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“Writers With Drinks” Spoken Word Variety Show | Make Out Room

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Saturday, April 12, 2014 - 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*First 10 people to mention FUNCHEAP at the door get in for free. $5-$10 sliding scale afterward.

Make-Out Room | 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA

Event Details

Writers With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7×7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels.

Free for the first 10 people to mention FUNCHEAP at the door. $5-$10 sliding scale afterward. Doors open at 7 pm.

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.

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.

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Cost: FREE*
*First 10 people to mention FUNCHEAP at the door get in for free. $5-$10 sliding scale afterward.
Categories: *Top Pick*, Literature, San Francisco, Theater & Performance
Address: 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA