SNS | 4-26-25
Join us online for an evening of literary performance and open mic reading
Featuring: Marya Hornbacher + Mike Urquidez
Theme: Time Travel
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Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday, April 26, 2025
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
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Please plan ahead and keep your reading to 3 MINUTES MAX
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Author Bios
Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist, essayist, novelist, and poet, and the New York Times bestselling author of five books. She has received the Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction, the Logan Fellowship for Social Justice Journalism, the White Award for Magazine Journalism, the ASCAP Award for Music Journalism, the Fountain House Humanitarian Award, and other distinctions. Her work appears in publications including New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Minneapolis StarTribune, Chicago Reader, Smithsonian Magazine, Vogue, Glamour, Crazyhorse, Guernica, Longreads, AGNI, Arts & Letters, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, and many more. She is the creator of the the bestselling Substack "Going Solo at the End of the World," a multi-media report from the American road. Her sixth book, Solo, is forthcoming from Hachette/Cardinal Books in early 2027.
Mike Urquidez is a poet, writer, and educator living in northeast Los Angeles, where he teaches English at Los Angeles Pierce College. He is a graduate of the creative writing program at San Francisco State University and former fiction editor of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. Recent work has appeared in Stick Figure Poetry, Moria, and elsewhere. He is currently at work on a full-length collection of poetry, as well as a mystery novel set in the San Fernando Valley.
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April Writing Prompt: Time Travel
Write a poem, short prose, or speculative fiction piece inspired by time travel. 🚀❤️⏰
SOME IDEAS
Do you believe in the possibility of time travel?
What would you want to do if you could time travel? Would you go back in time to see specific things, change things, redo mistakes, prevent genocide, see dinosaurs? Or would you roll forward to see if we save or destroy the planet?
What would your time machine look like?
What would you learn or reveal about humanity or yourself?
Your poem can be from any point of view. From your own or a character's. So you might imagine yourself in a different time or a someone from the past for example, traveling forward to our time.
Time travel as memory or imagined future.
Time travel as the literalized surreal.
Time travel as a way to revisit or reclaim, to save or to salvage.
Or something else! Think big! Be expansive.
INSPIRATION
Time Travel for Beginners by Ardon Shorr
Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler by Kaveh Akbar
I Have a Time Machine by Brenda Shaughnessy
The Time Traveler Finally Falls in Love by T.S. Leonard
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