Give Me Fiction recording in SF on Sunday – with our pals from Boars, Gore, and Swords

Mark Frauenfelder 7:31 pm Sat Aug 2, 2014

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This Sunday, August 3rd, at Lost Weekend Video in San Francisco, the soon to be newest member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network will be taping a show. Give Me Fiction is a prose writing series curated by comedian Ivan Hernandez, taking place the first Sunday of every month and featuring some of the Bay Area’s finest minds reading short stories based on a theme. This month’s theme is Sports, and reading will be Red Scott, Joe Tobin, Carey Callahan, Yume Kim, Emily Epstein White, Caitlin Gill and, Casey Childers. Performers on GMF have been featured on The Rumpus, SF Sketchfest, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and more. You can buy tickets on Eventbrite, RSVP here, and follow GMF on Twitter.

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