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DESCRIPTION:This could be the geekiest Writers With Drinks event of all time!\n\nWhen: 
 Nov. 14, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: Jessica Erica 
 Hahn, Sarah Jeong, S. Kay, K. Tempest Bradford, Michael Collins and Carrie 
 Patel!\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\nSarah Jeong is a journalist who was trained as a 
 lawyer. She is a contributing editor at Vice Motherboard who writes about 
 technology, policy, and law. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, 
 and has bylines at The Verge, Forbes, The Guardian, Slate, and WIRED. She 
 graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As a law student, she edited the 
 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and worked at the Electronic Frontier 
 Foundation and at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She is 
 currently a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.\n\nCarrie Patel is 
 the author of two science fantasy novels, The Buried Life and Cities and 
 Thrones. She works as a narrative designer at Obsidian Entertainment in 
 Irvine, California.\n\nK. Tempest Bradford is a speculative fiction writer 
 by night, a media critic and culture columnist by day, and an activist 
 blogger in the interstices. Her fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, 
 Electric Velocipede, and illustrious anthologies such as Diverse Energies. 
 She’s also a regular contributor to NPR, io9, and books about Time Lords. 
 Visit her blog: KTempestBradford.com\n\nJessica Erica Hahn is finishing a 
 book about her parents, a hippie ship captain and a civil rights activist, 
 who lived on the sea in renovated World War Two era ships. About a dozen of 
 her stories and essays appear in literary journals, links to which can be 
 found here. Other writing projects include Hill Babies, a blog about 
 kid-friendly hikes in the San Francisco Bay Area, and editing Passing 
 Through, a literary journal that collaborates creative writing and images 
 about the road less traveled. In the 1990s, Jessica spent a couple years 
 traveling thousands of miles by freight train, Greyhound, car, thumb, and 
 foot, making money here and there around the USA. Around this time she 
 wrote the books Transient Ways, Elysian Fields: A Fucked Up Love Story, and 
 Elemental. Later, she was one of several people featured in a film about 
 modern hobos, Catching Out.\n\nS. Kay zaps tweet-sized stories to analyze 
 future and fact. She lives in Vancouver, Canada and online. She's a queer, 
 neurodiverse author collecting many air miles, married to a San Francisco 
 scientist. A consummate Twitter fiction writer, she's been featured in two 
 anthologies: ON A NARROW WINDOWSILL, and 140 AND COUNTING, and won prizes 
 in the 2014 #TwitterFiction Festival, Confettifall’s Audience Choice 
 Award, and Cuento Magazine’s 4th of July Contest. SPAMBOT PSYCHOSIS, an 
 origami text cube avant object, is available from zimZalla. RELIANT, an 
 apocalypse in tweets, is out October 2015 from tNY.Press, and and her 
 novella JOY will be out January 2016 from Maudlin House.\n\nMichael 
 Collins’ poems have appeared in more than 50 journals and magazines, 
 including Grist, Kenning Journal, Pank, and Smartish Pace. His first 
 chapbook, How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating 
 in the Water, won the Exact Change Press Chapbook Contest in 2014. A 
 full-length collection, Psalmandala, was published later that year, and a 
 second chapbook, Harbor Mandala, appeared in 2015. He lives in New York 
 with his wife and son and teaches creative and expository writing at New 
 York University.\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/2015/11/08/18779808.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Sarah Jeong and Carrie Patel!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/11/08/18779808.php
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