Tea & Poison: A Book Launch for The Beginners
Join author Heidi Kasa in celebration of her new speculative fiction chapbook, The Beginners, (Digging Press 2025) for an afternoon of "tea and poison" with short fiction readings from local Austin writers.
Featuring:
Roanna Flowers
G.M. Gray
Hollie Hardy
Britta Jensen
Kara Lenore
Gustavo Martinez
Nikei Salas
Heidi Kasa
Sunday, January 11, 2026
2pm – 4pm
Antiques by Anna
9722 Great Hills Trail Ste. 390
Austin, TX
Free Event
About The Beginners
Winner of the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook Series Award. The Beginners is a collection where poetic intensity meets speculative imagination, demanding we examine not just where we're going, but who we're becoming along the way. With sharp wit and surprising tenderness, Heidi Kasa explores what it means to be human when the lines blur-between self and machine, love and dependence, memory and ghost. Each story is a portal, sometimes surreal and startling, transporting readers to places where the uncanny becomes beautiful and the impossible feels inevitable.
About Heidi Kasa
Heidi Kasa is the author of the poetry collection The Bullet Takes Forever (Mouthfeel Press, 2025), the flash fiction collection The Beginners, winner of the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook Contest (2025), and the fiction chapbook Split (Monday Night Press, 2022). She received the 2024 Plaza Prose Poetry Prize and the 2023 Poetry Super Highway Prize for poems from The Bullet Takes Forever. Her writing has been chosen as a finalist or shortlisted for Best of the Net, Fractured Lit, Black Lawrence Press, Plentitudes Flash Fiction, Plaza Flash Fiction, and ESWA Crossroads contests, and nominated for a Pushcart. Kasa's work has appeared in Barrelhouse, The Brooklyn Rail, The Pinch Journal Online, and elsewhere. Find her at www.heidikasa.com.