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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest running reading series is back -- with strange 
 science fiction and brilliant literature. Plus werewolves!\n\nWhen: 
 Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM \nWho: 
 Cecil Castellucci, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Alvin Orloff, Allison 
 Moon, and Samhita Mukhopadhyay! \nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. 
 between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco \nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding 
 scale, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture\n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers:\n\nCecil Castellucci's latest novel is The Last Day on 
 Earth. Her other books include Boy Proof , The Queen of Cool and Beige all 
 on Candlewick Press and Rose Sees Red on Scholastic Press. Her first 
 Graphic Novel The Plain Janes launched the DC Comics Minx imprint and she 
 was awarded the 2007 Shuster Award for best Canadian Comic Book Writer. It 
 was followed up by the sequel Janes in Love. Her first Picture Book, 
 Grandma’s Gloves won the California Book Award Gold Medal for juvenile 
 literature. She also co-edited the book Geektastic, with Holly Black. 2012 
 brings a new hybrid YA novel The Year of the Beasts illustrated by Nate 
 Powell. Forthcoming in 2013 book for young readers, Odd Duck, illustrated 
 by Sara Varon, and The Tin Star, book one in a new Sci Fi series.\n\nAlvin 
 Orloff's latest book is Why Aren't You Smiling? He's also written the 
 novels I Married An Earthling and Gutter Boys, and he's the co-author of 
 transsexual showbiz memoir, The Unsinkable Bambi Lake. His writing can be 
 found in numerous zines and anthologies, including Beyond Definition (Manic 
 D Press, 1994), Tricks and Treats (Harrington Park Press 2000), and Pills, 
 Chills, Thrills and Heartache (Alyson Press 2004). He began writing in 1977 
 as a teenage lyricist for The Blowdryers, perhaps the campiest of all the 
 early San Francisco punk bands. After studying sociology at U.C. Berkeley 
 he dabbled in underground theater with The Sick & Twisted Players, 
 performance art with the Popstitutes, and deejaying at Baby Judy's 
 Discotheque À Go-Go, before wholly succumbing to his literary 
 pretensions.\n\nLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled Sri 
 Lankan writer, teacher and cultural worker. The author of Consensual 
 Genocide and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting 
 Intimate Violence in Activist Communities (South End, 2011), her work has 
 appeared in the anthologies Persistence: Still Butch and Femme, Yes Means 
 Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don’t Need 
 Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, 
 Femme and A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over The World. Her second book of 
 poetry, Love Cake, is forthcoming in fall 2011.\n\nSamhita Mukhopadhyay is 
 a writer, speaker and technologist residing in Brooklyn, NY. She is the 
 Executive Editor of Feministing.com and is the author of Outdated: Why 
 Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. She has written for multiple news outlets 
 including The Nation, The American Prospect, Alternet and the Guardian UK. 
 She has been profiled in India Currents Magazine, Nirali Magazine, Brown 
 Girl Magazine, Rabble.ca and on Alternet.\n\nAllison Moon is the author of 
 Lunatic Fringe, a queer feminist werewolf novel. Her writing has been 
 published in Not For Tourists, Nerve.com, McSweeney’s, and 
 Psychopedia.com. In 2011, she was named runner-up for the Victoria Hudson 
 Emerging Writer’s Award. She was recently named a fellow for the Lambda 
 Literary Foundation’s Emerging LGBT Writer’s Program.\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/2011/11/05/18697635.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Cecil Castellucci and Samhita Mukhopadhyay
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. SF CA 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/05/18697635.php
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