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DESCRIPTION:This is quite possibly the most insane lineup Writers With Drinks has ever 
 featured. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!\n\nWhen: Saturday, March 14, from 7:30 PM 
 to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: Annie Sprinkle, Ken Liu, Michelle 
 Richmond, Joanne Harris, Aimee Suzara and Michelle Tea!\nHow much: $5 to 
 $20, all proceeds benefit the CSC\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. 
 St., San Francisco, CA\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nAnnie Sprinkle 
 was a NYC prostitute and porn star for twenty years, then morphed into an 
 artist and sexologist. She has passionately explored sexuality for over 
 forty years, sharing her experiences through making her own unique brand of 
 feminist sex films, writing books and articles, visual art making, creating 
 theater performances, and teaching. Annie has consistently championed sex 
 worker rights and health care and was one of the pivotal players of the Sex 
 Positive Movement of the 1980’s. She got her BFA at School of Visual Arts 
 in NYC was the first porn star to earn a Ph.D.. She’s a popular lecturer 
 whose work is studied in many colleges and Universities. For the past 12 
 years she has been collaborating on art projects with her partner, an 
 artist and UCSC professor, Elizabeth Stephens. They are movers and shakers 
 in the new “ecosex movement,” committed to making environmentalism more 
 sexy, fun and diverse. In 2013, Sprinkle proudly received the 
 Artist/Activist/Scholar Award from Performance Studies International at 
 Stanford, and was awarded the Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant 
 Garde.\n\nKen Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as 
 well as a lawyer and programmer. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine 
 of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, 
 and Strange Horizons, among other places. He has won a Nebula, two Hugos, a 
 World Fantasy Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and 
 been nominated for the Sturgeon and the Locus Awards. He lives with his 
 family near Boston, Massachusetts. Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, 
 the first in a fantasy series, will be published by Simon & Schuster’s 
 new genre fiction imprint in 2015, along with a collection of short 
 stories.\n\nMichelle Tea's latest book is How to Grow Up. She also recently 
 published the YA novels Mermaid in Chelsea Creek and Girl at the Bottom of 
 the Sea. Her previous books include Coal to Diamond: A Memoir, Rose of No 
 Man's Land, the graphic novel Rent Girl, The Beautiful, The Chelsea 
 Whistle, Valencia and The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of 
 One Girl in America. She is the creator and editor of Mutha Magazine, and 
 blogs regularly about her attempts to get pregnant on xoJane.com. She is 
 founder and Artistic Director of RADAR Productions, a literary organization 
 that produces monthly reading series, the international Sister Spit 
 performance tour, the Sister Spit Books imprint on City Lights, and other 
 events.\n\nMichelle Richmond is the author of six books. Her new novel, 
 Golden State, and her new story collection, Hum, winner of the Catherine 
 Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, were published in Spring of 2014. Her 
 previous books include the award-winning story collection The Girl in the 
 Fall-Away Dress, the novels Dream of the Blue Room and No One You Know, and 
 the New York Times and international bestseller The Year of Fog. Michelle 
 has received the Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of 
 Southern Writers, the Associated Writing Programs Award, and the 
 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in 
 Glimmer Train, the Oxford American, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, 
 Playboy, The Guardian, The Believer, Best American Fantasy, The Kenyon 
 Review, The Missouri Review, and many magazines and anthologies.\n\nJoanne 
 Harris' latest book is The Gospel of Loki. Her previous books include 
 Peaches for Monsieur le Cure, Runelight and Runemarks, Blueeyedboy, The 
 Lollipop Shoes, The French Market, Gentlemen & Players, Jigs & Reels, Holy 
 Fools, Coastliners, The French Kitchen: A Cook Book, Five Quarters of the 
 Orange, Blackberry Wine, Chocolat, Sleep, Pale Sister and The Evil Seed. 
 Choclat was made into an Oscar-nominated movie. Her books are now published 
 in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international 
 awards. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 
 has honorary doctorates in literature from the universities of Sheffield 
 and Huddersfield, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange 
 Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Royal Society Winton Prize for 
 Science.\n\nAimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and 
 performer whose mission is to create poetic and theatrical work about race, 
 gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social change. Her first 
 full-length book, SOUVENIR, was released in February 2014 (WordTech 
 Editions). Her first play, PAGBABALIK (Return) appeared in festivals in 
 2006-7 and she is working on her second, A HISTORY OF THE BODY, both 
 supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation. A HISTORY OF THE BODY was 
 also commissioned by the East Bay Community Foundation and supported by the 
 National Endowment for the Arts. Recently, she collaborated with Amara 
 Tabor Smith and Deep Waters Dance Theater for the food-justice themed dance 
 theater piece, Our Daily Bread. Her poems appear in numerous journals and 
 anthologies such as Kartika Review, 580 Split, Lantern Review and Walang 
 Hiya: Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice, Check the Rhyme: 
 An Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees and Poets (Lit Noire Press) and her 
 chapbooks, the space between and Finding the Bones (Finishing Line 
 Press).\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks has won 
 numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, 
 Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The 
 spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local 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/2015/03/08/18769711.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Annie Sprinkle!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/08/18769711.php
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