SNS | 3-30-24
Join us online for an evening of literary performance and open mic reading
Featuring: Kelechi Ubozoh & Meg Jerit
Theme: The Sauce
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Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday March 30, 2024
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: 810 1670 2337
Passcode: 864243
Author Bios
Kelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she was the first undergraduate published in The New York Times. Her book with LD Green, We’ve Been Too Patient, elevates marginalized voices of lived experience who have endured psychiatric mistreatment. Her work is featured in Argot Magazine, Multiplicity, Essential Truths, sParkle & bLINK, Trauma, Tresses, & Truth, and When We Exhale. She co-hosts the Bay Area reading series MoonDrop Productions with Cassandra Dallett and has received a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Learn more at kelechiubozoh.com. IG: @specialkech
Meg Jerit is a creative nonfiction writer, editor, poet, and author of the commissioned children’s book The Moonies: Journey to the Total Solar Eclipse. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia College, where she wrote her memoir, River Talks, a bildungsroman set in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. In 2022, she attended the Kenyon Review Summer Writing Workshop. Her poetry and prose has appeared in various journals such as, Adelaide: International Literary Magazine, Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, The Commercial Appeal, The Southwestern Review, and forthcoming from Take Heart Publications. She is also the host of Smushed Blueberries, a monthly reading series at Epoch Coffee, in Austin, TX. megjerit.com IG: @megitate @smushedblueberries
Write with Friends! Register for The Write-In!
LET’S WORK ON THE THEME TOGETHER!
Join me the week before SNS, on Saturday afternoon, March 23, for the monthly Write-In, a generative online workshop with Hollie Hardy.
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March Writing Prompt: The Sauce
The many meanings of “sauce” include zest, zing, juice, confidence, style, salsa, rizz. It’s the slippery goodness that holds things together. It’s not just hot sauce, tomato, bbq, mustard, mayo, peanut, cherry, chocolate, sriracha, and soy—it’s all the sauces. And their metaphors. All the saucy people and things. Like salsa dancing. Sauce can also mean alcohol—like on or off the sauce, sauced.
Tell us a sauce story; sing us a saucy song; show us your salsa, write us a poem with some sauce in it!
SOME IDEAS TO GET YOU STARTED:
Write about a “secret sauce,” literal or metaphorical
Write about something spicy or zesty—a food, an outfit, a date
Write about “the goodness that holds things together”
Write about salsa dancing or traditional dance, or the musical side of the sauce
Write about (a character with) “rizz” (Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year)
Or something else! As ever, the theme is optional—an invitation, not a requirement, feel free to interpret loosely or ignore.
FOR INSPIRATION:
The Sauce, a Spotify playlist, short and saucy, to get you in the mood
Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, poem by Cornelius Eady
Calligraphy Accompanied by the Mood of a Calm but Definitive Sauce, poem by Dick Allen
Harold's Chicken Shack #1, poem by Nate Marshall
My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts, poem by Adrienne Rich
Wild Tongue, poem by Rebecca Seiferle
November Philosophers, by Katie Ford
Chinese Silence No. 14, poem by Timothy Yu
Tarragon, Are You a Wild Boar?, poem by Vi Khi Nao
Rats, short prose by Matthew Sweeney