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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with N.K. Jemisin!
DESCRIPTION:This month, the fantastic award-winning SF author NK Jemis
 in is coming to town. This is major!  When: Saturday, August 8, from 7
 :30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Who: NK Jemisin, Maggie Tokuda-H
 all, Maw Shein Win, Ocean Capewell and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier How much
 : $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the CSC Where: The Make Out Room, 32
 25 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA  About the readers/performers:  N.K. J
 emisin's new book is The Fifth Season. Her other books include The Inh
 eritance Trilogy and the Dreamblood duology. Her short fiction has app
 eared in Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, Baen’s Univers
 e and other magazines and anthologies. Her work has been nominated for
  the Hugo (three times), the Nebula (four times), and the World Fantas
 y Award (twice); shortlisted for the Crawford, the Gemmell Morningstar
 , and the Tiptree; and she has won a Locus Award for Best First Novel 
 as well as the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award (three times).
   Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from USF and a tendency to 
 spill things. She splits her time writing for children and writing for
  adults, and her debut children's book, And Also an Octopus, comes out
  in 2016. She's also written a lot of amazing smut for the Shipwrecked
  series of literary fan-fiction.  Maw Shein Win lives in Berkeley and 
 teaches in San Francisco. She often collaborates with visual artists a
 nd musicians, and her most recent chapbook, Ruins of a glittering pala
 ce, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. She is a poetry editor
  for Rivet and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.  Oc
 ean Capewell's first novel, The Most Beautiful Rot, was published in 2
 014. She's currently working on her second book, a memoir entitled The
  Wrong Universe, about being genderqueer and falling in love with a tr
 ans partner who passes; it’s about the strange pull between those wo
 rlds, the realization that one is not in the wrong body but the wrong 
 universe.  Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Collateral Damage: A Triptych earn
 ed praise from Nikki Giovanni, Daniel Handler, Antonya Nelson and othe
 rs. New work is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA and Glimmer Train. Soma is comp
 leting a screenplay and novel.  About Writers With Drinks:  Writers Wi
 th Drinks has won numerous \"Best ofs\" from local newspapers, and has
  been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Ta
 les of the City novels. The spoken word \"variety show\" mixes genres 
 to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetr
 y, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, litera
 ry fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
 \n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.com/events/writers-wi
 th-drinks-with-n-k-jemisin
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CATEGORIES:san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
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CONTACT:415-647-2888
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