Name: Foglifter: San Francisco's Queer Literary Journal
Start: 2017-10-13T19:30:00-0700
End: 2017-10-13T21:00:00-0700

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Foglifter: San Francisco's Queer Literary Journal

“Queer is a word that suggests there's an alternative, ideal or normal behavior in the world. But the truth is we're all queer in some fashion, whether it’s our outward or our inner lives, humans are all unique and therefore variant from some suggested mean.” —D.A. Powell

In November 2016, Poets & Writers named Foglifter as “One Of Nine Journals You Need To Read.” Born out of the need for a San Francisco Queer journal that emphasizes transgressive, intersectional, marginal, and cross-genre writing, Foglifter boasts an editorial staff composed primarily of Lambda Literary Fellows and S.F. State Creative Writing graduates. Tonight, hear readings from hosts and Foglifter contributors Randall Mann and Baruch Porras-Hernandez, and more authors from the newest issue. FREE

Participants

Marina Claveria

Marina is an educator, barista, and sometimes birth-worker living in Oakland. The limits of memory and the struggle to differentiate between lineage and an origin myth inform her writing. Currently she's workings on a series of collected interviews dealing with the transmutability... Read More →

Aja Couchois Duncan

Aja Couchois Duncan is a Bay Area educator, writer and coach of Ojibwe, French and Scottish descent. Her writinghas been anthologized in Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Press,) Bay Poetics (Faux Press)and Love Shook My Heart 2 (Alyson Press). Her debut collection... Read More →

MJ Jones

Michal MJ Jones is an unapologetically Black, queer, genderqueer writer and activist out of Oakland, CA. They have been featured in online magazines such as Everyday Feminism, Black Girl Dangerous, and The Body Is Not An Apology magazines. Michal's work is a deep blend of raw vulnerability... Read More →

Laura Jones

Laura Jones earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Northwestern University, where she also won the 2015 AWP Journals Prize. She currently teaches at Central State University, and her work has been featured in The Gay and Lesbian Review, Creative Nonfiction, Litro (UK), About Place... Read More →

Randall Mann

Randall Mann is the author of four collections of poetry, including Proprietary, recently published by Persea Books. New work appears in the San Francisco Chronicle, Poem-A-Day, Literary Hub, and The Rumpus. He lives in San Francisco.

Jane McDermott

Oakland, California resident Jane McDermott is the 2014 Michael Rubin book award winner for her collection of microfiction Look Busy: One hundred 100-word stories by and for the easily distracted published by 14 Hills in November 2014. Her fiction can be found in the journals/sites... Read More →

Baruch Porras-Hernandez

Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer, performer and standup comedian, named one of the 13 Top Bay Area Writers to Watch in 2016 by 7×7 Magazine in San Francisco. You can find his writing published online, in journals, and several anthologies, he was named... Read More →

Jasper Sanchez

Jasper Sanchez is a queer transmasculine author, artist, and erstwhile academic. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Plenitude, The Colored Lens, and the Bold Strokes anthology OMG Queer. He’s passionate about stories, the worlds they build, and their potential to... Read More →

Gray Tolhurst

Gray Tolhurst is a poet and musician currently based in San Francisco. He holds a MFA from San Francisco State University where he was the poetry editor for Fourteen Hills. He is also a musician and releases albums under his own name in addition to playing in a variety of local bands... Read More →

Friday October 13, 2017 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Strut 470 Castro St., San Francisco, CA 94114

Tickets: Free Wheelchair Accessible

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