SNS | 11-26-22
Featuring: Jennifer Lewis & Zomkhonto
Theme: Recover
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday November 26, 2022
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
Join me on Saturday after Thanksgiving for the last SNS of 2022
As we bask in the afterglow of too much food, friends and family, football and politics, and reflect on the closing year, for your November writing challenge, I invite you to consider the idea of RECOVERY, in any of its many senses.
To RECOVER is to "return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength; to regain control or possession of (something stolen or lost); to make up for."
From what have you recovered or are you still recovering from? This could be a small triumph, like recovering a lost $20 in the pocket of last year's coat, or you could be recovering from an injury or the loss of a friend, a heartbreak, the economic downturn, or a bout with Covid (in many ways we're all still trying to recover from the pandemic), some of us have recovered from depression, rejection, addictions or hangovers, even writer's block. What is the spark that gives us the hope to fight for our own recovery? How can we lift ourselves and each other up?
Feel free to interpret this prompt any way you choose or to ignore it entirely. Sign up below to share your poems, stories, songs, dances, or short comedy sketches at this month's open mic.
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Author Bios
Jennifer Lewis is a writer, editor, and the publisher of Red Light Lit. Her debut short story collection, The New Low, was recently released in 2022, by Nomadic Press, where her short story, "New Low," was the winner of the Bindle Award. In 2020, she won the Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction award for "Put a Teat in It." She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 2015. She teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco. Buy her book here: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/p/thenewlow
Mbonisi Zikhali was born in Makokoba, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. His spoken-word/storytelling name is Zomkhonto, which happens to be his bloodline’s totem. He is a spoken-word artist, story-teller, arts educator, youth mentor, qualified community services worker, grassroots community organizer and mental wellness advocate. He considers himself an afro-empath, and is driven to ensure that people find joy and healing in the power of words and story-telling. Some of the recent publications he has appeared in include winner of Off Topic Publishing's August 2022 Poetry Contest, Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology by Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Ipikai Poetry Journal’s inaugural and second edition (initiative of the Zimbabwe Poets Society) among others. His work was recently showcased at the World Poetry Slam Championships’ spoken word video presentations (September 26-30, 2022) in Brussels, Belgium. He is the current President of Artcite Windsor Inc (Canada)’s Board of Directors.
Check out a digital broadside of his work here: https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/092722.pdf
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