SPD Bee-In: May 17th, 2010 Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco
JOIN US!
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!
DRINKS, NIBBLES & SPELLING
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.
TICKETS
(Please list all guest names in the "comments" section during order checkout.)
$75 Ticket
$125 Couples' Ticket (2 Guests on 1 Ticket)
$250 Patron Ticket (Includes Priorty Seating & Special Acknowledgment)
SPELLERS
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
Cara Black, Paris mystery author of the Aimée Leduc series, Mystery in the Palais Royale
Sylvia Brownrigg, reigning SPD Queen Bee, novelist, Morality Tale, The Delivery Room
Kevin Killian, poet, novelist, critic and playwright, Impossible Princess, short fiction, is just out
Jon Carroll, well known columnist for the SF Chronicle
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
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
LOCATION
Crown Point Gallery
20 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105