SNS | 2-24-24
Join us online for an evening of literary performance and open mic reading
Featuring: Roanna Flowers & SG Huerta
Theme: Love (scroll down for writing prompt)
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday February 24, 2023
6:00pm Pacific Time
(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: 897 8202 8736
Passcode: 447624
Author Bios
Roanna Flowers is a comedy writer in Austin, Texas. She has written several award-winning comedic short films, one of which appeared in over 30 festivals world-wide including the Cannes Short Film Corner. Last November, her short story "These Boots. Or The Bitches of Eastwick" appeared in the short story anthology "Mixed Bag of Tricks," a collection of stories by women, about women, published by a woman-owned small press. She is a former student of Amanda Eyre Ward’s, author of "The Jetsetters," and a member of the Writers’ League of Texas. She has a B.A. in English Literature with a specialization in early British Literature and a surprisingly handy minor in Latin. roannaflowers.com
SG Huerta is a queer Xicanx writer from Dallas. They are the poetry editor of Abode Press and marketing co-director for Split Lip Magazine. SG is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Things We Bring with Us (Headmistress Press) and Last Stop (Defunkt Magazine), and the forthcoming nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF (fifth wheel press 2025). Their work has appeared in Barrelhouse, Honey Literary, Infrarrealista Review, and elsewhere. They live in Central Texas with their partner and two cats. sghuertawriting.com
Write with Friends! Register for The Write-In!
LET’S WORK ON THE THEME TOGETHER!
Join me the week before SNS, on Saturday afternoon, February 17, for the monthly Write-In, a generative online workshop with Hollie Hardy.
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February Writing Prompt:
The theme of love is simple, classic, eternal, and offers a myriad of entry points. There’s romantic love, hungry love, familial love, friendship love, pet love, monster love, lost love, twisted love, unrequited love, self love. There’s new love and seasoned love. Fleeting and forever love.
Tell us a love story; sing us a love song; write us a love poem; compose a love letter.
SOME IDEAS TO GET YOU STARTED:
Write about desire using metaphors about food, eating, or drinking.
Write a letter poem to a lover or friend about the terribly urgent, wonderful things you must tell them.
Write about your/or a character’s best, worst, or ideal date.
Write a list poem repeating the word "because" or "reasons"
because of my love for you____
because I think of you____
because you are mine____
reasons I love you____Write about lost or unrequited love, about breaking up, missing or remembering someone.
Write a love story from the point of view of a mythical creature
Write a how-to poem or essay about love
As ever, the theme is optional—an invitation, not a requirement, feel free to interpret loosely or ignore.
FOR INSPIRATION:
Love Sonnet XI, by Pablo Neruda
Having a Coke with You, by Frank O’Hara
The Friend, by Marge Piercy
To Love as Aswang, by Barbara Jane Reyes
What the Living Do, by Marie Howe
A Bronze God, or a Letter on Demand, Clifton Gachagua
What I Might Carry in the Small Cave of My Mouth +
How to Write a Love Letter by MK Chavez