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Tickets are selling out fast for THE BEE-IN, A Spelling Bee to Benefit Small Press Distribution. Don't miss your chance to attend this exciting event with even more spellers added to the roster!

THE BEE-IN is an old fashioned spelling bee but with alcohol and more fun! Proceeds support the work of SPD, the nation's only remaining non-profit distributor of literary small press books.

Drinks, Nibbles and Spelling!

Doors open at 6:30 (Bee starts at 7:30 and lasts for about an hour)

Emcee: Josh Kornbluth, TV personality & Host of the Josh Kornbluth Show.

Judge: Berkeley arts activist & cultural leader Penny Cooper

Tickets Now Available!

General Admission Ticket ($75):

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Spellers (with more to come!):

• "Writers with Drinks" diva & last year's Queen Bee Charlie Anders (Choir Boy )
• Cookbook Guru Mollie Katzen (The Enchanted Broccoli Forest )
• San Francisco Chronicle  columnist Jon Carroll
• KQED host of Forum Michael Krasny (Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life )
• Artist Catherine Wagner (Works represented at Museum of Modern Art N.Y., the Whitney, SF MOMA, among others)
• Novelist & Oprah's List author Lalita Tademy ( Red River )
• Jack Spicer biographer and former New York state Spelling Bee champion Kevin Killian (Little Men )
• Ex-stripper Stephen Elliott (Happy Baby  and Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica )
• Novelist and poet Kim Addonizio (My Dreams Out in the Street )
• Political commentator George Lakoff (Don't Think of an Elephant! )
• Crime novelist Dominic Stansberry (The Ancient Rain )
• Crime novelist Marc Lecard (Vinnie's Head  and Killer Year: A Criminal Anthology )
• "Body+Soul" columnist, biographer and memoirist Frances Lefkowitz (David Letterman  and Marilyn Monroe )
• Poet and novelist Mary Mackey (The Notorious Mrs. Winston  and Breaking the Fever)
• Eco-feminist author Susan Griffin (Wrestling with the Angels of Democracy: On Being American)
• Former tag-team haiku champion, activist, and author Thea Hillman (For Lack of a Better Word)

Location:
Crown Point Gallery
20 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

Cocktails courtesy of Craft Distillers, pouring Hangar One Vodka and providing tastings of delicious artisan spirits.