This Weekend: Mayhem Incoming

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This coming Saturday evening, I’ll be in San Francisco participating in Writers with Drinks. What’s that, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you: Writers with Drinks is a spoken-word variety show combining erotica with literature, stand-up comedy with science fiction, and poetry with essays. Plus mystery, romance, memoir, rants and … um … “other.”

No, seriously.
And I, for one, CANNOT WAIT.

You can read an article about this event over here at the SF Gate, or you can click the jump below and to see the press release — which will tell you all about what’s shaking, what’s going down, what’s happening, and who’s in it with me.

So if you’re in the area, mark your calendars and come on out! It’s bound to be a hoot.
(I promise I’ll read something with zombies in it.)

Date: Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS
Featuring: Vikram Chandra, Cherie Priest, James Rollins, Andrew Porter & Derek Powazek
Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco
Admission: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC

About the readers/performers:

Vikram Chandra is the author of Sacred Games, Love And Longing In Bombay and
Red Earth And Pouring Rain. He co-wrote the Bollywood movie Mission Kashmir.

Cherie Priest is the author of Boneshaker, Dreadnought and Clementine, set
in the Clockwork Century world. She’s also the author of the Eden Moore
trilogy, including Four And Twenty Blackbirds and Wings To The Kingdom. Her
other books include Dreadful Skin, Those Who Went Remain There Still, Fathom
and the forthcoming Bloodshot.

James Rollins is the author of the SIGMA Force series, including The
Doomsday Key and The Last Oracle, plus the standalone novels Subterranean,
Excavation, Deep Fathom, Amazonia and Altar of Eden. As James Clemens, he
wrote the Banned and the Banished series and the Godslayer series.

Andrew Porter’s debut short story collection, The Theory of Light & Matter,
won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His stories have
appeared in One Story, Epoch (magazine), The Ontario Review, Prairie
Schooner, The Antioch Review, StoryQuarterly, The Threepenny Review, Others
Voices, Story (magazine) and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He appeared on
NPR’s Selected Shorts.

Derek Powazek is the founder of Fray, the quarterly book of true stories and
art, and author of Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People
in Virtual Places.

About Writers With Drinks:

Writers With Drinks has won “Best Literary Night” from the SF Bay Guardian
readers’ poll five years in a row and was named “Best Literary Drinking” by
the SF Weekly. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money
for local worthy 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.

Hostess Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at
io9.com. She’s the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft
Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She’s Such A Geek
(Seal Press 2007). She also published other magazine, which is on hiatus.
Follow her on Twitter as charliejane.

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2 Responses to “This Weekend: Mayhem Incoming”

  1. Cyndy Otty
    February 10th, 2010 @ 6:50 pm

    So, I might have read that as “Writers with Drunks” at first . . . but even so it sounds truly fabulous. Too bad I live on the wrong side of the country.

  2. Kat Richardson
    February 10th, 2010 @ 10:01 pm

    It is the wild! you will love eet! come early to get a seat–the venue is TINY.

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