Readings by R. O. Kwon, Anisse Gross, Rachel Khong, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Caille Millner, Esmé Weijun Wang, and Colin Winnette

The Bindery hosts a very special evening of readings with one of San Francisco’s longest-running writing groups! It all started in 2003, when some friends in college started a group called Chapter Room. It’s gone through a lot of iterations since then, and names (Kick-It Boys, Pre-Party Forever); it’s now bicoastal and nameless, with one branch in San Francisco and one in New York. Please come join us for a celebratory group reading, and for revelry afterward!

Readings by (clockwise, from top left): Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Esmé Weijun Wang, Colin Winnette, Anisse Gross, Caille Millner, Rachel Khong, and R. O. Kwon!

Born and raised in New Orleans, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, Oprah.com, Lenny Letter, The Massachusetts Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area, California, with her family.

Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She received a 2018 Whiting Award, was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents, Esmé lives in San Francisco.

Colin Winnette is the author of several books, including Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio) and The Job of the Wasp (Soft Skull Press). He lives in San Francisco.

Anisse Gross is a writer and editor living in San Francisco.

Caille Millner is the author of a memoir, The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification. Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva, the Cimarron Review, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, Longreads, and many other publications. She is also a cultural columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle.

Rachel Khong is a writer living in the Mission. She’s the author of the novel Goodbye, Vitamin, which was released by Henry Holt in 2017, and recently in paperback by Picador. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Tin House, and The Paris Review. She is the founder of The Ruby, also located in the Mission, a shared work and gathering space for women of all definitions.

R. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian, Vice, Time, Noon, Electric Literature, Playboy, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Omi International, the Steinbeck Center, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea, she has lived most of her life in the United States.

Please note: this event will be held at The Bindery, 1727 Haight.

Bar opens at 7, event begins at 7:30pm.

RSVP appreciated but not required.

R. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian, Vice, Time, Noon, Electric Literature, Playboy, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Omi International, the Steinbeck Center, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea, she has lived most of her life in the United States.

Please note: this event will be held at The Bindery, 1727 Haight.

Bar opens at 7, event begins at 7:30pm.

RSVP appreciated but not required.