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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Eisen-Martin\, Zamora\, + Vaz
DESCRIPTION:Join Voz Sin Tinta in the month of October for an epic reading\, featuring three writers with their new books fresh off the presses. \nWe will have light refreshments\, drinks\, and an open mic before the featured readers. Maximum of 6 open mic slots will be available with a time limit of 4 minutes.\nBooks will be available for purchase! \nReaders:\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry book\, someone’s dead already\, and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nJavier Zamora was born in La Herradura\, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992).\nIn 1999\, Javier migrated through Guatemala\, Mexico\, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. Before a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca\, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His book Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017)\, explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family.\nZamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor)\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. In 2016\, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. \nRené Vaz is a Bay Area writer. He curates the reading series Voz Sin Tinta and Uptown Fridays. He is a lecturer at San Francisco State University for the Latino Studies department and is committed to providing space for POC/ marginalized voices. He holds an M.A. and M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. The Planet of the Dead is his debut book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-eisen-martin-zamora-and-vaz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-7/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer book reading "From Personal Experience"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author Kate Carroll de Gutes joins local authors Lynne Barnes and Kate Jessica Raphael for a Perfectly Queer Rainbow Reading\, “From Personal Experience\,” Thu.\, Oct. 12\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, in San Francisco. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and thematic door prizes. A reception and book signing follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/1665334820143726 \nAll three authors write from personal experience: Barnes poetry\, de Gutes essays\, and Raphael novels. Here is more information about them and their writing. \nLynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to Hair\, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969\, two years after the Summer of Love. She has worked as a nurse on psych emergency units and oncology wards and as a librarian in San Francisco’s public libraries. She was part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She lives with her beloved partner\, Carole\, who created the cover art for Lynne’s poetic memoir\, Falling Into Flowers\, 2017. \nKate Carroll de Gutes‘ book\, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear\, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir. Her latest book\, The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life\, was released in August\, 2017. Kate has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and is a wry observer who writes grief\, the drama of perimenopause and dating\, riding bikes\, and the joys and challenges of authentic living. You can learn more at www.katecarrolldegutes.com. \nKate Jessica Raphael is a San Francisco Bay Area writer\, feminist\, queer activist\, and radio journalist\, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service\, and spent over a month in Israeli prison because of her activism. She has also done international solidarity work in Bahrain and Iraq. She was awarded a Hedgebrook residency and elected Community Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade. She produces the weekly radio show Women’s Magazine on KPFA. The first novel in her Palestine mystery series\, Murder Under the Bridge\, won the Independent Publishers Book Award silver medal for mystery. Her second book\, Murder Under the Fig Tree\, was released in September\, 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-book-reading-from-personal-experience/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brit Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret. \n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.” \nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. \nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, The Mothers asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever. \nBrit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan\, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-bennett/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Prose at The Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:May-lee Chai is the author of eight books\, including the memoir Hapa Girl\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book; the novel Tiger Girl\, which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; and her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 Autobiography of Ba Jin. Her short prose has been published widely\, including in The Rumpus\, Missouri Review\, Seventeen\, Glimmer Train\, Dallas Morning News and San Francisco Chronicle. Chai joined SF State this fall as an assistant professor. \nLecturer Junse Kim is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Faulkner Short Story Award and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. His fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in Ontario Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Cimarron Review and Fourteen Hills\, as well as two anthologies: Pushcart Prize XXVII and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prose-at-the-poetry-center/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! October 2017
DESCRIPTION:Come join us October 12 for a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Amy Bess Cook\, Cameron Kelly and Alex Simand (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~ \n* Amy Bess Cook has been a writer and editor for more than 15 years. She has left her mark on everything from travel guides to children’s manuscripts to gardening books. Her personal essays have appeared in Vela\, Entropy\, and Fiction Southeast. \nWith a background in book publishing\, Amy Bess also spent eight years helping to operate a boutique winery. Armed with a broad skill set that includes wordsmithing and oenology\, she recently launched a new experiment in art\, wine\, and giving. The project is called Sirsee\, which means “gift” in the Southern parlance. With a handcrafted wine and a literary journal–both created by Amy Bess–Sirsee raises funds for social justice organizations. In a few short months\, the project has raised $4\,000 for Southern Poverty Law Center and $1\,000 for other groups. \nAmy Bess will share poetry by contributors to the inaugural issue of Sirsee journal\, with the theme: “Ripe for the Picking”. \n* Cameron Kelly’s articles and interviews have appeared in <proximity> magazine. She’s an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar\, awarded in 2014. She’s working on a collection of essays\, and will graduate from Antioch University LA in 2017. \n* Alex Simand does not believe in the left brain / right brain dichotomy. He lives and works in San Francisco\, having arrived via the two socialist countries of Canada and Russia before that. His short story\, Election Cycle\, was a winner of the 2017 Best Small Fictions award. \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a free quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2017/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Reckoning
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words – Sausalito on October 12\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito (333 Caledonia Street) for “Reckonings” with the following six acclaimed authors. Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. \nWilliam Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017)\, winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana\, selected for the Poetry Society of America’s 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, The Nation\, A Public Space\, and other journals. Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he was born and raised in West Virginia. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl has just been published by Black Lawrence Press. She has recent flash in matchbook\, Monkeybicycle\, Quarter After Eight\, and The Pinch\, fiction in Phoebe and PANK\, and creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Electric Literature\, and Superstition Review. She lives in the East Bay. \nErika Mailman is the author of historical novels Woman of Ill Fameand The Witch’s Trinity\, which was a Bram Stoker finalist and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book. Her latest\, The Murderer’s Maid\, looks at the Lizzie Borden murder case from the point of view of the maid\, the only other person in the house that day. Under the pen name Lynn Carthage\, she writes Y.A. fiction. Mailman holds a poetry MFA from the University of Arizona and has been a Yaddo fellow. \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which received the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction(Slapering Hol Press\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. In 2016 she received the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award given by Southwest Review; she has also received awards and fellowships from the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity\, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fund\, and the James Merrill House Foundation. She lives in San Francisco. \nElizabeth Rosner is a bestselling novelist\, poet\, and essayist living in Berkeley\, California. Her first book of non-fiction\, Survivor Cafe: the Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, publishes in September 2017. Her third novel\, Electric City\, published in 2014\, was named among the best books of the year by National Public Radio. The Speed of Light\, Rosner’s acclaimed debut novel in 2001\, was translated into nine languages. Short-listed for the Prix Femina\, the book won several literary prizes in both the US and Europe\, including the Prix France Bleu Gironde; the Great Lakes Colleges Award for New Fiction; and Hadassah Magazine’s Ribalow Prize\, judged by Elie Wiesel. Blue Nude\, her second novel\, was selected as one of the best books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her acclaimed poetry collection\, Gravity\, was also published in 2014. Rosner’s essays have appeared in the NY Times Magazine\, Elle\, the Forward\, Hadassah Magazine\, and several anthologies; her poems have been published by Poetry Magazine\, Catamaran\, Poetry East\, Southern Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Her book reviews appear frequently in the San Francisco Chronicle. \nMary Volmer is the author of two novels: Crown of Dust (HarperCollins UK\, 2006; Soho Press US\, 2010) and Reliance\, Illinois (Soho Press\, 2016). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in various publications\, including Mutha Magazine\, Women’s Basketball Magazine\, Fiction Writers Review\, Historical Novel Society Review\, and Ploughshares. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook and was the spring 2015 Distinguished Visiting Writer in Residence at Saint Mary’s College (CA) where she now teaches. \nWhy There Are Words is an award-winning reading series founded in Sausalito by Peg Alford Pursell. Over its seven years of presenting quality author readings\, the series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street in Sausalito\, and as of 2017\, has expanded to become a national neighborhood of readings in five major locations across the nation\, with more planned in 2018. WTAW Press\, a 501(c)3 non-profit\, is the new publishing arm of Why There Are Words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-reckoning/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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