September 2, 2017
Beast Crawl Literary Festival
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SWILL
Leg Three | 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Radio Bar

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Event Description

Swill is a magazine. A Swill reading is an event: no rules, no limits, just good writers reading their work. There may be sex, violence is pretty much guaranteed, and that’s just the audience.

Curator: Rob Pierce

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Rob Pierce is the author of the novel With the Right Enemies and three other books. He
lives and will probably die in Oakland.

Event Readers

Holly West

Joe Clifford

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Holly West is the author of historical mysteries and short crime fiction. Her most recent story, “Queen
of the Dogs,” is nominated for a 2017 Anthony Award. Find her online at hollywest.com.

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Joe Clifford is the author of Junkie Love and the Jay Porter Thriller Series. His writing
can be found at www.joeclifford.com.

Joshua A. Hattam

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Joshua A. Hattam dropped out of school in the 7th grade to pursue an education in
crime. After spending half his adult life behind bars, where he learned to write, he quit his job as an enforcer for an outlaw motorcycle club to pursue writing full time.

Renee Asher Pickup

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Renee Asher Pickup is a writer from Southern California, her novel (co-written with Andrez Bergen) Black Sails, Disco Inferno, is available from Open Books.

Sarah M. Chen

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Sarah M. Chen has published over twenty crime fiction short stories. Cleaning Up Finn, her novella with All Due Respect, is shortlisted for an Anthony and an IPPY award winner. http://sarahmchen.com.

Sean Craven

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Sean Craven is like Richard Corey from the waist up, Bartleby the Scrivener from the waist down.
Many people to expect him to burst into stardom at any moment. Suckers.

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