# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Fall Reading & Brunch with the AfroSurreal Writers
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 18 Nov, 2017 at 11:00 am
- **Event Description**: Hosted by Shannon Holbrook, with Readings by Dera R. Williams and Learkana Chong.
**Shannon Holbrook** holds a culinary degree and is trained in broadcasting on both radio and television.  A gifted public speaker and comedian, she has hosted events at Litquake SF and Rosenblum Cellars, as well as cooking demos and classes throughout the Bay area in all things wine. **Learkana Chong** is a Cambodian American slacktivist writer living in the Bay Area. Her work has been featured in All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, the Asian American Literary Review, and Sample Space. You can check out her musings on awkward dates, sexuality, intersectional feminism, and things of that nature at lampshadeonherhead.blo. **Dera R. Williams**  lives, works, and plays in the Oakland/Bay Area, California. She is a writer, editor, mentor, researcher, and family historian. Her publications include fiction, nonfiction, memoir, academic, articles, essays and book reviews. She is in the process of compiling a collection of childhood memories, In My Backyard: Stories of Growing Up in Oakland, for which she is seeking publication. She is researching and writing her family history in Arkansas as well as assisting college students in their family research. Exploring the relationship of myth and family history in her writing, this Cali girl is proud of her Southern roots as she heeds the voices of her ancestors’ stories.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oakland/fall-reading-and-brunch-with-the-afrosurreal-writers/926646337491725
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Comedy, Cooking, Entertainment, Workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Oakland
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: AfroSurreal Writers Workshop
- **lat**: 37.81276755757
- **long**: -122.26905584335
- **full address**: AfroSurreal Writers Workshop, c/o Nomadic Press, 2301 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Fall Reading & Brunch with the AfroSurreal Writers being held?
  - **A:** Fall Reading & Brunch with the AfroSurreal Writers takes place on Sat, 18 Nov, 2017 at 11:00 am to Sat, 18 Nov, 2017 at 11:00 am at AfroSurreal Writers Workshop, c/o Nomadic Press, 2301 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, United States.

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