteen Hills. Her work has appeared in Gigantic Sequins, Sparkle + Blink, Transfer Magazine, Bourbon Penn, and the anthology By The Bay. Her play Sunflower Suicide Moon was a Jim Highsmith second place awardee and was staged at Z-Space in 2015. She has work upcoming in the San Francisco Olympians Festival. She likes to write about ghosts, suicide, dead cats, and the crazy.

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