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:508263 DTSTAMP:20260418T185943Z SUMMARY:Octavio Solis, S. Bear Bergman and Sandra Lim at Writers With Drinks! DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks features wild poetry, robotics, and LG BTQ storytelling!When: Saturday, Jan. 10, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doo rs open 6:30 PMWho: Octavio Solis, Sandra Lim, S. Bear Bergman, Joshua Davis, Stefani Silverman, and Tim Johnston!How much: $5 to $20, all p roceeds benefit the CSCWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San F ranciscoAbout the readers/performers:Author of over 20 plays, Octavio Solis is considered by many to be one of the most prominent Latino pla ywrights in America. With works that both draw on and transcend the Me xican-American experience, he is a writer and director whose style def ies formula, examining the darkness, magic and humor of humanity with brutal honesty and characteristic intensity. His imaginative and ever- evolving work continues to cross cultural and aesthetic boundaries, so lidifying him as one of the great playwrights of our time.Award-winnin g writer, educator and storyteller S. Bear Bergman is the author or ed itor of six books as well as the founder of Flamingo Rampant, a childr en’s press focused on feminist, LGBTQ-positive, racially-diverse chi ldren’s books. His most recent book Blood, Marriage, Wine, & Glitter made several Best Of lists and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. A much-loved speaker and storyteller at universities and festi vals alike, Bergman’s signature blend of wit and warmth brings all t he people to the yard regardless of their sex designation, gender iden tity, or gender expression, which he would like to remind you are not at all the same thing.Sandra Lim is the author of The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), selected by Louise Glück for the most recent Barnard Women Poets Prize, and a previous collection of poetry, Loveliest Grot esque (Kore Press, 2006). Her work has been published in Guernica, VOL T, Columbia Poetry Review, Literary Imagination, Boston Review, and ot her journals. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Getty Research Institute. Lim was b orn in Seoul, Korea and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She tea ches at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and lives in Cambridge , MA.Joshua Davis is the co-founder of Epic Magazine and has been a co ntributing editor at Wired Magazine for a decade. He has written for T he New Yorker, GQ, Outside, Mens Journal, Mens Health, Maxim and Food & Wine. He was a finalist for the 2014 National Magazine Award in feat ure writing and his work is anthologized in the 2012 edition of \"The Best American Science and Nature Writing,\" as well as the 2006, 2007 and 2009 editions of \"The Best Technology Writing.\" In 2014, Farrar Strauss Giroux published his third book, Spare Parts, a chronicle of t he triumph of a small robotics team.Tim Johnston is the author of the debut adult novel Descent, the story collection Irish Girl, and the yo ung adult novel Never So Green. Published in 2009, the stories in Iris h Girl won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and t he Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. In 2005 the title s tory, “Irish Girl,” was included in the David Sedaris anthology of favorites, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Johnston’s stories have also appeared in New England Review, New Letters, the Io wa Review, the Missouri Review, DoubleTake, Best Life Magazine, and Na rrative Magazine, among others. He holds degrees from the University o f Iowa and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He currently teac hes in the creative writing program at the University of Memphis.Stefa ni Silverman is a San Francisco based comic dedicated to finding meani ng in life through humor. She has performed at Cobb’s Comedy Club an d is a regular at the Sunday New Talent Show case at the SF Punchline. \n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.com/events/octavio-so lis-s-bear-bergman-and-sandra-lim-at-writers-with DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150110T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150110T213000 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":https://trueskool.com/profile/Charl ieJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR