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:640244 DTSTAMP:20260413T073417Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Anthony Marra and Elizabeth McKenzie DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest-running spoken word night is going to new frontiers of honesty and also deception. A little of both, rea lly. Honest deception. These are some of our favorite writers, and we hope you like them! When: Jan. 9 from 7 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:3 0 PM Who: Anthony Marra, Naomi Williams, Lisa Goldstein, Edward Gauvin , Tracey Knapp and Elizabeth McKenzie How much: $5 to $20, all proceed s benefit the CSC Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Franci sco, CA About the readers/performers: Anthony Marra's latest book is The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories. He's also the author of The Wol ves of Bilaya Forest and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he now teaches as the Jon es Lecturer in Fiction. Marra's story \"Chechnya\" won a Pushcart Priz e and a Narrative Prize. Naomi Williams' first novel is Landfalls, a fictionalized account of the 18th-century Lapérouse expedition. Her f iction has appeared in A Public Space, One Story, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review. In 2009, she received a Pushcart Prize and a Best American Honorable Mention. Lisa Goldstein's latest book is W eighing Shadows. She won a National Book Award for her novel The Red M agician, a Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Uncertain Places, and th e Sidewise Award for her short story \"Paradise Is a Walled Garden.\" Her other books include Travelers in Magic, The Divided Crown, The Alc hemist's Door and Dark Cities Underground. Tracey Knapp's first full- length collection of poems, Mouth, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award . She's received scholarships from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop a nd the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Mark Strand and Claudia Emerson each chose her poems for Best New Poets 2008 and 2010. Other w ork has appeared in Five Points, The National Poetry Review, Red Wheel barrow Review, The New Ohio Review, The Minnesota Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Connotation Press, Painted Bride Quarterly, No Tell Motel, 236, Failbetter, La Petite Zine, Sewanee Theological Review and elsew here. Edward Gauvin is the translator of The Deep Sea Diver Syndrome by Serge Brussolo, which he describes as \"\"Inception directed by Dav id Cronenberg.\" He's the winner of the inaugural Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation prize for Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud's A Life on Paper. He's received fellowships and residencies from the Centre Na tional du Livre, Ledig House, the Banff Centre, the Clarion Workshop, and the American Literary Translators Association. His work has appear ed in Tin House, Conjunctions, PEN America, Epiphany, The Southern Rev iew, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and The Harvard Review. Elizabeth McK enzie's latest novel is The Portable Veblen. She's the author of a col lection, Stop That Girl, short-listed for The Story Prize, and the nov el MacGregor Tells the World, a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronic le and Library Journal Best Book of the year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Readi ng, and the Pushcart Prize anthology, and has been recorded for NPR’ sSelected Shorts. She was an NEA/Japan US-Friendship Commission Fellow in 2010. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks has won num erous \"Best ofs\" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x 7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novel s. The spoken word \"variety show\" mixes genres to raise money for lo cal causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, s cience fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.\n\nFor more informat ion visit https://trueskool.com/events/writers-with-drinks-with-anthon y-marra-and-elizabeth-mckenzie DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160109T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160109T210000 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/2247980750?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR