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:638784 DTSTAMP:20260417T172032Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Sarah Jeong and Carrie Patel! DESCRIPTION:This could be the geekiest Writers With Drinks event of al l time! When: Nov. 14, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Wh o: Jessica Erica Hahn, Sarah Jeong, S. Kay, K. Tempest Bradford, Micha el Collins and Carrie Patel! 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: Sarah Jeong is a journalist who was tra ined as a lawyer. She is a contributing editor at Vice Motherboard who writes about technology, policy, and law. She is the author of The In ternet of Garbage, and has bylines at The Verge, Forbes, The Guardian, Slate, and WIRED. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As a law student, she edited the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and work ed at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She is currently a fellow at the Internet Law & P olicy Foundry. Carrie Patel is the author of two science fantasy nove ls, The Buried Life and Cities and Thrones. She works as a narrative d esigner at Obsidian Entertainment in Irvine, California. K. Tempest B radford is a speculative fiction writer by night, a media critic and c ulture columnist by day, and an activist blogger in the interstices. H er fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Electric Velocipede, and illustrious anthologies such as Diverse Energies. She’s also a regul ar contributor to NPR, io9, and books about Time Lords. Visit her blog : KTempestBradford.com Jessica Erica Hahn is finishing a book about h er parents, a hippie ship captain and a civil rights activist, who liv ed on the sea in renovated World War Two era ships. About a dozen of h er stories and essays appear in literary journals, links to which can be found here. Other writing projects include Hill Babies, a blog abou t kid-friendly hikes in the San Francisco Bay Area, and editing Passin g Through, a literary journal that collaborates creative writing and i mages about the road less traveled. In the 1990s, Jessica spent a coup le years traveling thousands of miles by freight train, Greyhound, car , thumb, and foot, making money here and there around the USA. Around this time she wrote the books Transient Ways, Elysian Fields: A Fucked Up Love Story, and Elemental. S. Kay zaps tweet-sized stories to an alyze future and fact. She lives in Vancouver, Canada and online. She' s a queer, neurodiverse author collecting many air miles, married to a San Francisco scientist. A consummate Twitter fiction writer, she's b een featured in two anthologies: ON A NARROW WINDOWSILL, and 140 AND C OUNTING, and won prizes in the 2014 #TwitterFiction Festival, Confetti fall’s Audience Choice Award, and Cuento Magazine’s 4th of July Co ntest. SPAMBOT PSYCHOSIS, an origami text cube avant object, is availa ble from zimZalla. RELIANT, an apocalypse in tweets, is out October 20 15 from tNY.Press, and and her novella JOY will be out January 2016 fr om Maudlin House. Michael Collins’ poems have appeared in more than 50 journals and magazines, including Grist, Kenning Journal, Pank, an d Smartish Pace. His first chapbook, How to Sing when People Cut off y our Head and Leave it Floating in the Water, won the Exact Change Pres s Chapbook Contest in 2014. A full-length collection, Psalmandala, was published later that year, and a second chapbook, Harbor Mandala, app eared in 2015. \n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.com/ev ents/writers-with-drinks-with-sarah-jeong-and-carrie-patel DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151114T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151114T213000 CATEGORIES:literature, "san francisco,", "spoken word,", books, geeks, "science fiction" LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 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