Wordhacking: San Francisco Writers Workshop Reads at Noisebridge

San Francisco Writers Workshop is hosting a benefit for our current venue, Noisebridge. This legendary maker and hackerspace in the Mission prides itself on being open to all and provides infrastructure to people interested in art and technology. Our workshop, for instance, has been meeting in the sewing room equipped with machines for professional sewing projects. Like all creative venues in San Francisco, Noisebridge needs help making rent. This event will be a celebration of our writing and creative communities and a fundraiser for one of the coolest spaces in the Mission.

The event will include featured readers, a storytelling game, refreshments, cash bar, and an opportunity to tour Noisebridge. PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!

Mark your calendars for 7 pm on April 6, 2023, at Noisebridge, 272 Capp Street. 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:

Abi Ramanan was born in India, grew up in the UK and has lived in San Francisco since 2018. In a narrowly won race, she chose fiction writing over bread baking during the pandemic and has been on a beautiful (sort of) journey ever since. Her writing won the Space to Write Project contest and has been featured in Metro. She is currently working on her debut novel, PROPHET, a project of speculative fiction about emotion transference, and otherwise can generally be found seeking out a good time in her free time. Connect: Facebook, abi.ramanan1, Twitter @abilalayo

Liz Henry is a writer, translator, blogger, zine publisher, and hackerspace fan. You can find their poetry in the book Unruly Islands, many zines digitized for Kindle, and translations on bookmaniac.org or as part of Carmen Berenguer’s autobiography in poetry, Mi Lai. Connect: bookmaniac.org, Facebook: lizhenry, Twitter @lizhenry, @lizzard@mastodon.social

Raised in rural Colorado, on the Rio Grande river, Michael Lukso nurtured prize winning chickens in 4H. At UCSB, he received his B.A. in psychology, before moving to San Francisco for his M.S. in organizational psychology. He worked as a management consultant for over 10 years. Then he started smoking meth. Homelessness; incarceration; failed suicide attempts; toenail fungus. If something sucks, Michael insisted on adding it to his resume. However, in San Francisco’s criminal law system and mental health services, Michael discovers you don’t have to quit meth, to get better. With a working title of “There’s Another Way,” Michael is writing this memoir to show harm reduction can lead to recovery and happiness.

Peng Ngin left his native Malaysia to attend Vassar College. He moved to the Bay Area for graduate school at UC Berkeley, where he took his first creative writing classes. Peng returned to his lifelong interest in writing and literature during the pandemic. He lives in San Francisco and works as an investment manager.

Tahirah Nailah Dean is a lawyer by day, writer by night. Tahirah (she writes under her middle name Nailah) enjoys writing about the difficulties of finding love and marriage as a young Muslim woman. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera and Insider. She is a blogger for a popular Muslim dating app, Salams, and is currently working on a novel. She lives in Oakland with her husband. Connect: nailahdean.com, Facebook: tnd0029 IG: @nailahdean28

Thomas Hobohm grew up in Texas and now lives in San Francisco. They are the web editor at The Adroit Journal, and their work has appeared in places such as SmokeLong Quarterly, So to Speak, and HAD. You can usually find them at the Roxie Theater. Connect: thomashobohm.com, Twitter: @thomashobohm, Instagram: @skyferreiraofficial