Writers With Drinks with Edan Lepucki and Robin Sloan

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Writers With Drinks with Edan Lepucki and Robin Sloan

Time: September 13, 2014 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
Street: 3225 22nd. Street
City/State: San Francisco, CA
Info/Tickets/Map: http://www.makeoutroom.com
Phone: 415-647-2888
Event Type: san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california
Organized By: Charlie Jane Anders
Latest Activity: Sep 7, 2014

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Writers With Drinks is having one of the most insane lineups we've ever seen! Including Stephen Colbert's new bestie, Edan Lepucki. Plus acclaimed poet Lenelle Moise and novelist Robin Sloan.

When: Saturday, Sept. 13, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
Who: Edan Lepucki, Robin Sloan, Lenelle Moïse, Annelyse Gelman, Cecil Castellucci and Christina Nichol
How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco

About the readers/performers:

Edan Lepucki's debut novel is California, which was a fall 2014 selection of Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program She's also the author of the novella If You're Not Like Me. Her short fiction has been published in Narrative Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Meridian, FiveChapters, and McSweeney’s, among others. She is a staff writer for The Millions.

Robin Sloan is the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, which started out as a short story which you can read online. He worked at Poynter, Current TV, and Twitter, figuring out the future of media.

Lenelle Moïse's new poetry collection is Haiti Glass. Her other performance projects include Ache What Make, Womb-Words, Thirsting and Speaking Intersections. Curve Magazine called her debut CD Madivinez “piercing, covering territory both intimate and political...vivid and
powerful.” She was the 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA, the Spring 2011 Mellon Artist in Residence in the Performance Studies department at Northwestern University and the recipient of the 2009-2010 Astraea Lesbian Writers Award in Poetry. She was also a Fall 2011 Fellow at the Ellen Stone Belic Institute at Columbia College Chicago and the Spring 2012 Visiting Performing Artist in African & African Diasporic Studies at UT Austin.

Cecil Castellucci is the author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Boy Proof, The Plain Janes, First Day on Earth, The Year of the Beasts, Tin Star and Odd Duck. Her picture book, Grandma’s Gloves, won the California Book Award Gold Medal. Her short stories have been published in Strange Horizons, YARN, Tor.com, and various anthologies including, Teeth, After and Interfictions 2. She is the YA editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, Children’s Correspondence Coordinator for The Rumpus and a two time Macdowell Fellow. She lives in Los Angeles. In 2009 she was commissioned by ECM+ to write the libretto for an original opera with music composed by Andre Ristic, Les Aventures de Madame Merveille.

Christina Nichol is the author of Waiting for the Electricity, which won the Rona Jaffe Award for Fiction and was a Reader's Digest summer pick.

Annelyse Gelman's new poetry collection is Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone. Her poems have appeared in Hobart, Indiana Review, The Economy, Nailed Magazine, The Light Ekphrastic, Rufous City Review, Former People, The Destroyer, Atticus Review, MARY, Australian Book Review, Swarm and elsewhere. She makes "film-poems" for her own work and others, including "Giraffe", "An Illustrated Guide to the Post-Apocalypse" and "Ars Poetica."

About Writers With Drinks:

Writers With Drinks has won numerous "Best ofs" from local 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-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.

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