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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bridging: A One-Day Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Hedgebrook and SMC MFA in Creative Writing are collaborating to present a one-day writing retreat for women\, trans women\, genderqueer women\, and non-binary people. \nKeynote speaker: \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was short listed for the Man Booker Prize\, winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award and The California Book Award for Fiction. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. In addition\, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. She is the co-founder of the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award and has served as president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). \nWorkshops\nFrom Artist Statement to Press Kit: A Po-Biz* Workshop\nRaina J. León has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction.  She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\,   She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with the Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale.  She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts.  She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.  www.rainaleon.com \n*Poetry Business\n\nStory Development: Plot\, Character and 7 Steps to Authentic Storytelling\nAngie Powers has an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Mills College\, where she won the Amanda Davis Thesis Award for her novel\, The Blessed. She also has a Certificate in Screenwriting from the Professional Programs at UCLA. She is the co-director and co-writer of the short Little Mutinies (distributed by Frameline and an official selection of the Palm Springs International Short Fest) andwas a quarter-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and at Blue Cat Screenplay Competition for the full-length screenplay of Little Mutinies. She is currently in development on a feature-length comedy Lost in the Middle.  She is a teacher and cofounder at bookwritingworld.com.  Angiepowers.com \n\nFlash Nonfiction: Sharpening Your Story for the Short and Long Haul\nJill Kolongowski is the author of Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me\, forthcoming from Ulysses Press. She is also the managing editor at YesYes Books. Her essays have won Sundog Lit’s First Annual Contest series and the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction at Lunch Ticket magazine. Other essays are published in Profane\, Sweet: A Literary Confection\, Forklift\, Ohio\, Southern Indiana Review\, Fugue\, and elsewhere. Jill was born in Michigan\, but now lives near San Francisco\, where she teaches writing\, hikes\, and watches Chopped marathons. \n\nApplying for Fellowships and Residencies: Writing Personal Statements and Project Proposals\nRashaan Alexis Meneses has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, The International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle\, UK\, and the Jacob K. Javits Program. Her fiction and non-fiction is published in various journals and anthologies\, including Kartika Review\, Puerto Del Sol\, New Letters\, BorderSenses\, Kurungabaa\, The Coachella Review\, Pembroke Magazine\, Doveglion Press\, and the anthology Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. You can find her at rashaanalexismeneses.com \n\nCost\n$115 until May 6\n$130 after May 6\nLimited partial scholarships available. Email Joanne Furio for an application.\nSpecial accommodations available. Email Joanne Furio. \nCost includes: \n\nFood (three meals\, happy hour\, and evening cake and coffee)\nVegan and gluten-free options available\nNetworking opportunities with Bay Area women writers’ groups\nAn evening keynote by Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, Sister Noon and Black Glass and Hedgebrook alumna\nYour choice of one of four afternoon workshops\n\nFunds raised from the retreat benefit both programs and the newly established Hedgebrook scholarship for a St. Mary’s MFA student. \nONLINE PAYMENT AND REGISTRATION \nIf you have questions please email Joanne Furio or Amy Wheeler.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bridging-a-one-day-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Adeline Nip
DESCRIPTION:Book talk and signing by author Adeline Nip.\nWriters Carol Liang and Tymo Lin will also participate in signing their new books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adeline-nip/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paseo Artistico: Tender Buttons
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of bay area poetry <3
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paseo-artistico-tender-buttons/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:New releases from Pelekinesis Press
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of sharing from three Pelekinesis authors reading from their latest books! \nPETER CHERCHES: Autobiography Without Words \nDON SKILES: Rain After Midnight \nPETER WORTSMAN: Footprints in Wet Cement \nCalled “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly\, Peter Cherches is a writer\, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years his writing\, both fiction and nonfiction\, has appeared in dozens of magazines\, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist\, “Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer\,” was released in 2016. He is the author of three previous prose collections\, most recently “Lift Your Right Arm\,” which Pelekinesis published in 2013. Cherches is a native of Brooklyn\, New York. \nDubbed “a 20th-century Brother Grimm” (Bloomsbury Review) and “a delinquent Hans Christian Andersen” (by playwright Mark O’Donnell)\, Peter Wortsman is the author of work in multiple modes\, including a previous book of short prose fiction\, “A Modern Way To Die” (1991); a travel memoir\, “Ghost Dance in Berlin\, A Rhapsody in Gray” (2013); and a novel\, “Cold Earth Wanderers” (2014). He collaborated with artist Harold Wortsman on an artists’ book\, “it-t=i” (2004) and with photographer Jean-Luc Dubin on a photo essay “New York\, NY 1978” (2016). He is also the author of two stage plays. His travel writing has been included five years in a row in The Best Travel Writing\, 2008-2012\, and again in 2016. He is also a critically acclaimed translator from German into English. \nDon Skiles is the author of “Miss America and Other Stories”\, “The James Dean Jacket Story”\, and “Football”. His work has appeared in “Quaartsiluni\,” “Snowmonkey\,” “Silenced Press\,” “Over the Transom\,” “MungBeing\,” and “Chicago Quarterly Review.” His poetry appears in three books from Viking Dog Press/Conehenge Studios (with the work of painter Claribel Cone): “18 Views of San Francisco\,” “Sono Choushi!” and “Blue Rhapsody.” Skiles lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-releases-from-pelekinesis-press/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Melodie Winawer: The Scribe of Siena
DESCRIPTION:Equal parts transporting love story and gripping historical conspiracy\, debut author Melodie Winawer takes readers deep into medieval Italy\, where the past and present blur and a twenty-first century woman will discover a plot to destroy Siena. \nAccomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is starting to impede her work. So when her beloved brother passes away\, she welcomes the unexpected trip to the Tuscan city of Siena to resolve his estate\, even as she wrestles with grief. But as she delves deeper into her brother’s affairs\, she discovers intrigue she never imagined—a 700-year-old conspiracy to decimate the city. \nAfter uncovering the journal and paintings of Gabriele Accorsi\, the fourteenth-century artist at the heart of the plot\, Beatrice finds a startling image of her own face and is suddenly transported to the year 1347. She awakens in a Siena unfamiliar to her\, one that will soon be hit by the Plague. \nYet when Beatrice meets Accorsi\, something unexpected happens: she falls in love—not only with Gabriele\, but also with the beauty and cadence of medieval life. As the Plague and the ruthless hands behind its trajectory threaten not only her survival but also Siena’s very existence\, Beatrice must decide in which century she belongs. \nThe Scribe of Siena is the captivating story of a brilliant woman’s passionate affair with a time and a place that captures her in an impossibly romantic and dangerous trap—testing the strength of fate and the bonds of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melodie-winawer-the-scribe-of-siena/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 10\, 2017: \nGlen David Gold (Sunnyside\, Carter Beats The Devil)\nMark Oshiro (Mark Does Stuff) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-5/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Secret Speakeasy
DESCRIPTION:Join Red Light Lit for a SPECIAL evening of sexy spoken word and song in an intimate SECRET SPEAKEASY\, featuring the photography of Lucille Lares-Kiwan (@__gatekeeper). The show will be hosted by Jennifer Lewiswith piano accompaniment by Sarah Dineen and live musical scoring byDavid Williams. \nFeatured writers: Lisa Alden\, Tomas Moniz\, Kimberly Reyes\, Kelsey Kundera Whitman and more (TBA). \nComedy by: Luna Malbroux \nSpecial musical guests: Rykarda Parasol \nDoors open at 7:30pm\, show starts at 8pm. DJ Duserock (aka Ryan Stubbs) will play music after the show so plan on staying for a dance party. \nADVANCE TICKETS ARE SUGGESTED. Seating is limited!\n$15 in advance\, $20 at the door. Once you buy tickets via Eventbrite\, you will get the address. If you plan on buying tickets at the door\, please email: jennifer@redlightlit.com. \n***NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. (Please email jennifer@redlightlit.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-secret-speakeasy/
LOCATION:Secret South of Market Location
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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