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:155442 DTSTAMP:20260421T112455Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Ramez Naam, Jan Richman, Kirk Hamilto n & Deb Campo! DESCRIPTION:January's Writers With Drinks includes cutting-edge scienc e fiction, comedy, and extreme literature! When: Saturday, January 12 , 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 Who: Jan Richman, Ramez Na am, Kirk Hamilton and Deb Campo! Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds ben efit the CSC About the writers/readers: Jan Richman's new novel is Thrill-Bent, coming in January 2013. She's also the author of Because the Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything, which was chosen by Robert Pins ky for the 1994 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has received an NEA grant in Literature, a Nation/Discovery Award , the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Fe lix Pollack Poetry Prize from the University of Wisconsin, and a San F rancisco Bay Guardian Poetry Prize. She has a B.A. in English from San Francisco State University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from New Y ork University, and has taught writing at Brooklyn College, the Academ y of Art University, and San Francisco City College. Deb Campo made i t to the finals of Nick at Nite's Funniest Mom in America 3 with Rosea nne Barr, and she was also a finalist in 2006 Rooster T. Feathers and 50 Mason Comedy Club comedy competitions. Debbie Campo is a regular at the Punchline and The Clubhouse in San Francisco and Rooster T. Feath ers in Sunnyvale and regularly tours with the comedy troupe \"Three Bl onde Moms\". Ramez Naam is the author of Nexus and Crux, two science fiction thrillers, the first of which came out in December 2012. He's also the author of the forthcoming The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet. His 2005 book More Than Human: Embracing th e Promise of Biological Enhancement won the 2005 HG Wells Award for Co ntributions to Transhumanism. He's a computer scientist in Seattle. K irk Hamilton is a writer and musician in San Francisco. He is a featur es editor for Gawker Media’s gaming site Kotaku and has written abou t music, games and culture for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Edge, Joystiq, Kill Screen, Acoustic Guitar and Paste , where he served as Games Editor. He has spoken at music and video ga me industry conferences, educators’ panels, and on national public r adio. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks won \"Best Lite rary Night\" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll six years in a row and was named \"Best Literary Drinking\" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. The spoken word \"variety show\" mixes genres to raise money for local wo rthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.\n\nFor more informa tion visit https://trueskool.com/events/writers-with-drinks-with-ramez -naam-jan-richman-kirk-hamilton-deb DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130112T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130112T213000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, ca LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA WEBSITE: URL: 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/2247935861?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR