Come to the 3rd birthday party for Queer Open Mic
At Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe
1800 Market St @ Octavia
Sept 14 - Show starts @ 8pm.
$1 - $5 sliding scale.
The third annual features only birthday show at Queer Open Mic features an all star literati line up of some of the best queer writers in San Francisco including Daphne Gottlieb, Katia Noyes, Lauren Wheeler, Meliza Bañales, horehound stillpoint, Thea Hillman, Alvin Orloff and Jen Cross.
In other words - bring the kids - this one is for the history books.
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mollena Williams - Queer Open Mic works all year, every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month to create a space for queer folks and their pals to gather together in the revolutionary and sometimes hilarious act of sharing art. Shows are often a well structured free for all with a variety of accordions, naked readers, lap dances, musical saws, belly dancing, award winners, first timers and just about everything in between. Join us in celebrating this wacky gathering of plucky poets, performers, and perverts as we celebrate with a rocking fucking hootenanny. OMG YAY!!!
And it is a birthday party and so there will be cake. . So please come out and support your humble QOM turning three years old.
Here's where I get a little touchy feely. When I started QOM three years ago I didn't really know what to expect. The readers and audience members have given me just unbelievable amounts of inspiration. I really can't thank you enough for supporting QOM for these past three years. It's a volunteer based labor of love and from the bottom of my dorky art space creating heart - thank you. Hope to see you at the show!
Wanna know more about the performers?
Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the author of three books of poetry: Final Girl (2003), Why Things Burn (2001) and Pelt (1999). She is also the editor of Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader (2005) and the author of Jokes and the Unconscious, a graphic novel with illustrator Diane DiMassa (2006, Cleis). Forthcoming in 2008 are Kissing Dead Girls, a book of poetry, and Fucking Daphne, an anthology that sounds like it's about sex but is really about identity. You can find her online at www.daphnegottlieb.com.
Katia Noyes
Katia Noyes left home at the age of 15. She has worked as a roofer, math tutor, journalist, go-go dancer, and content developer. Her debut novel, CRASHING AMERICA, was a Book Sense Notable Book and was chosen as one of the Ten Best Gay/Lesbian Books of 2005 by Amazon.com and the United Kingdom's Rainbow Network. It was also nominated for the Northern California Book Award, Publishing Triangle Award, and Lambda Literary Award. Her short stories have been published by Cleis and Down There Press. She lives in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco.
Lauren Wheeler
Lauren Wheeler is a recovering slam poet who competed at the National Poetry Slam in 1998, as a member of the renegade Team SF-Mission District, and again in 1999, as a member and the coach of Team Ithaca, NY. She has featured at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature, as well as in Los Angeles, Miami, and throughout the Bay Area. Lauren curated and hosted two poetry series in Ithaca, Tongue & Groove at Stella's Wine and Whiskey Bar and Re-Verse at the Oak Café, and was a core organizer of the ForWord Girls poetry and spoken word festival in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Lodestar Quarterly, Other Magazine, and 365 Tomorrows.
Meliza Bañales
Meliza Bañales is the author of Say It With Your Whole Mouth (Monkey Press, Poetry Center Book Award Nominee, 2004) and was the 2002 winner of the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. Her poems and short-fiction (dirty and otherwise) have appeared in Lodestar Quarterly, Without A Net (Seal Press)edited by Michelle Tea, and in the forthcoming Baby, Remember My Name:New Queer Girl Writing also edited by Michelle Tea. Her short film with Mary Guzman "Do the Math" was the winner of a 2006 Frameline Completion Grant and received an Honorable Mention in the 2006 Fusion film festival in Los Angeles. She is currently adapting a script and will directfor the 2007 Twilight Zone Play Festival in San Francisco in March, has six entries in the first ever Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Change out Spring 2007.
horehound stillpoint
horehound stillpoint is a horny, happy, sensitive, bike-riding, rock 'n' roll freak. More of his short stories and poetry can be found in Tough Guys; Out in the Castro; Poetry Nation; Of the Flesh; Poetry Slam; Sex Spoken Here; beyond definition; Quickies; Queer View Mirror II; Rough Stuff and his little Kapowbook, Reincarnation Woes.
Thea Hillman
Thea's writing has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Berkeley Review of Fiction, On Our Backs, and Cometbus, among others. She performed a birdcall on The Tonight Show, was on the cover of the Oakland phone book, but is most proud of her tag-team haiku championship title. Her first book, Depending on the Light, was published by Manic D Press in 2001. Her second book, For Lack of a Better Word, will be published in Fall 2007 by Suspect Thoughts Press.
Alvin Orloff
Alvin Orloff began writing in 1977 as a teenage lyricist for The Blowdryers, a San Francisco punk band. His writing can be found in numerous zines as well as the anthologies, Beyond Definition (Manic D Press, 1994), Tricks and Treats (Harrington Park Press 2000), and Pills, Chills, Thrills and Heartache (Alyson Press 2004). Orloff is also the co-author of transsexual showbiz memoir, The Unsinkable Bambi Lake (Manic D Press 1996) and a queer romance/alien invasion novel, I Married An Earthling (Manic D Press 2000). His latest novel is Gutter Boys (Manic D Press 2004), a wryly-twisted tale of unrequited love and debauchery set in 1980s gay Manhattan. Orloff lives in San Francisco's uber-trendy Mission District where he is hard at work on his 3rd, 4th, and 5th novels.
Jen Cross
Jen Cross is a smut writer, a survivor, and writing workshop facilitator, and is a co-collaborator in the dyke erotica collective, Dirty Ink. Her writing has appeared in a plethora of anthologies, most of 'em naughty and queer, and has featured and read at a bunch of San Francisco open mics, including QOM! She co-facilitates (with Carol Queen!) a monthly Erotic Reading Circle at the Center for Sex and Culture (4th Wed of every month). Jen is a wholehearted believer in the transformative power of smut. For more information, visit www.writingourselveswhole.org.
At Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe
1800 Market St @ Octavia
Sept 14 - Show starts @ 8pm.
$1 - $5 sliding scale.
The third annual features only birthday show at Queer Open Mic features an all star literati line up of some of the best queer writers in San Francisco including Daphne Gottlieb, Katia Noyes, Lauren Wheeler, Meliza Bañales, horehound stillpoint, Thea Hillman, Alvin Orloff and Jen Cross.
In other words - bring the kids - this one is for the history books.
Hosted by Cindy Emch and
mollena Williams - Queer Open Mic works all year, every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month to create a space for queer folks and their pals to gather together in the revolutionary and sometimes hilarious act of sharing art. Shows are often a well structured free for all with a variety of accordions, naked readers, lap dances, musical saws, belly dancing, award winners, first timers and just about everything in between. Join us in celebrating this wacky gathering of plucky poets, performers, and perverts as we celebrate with a rocking fucking hootenanny. OMG YAY!!!And it is a birthday party and so there will be cake. . So please come out and support your humble QOM turning three years old.
Here's where I get a little touchy feely. When I started QOM three years ago I didn't really know what to expect. The readers and audience members have given me just unbelievable amounts of inspiration. I really can't thank you enough for supporting QOM for these past three years. It's a volunteer based labor of love and from the bottom of my dorky art space creating heart - thank you. Hope to see you at the show!
Wanna know more about the performers?
Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the author of three books of poetry: Final Girl (2003), Why Things Burn (2001) and Pelt (1999). She is also the editor of Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader (2005) and the author of Jokes and the Unconscious, a graphic novel with illustrator Diane DiMassa (2006, Cleis). Forthcoming in 2008 are Kissing Dead Girls, a book of poetry, and Fucking Daphne, an anthology that sounds like it's about sex but is really about identity. You can find her online at www.daphnegottlieb.com.
Katia Noyes
Katia Noyes left home at the age of 15. She has worked as a roofer, math tutor, journalist, go-go dancer, and content developer. Her debut novel, CRASHING AMERICA, was a Book Sense Notable Book and was chosen as one of the Ten Best Gay/Lesbian Books of 2005 by Amazon.com and the United Kingdom's Rainbow Network. It was also nominated for the Northern California Book Award, Publishing Triangle Award, and Lambda Literary Award. Her short stories have been published by Cleis and Down There Press. She lives in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco.
Lauren Wheeler
Lauren Wheeler is a recovering slam poet who competed at the National Poetry Slam in 1998, as a member of the renegade Team SF-Mission District, and again in 1999, as a member and the coach of Team Ithaca, NY. She has featured at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature, as well as in Los Angeles, Miami, and throughout the Bay Area. Lauren curated and hosted two poetry series in Ithaca, Tongue & Groove at Stella's Wine and Whiskey Bar and Re-Verse at the Oak Café, and was a core organizer of the ForWord Girls poetry and spoken word festival in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Lodestar Quarterly, Other Magazine, and 365 Tomorrows.
Meliza Bañales
Meliza Bañales is the author of Say It With Your Whole Mouth (Monkey Press, Poetry Center Book Award Nominee, 2004) and was the 2002 winner of the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. Her poems and short-fiction (dirty and otherwise) have appeared in Lodestar Quarterly, Without A Net (Seal Press)edited by Michelle Tea, and in the forthcoming Baby, Remember My Name:New Queer Girl Writing also edited by Michelle Tea. Her short film with Mary Guzman "Do the Math" was the winner of a 2006 Frameline Completion Grant and received an Honorable Mention in the 2006 Fusion film festival in Los Angeles. She is currently adapting a script and will directfor the 2007 Twilight Zone Play Festival in San Francisco in March, has six entries in the first ever Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Change out Spring 2007.
horehound stillpoint
horehound stillpoint is a horny, happy, sensitive, bike-riding, rock 'n' roll freak. More of his short stories and poetry can be found in Tough Guys; Out in the Castro; Poetry Nation; Of the Flesh; Poetry Slam; Sex Spoken Here; beyond definition; Quickies; Queer View Mirror II; Rough Stuff and his little Kapowbook, Reincarnation Woes.
Thea Hillman
Thea's writing has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Berkeley Review of Fiction, On Our Backs, and Cometbus, among others. She performed a birdcall on The Tonight Show, was on the cover of the Oakland phone book, but is most proud of her tag-team haiku championship title. Her first book, Depending on the Light, was published by Manic D Press in 2001. Her second book, For Lack of a Better Word, will be published in Fall 2007 by Suspect Thoughts Press.
Alvin Orloff
Alvin Orloff began writing in 1977 as a teenage lyricist for The Blowdryers, a San Francisco punk band. His writing can be found in numerous zines as well as the anthologies, Beyond Definition (Manic D Press, 1994), Tricks and Treats (Harrington Park Press 2000), and Pills, Chills, Thrills and Heartache (Alyson Press 2004). Orloff is also the co-author of transsexual showbiz memoir, The Unsinkable Bambi Lake (Manic D Press 1996) and a queer romance/alien invasion novel, I Married An Earthling (Manic D Press 2000). His latest novel is Gutter Boys (Manic D Press 2004), a wryly-twisted tale of unrequited love and debauchery set in 1980s gay Manhattan. Orloff lives in San Francisco's uber-trendy Mission District where he is hard at work on his 3rd, 4th, and 5th novels.
Jen Cross
Jen Cross is a smut writer, a survivor, and writing workshop facilitator, and is a co-collaborator in the dyke erotica collective, Dirty Ink. Her writing has appeared in a plethora of anthologies, most of 'em naughty and queer, and has featured and read at a bunch of San Francisco open mics, including QOM! She co-facilitates (with Carol Queen!) a monthly Erotic Reading Circle at the Center for Sex and Culture (4th Wed of every month). Jen is a wholehearted believer in the transformative power of smut. For more information, visit www.writingourselveswhole.org.
