Lit Crawl Phase 1: 6-7 pm Start: October 9, 2010 6:00 pm End: October 9, 2010 7:00 pm Cost: Free Aural in the Alley: Ashcan Magazine Presents Write in the Streets Clarion Alley, Between 17th & 18th Justin Allen, Sean Logic, Katie Love, Tomas Moniz, Jim Nelson, Doctor Popular, Erin Quinn O’Briant Dog Is Our Co-Pilot The Green Arcade, 1680 Market St. @ Gough Suzanne Carreiro, Tom Corwin , Nancy Levine, Tom McNichol, Cameron Woo BARtab Presents: Bar Pick-Ups Gone Terribly Wrong (or Right) Martuni’s, 4 Valencia St. Meliza Banales wrote Say It With Your Whole Mouth and 51 Poems About Nothing at All. Involved in spoken word, she recently toured with Sister Spit. Queer Oakland poet Cindy Emch is trying to take over the world with poetry and gypsy punk bands Vagabondage, Rhubarb Whiskey, etc. emchy.com Prolific Felice Picano has been everywhere and done everything, but seldom looks it, thanks to a Genii he freed from a KY jar in 1975. Jim Piechota, San Francisco resident for 20 years, writes for Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Bay Area Reporter. His novel, Forgetful, is seeking representation. Jim Provenzano (Moderator) is author of PINS, Monkey Suits, Cyclizen; writer for LGBT media for two decades; and assistant arts editor for BARtab. myrmidude.com Kirk Read is a performer, event-maker, and author of memoir How I Learned to Snap and This Is the Thing, a collection of his performance essays. kirkread.com Rob Rosen is author of the critically acclaimed Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love, Divas Las Vegas, and 100-plus stories in anthologies and erotica. Babylon Salon Spotlight Reading Mina Dresden Gallery, 312 Valencia St. Hannah Kornfeld was a finalist for the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize and the Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange Peter Orner wrote The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Esther Stories, and won two Pushcarts. Love and Shame and Love is forthcoming in 2011. Arthur Patterson reports by day and at night writes fiction and nonfiction that focus on believable situations that get a bit out of hand. Peter Sheehy’s work has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, The Madison Review, Inkwell, and elsewhere, but he is no good at writing bios. Zach Wyner is a teacher and graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at University of San Francisco. Scribd: Where the World Comes to Read Four Barrel Coffee, 375 Valencia St. Helen Black, author of Seven Blackbirds and mother of five, pens the humor column “Mother’s Day Out” on Scribd, where she’s the top-subscribed female author. Kate Garmey has been writing since the first grade. Today, her work can be found on Disasteronheels.com. She still dots her “i”s with hearts. Richard W. Humphries lives and writes in the Mission District. His memoir One Sentence at a Time comes out this fall. Recent essays are at scribd.com/RichardHumphries. Laura Novak reported extensively for The New York Times. Her debut novel, Finding Clarity, is set in Berkeley. She is currently working on a mystery series. John Wolpert, author of The Hidden Stage, is a business and fiction author and the CEO of UpStart Mobile, maker of Cabulous.com. Why There Are Words Presents Artzone 461 Gallery, 461 Valencia St. Tom Barbash is author of the novel The Last Good Chance and The New York Times bestselling nonfiction book On Top of the World. Author of three story collections and Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction, Catherine Brady teaches in the MFA Program at University of San Francisco. Alice LaPlante teaches at SFSU and Stanford. Her latest book, Turn of Mind, will be published by Grove/Atlantic in 2011. Li Miao Lovett’s forthcoming novel, In the Lap of the Gods, is a tale of love, loss, and rebellion against China’s Three Gorges Dam. Valerie Miner is author of 13 books including After Eden, Abundant Light, and The Low Road. She is an artist-in-residence and professor at Stanford. Jason Roberts is author of the prize-winning book A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler. Stanford Humanities Panel: Representations of Race and Ethnicity Creativity Explored, 3245 16th St. Associate professor of English Michele Elam’s new book The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics & Aesthetics will be published in late 2010. Assistant professor of English Saikat Majumdar is author of a novel and a forthcoming critical study of English as a global literary language. David Palumbo-Liu, professor of comparative literature, is finishing a book that explains why literature is ethically indispensable today. Professor of American art and culture Bryan Wolf focuses on 19th-century art and literature and re-conceptualizations of race and ethnicity in contemporary American art. ZYZZYVA presents LitQuiz, A literary quiz show in which a panel of writers competes with the audience at large Elixir, 3200 16th St. Emcee Howard Junker retires as editor of ZYZZYVA at the end of the year. His first novel, Onward a novel of ideas, appeared this summer. Karen Carissimo has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in North American Review, Western Humanities Review, Green Mountains Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Laura Cogan will become editor of ZYZZYVA with the Spring issue. Drew Cushing, the bastard son of New Narrative and Language Poetry, also makes BentBoyBooks. Willy Lizárraga, born in Peru, moved to San Francisco as a teenager. His novel, Mientras Elena en su lecho, is published by University of Miami Press. M.G. Martin is author of One for None (Ink Press) and co-producer of the Literary Death Match SF. Brooks Roddan’s most recent collection of poems is The Days by Themselves (Blue Earth). He is the editor/publisher of If Publications. BANG OUT Volume IX – Greatest Hits: Celebrating BANG OUT Reading Series’ Two-Year Anniversary Double Dutch, 3192 16th St. Readers: Meg Day, Michelle Puckett, Ami Sheth, Arisa White, and Lindsey Wolkin Small Desk Press Festival 2 Adobe Books, 3166 16th St. Lizzy Acker’s first book, Monster Party, a collection of stories about boys, aliens, and violence, is forthcoming from Small Desk Press in 2010. Dustin Heron wakes each morning with cat butt in his face. ali lawrence has a book, anatomic, on SDP and poems in Big Bell. She lives in Oakland, she writes and works and works with writers. Sarah Fran Wisby is author of Viva Loss, a required textbook at the School of Hard Knocks. Quiet Lightning Gestalt Haus, 3159 16th St. Quiet Lightning is a monthly submission-based reading series that features an unpredictable mash-up of performance poetry, academic fiction, inspiring rant dreams, and original combinations thereof. We print it all in a zine called sPARKLE & bLINK, available at the show! New Authors Morac Restaurant & Lounge, 3122 16th St. Angela S. Choi is author of Hello Kitty Must Die. Born in Hong Kong, she is proficient in the art of profanity in both Cantonese and English. Shilpi Somaya Gowda is author of the debut novel Secret Daughter, an international bestseller that is being translated into ten languages. Jason Headley comes from a long line of storytellers/bullshitters, bred to respect story’s power. It can do anything. It just better be good. Vanitha Sankaran, Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and MFA in creative writing, just published her debut novel, Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages, from HarperCollins. Elena Mauli Shapiro amassed literature and writing degrees in and around the Bay Area (Stanford, Mills, Davis). Her novel 13 rue Thérèse is forthcoming in 2011. Instant City : A Literary Exploration of San Francisco Presents: Questionable Behavior Dalva, 3121 16th St. sixteen in the clip and one in the hole, joshua citrak’s ‘bout to make all the people say, “oh!” Andrew Dugas’ fiction has appeared in Instant City, Flatmancrooked, and SoMa Literary Review. His San Francisco novel Sleepwalking in Paradise languishes among the slush. Rob McLaughlin’s short fiction has appeared in Facets, Kitchen Sink, Velvet Mafia, Instant City, and The Cimarron Review. Mary Taugher, an MFA candidate in creative writing at SFSU, has works in Transfer, 580 Split, Instant City, and forthcoming works in The Gettysburg Review. Stephanie Vernier has just completed an adapted screenplay, blogs infrequently at whatiamdoingallday.blogspot.com, and is an editorial assistant at a San Francisco magazine. The Courage to Seek Change: Cultivating Inner Strength in Order to Tackle Social Change Forest Books, 3080 16th St. Todd Aaron Jensen, author of On Gratitude: 50 Celebrities on the Power of Giving Thanks, is an award-winning entertainment journalist, yoga instructor, and father of six. Allen Klein is an award-winning professional speaker and author of 16 books including Change Your Life!, The Healing Power of Humor, and The Courage to Laugh. Don Lattin covered religion and spirituality for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the author of four books, including The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Nina Lesowitz, founder of Spinergy Group, is author of The Courage Companion: Living Life with True Power, and the bestseller Living Life as a Thank You. Corinne McLaughlin is co-author of The Practical Visionary, Spiritual Politics, and Builders of the Dawn, and co-founder of The Center for Visionary Leadership. M.J. Ryan is a creator of the Random Acts of Kindness series and author of AdaptAbility and This Year I Will…How to Finally Change a Habit. Narrative Magazine: Five Great Authors Whose Work Has Helped Narrative Become the Gold Standard in Online Literary Magazines The Lab, 2948 16th St. Carol Edgarian (Emcee), co-founder and editor of Narrative, is the author of the novels Three Stages of Amazement and the bestselling Rise the Euphrates.