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:422601 DTSTAMP:20260421T070525Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Edan Lepucki and Robin Sloan DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks is having one of the most insane lineu ps we've ever seen! Including Stephen Colbert's new bestie, Edan Lepuc ki. 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 Cas tellucci and Christina Nichol How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefi t the Center for Sex and Culture Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco About the readers/performers: Edan Lepucki's debu t novel is California, which was a fall 2014 selection of Barnes & Nob le’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 i n Narrative Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Meridian, FiveCh apters, and McSweeney’s, among others. She is a staff writer for The Millions. Robin Sloan is the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book store, which started out as a short story which you can read online. H e 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, Thirsti ng and Speaking Intersections. Curve Magazine called her debut CD Madi vinez “piercing, covering territory both intimate and political...vi vid and powerful.” She was the 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Northampto n, MA, the Spring 2011 Mellon Artist in Residence in the Performance S tudies 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 Ch icago and the Spring 2012 Visiting Performing Artist in African & Afri can Diasporic Studies at UT Austin. Cecil Castellucci is the author o f books and graphic novels for young adults including Boy Proof, The P lain Janes, First Day on Earth, The Year of the Beasts, Tin Star and O dd Duck. Her picture book, Grandma’s Gloves, won the California Book Award Gold Medal. Her short stories have been published in Strange Ho rizons, YARN, Tor.com, and various anthologies including, Teeth, After and Interfictions 2. She is the YA editor of the Los Angeles Review o f Books, Children’s Correspondence Coordinator for The Rumpus and a two time Macdowell Fellow. She lives in Los Angeles. In 2009 she was c ommissioned by ECM+ to write the libretto for an original opera with m usic composed by Andre Ristic, Les Aventures de Madame Merveille. Chr istina 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 Str anger to Someone. Her poems have appeared in Hobart, Indiana Review, T he Economy, Nailed Magazine, The Light Ekphrastic, Rufous City Review, Former People, The Destroyer, Atticus Review, MARY, Australian Book R eview, 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: Writer s 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 gen res to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes p oetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, li terary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling for mat.\n\nFor more information visit http://trueskool.com/events/writers -with-drinks-with-edan-lepucki-and-robin-sloan DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140913T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140913T213000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA 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