SPD Bee-In: May 16th, 2011 Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco

Tickets are now available for the fourth annual BEE-IN, A Spelling Bee to Benefit Small Press Distribution.  Don't miss your chance to attend this exciting event!

THE BEE-IN is an old-fashioned spelling bee but with alcohol and more fun! Thank you to Crown Point Gallery for providing the beautiful setting for this event. Proceeds support the work of SPD, the nation's only remaining non-profit distributor of literary small press books.

6:30: Drinks & Auction
7:30: Spelling Bee

Emcee: Josh Kornbluth, TV commentator and monologist.
Judge: Geoffrey Nunberg, NPR commentator, professor at UC Berkeley, and board member of the American Heritage Dictionary.

(Please list all guest names in the "comments" section during order checkout.)  

$30 "Starving Artist" Ticket

$75 Ticket

$125 Couples' Ticket (2 Guests on 1 Ticket)

$250 Patron Ticket (Includes Priorty Seating & Special Acknowledgment)
  

Charlie Jane Anders, writer, editor, publisher & satirist, Choir Boy, impresario of Writers with Drinks and writer for io9.com
Tamim Ansary, Afghan-American writer, lecturer, and teacher, The Widow’s Husband and Destiny Disrupted, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Sylvia Brownrigg, reigning SPD Queen Bee, novelist, Morality Tale, The Delivery Room
Jon Carroll, well known columnist for the SF Chronicle
Katie Hafner is a journalist who writes books and articles about technology and society for the New York Times, Wired and many other publications.
Molly Katzen, cookbook guru, author of Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen
Kevin Killian, poet, novelist, critic and playwright, Impossible Princess, short fiction, is just out
Laurie R. King, author of twenty books, including two popular mystery series. The God of the Hive is due out in April
Mary Mackey, poet and novelist, Breaking the Fever and The Widow’s War
Daniel Mason, novelist, The Piano Tuner and The Far Country
Canyon Sam, writer and activist, author of Sky Train: Tibetan Women On the Edge of History
Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) author of many wonderful books comprising A Series of Unfortunate Events
Laura Sydell, NPR commentator on Art & Technology
Sedge Thomson, West Coast Live! impresario
Catherine Wagner, artist whose works are represented at Museum of Modern Art N.Y., the Whitney, SF MOMA, among many other museums
Karen Tei Yamashita, novelist, short story writer, playwright and teacher at UCSC, is the author of I Hotel, due out from Coffee House Press May 1.

Crown Point Gallery
20 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
(click here for directions)
 

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