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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks is back after taking July off -- and we're hitting 
 twice as hard to make up for the hiatus!\n\nWhen: Saturday, August 11, 
 2012, 7:30 to 9:30 PM\nWho: Jane McGonigal, Saqib Mausoof, Rachel Swirsky, 
 Javier Zamora, and Simon Sheppard!\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. 
 St., San Francisco\nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit 
 the CSC.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nJane McGonigal, PhD is a 
 world-renowned designer of alternate reality games. She is the New York 
 Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and 
 How They Can Change the World (Penguin Press, 2011) — and currently 
 serves as the Creative Director for Social Chocolate, where she is making 
 games powered by the science of positive emotion and social connection.She 
 is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the 
 Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California. She is also 
 the founder of Gameful, “a secret headquarters for worldchanging game 
 developers.” She's ranked at #16 out of the top 20 most engaging TED 
 talks, and frequently appears on lists of the top innovators to watch and 
 top creative people in business.\n\nSaqib Mausoof is a Pakistani-American 
 filmmaker. His narrative, Kala Pul - The Black Bridge, a topical thriller 
 shot on Super 16 in Karachi, was short listed at the Asian Festival of 
 First Films and won Best Short at New Jersey Independent Cinefest. He is 
 raising funds on Kickstarter to make a movie called In Search of Meluhha: 
 The Story of Mohenjodaro.\n\nRachel Swirsky’s short fiction has appeared 
 in Tor.com, PANK, the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, the New Haven 
 Review, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among 
 others, and been collected in Year’s Best anthologies edited by Rich 
 Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She was the founding editor 
 of Podcastle, an audio fantasy magazine. Her novella "The Lady Who Plucked 
 Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window" won the 2010 Nebula Award, and 
 was nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy awards. Her novella "A Memory 
 of Wind" was a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Awards ballot. Her novelette 
 "Eros, Philia, Agape," was nominated for the Hugo, as well as the Theodore 
 Sturgeon Award, the Locus Award, the storySouth Million Writers Award, and 
 the Tiptree Award. And most recently, her novelette "Fields of Gold" has 
 been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.\n\nJavier Zamora was born in 
 La Herradura, La Paz, El Salvador. At the age of nine he immigrated to the 
 Yunaited Estais. His chapbook, Nine Immigrant Years, is the winner of the 
 2011 Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Contest. Zamora is a CantoMundo fellow 
 and a Breadloaf work-study scholarship recipient. He has received 
 scholarships from Frost Place, Napa Valley, Squaw Valley, and VONA. His 
 poems appear or are forthcoming in DirtyLaundry, NewBorder, Phat’titude, 
 The Homestead Review, The Poetry Show, Spillway Magazine, among other 
 journals. He will attend NYU’s MFA program in Fall 2012.\n\nProclaimed 
 “our erotica king” by San Francisco magazine, Simon Sheppard is the 
 editor of Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica, winner of the Lambda Literary 
 Award, and the author of Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories, which won the 
 Erotic Authors Association award. His other books include In Deep, Sex 
 Parties 101, and Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion. 
 His work has also been published in over 300 anthologies, including five 
 editions of The Best American Erotica and a record number of appearances in 
 the Best Gay Erotica series.\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With 
 Drinks 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. 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 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 
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SUMMARY:Jane McGonigal at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/07/18719067.php
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