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90 out of 100 available Party Like It's 1999 (in 2024): Bingo Bash Celebrating 25 Years at The Writing Salon

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In celebration of The Writing Salon’s 25th anniversary, join us at our Lit Crawl event for a rousing hour of readings and literary bingo with long-standing teachers and new voices from our community.

Come grab a bingo card packed with 25 electric, absurd, and hilarious words or phrases to listen for throughout the reading. Check off the squares as you hear them, and your completed bingo card gets you 25% off any single class at The Writing Salon, good through the end of the year. 

This free event will take place at Latin American Club in the heart of the Mission District in San Francisco. To check out our event listing at Lit Crawl's website, click here.

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Alison Luterman is the author of four books of poetry, including In the Time of Great Fires and Desire Zoo, and an e-book of personal essays, Feral City. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Sun, Rattle, The Atlanta Review, Catamaran, and many other journals and anthologies. She also writes song lyrics, plays, and is interested in hybrid forms. She has been teaching at the Writing Salon for over twenty years, and has also taught through Poets in the Schools, at New College, at Esalen and Omega Institutes and at workshops and conferences around the country. To learn more, you can visit www.alisonluterman.net.

Andrew R. Touhy is the author of Designs for a Magician’s Top Hat, winner of the inaugural Yemassee Fiction Chapbook Prize. He is also a recipient of the San Francisco Browning Society’s Dramatic Monologue Award and Fourteen Hills Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. Stories from Secret of Mayo, his full-length collection and a finalist for the BOA Short Fiction Prize, have appeared in ConjunctionsNew England ReviewAlaska Quarterly ReviewNew American WritingThe CollagistColorado Review, and other literary magazines. He holds graduate degrees in literature and creative writing and has taught at SFSU, Academy of Art, and Ohio University.

Ann Guy is a writer and recovering engineer who was born in the Philippines, grew up among the cornfields and cow patties of Western Michigan, and now lives in Oakland, California with her husband and two kids. She writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and her work has been featured in CRAFT Literary, River Teeth (Beautiful Things), Sweet Lit, Entropy, MUTHA, Ekphrastic Review, Literary Mama, and Motherwell. A graduate of MIT, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University, her favorite spaces are learning environments. She has taught creative writing classes at San Francisco State University and private workshops in the East Bay.

Katharine Harer loves teaching creative writing. She has worked with hundreds, maybe thousands, of students in her over thirty-year career as a community college writing teacher at Skyline College and as a private workshop instructor. Katharine has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent, Deconfliction, in 2020, and a full-length volume of poems, Jazz & Other Hot Subjects, in 2016. Her poetry and nonfiction have been published widely in literary journals, newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Her travel essay Delle Donne appeared in Best Women’s Travel Writing 2016 and a personal essay, Blue Flags & Painted Crosses, is forthcoming from Sonora Review in Tucson.

Rowena Leong Singer is published in The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, Narrative Magazine, and KQED’s Perspectives. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she was awarded the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction. She is an associate editor at CRAFT and a member of The Writers Grotto. Find her on Instagram at @rowenaleongsinger.

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Date:
Sun, October 27
Time:
1:30 am - 2:30 am PDT
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Latin American Club
Latin American Club
3286 22nd St, San Francisco, CA

 

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