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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Star Trek economics, queer lit and more!
DESCRIPTION:This month, San Francisco's longest-running reading series
  features the economics of Star Trek! Queer poetry! Witches! One woman
 's first-hand accounts of her weirdest dates! And much, much more!  Wh
 en: Saturday, August 13 from 7:30 PM to 9:30, doors open 6:30 Who: Jul
 iana Delgado Lopera, Emmanuel Saadia, Carlos Allende, Roberto F. Santi
 ago and Wendy Newman! How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the CS
 C Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., SF, CA  About the readers/
 performers:  Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writ
 er/educato /oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of th
 e 2014 Jackson Literary award, and a finalist of the Clark-Gross Novel
  award, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual 
 collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Reg
 en Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts
  Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. Her work has been publ
 ished in Four Way Review, The Bold Italic, Weird Sister, Revista Canto
 , Transfer Magazine, Raspa Magazine, Black Girl Dangerous, and SF Week
 ly among others. She’s performed in countless events around the Bay 
 Area including Action Fiction!, Red Light Lit, Beast Crawl, Lit Quake 
 and lectured at Wayward Writers, SFSU, 826 Valencia. She’s the execu
 tive director of RADAR Productions.  Emmanuel Saadia is the author of 
 Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek. His work on Trekonomics has b
 een featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial
  Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider. Manu Saadia is 
 a contributing writer for Fusion.net.  Carlos Allende is the author of
  Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle: A Horror Farce.  Roberto F. 
 Santiago is a poet, translator, and lead singer in a solo act who prod
 uces his own music, and dances rips into his pants. Roberto is the rec
 ipient of the 2011 Alfred C. Carey Prize for Poetry. Roberto also writ
 es and produces his own music, and has been known to dance until he ri
 ps his pants. His first full-length collection of poems, Angel Park, w
 as released April 2015 by Lethe Press. His poetry has been published i
 n such anthologies/journals as Assaracus - Sibling Rivalry (2014), CUR
 A: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action(2014), Hypothetical: A Review o
 f Everything Imaginable(2014), and The Waiting Room Reader: Stories to
  Keep you Company - CavanKerry (2013).  Wendy Newman is an author, and
  a dating, sex and relationship coach. Her book 121 First Dates: How t
 o Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love and Live Happily Ever After (
 Really!) has been praised by Access Hollywood, The Wall Street Journal
 , Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Glamour, Self, an
 d more. She leads workshops, including Dating by Design, The Dating Wo
 rkshop, and Understanding Men, Power & Partnership.  About Writers Wit
 h Drinks:  Writers With Drinks has won numerous \"Best ofs\" from loca
 l newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of 
 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word \"variety
  show\" mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winnin
 g show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, rom
 ance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a
  freewheeling format.\n\nFor more information visit http://trueskool.c
 om/events/writers-with-drinks-star-trek-economics-queer-lit-and-more
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CATEGORIES:"san francisco", "bay area", sf, california
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
WEBSITE:http://makeoutroom.com
URL:http://makeoutroom.com
CONTACT:415-647-2888
ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/Charli
 eJaneAnders
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