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:619682 DTSTAMP:20260420T203947Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Annie Sprinkle, Ken Liu, Michelle Tea and more! DESCRIPTION:This is quite possibly the most insane lineup Writers With Drinks has ever featured. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE! When: Saturday, Marc h 14, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Who: Annie Sprinkle , Ken Liu, Michelle Richmond, Joanne Harris, Aimee Suzara and Michelle Tea! How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the CSC Where: The M ake Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA About the readers/per formers: Annie Sprinkle was a NYC prostitute and porn star for twenty years, then morphed into an artist and sexologist. She got her BFA at School of Visual Arts in NYC was the first porn star to earn a Ph.D.. She’s a popular lecturer whose work is studied in many colleges and Universities. For the past 12 years she has been collaborating on art projects with her partner, an artist and UCSC professor, Elizabeth St ephens. They are movers and shakers in the new “ecosex movement,” committed to making environmentalism more sexy, fun and diverse.\n Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fan tasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. He has won a Nebula, two Hug os, a World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and been nominated for the Sturgeon and the Locus Awards. Ken s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a fantasy series, wi ll be published by Simon & Schuster’s new genre fiction imprint in 2 015, along with a collection of short stories. Michelle Tea's latest book is How to Grow Up. She also recently published the YA novels Merm aid in Chelsea Creek and Girl at the Bottom of the Sea. Her previous b ooks include Coal to Diamond: A Memoir, Rose of No Man's Land, the gra phic novel Rent Girl, The Beautiful, The Chelsea Whistle, Valencia and The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in Ameri ca. Michelle Richmond is the author of six books. Her new novel, Gol den State, and her new story collection, Hum, winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, were published in Spring of 2014. H er previous books include the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, the novels Dream of the Blue Room and No One Y ou Know, and the New York Times and international bestseller The Year of Fog. Joanne Harris' latest book is The Gospel of Loki. Her previo us books include Peaches for Monsieur le Cure, Runelight and Runemarks , Blueeyedboy, The Lollipop Shoes, The French Market, Gentlemen & Play ers, Jigs & Reels, Holy Fools, Coastliners, The French Kitchen: A Cook Book, Five Quarters of the Orange, Blackberry Wine, Chocolat, Sleep, Pale Sister and The Evil Seed. Choclat was made into an Oscar-nominate d movie. Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and p erformer whose mission is to create poetic and theatrical work about r ace, gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social change. Her f irst full-length book, SOUVENIR, was released in February 2014 (WordTe ch Editions). Her first play, PAGBABALIK (Return) appeared in festival s in 2006-7 and she is working on her second, A HISTORY OF THE BODY, b oth supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation. A HISTORY OF THE BO DY was also commissioned by the East Bay Community Foundation and supp orted by the National Endowment for the Arts. Recently, she collaborat ed with Amara Tabor Smith and Deep Waters Dance Theater for the food-j ustice themed dance theater piece, Our Daily Bread. \n\nFor more infor mation visit http://trueskool.com/events/writers-with-drinks-with-anni e-sprinkle-ken-liu-michelle-tea-and DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150314T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150314T213000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT:415-647-2888 ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/Charli eJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2247976801?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR