About this Event
June's Writers With Drinks features brilliant writers tackling reproductive rights, consent, polyamory and more. It's the perfect time for a feminist word party!
Note: We are strictly requiring proof of vaccination, and audience members must remain masked when they are not actively drinking.
- When: Saturday, May 14, 2022 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 7 PM
- Who: Kirstin Chen, Julia Serano, Shelly Oria, Jon Papernick and more TBA
- How much: $5 to $20 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit a local nonprofit TBA
- Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA
About the readers/performers:
Kirstin Chen is the award-winning, best-selling author of three novels. Her latest, Counterfeit, has been recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Oprah Daily, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Parade, The Millions, Electric Lit, and more. She is also the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Born and raised in Singapore, she lives in San Francisco.
Julia Serano's latest book is Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back. She is best known for her book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, which Ms. Magazine ranked #16 on their list of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time. Her other notable books include Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, which was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. Her first full-length foray into fiction, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel was the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. As a musician, Julia was the lyricist-guitarist-vocalist for the indie-rock trio Bitesize. Julia’s current lo-fi noise-pop solo music project is called *soft vowel sounds*.
Jonathan Papernick is the author of two short story collections, The Ascent of Eli Israel and There Is No Other and three novels, the most recent being I Am My Beloveds. He serves as Senior Writer-in-Residence in the Writing, Literature and Publishing department at Emerson College in Boston where he has taught since 2007. Jon has taught fiction writing for more than twenty years at Pratt Institute, GrubStreet, Brandeis University, Bar Ilan University and Emerson College, in Boston, where he has taught since 2007, serving as Senior Writer-in-Residence since 2012.
Shelly Oria is the editor of the new anthology I Know What’s Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom. She's also the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, among other honors. In 2016, she coauthored a digital novella, CLEAN. She's also the editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the Me Too Movement.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, United States
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