I Scream Social Reading & Open Mic

When:
April 27, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
2018-04-27T19:00:00-05:00
2018-04-27T21:00:00-05:00
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 Vanessa Couto Johnson, Taisia Kitaiskaia, and Amanda North.

Vanessa Couto Johnson’s “Try the yen relish,” a sixteen-page prose poem sequence, has recently been released in a first BoxSet from Oxidant | Engine. Softblow, Thrush, Field, Blackbird, Cheat River Review, Cream City Review, and other journals have featured her poetry. Her third chapbook, speech rinse, won Slope Editions’ 2016 Chapbook Contest; her second chapbook is rotoscoping collage in Cork City (dancing girl press, 2016); and her first chapbook, Life of Francis, won Gambling the Aisle’s 2014 Chapbook Contest. Favorite ice cream flavor: Neapolitan.

Taisia Kitaiskaia is the author of Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, illustrated by Katy Horan, and Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers and her poems can be found in journals such as Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, jubilat, Guernica, The Fairy Tale Review, and Fence.

Amanda North lives, writes, and teaches in Austin, Texas, though she was born, and her heart resides, in the border town of El Paso. Amanda is a lecturer in the English Department and Honors College at Texas State University. She has poems published or forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, The Open Bar at Tin House, The Learned Pig, and Yew Journal. Her favorite ice cream flavor is rocky road, mostly for the nostalgia.

~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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