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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks keeps the spoken word vibe juicy and multi-faceted, 
 like a starfruit. This time, we have a special guest host, and some 
 returning favorites!\n\nWhen: Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, 
 doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: Kirk Read, Thea Hillman, Mir Tamim Ansary, 
 Yayne Abeba and Cara Black, plus guest MC Daphne Gottlieb!\nLocation: The 
 Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San 
 Francisco\nAdmission: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the 
 CSC.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nKirk Read is the author of How I 
 Learned to Snap and This Is The Thing. He co-curates the two 
 longest-running queer open mic events in San Francisco, Smack Dab and 
 K’vetsh. He is currently at work on a third book and is editing two 
 anthologies, one about male sex workers and one about the intersections 
 between gay men and transgender men.\n\nThea Hillman is the author of 
 Depending on the Light and For Lack of a Better Word. She's a San Francisco 
 Poetry Slam Champion, was awarded first place in the 1999 Books Inc. poetry 
 contest, second place in the Berkeley Fiction Review's sudden fiction 
 contest, and won the 1998 Albuquerque Poetry Festival tag-team haiku 
 championship. She performed a birdcall on The Tonight Show, was on the 
 cover of the Oakland phone book, and won a tag-team haiku championship 
 title.\n\nMir Tamim Ansary is the author of West of Kabul, East of New 
 York, Destiny Disrupted, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, The 
 Widow’s Husband, Snapshots: This Afghan American Life, and Holiday 
 Histories, among others. He directs the San Francisco Writers 
 Workshop.\n\nCara Black is the author of the nationally bestselling and 
 award nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series. She's been included in 
 the Great Women Mystery Writers, and the Washington Post named Murder in 
 the Rue du Parais as one of the best fiction choices of 2008.\n\nYayne 
 Abeba recently headlined at Back Room Comedy, and the SCO Show. She won the 
 2002 Russian River Comedy Competition. She's known for gripping audiences 
 with her tales of growing up as a first generation Ethiopian in 
 America.\n\nGuest MC Daphne Gottlieb is the author of Kissing Dead Girls, 
 Final Girl, Why Things Burn, and Pelt, plus the graphic novel Jokes and the 
 Unconscious, with Diane DiMassa. She's also edited two anthologies, Fucking 
 Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Homewrecker: An Adultery 
 Reader. Final Girl was the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 
 2003 from Publishing Triangle, and was named one of the The Village Voice's 
 Favorite Books of 2003.\n\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With 
 Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll 
 six 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. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/06/18665756.php
SUMMARY:Thea Hillman and Kirk Read at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/06/18665756.php
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