SNS | 01-28-23
Featuring: Toni Mirosevich & Arisa White
Theme: Long Dark Night
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday January 28, 2023
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
This month at SNS, on the last Saturday of January, in the heart of midwinter, we celebrate “the long dark night,” with blackouts and snow, existential woe and holidays behind us, at the end of a (maybe/semi) sober January, with resolutions made and (maybe) broken, the smell of wood smoke welcome (or warning), winter invites us to turn inward, to hibernate and reflect, to make soup, write, and reset, to recommit to goals, and reconnect to the people and things that matter, to rest and rejuvenate. Consider, perhaps, the soul in search of fresh faith after a period of darkness, rejection, illness, failure, ennui—what lifts us up, nourishes and inspires, what light persists through the long dark night?
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Author Bios
Toni Mirosevich was raised in a Croatian-American fishing family in Everett, Washington. In Spell Heaven, her linked story collection recently released from Counterpoint Press, a lesbian couple moves to a coast town and unexpectedly finds a sense of belonging with a group of outsiders. Mirosevich is also the author of Pink Harvest, winner of the First Series Award for Creative Nonfiction, and five books of poetry. Her cross-genre writings have been widely anthologized and her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals. A professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University for many years, she currently resides with her wife in Pacifica, California.
Buy her book here: counterpointpress.com/books/spell-heaven
Learn more: tonimirosevich.com
Arisa White is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College. Most recently, she is the author of Who’s Your Daddy, co-editor of Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart, and co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, the second book in the Fighting for Justice Series for young readers. Her poetry is widely published and her collections have been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Lambda Literary Award, and have won the Per Diem Poetry Prize, Maine Literary Award, Nautilus Book Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and Golden Crown Literary Award. Currently, in development with composer Jessica Jones, Arisa is working on Post Pardon: The Opera. arisawhite.com
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