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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Anuradha Roy
DESCRIPTION:September's Writers With Drinks includes multi-award-winni
 ng author Anuradha Roy. Plus survival poetry, kickass comedy, and tons
  of science fiction and fantasy!When: Saturday, September 10 from 7:30
  PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PMWho: Anuradha Roy, Margaret Wappler,
  Hollie Hardy, Naamen Tilahun, Dominique Gelin and Curtis Chen!How muc
 h: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the CSCWhere: The Make Out Room, 32
 25 22nd. St., San Francisco, CAAbout the readers/performers:Anuradha R
 oy's latest book, Sleeping on Jupiter, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2
 016 and was nominated for the Man Booker prize 2016. It has been nomin
 ated for various other literary prizes, including the FT/ Oppenheimer 
 Prize, Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2015, the Tata Book of the Year Aw
 ard 2015, and the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction P
 rize 2015. She won the Economist Crossword Prize for her second novel,
  The Folded Earth. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, ha
 s been widely translated and was picked as one of the Best Books of th
 e Year by the Washington Post and the Seattle Times. It has been named
  by World Literature Today as one of the 60 most essential books on mo
 dern India and was shortlisted for the Crossword Prize. Anuradha Roy w
 on the Picador-Outlook Non-Fiction Prize in 2004 for her essay, \"Cook
 ing Women\". She works as a designer at Permanent Black, an independen
 t press which she runs with her husband, Rukun Advani. She lives in Ra
 nikhet, India.Margaret Wappler is the author of Neon Green, which has 
 been praised by Edan Lepucki and Joe Meno. She has written about the a
 rts and pop culture for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Elle, Co
 smo, New York Times, and several other publications. Neon Green is her
  first novel. She lives in Los Angeles and can be heard weekly on the 
 pop culture podcast, Pop Rocket.Hollie Hardy is the author of How to T
 ake a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014), win
 ner the 2016 Annual Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches writing clas
 ses at the SF Creative Writing Institute, SFSU, and Berkeley City Coll
 ege. She co-hosts Saturday Night Special, An East Bay Open Mic, curate
 s Litquake’s Flight of Poets, and is a founder and core producer of 
 Oakland’s Beast Crawl Literary Festival.Na'amen Gobert Tilahun has s
 pent most of his life shuttling between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
  He writes many different things that have appeared in/on io9, Fantasy
  Magazine, Queers Dig Time Lords, Stone Telling, Full of Crows, The Bi
 g Click, faggot dinosaur, Spelling the Hours, Eleven Eleven and others
 . He was recently named one of 13 Bay Area Writers to Watch/Read in 20
 16 by 7X7 magazine and his debut novel, a second-world epic/urban fant
 asy, The Root was published by Night Shade Books in June.Dominique Gel
 in is a comedian in San Francisco who offers strong opinions on stupid
  things, -isms, and assholes. It’s all very fascinating. Before movi
 ng to the Bay Area, she was a finalist for the Ultimate Miami Comedian
  and was a part of the Boca Raton Comedy Festival. Dom has also touche
 d the stage of a really famous comedy club that one time. She co-hosts
  two comedy shows, Millennials Ruin Everything and The Lazy Brunch Hou
 r.Curtis Chen is the author of Waypoint Kangaroo. His short fiction ha
 s appeared in \"Daily Science Fiction\" and SNAFU and will be featured
  in Baen's MISSION: TOMORROW. On top of all that, he's a former softwa
 re engineer and once built a cat feeding robot. He lives in Vancouver,
  Washington.\n\nFor more information visit http://trueskool.com/events
 /writers-with-drinks-with-anuradha-roy
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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
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