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DESCRIPTION:September's Writers With Drinks includes multi-award-winning author 
 Anuradha Roy. Plus survival poetry, kickass comedy, and tons of science 
 fiction and fantasy!\n\nWhen: Saturday, September 10 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 
 PM, doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: Anuradha Roy, Margaret Wappler, Hollie Hardy, 
 Naamen Tilahun, Dominique Gelin and Curtis Chen!\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\nAnuradha Roy's latest 
 book, Sleeping on Jupiter, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was 
 nominated for the Man Booker prize 2016. It has been nominated for various 
 other literary prizes, including the FT/ Oppenheimer Prize, Hindu Prize for 
 Best Fiction 2015, the Tata Book of the Year Award 2015, and the Atta 
 Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize 2015. She won the 
 Economist Crossword Prize for her second novel, The Folded Earth. Her first 
 novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been widely translated and was 
 picked as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and the 
 Seattle Times. It has been named by World Literature Today as one of the 60 
 most essential books on modern India and was shortlisted for the Crossword 
 Prize. Anuradha Roy won the Picador-Outlook Non-Fiction Prize in 2004 for 
 her essay, "Cooking Women". She works as a designer at Permanent Black, an 
 independent press which she runs with her husband, Rukun Advani. She lives 
 in Ranikhet, India.\n\nMargaret Wappler is the author of Neon Green, which 
 has been praised by Edan Lepucki and Joe Meno. She has written about the 
 arts and pop culture for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Elle, Cosmo, 
 New York Times, and several other publications. Neon Green is her first 
 novel. She lives in Los Angeles and can be heard weekly on the pop culture 
 podcast, Pop Rocket.\n\nHollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet, 
 And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014), winner the 2016 Annual 
 Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches writing classes at the SF Creative 
 Writing Institute, SFSU, and Berkeley City College. She co-hosts Saturday 
 Night Special, An East Bay Open Mic, curates Litquake’s Flight of Poets, 
 and is a founder and core producer of Oakland’s Beast Crawl Literary 
 Festival.\n\nNa'amen Gobert Tilahun has spent most of his life shuttling 
 between San Francisco and Los Angeles. He writes many different things that 
 have appeared in/on io9, Fantasy Magazine, Queers Dig Time Lords, Stone 
 Telling, Full of Crows, The Big Click, faggot dinosaur, Spelling the Hours, 
 Eleven Eleven and others. He was recently named one of 13 Bay Area Writers 
 to Watch/Read in 2016 by 7X7 magazine and his debut novel, a second-world 
 epic/urban fantasy, The Root was published by Night Shade Books in 
 June.\n\nDominique Gelin is a comedian in San Francisco who offers strong 
 opinions on stupid things, -isms, and assholes. It’s all very 
 fascinating. Before moving to the Bay Area, she was a finalist for the 
 Ultimate Miami Comedian and was a part of the Boca Raton Comedy Festival. 
 Dom has also touched the stage of a really famous comedy club that one 
 time. She co-hosts two comedy shows, Millennials Ruin Everything and The 
 Lazy Brunch Hour.\n\nCurtis Chen is the author of Waypoint Kangaroo. His 
 short fiction has appeared in "Daily Science Fiction" and SNAFU and will be 
 featured in Baen's MISSION: TOMORROW. On top of all that, he's a former 
 software engineer and once built a cat feeding robot. He lives in 
 Vancouver, Washington.\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/2016/09/05/18790858.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Anuradha Roy
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/05/18790858.php
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