BARtab, the Bay Area Reporter's nightlife section, hosts its fifth annual Lit Crawl reading at Martuni's.
BARtab editor and five-time novelist Jim Provenzano hosts as writers Mark Abramson, Poet on Watch, Kevin Sessums and Nomy Lamm share fictional and real-life stories.
http://www.litquake.org/event-series/lit-crawl-san-francisco
MARK ABRAMSON is the author of the eight-part Beach Reading series, set in the Castro district; and his recent memoir For My Brothers from Wilde City Press, whi...
BARtab, the Bay Area Reporter's nightlife section, hosts its fifth annual Lit Crawl reading at Martuni's.
BARtab editor and five-time novelist Jim Provenzano hosts as writers Mark Abramson, Poet on Watch, Kevin Sessums and Nomy Lamm share fictional and real-life stories.
http://www.litquake.org/event-series/lit-crawl-san-francisco
MARK ABRAMSON is the author of the eight-part Beach Reading series, set in the Castro district; and his recent memoir For My Brothers from Wilde City Press, which will also next year publish his pre-AIDS San Francisco diaries Sex, Drugs & Disco.
NOMY LAMM is a writer, musician and voice teacher who lives in the Mission. She works with Sins Invalid, doing performance around disability and sexuality. She recently completed a novel called 515 Clues, and will screen a short film at Un-Dissing our Abilities at The New Parkway Theatre on Oct. 16.
POET ON WATCH is a Southern-rooted performance poet and screenwriter who has worked with theater companies, universities, cultural organizations, social institutions, gay and lesbian organizations, institutions of gender non-conformists and individual artists around the world through her commissioned writing programs. She is the author of two collections of poetry.
JIM PROVENZANO is the author of the novels Every Time I Think of You (a 2012 Lambda Literary Award winner), and its sequel Message of Love, as well as PINS, Monkey Suits, Cyclizen and the stage adaptation of PINS. A journalist and photographer in LGBT media for more than two decades (from the historic OutWeek magazine to his current slot as an editor with the Bay Area Reporter), he also once worked on a pumpkin farm.
KEVIN SESSUMS is the New York Times-bestselling author of Mississippi Sissy and the editor in chief of FourTwoNine magazine and dot429.com. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Allure and Parade magazines where he was a contributing editor. Other magazines for which he has written include Interview, where he was executive editor, as well as Elle, Marie Claire, Travel+Leisure, Out, The Advocate, and Playboy. His work has also appeared online at The Daily Beast and Towleroad. His new memoir, I Left It on the Mountain, will be published by St. Martin's Press in February.