October's Writers With Drinks features Pulitzer Prize winner (and now National Book Award finalist) Adam Johnson. Plus Brontez Purnell, Faith Adiele, and more!

When: Oct. 24, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM
Who: Adam Johnson, Faith Adiele, Fayette Fox, Daphne Gottlieb, Loren Rhoads and Brontez Purnell!
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:

Adam Johnson's newest book is the story collection Fortune Smiles. His novel The Orphan Master’s Son was published in 2012 by Random House and received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. He also has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013-14. A Whiting Writers’ Award winner, his work has appeared in Esquire, Harper’s, Playboy, GQ, Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, The New York Times and Best American Short Stories. He is the author of Emporium, a short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us. His books have been translated into twenty-three languages. Johnson was a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.

Loren Rhoads is the author of The Dangerous Type, Kill By Numbers, and No More Heroes. She was the publisher of Morbid Curiosity magazine. In her secret life, she writes about cemeteries as travel destinations.

Brontez Purnell has been publishing, performing, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine "Fag School," frontman for his band "The Younger Lovers," and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s, Purnell's other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film, "I Want Your Love" (Dir. Travis Mathews, 2012), He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum's L@TE program in 2012, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency, honored by Out Magazine's 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian's Goldie for Performance/Music. He has published one graphic novel (with illustrator Janelle Hessig) "The Cruising Diaries" (published by Gimme Action), just published his first novella,"Johnny Would You Love Me (if My Dick Were Bigger)," with Rudos and Rubes, and will publish a second novel, "Since I Laid My Burden Down…," with the Sister Spit imprint of City Lights Books.


Faith Adiele is the author of The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems (Shebooks), and Meeting Faith (W.W. Norton & Co.), which received PEN Beyond Margins Award for Best Memoir of 2004.
Fayette Fox's debut novel “The Deception Artist“ was originally published in the UK by Myriad Editionsin 2013, the book was just published in North America by Roaring Forties Press in March 2015.

Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of ten books including the new collection of short stories, Pretty Much Dead, which addresses the eradication of a city's most vulnerable, from the streets to the rent-controlled -- in a city under siege by the tech industry.