 MEDIA MELTDOWN presents "Edgar Allan Poe: A Drag Show" - hosted by Piranha & Franzia Kafka! Performances by Oliver Branch, Vanilla Carter, Guicho Domingo, Paige Turner & Taco Zamora! ~ $7 ~ Doors at 7pm, show at 9pm! 7:00pm - 12:00am
  Litquake Presents: LitCrawl! CA College of the Arts (CCA), ~ FREE ~ 6:30pm - 7:30pm  Leslie Carol Roberts California College of the Arts Professor and Chair, MFA Writing San Francisco lesliecarolroberts.org Leslie Carol Roberts is Professor and Chair of MFA Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She is also faculty with the Architectural Ecologies Lab at CCA, where she founded the ECOPOESIS Movement with Adam Marcus and Chris Falliers, which explores embodied messaging around climate change. Leslie is the author of Here Is Where I Walk: Episodes from a Life in the Forest (2019, Nevada) and The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica, (Nebraska), and a chapter in the forthcoming book, Performing Ice (Palgrave/MacMillan.) Leslie was the first Fulbright Fellow in the Antarctic Humanities and she is an affiliated researcher with the Humanities and Social Sciences Group/Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Her essays and journalism on food, design, Antarctic tourism, travel, and the sciences have been widely published in the US and abroad. Twitter: @LeslieCRoberts  Litquake Presents: Best of the Mission at Tenth, 8pm to 9pm ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:00pm
 Litquake presents: Dancing About Architecture: A Night of Music Writers (Rachel Frankel, Sam Barry, Eric Shea, Joel Selvin, Emma Silvers) ~ FREE! ~ $5/$10 Donation Requested ~ 6:30pm - 10:00pm "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." —Attributed to either Laurie Anderson, Steve Martin, Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, Elvis Costello, Thelonious Monk, Clara Schumann, Miles Davis, or George Carlin. But it doesn't really matter who said it. We still need people writing about music. Much more so than dancing about architecture. Tonight you can hear some of the best, sharing some of their latest. With Sam Barry, Writer, Rachel Frankel, Joel Selvin, Emma Silvers, and Denise Sullivan. Hosted by Gabe Meline, with live music from Dawn Riding.
 Litquake presents: Poetry World Series ~ Doors open at 6:30. $5 adv / $10 door 6:30pm - 10:00pm Two teams of award-winning poets take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: they won't know what's coming next! Eminently qualified umpires score each batter's reading, and the winning team takes the series title. Hilarity and/or *breathtaking* work guaranteed. As Marianne Moore wrote, “Writing is exciting / and baseball is like writing. / You can never tell with either / how it will go.” Hosted by Daniel Handler, featuring poets Kazim Ali, Derrick Austin, Leticia Hernandez-Linares, Tommy Pico, Cintia Santana, sam sax, Prageeta Sharma, and more. With judge Gillian Conoley, umpire Dean Rader, and timekeeper Roy Mash. Book sales and signings to follow (cash and check only!). $5 advance / $10 at the door
 Litquake presents: Name a Bram Stoker Book Besides Dracula ~ Literary Quiz Night with CA College of the Arts ~ FREE! ~ $5 Donation Suggested ~ 6:30pm - 10:00pm Please join the MFA Program from California College of the Arts—celebrating 20 years of making the world safe for poets and prose writers—for a night of literary trivia competition! Get a team together and come on down to the Make-Out Room. Prizes include signed books and a one-on-one reading/critique of a winner's work by a CCA MFA faculty member! FREE, $5 suggested donation 
 DJ Paisley Happy Hour! - rock n roll, '60s psych, surf, '70s funk and punk, new wave, disco! ~ FREE! ~ 6:00pm - 9:30pm 
 Litquake presents: Botnik Live! A Reckless Night of Literary Experiment! $12 adv/$15 door ~ 6:30pm - 9:30pm Co-presented by SF Sketchfest 90 minutes of literary remixes from Botnik Studios, the comedic creative technology company responsible for a predictive text Harry Potter chapter, a Morrissey song about exercise equipment, and other computer-assisted text creations. This show features performances of chapters, scripts, monologues, and karaoke lyrics from the human-machine hivemind of Botnik. Feat. improv performers Thomas Boeck Marina Misculin Chris Griswold Jim Koman Michael J. Astrauskas 
  October's Writers With Drinks includes young-adult fantasy, politics and the law, real talk about gynecology, stories of homeless youth, heart-stopping performance poetry, and tons more. Prepare to be inspired, outraged and astonished! -When: Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM -Who: Michelle Ruiz Keil, Imani Gandy, Dr. Jen Gunter, Marta Acosta, Vivian Ho, Nazelah Jamison -How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the Double Union -Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA About the readers/performers: Michelle Ruiz Keil is an author and playwright with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. Her short fiction can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue and the forthcoming anthologies Color Outside The Lines and Dispatches from Anarres: Portland Writers Pay Tribute to The Vision of Ursula K Le Guin. Her debut novel, ALL OF US WITH WINGS, came out in June from Soho Press. Imani Gandy is a senior legal analyst for Rewire.News, where she covers law and courts and co-hosts Rewire.News’ podcast Boom! Lawyered. Imani also began and continues to write the Angry Black Lady Chronicles. Imani is a recovering attorney turned award-winning journalist and political blogger. Previously, Imani founded Angry Black Lady Chronicles, winner of the 2010 Black Weblog Award for Blog to Watch and the 2012 Black Weblog Award for Best Political Blog. She received her JD from University of Virginia School of Law in 2001, where she was a Hardy Cross Dillard scholar and an Editorial Board member of the University of Virginia Law Review. Dr. Jen Gunter is the author of The Vagina Bible, a funny, educational, facts-only handbook on what you need to know about your own body, how to talk to your medical providers, and a guide to vaginas of all ages. An ELLE Magazine Woman to Watch, Gunter now has two regular columns for The New York Times called “The Cycle” and “You Asked,” and columns in outlets ranging from The Lancet to Cosmopolitan. She’s the star of Jensplaining, a to-be-released video series produced by the CBC launching Summer 2019, that highlights the impact of medical misinformation on women. Nazelah Jamison is a performance poet, actor, vocalist, and emcee. She is an East Coast transplant, former organizer of the Oakland Poetry Slam and sometimes reluctant superhero. Her first book of poetry, Evolutionary Heart, was released in Fall of 2016 on Nomadic Press. Nazelah gives the best hugs in the Bay Area. Vivian Ho is the author of Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids. Ho is an award-winning journalist who has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Guardian, Topic, and the Boston Globe. Raised in New England, she currently lives in San Francisco. An Oakland native, Marta Acosta is the author of eight novels and was a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Contra Costa Times. She's been featured in the Washington Post, the Wall St. Journal, Marie Claire, Latina Magazine, and on Good Morning, America. She considers herself a writer of contemporary California fiction and is in deep denial about being a vampire writer. However, she's quietly thrilled that her novel The She Hulk Diaries is part of the Marvelverse. A Stanford University graduate, Marta's a long-time crazy dog lady, and lives in the East Bay with her family and rescued dog, Lola Wiggles. About Writers With Drinks: Writers 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.  El SUPERRITMO! ~
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~ Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~ $5 before 11pm, $10 after ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am 
 PRIVATE EVENT ~ 6:00pm - 10:00pm 
 HAPPY ENDINGS — Because we could all use a happy ending: 5 writers perform new work on a shared theme in a battle for the adulation of an appointed committee. PWYC, Suggested $10 7:00pm - 9:30pm
HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they've prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience, and that panel will honor their favorites. Cover is $10/Pay what you can and all the endings are happy(ish)!  SLOW JAMS ~
Deep & Sweet 60s Soul & Stuff ~ DJ Paul Costuros w/ dX the funky grandpa ~ FREE! ~ 9:30pm - 2:00am  The Monday Make-Out The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music-- w/ Nora Stanley Group (modern jazz) + : Los Conocen (free improvisation) + Inner Ear Brigade (prog/experimental rock) ~ FREE! Donations accepted, 8:30pm start time ~ 7:30pm - 11:00pm
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