San Francisco Writers Workshop is hosting our annual benefit to support the venue that has been so generously providing us with a space to meet for the past two years: Noisebridge, a legendary anarchist hackerspace in the San Francisco’s Mission district. Noisebridge doesn’t charge writers to gather every Tuesday night, but they certainly have a large rent bill to pay. This is our chance to help ensure their and our own future!
Boasting a woodworking space, electronics, sewing, and music rooms, 3D printing and laser cutting equipment, and meetups on everything from philosophy and writing to game design, math, physics, and AI, Noisebridge is a vibrant and bustling community. They strive for excellence among their membership as well as consensus on all of their decisions. They are a “do-ocracy,” encouraging members to get engaged on all aspects of running a collaborative space. None of this is easy to achieve, and it’s been inspiring to see this community work through issues that arise.
The event will include featured readers, a storytelling game, food and non-alcoholic drinks, and an opportunity to tour Noisebridge. PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!
Mark your calendars for 7 pm on May 31, 2024, at Noisebridge, 272 Capp Street. Suggested donation starts at $10, and please give as much as you can!
If you can’t come to the event and want to help, please use one of the donations options listed on Noisebridge’s website.
Our featured readers:
Colleen Shoshana McKee is the author of six books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her latest collection is Routine Bloodwork, a finalist for the Charlotte Mew Award from Headmistress Press.
Divyanka Sharma is a tech strategist, fiction writer, poet, and documentary filmmaker. Her creative pieces have been published online and in print, including with Empyrean, the other side of hope, The Wire.in, among others. Her writing explores the immigrant experience of movement and adaptation and her work is informed by her birth country of India and adopted home in the United States.
Howard Isaac Williams‘ essays, remembrances, reviews, poetry and fiction about culture, Nature, messenger lore, Afghanistan and other topics have been published in The Atlantic (online), Philosophy Now and over 20 other venues. His unpublished novel The Chastisement is the only book about Chinghis Khan researched in both Mongolia and Afghanistan.
L.M. Pino is a queer Mexican writer living in the Bay Area. Her latest short story, The Woman Without Skin, is forthcoming in Ignatian Literary Magazine.
Nina Rodenko is a winner of the 2022 Clark-Gross Scholarship Award for her debut novel, United Selves of Veronica, which is currently in its final draft. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Bookstr, Prometheus Dreaming, and Watershed Review. Born in Ukraine, Nina lives in San Francisco.
Olga Zilberbourg’s English-language debut LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press) explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to The Moscow Times. She serves as one of the co-moderators of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.
San Francisco Writers Workshop 
Found it! For some reason these emails wind up in a category labeled “social.”
LikeLiked by 1 person