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, January 19, 2017
“Show Us Your Spines” Indie Writers Reading | SF Main Library

RADAR Productions Presents: January Queer Reading Series at the San Francisco Library. The authors for this month are:

• Gabrielle Glancy – Winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, finalist for Yale Younger Poets, The Colorado Prize and The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, Gabrielle Glancy has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review and many other journals and anthologies.
• Andrea Abi-Karam is a mixed race genderqueer punk poet writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. They recently completed the manuscript “Extratransmission” a book length piece against how patriarchy and US militarism produce the hypergendered subject.
• Carolina De Robertis, a writer of Uruguayan origins, is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango, Perla, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages, and have received a Stonewall Book Award, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors.
• Leila Weefur lives and works in Oakland, CA. Weefur received her MFA from Mills College in 2016. She is a media artist, integrating her background in video and photography with printmaking. She uses video as a central element in investigating layers of cultural identity and the ideological construct of race. She recently received a artist fellowship at Kala Art Institute. Weefur has exhibited her work in galleries across the Bay Area (Southern Exposure, SOMArts Gallery, Betti Ono.) and New York (Smack Mellon).

Did they mention that there will be free cookies all throughout the reading?

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