Reminder: Event on Friday!

~ Olga Zilberbourg

Dear San Francisco Writers Workshop community — join us this Friday, May 31, at 7 pm for a reading and fundraiser for our venue.

The event will take place at Noisebridge, 272 Capp Street. We will have featured readers, a raffle, food and drink, a storytelling game, an opportunity to tour Noisebridge, and lots of fun!

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 His unpublished novel The Chastisement is the only book about Chinghis Khan researched in both Mongolia and Afghanistan.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.

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Olga Zilberbourg’s English-language debut LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press) explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to The Moscow Times. It also dives into topics of bisexuality and immigrant parenthood. Anthony Marra called it “…a book of succinct abundance, dazzling in its particulars, expansive in its scope,” and Karen Bender said, “Olga Zilberbourg is a writer to read right now.” Zilberbourg’s writing has appeared in World Literature Today, The Believer, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Born in Leningrad, USSR in a Russian-speaking Jewish family, she makes her home in San Francisco, California. She has published four collections of stories in Russia, including most recent Задержи дыхание [Hold Your Breath] from Vremya Press. She serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. Together with Yelena Furman, she has co-founded Punctured Lines, a feminist blog about literature from the former Soviet Union. She is currently at work on her first novel.

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