Writers With Drinks with Annie Sprinkle, Ken Liu, Michelle Tea and more!

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Writers With Drinks with Annie Sprinkle, Ken Liu, Michelle Tea and more!

Time: March 14, 2015 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
Street: 3225 22nd. St.
City/State: San Francisco
Phone: 415-647-2888
Event Type: san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california
Organized By: Charlie Jane Anders
Latest Activity: Mar 9, 2015

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This is quite possibly the most insane lineup Writers With Drinks has ever featured. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

When: Saturday, March 14, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
Who: Annie Sprinkle, Ken Liu, Michelle Richmond, Joanne Harris, Aimee Suzara and Michelle Tea!
How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the CSC
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA

About the readers/performers:

Annie Sprinkle was a NYC prostitute and porn star for twenty years, then morphed into an artist and sexologist. She got her BFA at School of Visual Arts in NYC was the first porn star to earn a Ph.D.. She’s a popular lecturer whose work is studied in many colleges and Universities. For the past 12 years she has been collaborating on art projects with her partner, an artist and UCSC professor, Elizabeth Stephens. They are movers and shakers in the new “ecosex movement,” committed to making environmentalism more sexy, fun and diverse.


Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. He has won a Nebula, two Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and been nominated for the Sturgeon and the Locus Awards. Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a fantasy series, will be published by Simon & Schuster’s new genre fiction imprint in 2015, along with a collection of short stories.

Michelle Tea's latest book is How to Grow Up. She also recently published the YA novels Mermaid in Chelsea Creek and Girl at the Bottom of the Sea. Her previous books include Coal to Diamond: A Memoir, Rose of No Man's Land, the graphic novel Rent Girl, The Beautiful, The Chelsea Whistle, Valencia and The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America.

Michelle Richmond is the author of six books. Her new novel, Golden State, and her new story collection, Hum, winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, were published in Spring of 2014. Her previous books include the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, the novels Dream of the Blue Room and No One You Know, and the New York Times and international bestseller The Year of Fog.

Joanne Harris' latest book is The Gospel of Loki. Her previous books include Peaches for Monsieur le Cure, Runelight and Runemarks, Blueeyedboy, The Lollipop Shoes, The French Market, Gentlemen & Players, Jigs & Reels, Holy Fools, Coastliners, The French Kitchen: A Cook Book, Five Quarters of the Orange, Blackberry Wine, Chocolat, Sleep, Pale Sister and The Evil Seed. Choclat was made into an Oscar-nominated movie.

Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and performer whose mission is to create poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social change. Her first full-length book, SOUVENIR, was released in February 2014 (WordTech Editions). Her first play, PAGBABALIK (Return) appeared in festivals in 2006-7 and she is working on her second, A HISTORY OF THE BODY, both supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation. A HISTORY OF THE BODY was also commissioned by the East Bay Community Foundation and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Recently, she collaborated with Amara Tabor Smith and Deep Waters Dance Theater for the food-justice themed dance theater piece, Our Daily Bread.

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