QOM is a VIRGO!!! Bday party 9/14

[emchy]

It's almost here folks! The 3rd birthday party for Queer Open Mic
At the Three Dollar Bill Cafe
and my 33 bday too!!! OMG THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER

and damn is it gonna be an awesome bday show
bring the kids - this one is for the history books.

We have 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.

This is gonna be a rocking fucking hootenanny. OMG YAY!!!

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.

Comments

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday QOM!

(oh, and you are so teh hawtness in that photo!)

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

thanky! should be an awesome night!

[goodbadgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[gene-home.livejournal.com]

dang--

got some dearly beloved pals on that list and I haven't seen Alvin for like, 3 years.

shame I'll be performing and otherwise transmogrifyin' at Southern Comfort in the ATL or I would SO be making the QOM scene. :(

congrats on 3 yrs!!

oh, and who replaced our Sherilyn as yr co-Em-c(h)ee?

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

oh man! you will be missed! the new co-host is lj-er mollena! she is the awesome.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I'll be there.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

YAYY!!! it's never as fun when you're not.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I lurve this photo. I also lurve the line-up. I am so there.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

yaaaaay!!!! wheee!!!! fun AND cake!

[doppmonster.livejournal.com]

Wow Hot Pic Yayz!

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

come play and hoot and holler with me for QOM yes?