Writers With Drinks
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture
- When
- Event has passed (Sat Mar 14, 2009 - Sat Jun 13, 2009)
- Cost
- $3 - $5
- Tags
- Bars, Literary Arts, Author Appearances, Writers, City Events, Benefits
Description
About the readers/performers:Luis Alberto Urrea is the recipient of the Lannon Literary Award, an
American Book Award, and a Colorado Book Award, and has been inducted into
the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. His book, The Devil's Highway, was a
finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Urrea's most
recent book is the novel The Hummingbird's Daughter.
David J. Williams is the author of The Mirrored Heavens and The Burning
Skies. He's a former programmer for the Homeworld videogame series and a
graduate of the Clarion workshop.
Ron MacLean is the author of Why The Long Face? and Blue Winetka Skies. His
fiction has appeared in GQ, Greensboro Review, Prism International, Night
Train and other quarterlies. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award
for Short Fiction.
Rachel McDowell has performed at the Romane Event and several other local
comedy shows.
Vanessa Norton's writing has appeared in Sex For America: Politically
Inspired Erotica and elsewhere.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian
readers' poll five years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by
the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money
for local worthy 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.
Hostess Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at
io9.com. She's the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft
Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She's Such A Geek
(Seal Press 2007). She also publishes other magazine.
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