This month, Writers With Drinks features the triumphant return of Jaime Cortez, author of the new short story collection Gordo. Plus Shanthi Sekaran, author of The Samosa Rebellion and Lucky Boy, and Josiah Luis Alderete, author of Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos. Plus more readers TBA. Charlie Jane Anders hosts. This event is a fundraiser for SF district attorney Chesa Boudin.See More

Malinda Lo is doing her first in-person event since her book Last Night at the Telegraph Club won the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as Michael L. Printz and Walter Dean Myers honors. Also featuring Khan Wong (The Circus Infinite), Betsy Aoki (Breakpoint) and Sumiko Saulson (Black Magic Women), plus guest host Celeste Chan (Queer Rebels)!See More

San Francisco's longest-running spoken word variety show is back IN PERSON. (Vaccination and masks required!) Featuring SF poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, plus queer icon Brontez Purnell, literary mastermind Shruti Swamy, science fiction scribe Cat Rambo and queer raconteur Stephen van Dyck! Charlie Jane Anders hosts.See More

San Francisco's longest-running spoken word show is back in person, after a year and a half hiatus. (Vaccines/masks required.) This time, we feature legendary critic and writer Lucy Sante (Maybe the People Would Be the Times), musician and author Adele Bertei (Why Labelle Matters), poet/comedian Baruch Porras-Hernandez (Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle), novelist Mike DeCapite (Jacket Weather) and poet Nazelah Jamison (Evolutionary Heart). Charlie Jane Anders hosts and reads from her brand new…See More

Hey, I am so sorry, but I'm afraid we're going to have to cancel Writers With Drinks this Saturday. This was a difficult decision and we really agonized over it, but in the end we felt it would be irresponsible to go ahead with the event. The next two or three weeks are going to be a crucial window in slowing the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, and "social distancing" is going to be a key factor in flattening the curve of the virus's spread.See More

Writers With Drinks is more literary and drunker than ever. This month: Charles Yu, author of the brilliant novel Interior Chinatown, and debut novelist Meng Jin, author of Little Gods. Plus Jezebel's Tracy Clark Flory, science fiction author Juliette Wade (Mazes of Power) and poet Barbara Tomash (PRE-). Charlie Jane Anders hosts. All proceeds benefit a local nonprofit, TBA.See More

Poet, comedian and storyteller Baruch Porras-Hernandez hosts and curates Writers With Drinks. Featuring local spoken word and drag performers Irene McCalphin aka Magnoliah Black (The Virgo Homo Thugs for the Revolution), SNJV (SACH), Joe Wadlington (The New Yorker) and Robert Andrew Perez (the field). All proceeds benefit a local queer non-profit!See More

Writers With Drinks is back! This month, San Francisco's longest-running reading series features Meg Elison, author of the Book of Flora, and Amanda Rosenberg, author of That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill. Plus Megan E. O'Keefe (Velocity Weapon), Olga Zilberbourg (Like Water and Other Stories), Alvin Orloff (Disasterama! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997) and Zoe Young (McSweeney's). Hosted by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (The Mermaid, the Witch…See More

New York Times tech journalist Mike Isaac reads from his brand new book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Also featuring Annalee Newitz, author of The Future of Another Timeline, and V. Vale, creator of RE/Search Publications. Plus Nathaniel Popkin (The Year of the Return), Malkia Cyril (Media Justice), and Aubrey Hirsch (Why We Never Talk About Sugar). Charlie Jane Anders hosts.See More

October's Writers With Drinks features young-adult fantasy novelist Michelle Ruiz Keil, author of the acclaimed debut All of Us With Wings. Plus Dr. Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible: Separating the Myth from the Medicine, and Imani Gandy, senior legal analyst with Rewire News and co-host of the Boom! Lawyered podcast. Also featuring Vivian Ho, (Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids), Marta Acosta (The Dog Thief), and Nazelah Jamison (Evolutionary Heart). Hosted by Charlie Jane…See More

October's Writers With Drinks features young-adult fantasy novelist Michelle Ruiz Keil, author of the acclaimed debut All of Us With Wings. Plus Dr. Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible: Separating the Myth from the Medicine, and Imani Gandy, senior legal analyst with Rewire News and co-host of the Boom! Lawyered podcast. Also featuring Vivian Ho, (Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids), Marta Acosta (The Dog Thief), and Nazelah Jamison (Evolutionary Heart). Hosted by Charlie Jane…See More

September's Writers With Drinks features Yangsze Choo, author of The Night Tiger, and Evan Ramzipoor, author of the debut historical novel The Ventriloquists. Shelly Oria reads from her new #MeToo-themed anthology, Indelible in the Hippocampus. Also featuring Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga and the Exo series.  Plus Molly Tanzer (Creatures of Want and Ruin) and Pete Bailey (Trans Homo...Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love). Charlie Jane Anders hosts.See More

San Francisco's longest-running spoken word night is back. Featuring award-winning authors Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift) and Vanessa Hua (River of Stars). Plus punk-rock legend Lynn Breedlove, author of 45 Thought Crimes. And Sarah Rose Etter, whose surreal debut The Book of X won a rave review from Roxane Gay. And prize-winning slam poet Brandon Melendez and designer/spoken word artist Seth Katz. Hosted by Charlie Jane Anders.See More

San Francisco's longest-running spoken word night is back, with Gabby Rivera, acclaimed author of Juliet Takes a Breath and writer of AMERICA, Marvel Comics' first queer Latina superhero. Also featuring Helen Phillips, author of The Need and The Beautiful Bureaucrat, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. And Sarah Gailey, author of Magic For Beginners and American Hippo. Plus poets Troy Jollimore (Syllabus of Errors) and Natasha Dennerstein (Turn and Face the Strange), and critic…See More

Writers With Drinks presents a special Latin American Night. Featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, and Mauro Javier Cardenas, author of The Revolutionaries Try Again. Plus multi-award-winning writer Cristina Rivera Garza, author of Nadie me verá llorar. And PEN/Faulkner finalist Achy Obejas, author of Tower of the Antilles. Also featuring Guggenheim Fellowship-recipient Gabriela Alemán (La muerte silba un blues) and poet and radio host Rachelle Escamilla (Me…See More