The I Scream Social you know and love, but virtual! This month, we’re so honored to feature nicole v basta, Cindy Huyser, and Neysa King!

A little bit about I Scream Social: we’ve been around since June 2015, featuring women and nonbinary writers and slinging free ice cream in the Austin, TX area. We have two anthologies linked at the bottom of this event page—the most recent, published last month and featuring the work of 34 women and nonbinary writers!

Using Zoom, we’ll be able to host a virtual I Scream Social reading, where the structure and community guidelines will be the same. New things include: new open mic sign-up process, pajamas are totally acceptable, and bring your own ice cream, duh! We’ll be posting the meeting ID and password Friday morning on Facebook.

7:05 pm :: We’ll kick off I Scream Social with a tiny hello from your loving hosts—Annar Veröld and Schandra Madha!

7:15pm :: Then we’ll dive into our open mic! [open mic sign-up will be limited to 8 folks and sign up information will be posted on Facebook and on our Instagram]

7:45pm :: featured readers nicole v basta, Cindy Huyser, and Neysa King!

Things to note about the Zoom reading: all guests will be muted, except for Hosts and readers when they are designated to read/perform.

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〰️ nicole v basta’s chapbook V was chosen by Rigoberto González as the winner of The New School’s Annual Contest. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Birdfeast, Tinderbox, The Shallow Ends, Ninth Letter, Nat. Brut etc. nicole is also a maker of collages, a teaching artist, an Assistant Poetry Editor at Anomaly, and a three time artist-in-residence at Art Farm Nebraska. She grew up in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania and had her second upbringing in Ithaca and Brooklyn, New York. Her favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla peanut butter!

〰️ “P” is for passion, power plants and programming, pedaling along paths, photography and poetry. All 26 letters of the alphabet are a glorious playground, and Cindy loves playing there. Cindy Huyser’s favorite flavor of ice cream is mint chocolate chip!

〰️ Neysa King is a poet, essayist and creator of the online community Dissertation to Dirt, essays about young farmers and the local food economy. Her essays and poetry have been published in the Huffington Post, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Chaleur Magazine, the San Antonio Review and others. She is the recipient of the San Antonio Writers Guild Prize in Poetry and the 2019 Princemere Prize in Poetry. Her favorite flavor of ice cream is mint chocolate chip!

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