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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Fall 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Fall 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/MarySubmissionForm
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Claire Grossman\, Terry Taplin\, Jacq Greyja
DESCRIPTION:Claire Grossman studies English literature at Stanford and is co-curator of Cantíl\, an Oakland-based reading series. \nTerry Taplin is an MFA in Creative Writing Candidate at Saint Mary’s College of California where he serves as an assistant poetry editor at MARY: A Journal for New Writing and is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow. He holds a Bachelor’s in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and is the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 14-15). Terry lives in Berkeley\, is an instructional assistant in the English Dept. at Berkeley City College\, and is interning as a marketing assistant at Omnidawn Publishing. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016). \nJacq Greyja is a nonbinary writer from California. They are a graduate student in the Creative Writing MFA program at San Francisco State University\, where they are a William Dickey Poetry Fellow. Jacq’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hold: A Journal\, BAMPFA\, Bushel Collective\, Bettering American Poetry Vol. II\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Apogee\, Peach Mag\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-grossman-terry-taplin-jacq-greyja/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Día de los muertos / Day of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rafael Jesús Gonzáez\, Jess Medina\, Jan Steckel\, Andrena Zawinski. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley
DESCRIPTION:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley \ncelebrating the release of Lyric Multiples: Aspiration\, Practice\, Immanence\, Migration \n\n\n\nfrom Nightboat Press \nA poet’s capacious and visionary sequence of essays exploring language and aesthetics in contemporary society \nLyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call\, ascensional modes of thinking\, pop songs\, the built environment and its discontents\, the post-punk moment\, its fruitful aftermath\, and much else. Throughout this book\, Albon explores unencountered varieties of aesthetic experience and the contributions they make to an ideal of social interconnectivity. \nGeorge Albon’s most recent books are Fire Break\, winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Poetry in 2014\, and Aspiration. He lives in San Francisco. \nMaxwell Shanley\, author of There Are Trees (Drop Leaf Press)\, is the Sales & Marketing Assistant at Stanford University Press and a former used book buyer at Green Apple Books & Music. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University\, where he formerly served as the Managing Editor of Fourteen Hills. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, DIAGRAM\, CutBank\, MIDTERM\, Border Crossing\, Camas: The Nature of the West\, Slipstream\, Transfer Magazine\, The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss\, Four Ties Lit Review\, and has been performed by Theatrikos Theatre Company. He lives in San Francisco. \nWhat has been said about the work of George Albon: \n“Lyric Multiples is a triumph from beginning to end—a miracle of sustained argument and elaboration. In a process of continuous vision and revision\, words and images appear\, return\, slip around the corners\, only to return again to form multivalent entrances to truth.” —Kevin Killian \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-albon-in-conversation-with-maxwell-shanley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Samina Ali
DESCRIPTION:Samina Ali is an award-winning author\, activist and cultural commentator. Her debut novel\, Madras on Rainy Days\, won France’s prestigious Prix du Premier Roman Etranger Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. Ali’s work is driven by her belief in personal narrative as a force for achieving women’s individual and political freedom and in harnessing the power of media for social transformation. She is the curator of the groundbreaking\, critically acclaimed virtual exhibition\, Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices. Her current project\, a memoir of her near-death experience delivering her firstborn\, takes an unsparing look at gender bias and the crisis of preventable maternal deaths in the U.S. Ali is a former cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and Daily Beast. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Economist\, The Guardian\, Vogue\, National Public Radio (NPR) and elsewhere.
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LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Micah Perks with Kate Schatz and Lucy Jane Bledsoe / True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Micah Perks for her linked story collection True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Joining here are Kate Schatz (Rad Girls Can) and Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Lava Falls). Save the date! \n  \n  \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic — athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. An intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \n  \n\n  \n“What an enticing cast of characters readers get to meet here! Micah Perks writes so well of love in many of its forms and stages\, and she populates her book with such a memorable crew. No one is exempt from struggle and disappointment\, and yet there is always a chance for transcendence\, too.” – Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake andThe Color Master \n  \n“A writer whose stories are endearingly hard headed and tender hearted\, and whose characters are so very alive that they practically escape off the page when you encounter them. This collection will cure what ails you.” – Kelly Link\, author of Get In Trouble and Pretty Monsters \n  \n“The stories in True Love connect in the most satisfying way. You begin with a journalist who interviewed Harry Houdini about his night with lost souls in the Winchester House\, a light story that gains weight from the six million Jews who did not escape. Then you have the chance to follow his granddaughter in her sad affair with a lover from Chile\, a legacy. The stories are about escape in the deepest ways\, from marriage and family and self and even from time and place\, and the writing is beautiful\, believable\, disorienting. Sit down and watch the show\, because I guarantee you don’t know what’s coming. . .” – David Vann\, author of Bright Air Black and Aquarium \n  \nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels\, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here\, and a memoir\, Pagan Time. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \n  \nKate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer\, activist\, public speaker\, and educator\, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she lives with her kids\, cats\, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com. \n  \nLucy Jane Bledsoe‘s most recent novel\, The Evolution of Love\, came out in May 2018\, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness\, family\, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards\, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, the American Library Association Stonewall Award\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of True Love and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What Future 2018
DESCRIPTION:Co-editor Rose Eveleth\, and contributors Lauren Smiley\, and Annalee Newitz discuss What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas To Reclaim\, Reanimate And Reinvent Our Future. \n  \nRose Eveleth is a producer\, designer\, writer and animator. She’s dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. These days\, she explores how humans tangle with science and technology. She’s been a columnist for BBC Future and Motherboard\, the producer of the Story Collider\, the special media manager at Nautilus\, a new digital magazine about science\, culture and philosophy and the managing editor for LadyBits\, a place where women are smart about science. She also edited the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine\, and founded Science Studio\, a home for all the best science multimedia on the web. Even before that she was an editor of all things animated at TED Education\, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. Most recently she helped ESPN’s award winning documentary series 30 for 30 launch their podcast and is currently the producer and host of Flash Forward\, a podcast about the future. \n  \nLauren Smiley is based in San Francisco and writes about humans in the tech age for WIRED\, San Francisco Mag\, California Sunday Magazine\, and New York Magazine. \n  \nAnnalee Newitz is the author of the Science Fiction novel\, Autonomous\, the non-fiction books Scatter\, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction and Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture\, and is an editor-at-large for Ars Technica\, a freelance science journalist for magazines and newspapers as well as the co-host\, with Charlie Jane Anders\, of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Newitz is the founder of io9\, and was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Newitz’s writing has appeared in Slate\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, The Smithsonian Magazine\, The Washington Post\, 2600\, New Scientist\, Technology Review\, Popular Science\, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. \n\nAbout What Future \n\nThe future is here and\, frankly\, it sucks. Without doubt\, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge\, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It’s work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe\, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says\, now what? A best-of-the-year anthology\, What Future is a collection of long-form journalism and essays published in 2016 that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future\, from the environmental and political\, to human health and animal rights\, to technology and the economy. What Future includes writing from authors Elizabeth Kolbert\, Jeff Vandermeer\, Bill McKibben\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, as well as the scientists\, journalists\, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead\, but beyond\, in prestigious magazines and journals such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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