 About the readers/performers: Gabby Rivera is the author of AMERICA, the debut solo series for America Chavez, Marvel's first queer Latina superhero. Rivera’s critically acclaimed debut novel Juliet Takes a Breath was called “f*cking outstanding” by Roxane Gay and will be published in hardcover for the first time in fall 2019. When not writing, Gabby speaks on her experiences as a queer Puerto Rican from the Bronx, being an LGBTQ advocate and the importance of centering joy in narratives as Latinx people and people of color.  Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and they are a regular contributor for Tor.com and Barnes & Noble. Their most recent fiction credits include Fireside Fiction, Tor.com, and The Atlantic. Their debut novella, River of Teeth, was published in 2017 via Tor.com and was a 2018 Hugo and Nebula award finalist. Their adult novel debut, Magic For Liars, will be published by Tor Books in June 2019. Their Young Adult novel debut, When We Were Magic, will be published by Simon Pulse in Spring 2020.  Grace Lavery is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley, where she is also affiliated with the Programs in Critical Theory, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, and with the Center for Japanese Studies. Her first book, Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan, will be published by Princeton University Press in May 2019. She she is beginning work on a second project, currently titled "Getting Better: Realism, Repetition, and the Rhetoric of Technique," that concerns the expansion and consolidation of new modes of self-improvement between the mid nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. Her essays have appeared in modernism/modernity, ELH, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Comparative Literature Studies, and she has essays on trans issues, psychoanalysis, and literary history forthcoming in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Critical Inquiry. She writes publicly on trans issues and related themes, and publishes a regular newsletter entitled THE STAGE MIRROR via Substack.  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. Hosted by author Charlie Jane Anders. | July's Writers With Drinks is on fire with literary brilliance. Six authors and poets bring you breathtaking queer storytelling, mind-blowing poetry, wonderfully bizarre worlds and Victorian aesthetics. If you only get to one Writers With Drinks this year, make it this one. When: Saturday, July 13, 2019 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM Who: Gabby Rivera, Helen Phillips, Sarah Gailey, Troy Jollimore, Natasha Dennerstein and Grace Lavery! How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit a local nonprofit TBA  Helen Phillips is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel The Need. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Italo Calvino Prize. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, and Tin House, and on Selected Shorts. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College.  Troy Jollimore’s most recent book of poetry, Syllabus of Errors, was chosen by the New York Times as one of the best poetry collections of 2015. His previous poetry books are At Lake Scugog (2011) and Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for 2006. He is also the author of two philosophical works, Love’s Vision and On Loyalty, and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Guggenheim Foundation.  Natasha Dennerstein's new book is Turn And Face the Strange. She's the author of two previous poetry collections, Triptych Caliform and Anatomize. Dennerstein has had poetry published in Fourth Floor, Landfall, Snorkel, JAAM, Takahe, Bloom, Transfer and Red Light Lit, Foglifter, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Sparkle+Blink. She's currently on the editorial team of Nomadic Press in Oakland.  |
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DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
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$5 before 11pm, $10 after ~
10:00pm - 2:00am