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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's most unpredictable storytelling event is bringing you TWO 
 great writers of the fantastic: Charles Stross and Sarah Kuhn! Plus much, 
 much more!\n\nWhen: Saturday July 9 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 
 6:30 PM\nWho: Charles Stross, Sarah Kuhn, Abigail Ulman, Shruti Swamy, 
 Allison Mick, and Anne Lesley Selcer!\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\nCharles Stross' latest novel is The 
 Nightmare Stacks, part of the Laundry Files series. He's also the author of 
 the Halting State novels, the Saturn's Children series, the Merchant 
 Princes series, and the Eschaton series, plus the standalone novels 
 Glasshouse and Accelerando. He also co-wrote the novel The Rapture of the 
 Nerds with Cory Doctorow. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and 
 winner of the 2005, 2010, and 2014 Hugo awards for best novella, he has won 
 numerous other awards and been translated into at least 12 other 
 languages.\n\nSarah Kuhn is the author of the forthcoming Heroine Complex 
 trilogy, starring Asian American superheroines, for DAW Books, pitched as 
 "The Devil Wears Prada with superheroes." Sarah also wrote the geek girl 
 romantic comedy novella One Con Glory, which has been dubbed “Pride and 
 Prejudice at Comic-Con.” Recently, she wrote The Ruby Equation (with 
 artist Sally Jane Thompson) for the Eisner-nominated romance comics 
 anthology Fresh Romance and is currently writing a series of Barbie comics. 
 Additionally, she has written personal essays on Sailor Moon cosplay, comic 
 book continuity, and geek girl culture for Uncanny Magazine, Apex Magazine, 
 AngryAsianMan.com, and the Hugo-nominated anthology Chicks Dig 
 Comics.\n\nAbigail Ulman is the author of the story collection Hot Little 
 Hands. She is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford 
 University, and she recently won the Best Young Australian Novelist award. 
 She has lived in the Bay Area on and off for many years, both writing and 
 drinking. She is excited to showcase both these skills at Writers With 
 Drinks.\n\nShruti Swamy lives and writes in San Francisco's Tenderloin. Her 
 work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The O Henry Prize Stories 2016, 
 Agni, the Kenyon Review Online, the Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, and 
 elsewhere. In 2012, she was Vassar College's 50th W.K. Rose Fellow, and has 
 been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts and Hedgebrook. 
 She is a Kundiman fiction fellow.\n\nAllison Mick is an Oakland-based 
 comedian and writer originally from Rochester, NY. She draws from her 
 upbringing and personal experiences to address topics like race, gender, 
 and serial killers. Mick has performed in such festivals as San Francisco 
 Sketchfest and the Hudson Valley Comedy Festival. In 1997, she was featured 
 in the book “Humor Works” by Dr. John Morreall, the founder of the 
 International Society for Humor Studies. She’s been pretty much coasting 
 on that fame ever since.\n\nAnne Lesley Selcer is a poet and art writer. 
 For the past several years, she has been writing about beauty. from A Book 
 of Poems on Beauty was chosen for the Gazing Grain publication award in 
 2014. Subsequent work on form was commissioned by Second Floor Projects 
 (San Francisco) and is reprinted in Art Practical. She wrote Banlieusard 
 for Artspeak (Vancouver) and has chapbooks with Dusie Kollektiv and 
 Supersuperette. Writing has been included in seven anthologies. It also 
 appears in catalogs or monographs for Centre A, the Or Gallery, the Belkin, 
 the Helen Pitt, TV Books, 2nd Floor Projects, and most recently Fence and 
 The Chicago Review. Aesthetics and politics, appearance, disappearance, 
 biopolitics, and social death are current themes. She is an Art Writing 
 Fellow at Southern Exposure.\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/2016/07/05/18788648.php
SUMMARY:Charles Stross comes to Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/05/18788648.php
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