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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest running spoken word series continues. This is going 
 to be a powerful, crazy night of literature, poetry, science fiction, 
 fantasy and storytelling. Featuring some of our favorite writers and 
 performers of all time.\n\nWhen: Saturday, April 8 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 
 PM\nWho: Hari Kunzru, Kate Erickson, Siel Ju, Shelley Wong, Eileen Gunn and 
 Ilana C. Myer!\nHow much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for 
 Sex and Culture\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, 
 CA\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nHari Kunzru is the author of four 
 previous novels. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages, 
 and his short stories and journalism have appeared in many publications, 
 including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. He is the 
 recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The New York 
 Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in 
 Brooklyn.\n\nKentucky native Kate Erickson is based in Los Angeles, where 
 she has written for AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, TNT's Snowpiercer, and USA 
 Network's Mr. Robot, for which she received a Writers Guild Award. She has 
 also written for BBC America’s Copper. Erickson’s essays have appeared 
 in various publications including Wellesley Magazine — magazine of her 
 alma mater, Wellesley College — and the New York Press. She can be found 
 on Medium at @ericksonkate and elsewhere at @katefromky.\n\nEileen Gunn's 
 latest book is Questionable Practices, a story collection. She also 
 published another collection, Stable Strategies and Others. Her fiction has 
 appeared at Tor.com, Flurb.net, Eclipse One, Wired, Asimov's Magazine and 
 elsewhere. She published the Infinite Matrix science fiction webzine. Her 
 story "Coming to Terms" won a Nebula Award in 2004.\n\nSiel Ju is the 
 author of the novel-in-stories, Cake Time, winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press 
 Fiction Manuscript Award. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks. 
 Her stories and poems appear in ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review (Poem of the 
 Week), The Los Angeles Review, Denver Quarterly, and other places. She 
 gives away a book every month at sielju.com.\n\nShelley Wong is the author 
 of RARE BIRDS, a winner of the 2016 Diode Editions chapbook award. Her 
 poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Fairy Tale Review, The Normal School, 
 Sixth Finch, Southern Humanities Review, Vinyl, and elsewhere. A Kundiman 
 fellow and a Pushcart Prize recipient, she has received scholarships from 
 Fine Arts Work Center and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.\n\nIlana C. 
 Myer has written about books for the Globe and Mail, the Huffington Post, 
 the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon. Her debut epic fantasy, Last 
 Song Before Night, was released by Tor Books in 2015. The sequel, Fire 
 Dance, is forthcoming in 2018.\n\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/2017/04/02/18797915.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Hari Kunzru, Siel Ju and Eileen Gunn!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., SF
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/02/18797915.php
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