El SUPERRITMO! ~
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop,
Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~
$10 ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am
DJ El Kool Kyle y DJ Roger Más ~
Cumbia, Dancehall, Hip-Hop,
Reggaeton, Salsa Buena y mas! ~
$10 ~ 10:00pm - 2:00am
WRITERS WITH DRINKS
w/ host Charlie Jane Anders ~
$5-20 sliding (all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA) ~
Doors at 6:30pm ~ 6:30pm - 9:45pm
w/ host Charlie Jane Anders ~
$5-20 sliding (all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA) ~
Doors at 6:30pm ~ 6:30pm - 9:45pm
We have an incredible lineup for our final show at the Make Out Room, including queer musicians, speculative fiction, memoir about Mars, and tons more!
Note: We are strictly requiring proof of vaccination, and audience members must remain masked when they are not actively drinking.
* When: Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM
* Who: Lio Min, Tim Pratt, Shelley Wong and Kate Greene.
* How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit Walk SF
* Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA
About the readers/performers:
Lio Min has listened to, played and performed, and written about music for most of their life. Their debut novel Beating Heart Baby is about boys, bands, and Los Angeles. They've profiled and interviewed acts including Japanese Breakfast, Rina Sawayama, MUNA, Caroline Polachek, Christine and the Queens, Raveena, Tei Shi, Speedy Ortiz, and Mitski.
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from MacDowell, Kundiman, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.
Tim Pratt is a Hugo Award-winning SF and fantasy author, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards, among others. He is the author of more than 30 books, most recently multiverse adventures Doors of Sleep and Prison of Sleep. His stories have appeared at Tor.com, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and other nice places. He's a senior editor and occasional book reviewer at Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field. Since 2013 he's published a new story every month at www.patreon.com/timpratt, and he tweets incessantly at twitter.com/timpratt. He lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife and kid.
Kate Greene is the author of the queer space memoir-in-essays ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS (Saint Martin's 2020) and co-author of the PROSE-award winning REALITY MINING (MIT Press 2014). She’s taught writing at San Francisco State University, Vanderbilt University, the Tennessee Prison for Women, and as a poetry fellow at Columbia University. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Aeon, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Discover, Landfill, the New York Times Book Review, Recliner, and WIRED among others. In 2013, she was the crew writer and second-in-command of the first simulated Mars mission for the NASA-funded HI-SEAS project. From 2018 to 2019, she was the poetry editor of the Columbia Journal. She likes to swim and splits time between New York and San Francisco.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has been going since 2001, 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.
Note: We are strictly requiring proof of vaccination, and audience members must remain masked when they are not actively drinking.
* When: Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM
* Who: Lio Min, Tim Pratt, Shelley Wong and Kate Greene.
* How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit Walk SF
* Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA
About the readers/performers:
Lio Min has listened to, played and performed, and written about music for most of their life. Their debut novel Beating Heart Baby is about boys, bands, and Los Angeles. They've profiled and interviewed acts including Japanese Breakfast, Rina Sawayama, MUNA, Caroline Polachek, Christine and the Queens, Raveena, Tei Shi, Speedy Ortiz, and Mitski.
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from MacDowell, Kundiman, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.
Tim Pratt is a Hugo Award-winning SF and fantasy author, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards, among others. He is the author of more than 30 books, most recently multiverse adventures Doors of Sleep and Prison of Sleep. His stories have appeared at Tor.com, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and other nice places. He's a senior editor and occasional book reviewer at Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field. Since 2013 he's published a new story every month at www.patreon.com/timpratt, and he tweets incessantly at twitter.com/timpratt. He lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife and kid.
Kate Greene is the author of the queer space memoir-in-essays ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS (Saint Martin's 2020) and co-author of the PROSE-award winning REALITY MINING (MIT Press 2014). She’s taught writing at San Francisco State University, Vanderbilt University, the Tennessee Prison for Women, and as a poetry fellow at Columbia University. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Aeon, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Discover, Landfill, the New York Times Book Review, Recliner, and WIRED among others. In 2013, she was the crew writer and second-in-command of the first simulated Mars mission for the NASA-funded HI-SEAS project. From 2018 to 2019, she was the poetry editor of the Columbia Journal. She likes to swim and splits time between New York and San Francisco.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has been going since 2001, 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.