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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks is going to help you get lost, because we get a 
 commission.\n\nWhen: Saturday, June 8, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 
 6:30\nWho: Jane Ciabattari, Annalee Newitz, Terry Bisson, Greta Christina, 
 Hiya Swanhuyser and Jade Cho!\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 writers/readers:\n\nJane Ciabattari is the author of the 
 critically acclaimed short-story collection, "Stealing the Fire", selected 
 for the Dzanc Books rEprint Series, May 2013. Her short stories have been 
 published in Long Island Noir, edited by Kaylie Jones (Akashic Books, 
 2012), The Literarian, the online publication of the Center for Fiction 
 (edited by Dawn Raffel), KBG Bar Lit, LOST magazine, Chautauqua magazine, 
 Literary Mama, VerbSap, Ms. Magazine (nominated for O.Henry and Pushcart 
 awards), The North American Review, Denver Quarterly, Hampton Shorts (which 
 honored her with an Editors' Choice Award), The East Hampton Star, 
 Blueline, Caprice and Redbook, which nominated her for a National Magazine 
 Award.\n\nAnnalee Newitz writes about science, pop culture, and the future. 
 She’s the editor in chief of io9, a publication that covers science and 
 science fiction, and has over 5 million readers every month. She’s the 
 author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass 
 Extinction (Doubleday). She’s also published in Wired, The Smithsonian 
 Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, 
 Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She’s 
 co-editor of the essay collection She’s Such A Geek (Seal Press), and 
 author of Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture 
 (Duke University Press).\n\nTerry Bisson is an award winning science 
 fiction writer. He lives in Oakland. He is also a literary impresario, 
 hosting a monthly reading series called SF in SF. His latest novel is 
 called ANY DAY NOW. It's an alternate history of 1968.\n\nHiya Swanhuyser's 
 new book is called A Bunch of Stupid Shit That Saved My Life, and it's "a 
 do-it-yourself-help memoir about severe clinical depression."\n\nGreta 
 Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including 
 sex, atheism, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her 
 mind. She is author of "Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss 
 Off the Godless," and her cleverly-named Greta Christina's Blog is one of 
 the most widely-read and well-respected blogs in the atheist blogosphere. 
 She is co-organizer and co-host of the Godless Perverts Story Hour and the 
 Godless Perverts Social Club, here in San Francisco. Her latest book, 
 "Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & 
 More," is currently available as an ebook on Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords: 
 audiobook and print editions are coming soon.\n\nJade Cho is a poet from 
 Oakland, California. She has competed nationally since 2011 - as a member 
 of the 2011 Youth Speaks Bay Area slam team, and the 2013 UC Berkeley CUPSI 
 team. The granddaughter of immigrants from Toisan, China, her work explores 
 the complexities of Asian American identity and femininity, and the every 
 day intersections of power and privilege that affect us all.\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 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/05/18737996.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Terry Bisson and Greta Christina
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/05/18737996.php
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