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DESCRIPTION:December's Writers With Drinks is going to be our most epic yet. Featuring 
 space opera, Venusian airships, squid science, Native American poetry and 
 tons of queer literature!\n\nWhen: Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 
 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: Becky Chambers, Alyssa Cole, David D. 
 Levine, Dean Rader, Danna Staaf and Lauren Sanders!\nHow much: $5 to $20, 
 all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture\nWhere: The Make Out 
 Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA\n\n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers:\n\nBecky Chambers is the author of science fiction 
 novels The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit. 
 Her nonfiction writing has appeared in various corners of the Internet, 
 including Pornokitsch and Tor.com. She can be found online at 
 otherscribbles.com and @beckysaysrawr.\n\nAlyssa Cole's books include An 
 Extraordinary Union, A Hope Divided, and A Princess in Theory. She's a 
 former science editor, pop culture nerd, and lover of happily ever afters 
 who lives in the Caribbean and occasionally returns to her fast-paced NYC 
 life. She has contributed to publications including The Toast, Vulture, RT 
 Book Reviews, and Heroes and Heartbreakers. When she’s not writing, 
 traveling, and learning French, she can be found watching anime with her 
 husband, tending to her herd of animals, and attempting to get around her 
 Twitter-blocking app.\n\nDanna Staaf is the author of Squid Empire: The 
 Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods. She earned a PhD in invertebrate biology 
 from Stanford University, and has contributed to KQED, San Francisco, and 
 wrote “Squid a Day” for the blog Science 2.0.\n\nDavid D. Levine is the 
 author of Andre Norton Award winning novel Arabella of Mars (Tor 2016), 
 sequel Arabella and the Battle of Venus(Tor 2017), and over fifty SF and 
 fantasy stories. His story “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the Hugo, and he has been 
 shortlisted for awards including the Hugo, Nebula, Campbell, and Sturgeon. 
 Stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, Tor.com, numerous 
 Year’s Best anthologies, and his award-winning collection Space 
 Magic.\n\nDean Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry, American 
 Indian studies, and visual culture. His debut collection of poems, Works & 
 Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Bob 
 Bush Memorial Award for a First Book of Poems, and won the 2010 Writer's 
 League of Texas Poetry Prize. His chapbook, Landscape Portrait Figure Form 
 (Omnidawn), was named by the Barnes & Noble Review as one of the Best 
 Poetry Books of 2013. His newest collection of poems is entitled 
 Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). A portfolio 
 of poems from the book won the George H. Bogin Award (judged by Stephanie 
 Burt) from the Poetry Society of America. Suture, a collection of 
 collaborative poems written with Simone Muench, is forthcoming. His most 
 recent scholarly book is Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, 
 Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI.\n\nLauren Sanders' latest 
 novel is The Book of Love and Hate. She's also the author of the critically 
 acclaimed novels Kamikaze Lust, which won a Lambda Literary Award, and With 
 or Without You, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her writing has appeared 
 over the years in publications and journals including Book Forum, the 
 American Book Review, and Time Out/New York. She is also co-editor of a 
 really fun anthology called Too Darn Hot: Writing About Sex Since 
 Kinsey.\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/2017/12/03/18805075.php
SUMMARY:Lauren Sanders and Alyssa Cole at Writers With Drinks!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/12/03/18805075.php
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