BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1464587:Event:253349 DTSTAMP:20260418T031725Z SUMMARY:Mollena Williams at Writers With Drinks in San Francisco DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks is going way over the top, and then dr opping a ladder. When: Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, door s open at 6:30 PM Who: Kim Stanley Robinson, Tom Barbash, Douglas Lain , Kim Wong Keltner, Tatyana Brown and Mollena Williams Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco How much: $5 to $10 sliding s cale, all proceeds benefit the CSC About the writers/readers: Kim St anley Robinson's latest book is Shaman. His other books include 2312, Galileo's Dream, the Mars Trilogy, the Years of Rice and Salt, Antarct ica, the Science in the Capital series, and the Three Californias tril ogy. Robinson's novels have won 11 major science fiction awards, inclu ding multiple Hugos and Nebulas, plus the World Fantasy Award, the Joh n W. Campbell Award and the Locus Award. Tom Barbash's new book is th e story collection Stay Up With Me. He's the author of the award-winni ng novel The Last Good Chance and the non-fiction book On Top of the W orld: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11; A Story of Loss and Renewal, which was a New York Times bestseller. His stories and artic les have been published in Tin House, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications, and have been performed on National Pu blic Radio's Selected Shorts series. Kim Wong Keltner's books include Buddha Baby, The Dim Sum of All Things, I Want Candy and Tiger Babies Strike Back. Douglas Lain is the author of Billy Moon, a novel about Christopher Milne, the real-life inspiration for Christopher Robin in the Winnie the Pooh stories. Lain's other works include the \"bizarro fiction\" volume Wave of Mutilation and the Diet Soap zine and podcas t. Mollena \"Mo\" Williams is a NYC born and raised writer, Leatherwo man, actress, BDSM Educator, fat fetish model and Executive Pervert. S he is honored to have served as International Ms Leather 2010 and Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009. Consciously submissive since 1993 and Acti ve in the Leather and BDSM communities since 1996, she keeps it real a ll over the US, Europe and Canada on myriad BDSM, Leather and kinkcent ric topics. Mo authored the \"The Toybag Guide: Taboo Play,\" the essa y \"BDSM and Playing with Race\" which appears in Best Sex Writing 201 0, has two essays appearing in Tristan Taormino's Ultimate Guide to Ki nky Sex and is co-author, along with Lee Harrington of the upcoming bo ok Playing Well With Others. Tatyana Brown is the founding Captain o f The Lit Slam, a San Francisco-based, live-audience- curated literary journal. She ranked 4th in the world of competitive performance poetr y at the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam. Brown has toured North Ame rica as a poet, read poems to teenagers on the mountaintops of British Columbia, told tales on NPR’s true-life storytelling show, Snap Jud gment, and sold instant literature ranging from short fiction to weddi ng vows as a street vending freelance writer in New York City. She hol ds the distinct honor of winning the longest consecutive string of XXX Haiku Deathmatch Championships at Oakland’s notorious variety show, Tourettes Without Regrets (and she did so with sex-positive, progress ive, feminist comedy). About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drink s won \"Best Literary Night\" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll s ix years in a row and was named \"Best Literary Drinking\" and \"Best Literary Hour\" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. The spoken word \"variety sho w\" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-win ning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs i n a freewheeling format.\n\nFor more information visit http://trueskoo l.com/events/mollena-williams-at-writers-with-drinks-in-san-francisco DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131012T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131012T213000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, ca LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco WEBSITE:http://www.makeoutroom.com URL:http://www.makeoutroom.com CONTACT:415-647-2888 ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/Charli eJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR