I Scream Social Reading & Open Mic

When:
April 26, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
2019-04-26T19:00:00-05:00
2019-04-26T21:00:00-05:00
Cost:
Free

Get your cones ready for another round of Malvern Books’ FREE reading series, I SCREAM SOCIAL, hosted by Malvern’s own Annar Veröld and Schandra Madha. Featuring women-identified writers from the Austin community (and beyond!), this month’s I Screamers are Maryan Nagy Captan, Hedgie Choi, Loan Tran, Shaina Frazier, and Sade LaNay.

Maryan Nagy Captan is a Poetry Fellow at The Michener Center for Writers and serves as the Marketing Director for Bat City Review. Maryan is the author of copy/body (Empty Set Press, 2017) and an alumna of the 2017 Disquiet International Literary Program. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Egyptian Writers Folio (Anomaly Press), Foundry, ProLit, AJAR, Apiary Magazine, Mantra Review, Boneless/Skinless, Sundog Lit, and elsewhere.

Hedgie Choi is an MFA fellow at the Michener Center for Writers.

Loan Tran lives in Austin and likes to browse around bookstores and the produce section of supermarkets. She likes so many things, which makes her both readily agreeable and existentially indecisive. She can be dramatic! She can be pleasantly dull. She writes poetry.

Shaina Frazier is a first-year fiction student in the New Writers Project. She was born in Sacramento, CA but was raised in H-Town. Shaina earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston in 2015. She has held various jobs as an administrative assistant, but she’s no longer about that life.

Sade LaNay (fka Murphy) is a poet and artist from Houston, TX. Sade holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Pratt Institute and a BA in Studio Art and Theology from the University of Notre Dame. They are the author of Härte (Downstate Legacies, 2018), self portrait (Birds of Lace, 2018), Dream Machine (co•im•press, 2014), and the forthcoming I love you and I’m not dead (Argos Books, 2019). Her poems are included in the Electric Gurlesque, Bettering American Poetry and Best American Experimental Poetry anthologies. Her writing explores the limits of language and creativity as a balm for systemic violence and generational trauma, specifically as it pertains to lives and bodies of Black and queer people. Alongside her writing, Sade engages in printmaking, silk painting, and book arts with the goal of upholding human connection in the midst of the ongoing struggle for liberation. Her research interests include multilingualism, performance, Black feminist studies, critical race theory, non-hierarchical pedagogy, trauma informed care and the use of monumentality in the manifestation of architectures and public spaces for grief and reconciliation.

~7pm – Ice cream & Open Mic for women-identified and non-binary writers. We want a chance to hear everyone’s wonderful work, so please try to keep readings under 3 minutes.

~The featured reading begins after the open mic and will be followed by even more ice cream.

Can’t make it this time around? No worries. I Scream Social is every month ’til the end of time.

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