I Scream Social Ugly Sweater Party

When:
December 13, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
2019-12-13T19:00:00-06:00
2019-12-13T21:00:00-06:00
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 and nonbinary writers from the Austin community (and beyond!), this month we’re welcoming Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and our I Screamers are KB, Faylita Hicks, and Alana Torrez.

This month is our special annual holiday edition! Ugly sweaters strongly encouraged!

KB [they/them] is a Black queer nonbinary poet, editor, and educator currently based in Austin, TX. They’ve received fellowship invitations from the Vermont Studio Center, Lambda Literary, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, and others. Their poetry appears in The Cincinnati Review, The Matador Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Shade Journal, and elsewhere. When they’re not on stage or in the page, they serve as Program Coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Curator/Host of ATX Interfaces, Assistant Editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and proud member of Lenguas Locxs Writers Collective. They’re currently the Spring 2020 guest editor for Foglifter Press. Their favorite flavor of ice cream is pecan pralines & cream.

Faylita Hicks (she/her/they) is the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), Managing Editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, an organizer with Mano Amiga, and a finalist for the 2018 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship. Hicks was a 2019 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow for Nonfiction, a 2019 Jack Jones Literary Arts “Culture, Too” Conference Gender/Sexuality Fellow, a 2019 Palette Poetry Spotlight Award Finalist, a winner of Catapult’s 2019 Black History Month Scholarship, and has received a residency from the Vermont Studio Center, and is a 2020 Tin House Winter Workshop Creative Nonfiction Fellow. Their work is published or forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Adroit, Linden Avenue, Foglifter, The Rumpus, Sundog Lit, The Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, SLATE Magazine, Huffington Post, Texas Observer, Color Bloq, and others. Their favorite flavor of ice cream is banana brownie!

~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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