Get your cones ready for another round of Malvern Books’ FREE reading series, I SCREAM SOCIAL, hosted by Malvern’s own Annar Veröld & Schandra Madha. This month is our special annual holiday edition! Ugly sweaters strongly encouraged!

Featuring women-identified writers from the Austin community (and beyond!), this month’s I Screamers are Meg E. Griffitts, Meaghan Loraas, and Nicole Cortichiato.

Meg E. Griffitts is a poet and educator from Aurora, Colorado. Her work has appeared in White Stag, Crab Fat, Hypertrophic, BlazeVox, and others. She collects rocks, succulents, and cookbooks. Her favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip.

Meaghan Loraas is a third-year fiction student in the Texas State University MFA program. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New South, subTerrain, and others. She is currently working on her first novel, and enjoys binge watching television and drinking IPAs that taste like trees. She also really likes to laugh. Her favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate peanut butter swirl.

If you ever attend an open mic in Austin, chances are you will see Nicole Cortichiato perform. She’s been a featured reader at Malvern Book’s “I Scream Social” and “Writer’s Roulette.” She is also a member of a band called, “Nicole and Eric’s Guide to a Meaningful Life” in which she plays theremin and gives life advice. Her favorite ice cream flavor is dark chocolate.

~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.