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SUMMARY:Amplify: A Storytellling Conference for People of Color
DESCRIPTION:Featuring workshops with Shanthi Sekaran on Writing Outside Your Cultural Experience\, Norman Antonio Zelaya on Cadence\, Community and Representation\, and Vanessa Hua on Narrative Journalism\, amongst others.\n\n\nWe’ve already sold 30% of our tickets in the first 3 days\, so get the Early-Bird deal and buy with a friend now! \n\n\n\nAbout Amplify \n\nWe write\, produce\, craft\, investigate\, report as a means to tell our and our communities stories\, because the stories we hear about us are not told by us. As storytellers\, we contribute to and preserve culture\, we entertain with anecdotes\, and most importantly\, we shape the popular narratives\, fictional or factual\, that inform public opinion and in turn\, public policy. \nAmplify is a chance to connect with other storytellers\, learn from their mastery\, and explore issues that influence your work including race\, class\, community\, and ethics. Keynotes include Glynn Washington from WNYC’s Snap Judgment\, Aimee Allison\, President of Democracy In Color\, Rhodessa Jones\, Director of The Medea Project\, and Mina Morita\, Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater. \nBuy your tickets now at bit.ly/amplifypoc
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LOCATION:UC Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Fall Reading \nSaturday\, September 8\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing\n— \n \nDaniel Mallory Ortberg\nDaniel Mallory Ortberg’s first book\, the satirical bestseller Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters\, was described by the Los Angeles Times Review of Books as a “splendid and wry work of humor writing” and by Elizabeth Gilbert as “candy coated in crack cocaine… it’s the best.” Ortberg’s newest book\, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror\, has been on countless Best Books and Most Anticipated lists for 2018\, and has won praise from Kelly Link\, Charlie Jane Anders\, and Carmen Maria Machado who notes\, “the result is gorgeous\, unsettling\, splenic\, cruel\, and wickedly smart.” The co-founder of The Toast\, he has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic. Since 2015\, Ortberg has been Slate’s Dear Prudence columnist and writes The Shatner Chatner newsletter. \n \nTommy Orange  \nThe 2018 debut novel by Tommy Orange\, THERE THERE\, was described by Janet Maslin in The New York Times this way: “Groundbreaking. Extraordinary. Tommy Orange has written a tense\, prismatic book with inexorable momentum.” Margaret Atwood has called the book “an astonishing literary debut” and Marlon James writes\, “THERE THERE drops on us like a thunderclap; the big\, booming\, explosive sound of 21st century literature finally announcing itself.  Essential.” Tommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \n  \n \nLisa Locascio \nOpen Me\, Lisa Locascio’s 2018 debut novel\, was recently cited by Pulitzer-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” Aimee Bender calls the novel “a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity… A remarkable\, fearless debut.” Locascio’s work has appeared in The Believer\, Tin House\, n+1\, Bookforum\,and many other magazines. She is the co-publisher of Joyland and editor of 7x7LA and of the anthology Golden State 2017. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University and the incoming Executive Director of the Mendocino Writers’ Conference. \n\n\nKatharine Dion \nKatharine Dion’s 2018 debut novel The Dependents has already been named one of the best books of the summer by TIME\, Entertainment Weekly\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Real Simple\, and Brit + Co. The writer Kate Walbert notes that “The Dependents that grapples with important questions through generations–the way we live now\, the way we may have chosen to live then–and the consequences. Dion’s intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence.” Dion is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow\, the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below contest. She lives in Berkeley\, California. \n \nIsmail Muhammad \nIsmail Muhammad is a writer and critic based in Oakland\, California. He’s a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, a board member at the National Books Critics Circle\, and a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at U.C. Berkeley. In addition\, he’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, a Simpson Family Literary Fellow\, and a participant in the VONA 2017 workshops. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. He’s currently working on a novel about the Great Migration and queer archives of black history. Talk to him for any amount of time and you’ll probably end up learning more than you ever wanted to know about Los Angeles and/or Drake. \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
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LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jane Smiley (Golden Age\, Moo\, A Thousand Acres)\nR.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries: A Novel)\nMaria Dahvana Headley (The Mere Wife: A Novel) \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 
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LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Invocation to Daughters Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:2018 California Book Award Finalist \nFeminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet. \n“Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into ‘capital\, collateral\, damaged soul.’ However\, the women that appear throughout the book are not merely victims; in Reyes’s radical cosmology\, these women—these daughters—are rebels\, saints\, revolutionaries\, and torchbearers\, ‘sharp-tongued\, willful.’ This book is a call to arms against oppressive languages\, systems\, and traditions.”––Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nInvocation to Daughters is a book of prayers\, psalms\, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish\, in meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality\, Barbara Jane Reyes unleashes the colonized tongue in a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity. \nPraise for Invocation to Daughters: \n“Against violence against women\, Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs\, jumping off Audre Lorde’s ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house\,’ Invocation to Daughters recombines registers––prayers\, pleas and elegy––braiding a trilingual triple-threat\, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street\, utterance with erasure\, the prose sentence with the liminal. Invocation to Daughters reminds me of the 70’s in the East Bay\, when Jessica Hagedorn met Ntozake Shange and ignited a green flash seen from horizon to horizon. Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area’s incendiary voices.”––Sesshu Foster \n“Invocation to Daughters is a space for multitudes\, a hypnotic collection that draws from family history—particularly the complex cultural gendered dynamic between father and daughter—in order to create a manual for emancipation from the interior and exterior binds that keep us from ourselves. Through prayers\, calls to actions\, and testimonies\, Reyes invents ‘a language so that we know ourselves\, so that we may sing\, and tell\, and pray.'”––Carmen Giménez Smith \n\n\nPublisher City Lights Publishers\n\n\nFormat Paperback\nNb of pages 86 p.\nISBN-10 0872867471\nISBN-13 9780872867475
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LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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