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:668474 DTSTAMP:20260404T201535Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Devorah Major, Celeste Chan, and more! DESCRIPTION:October's Writers With Drinks has a theme of STRANGE ROMAN CE. Featuring mind-opening speculative fiction, robot poetry, almost-h uman spoken word, and tons more! When: Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 from 7 :30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Who: devorah major, Celeste Chan , Shawna Kenney, Christopher Brown, Thomas Centolella and Margaret Rhe e! How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Cult ure Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA About the readers/performers: devorah major is the author of an upcoming s cience fiction novel called Ice Journeys. San Francisco’s third form er Poet Laureate, major is a part-time senior adjunct professor at Cal ifornia College of the Arts, and poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Mu seums of San Francisco. Her first novel, An Open Weave, was awarded th e First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Ass ociation. Curbstone Press released her second novel (which includes po etry), Brown Glass Windows to critical acclaim. City Lights Publishing released another book of major’s poetry, where river meets ocean, a nd Creative Arts Books, Inc. released her third solo book of poetry, w ith more than tongue. Celeste Chan is a Hedgebrook, Lambda, and VONA fellow, and recent Sister Spit alum. Her writing can be found in Ada, AWAY, Citron Review, cream city review’s genrequeer folio, Feminist Wire, Hyphen, Mixed Race/Queer and Feminist, and The Rumpus.\n Shawna Kenney is the author of the award-winning memoir I Was a Teenage Domi natrix, editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under t he Covers, co-author of Imposters, and co-author of the new oral histo ry Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation†™s Capital 1988-1998.\n Christopher Brown's first novel is Tropic of K ansas. He was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for the anthology Th ree Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines an d anthologies, including MIT Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, T he Baffler, and Reckoning. Thomas Centolella is the author of four bo oks of poetry: Terra Firma (1990), Lights & Mysteries (1995), Views fr om along the Middle Way (2002), and Almost Human (2017). He has receiv ed the Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award, the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and was selected for p ublication in the National Poetry Series (selected by Denise Levertov) .\n Margaret Rhee is a poet, artist, and scholar. She is the author of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011) and Radio Heart; or, How Robot s Fall Out of Love (Finishing Line Press, 2015), awarded a 2017 Elgin Award, second place by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her pro ject The Kimchi Poetry Machine was selected for the Electronic Literat ure Collection Volume 3. Literary fellowships include Kundiman, Hedgeb rook, and the Kathy Acker Fellowship. She received her Ph.D. from UC B erkeley in ethnic and new media studies. She is at work completing her monograph, How We Became Human: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body.\n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.com/events/write rs-with-drinks-devorah-major-celeste-chan-and-more DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171021T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171021T213000 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 ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/Charl ieJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2248001454?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR