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Funny Sexy Sad
FUNNY SEXY SAD is a reading series in which every writer must read something hilarious, sex-related or miserably sad.
Lizzy Acker is one of the progenitors of Funny Sexy Sad, as well as a writer at Willamette Week and a co-founder and contributing editor to The Tusk. She is a former writer and editor at KQEDPop and the author of “Monster Party” and “Half Life.”
Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from USF and a tendency to spill things. She splits her time writing for children and writing for adults, and her debut children’s book, Also an Octopus, comes out in 2016. Find her on twitter @emteehall.
Lauren O’Neal’s work has appeared in Slate, The Hairpin and The Rumpus. She is an editor at Midnight Breakfast. One of her Tusk articles from over a year ago, about the phenomenon of a girl band’s straight fans fantasizing about the band’s members being romantically involved with each other, has been one of the site’s top three articles every day since its publication.
Carolyn Ho was a child actress in McDonald’s commercials in the late ’80’s. She is a Kundiman fellow and a William Dickey fellow, and she has won the SF Foundation’s Phelan Award, the Anne Fields Poetry Award, the Kathryn Manoogian Scholarship, and she is a grant recipient from the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 2014, SF Weekly named her one of the city’s best writers without a published book.
Casey Childers is a producer of Shipwreck and WRITE CLUB SF.
Joe Wadlington is a multiple Shipwreck SF and Write Club SF champion. He runs the Drafts newsletter.
Nate Waggoner is a co-founder and contributing editor at The Tusk. In 2014, SF Weekly named him one of the best
writers in the Bay Area without a published book. He is now ineligible for that honor because he lives in Brooklyn and his first novel, Dilettantes and Heartless Manipulators, is available from Snow Goose Press.
Hope Waggoner is the arguably better Solange to Nate’s Beyonce. Her whole thing is probably just going to be like, arriving with two handsome dudes in tuxes on her arms, smoking a cigarette, then playing a couple of notes on a piano and leaving, and everyone just goes nuts.
Kath Duckworth is a poet working and living that broken dream in Oakland. Her work explores the intimacy of capitalism and its violent and personal attack on the working class. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Soda Can Forever (2015) and Mexia, (2014) both published through Roseffern Press. Her forthcoming collection looks at professional sports, nationalism, and violence. She holds an English degree from Mills College and 40 thousand dollars in debt.
It’s $5
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