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:195910 DTSTAMP:20260407T160045Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Luis Jaramillo and Arisa White! DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks goes to strange new places and leaves you there, with no way to get home. When: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM Who: Jenny Davidson, Arisa Whit e, Marie Brennan, Luis Jaramillo and Molly Weatherfield! Where: The Ma ke Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture About the w riters/readers: Luis Jaramillo is the author of The Doctor’s Wife, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Contest, an Oprah Boo k of the Week, and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2012. Luis’s work ha s also appeared in Open City, Gamers (Soft Skull Press), Tin House Mag azine, H.O.W. Journal, and Red Line Blues. He is the Associate Chair o f the Writing Program at the New School, where he oversees the undergr aduate curriculum and the Riggio Honors Program: Writing & Democracy, teaches courses in fiction and nonfiction, and is co-editor of the jou rnal The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food. He has led workshops on y oga and writing at the New School Summer Writers Colony, NYU Paris, an d the Laughing Lotus Yoga Studios in Manhattan and San Francisco. Jen ny Davidson's latest book is The Magic Circle. Her other books include Heredity, and two young-adult novels, The Explosionist and Invisible Things. She also wrote two works of nonfiction: Hypocrisy and the Poli tics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen and Breedi ng: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century. She teaches in the De partment of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, an MFA graduate from the Univer sity of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the poetry chapbooks Dis position for Shininess and Post Pardon; she was selected by the San Fr ancisco Bay Guardian for the 2010 Hot Pink List. Member of the PlayGro und writers’ pool, her play Frigidare was staged for the 15th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival. Recipient of the inaugural Rose O’Neil l Literary House summer residency at Washington College in Maryland, A risa has also received residencies, fellowships, or scholarships from Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Community of Writers , Hedgebrook, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prague Summer Program, Fin e Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her debut co llection, Hurrah’s Nest, was published by Virtual Artists Collective ; her second collection, A Penny Saved, was released by Willow Books, an imprint of Aquarius Press, in November 2012. Marie Brennan is the author of A Natural History of Dragons. Her previous books include War rior, Witch, Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, Wit h Fate Conspire and Lies and Prophecy. Her stories have appeared in Be neath Ceaseless Skies, Jabberwocky, Talebones, Intergalactic Medicine Show and many other places. Molly Weatherfield, the pen name of Pam R osenthal, is the author of Carrie's Story, which Playboy called an \"A merican twist on Story of O,\" plus a sequel, Safe Word. A prolific ro mance and erotica writer, she has penned many sexy, literate, historic al novels. She lives in San Francisco. About Writers With Drinks: Wr iters With Drinks won \"Best Literary Night\" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll six years in a row and was named \"Best Literary Drinki ng\" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead Maupin's la test Tales of the City novel. The spoken word \"variety show\" mixes g enres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show i ncludes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, my stery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewhe eling format.\n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.com/even ts/writers-with-drinks-with-luis-jaramillo-and-arisa-white DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130413T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130413T213000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, ca LOCATION: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