 About the readers/performers: Meg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her series, The Road to Nowhere, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. She was a James A. Tiptree Award Honoree in 2018. She has been published in McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online, where she writes like she’s running out of time.  Amanda Rosenberg is a British comedy writer whose work has been featured in McSweeney's, Vox, Salon, and Funny or Die. Her first book "That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill" is available now! And while everyone has been telling her the book has cured their depression — she only wrote it for the fame and the money.  Alvin Orloff began writing in 1977, while still a teenager, by penning lyrics for The Blowdryers, an early San Francisco punk band. He spent the 1980s working as a telemarketer and exotic dancer while concurrently attending U.C. Berkeley and performing with The Popstitutes, a somewhat absurd performance art troupe/homocore band. In 1990 he and his bandmates founded Klubstitute, a floating queer cabaret devoted to the ideal of cultural democracy that featured spoken word, theater, drag, and musical acts. In 1995 the club, whose staff and patrons had been ravaged by AIDS epidemic, closed its doors and Orloff suddenly remembered that all he'd ever wanted to be was a writer. He subsequently published three rather whimsical novels, I Married an Earthling, Gutter Boys, and Why Aren't You Smiling? before producing Disasterama! his memoir of life in the queer underground during the height of the AIDS crisis. Orloff currently lives in San Francisco and works as the manager of Dog Eared Books, a literary hot-spot in the heart of the Castro District.  SPECIAL GUEST HOST Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco and a tendency to spill things. She is the author of Also An Octopus, illustrated by Benji Davies. You can read her work for adults on Catapult, The Rumpus, The Columbia Journey of Art and LIterature and Boing Boing. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea is her young adult fiction debut and is available for preorder now. | San Francisco's longest running spoken word series features mind-blowing science fiction, literary fiction, queer memoir, and tons more! Featuring amazing guest host Maggie Tokuda-Hall! When: Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM Who: Meg Elison, Megan O'Keefe, Zoe Young, Alvin Orloff, Olga Zilberbourg, Amanda Rosenberg, and guest host Maggie Tokuda-Hall! How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA  Megan E. O'Keefe was raised amongst journalists, and as soon as she was able joined them by crafting a newsletter which chronicled the daily adventures of the local cat population. She has worked in both arts management and graphic design, and has won Writers of the Future and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. Megan lives in the Bay Area of California.  Olga Zilberbourg is the author of LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press, 2019) and three Russian-language collections of stories. Her criticism has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Common, and Electric Literature. She serves as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop that meets at Alley Cat Books on Tuesday nights.  Zoe Young is a writer living in San Francisco. She has an MFA from California College of the Arts, she just finished a goddamn novel, and she used to be the Word of the Day girl for Dictionary.com. You can find her work in McSweeney's Quarterly: Issue 53 and on multiple bathroom walls. She now has a 9-5 writing for nature, but the views reflected in her work tonight are entirely her own and do not belong to nature.  |
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.
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 |
