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Join us online for the last Saturday Night Special of 2025 — an incredible evening of literary performance and open mic readings

Featuring:
Allison Goldstein & Heidi Kasa

Theme: The End
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Hosted By: Hollie Hardy

SNS will return at the end of January, following our annual holiday hiatus in December.

Saturday, November 29, 2025
8:00pm Central time

Online Event
Free Admission

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The theme is optional | Time limit is not optional
Please plan ahead and keep your reading to 3 MINUTES MAX
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Meeting ID: 876 4729 5193

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Author Bios

Allison Goldstein is a poet, writer, and visual artist. She received her MFA in Poetry from California College of the Arts. Her horror movie-themed poetry chapbook, In The Night, In The Dark was released by Bottlecap Press in 2025. Her work has also appeared in a variety of literary and cultural publications including Not Very Quiet: The Anthology, Saw Palm, Gyroscope Review, Last Girls Club, and Maximum Rocknroll. Allison currently lives and writes in South Florida. You can learn more about her work by visiting allisongoldsteinpoetry.com

Buy the book: https://bottlecap.press/collections/bottlecap-features/products/thenight

Read Interview: https://bebarbar.com/author-spotlight-allison-goldstein

Heidi Kasa is the author of the just released poetry collection The Bullet Takes Forever (Mouthfeel Press), the forthcoming flash fiction collection The Beginners, winner of the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook Contest, and Split (Monday Night Press). She received the 2024 Plaza Prose Poetry Prize and the 2023 Poetry Super Highway Prize for poems from The Bullet Takes Forever. Kasa's work has appeared in Barrelhouse, The Brooklyn Rail, The Pinch Journal Online, and elsewhere. She works as an editor in Austin and creates handmade artist books. Find her at heidikasa.com

Buy the Bullet Book: https://www.mouthfeelbooks.com/product/the-bullet-takes-forever-by-heidi-kasa/78

Write with Friends! Register for The Write-In!

LET’S WORK ON THE THEME TOGETHER!

Join me the week before SNS, on **SUNDAY** afternoon, **November 23**, for the monthly Write-In, a generative online workshop with Hollie Hardy.
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November Writing Prompt: The End

Every ending holds its own kind of beginning. The last line, the last light, the quiet after— each an invitation to pay attention. What dissolves? What remains? “The end” can mean closure or collapse, relief or revelation. It can be literal — the end of a story, a relationship, a world — or abstract, a threshold crossed, a transformation underway. The inspiration poems below remind us that endings are never just one thing — they are multitudes: elegy, echo, edge, and turning point.

SOME IDEAS TO GET YOU STARTED:

Write toward a final moment: the last time, last word, last touch, last breath.
Imagine the world ending — tenderly, absurdly, beautifully, or not at all.
Explore a personal ending: of love, of a habit, of an era — what new self begins to appear in its wake?
Try writing the ending first — what story or image leads up to it?
Write from the voice of something ending: the year, a city, a species, a promise.
Consider endings that aren’t tragic — what if the end is liberation, release, or relief?
Or make it playful: the end of a TV show, a meal, a dream, a sentence — what lingers after?

Or something else! As ever, please feel free to follow whatever inspiration takes you! As ever, the theme is optional—an invitation, not a requirement; feel free to interpret loosely or ignore.