Readings
& Events
I’m passionate about bringing writers together, to shine, perform, listen, and clap for one another. Over the years, I have cofounded, curated, featured in, and hosted hundreds of literary events. My monthly open mic, Saturday Night Special, has been running since 2011. All are welcome!
I’ll be headed out on tour this summer with my new book Lions Like Us. Hope to see you! Scroll down for details.
READINGS & EVENTS
SNS | 7-30-22
Featuring:
Richard Loranger & Daphne Gottlieb
Theme:
The Burning
Saturday, July 30, 2022
8pm – 10pm Central Time
Featuring: Richard Loranger & Daphne Gottlieb
Theme: The Burning
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday July 30, 2022
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
Hello summer! It's 106 degrees in Austin this week, but it feels like 114. The planet's getting hotter, and so are you.
This month at SNS, let's embrace the burn! Write about the hot hot heat, the sun burn, the hot seat, write about about fire, burning up the dance floor or bacon sizzling, write about friction, about the burn of rage, or skidding tires, about the burnt house or the near miss, the smokey orange sky, or better yet, your burning desire. Be the fire.
Sign up to share your poems, stories, songs, dances, or short comedy sketches about the burning at this month's open mic.
Join Event on Zoom
Meeting ID: 923 8487 1607
Password: 280277
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/92384871607?pwd=L0ZwejU3S1V6U2V5SU5vanBaVDJmdz09
Password: 280277
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll):
+13462487799,92384871607# or +16699006833,92384871607#
Sign Up to Read at SNS
The theme is optional | Time limit is not optional
Please plan ahead and keep your reading to 3 MINUTES MAX
Author Bios
Richard Loranger RICHARD LORANGER is a multi-genre writer, performer, musician, visual artist, and all-around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of Poetea, a monthly literary conversation group. His newest book Unit of Agency, which he describes as a collection of his human struggle/protest culture/social justice/pissed-off leftie poems, came out in October, 2021 from Collapse Press (www.collapsepress.com). He’s also the author of Be A Bough Tit, Sudden Windows, Poems for Teeth, The Orange Book, and ten chapbooks, and has work in over 100 magazines and journals. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com.
Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of eleven books including her latest, Saint 1001 (MadHat Press 2021), a collection of short stories, Pretty Much Dead, and Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words, a collection of letters from Death Row by the “first female serial killer” to her childhood best friend. She is also the author of five books of poetry, editor of two anthologies, and, with artist Diane DiMassa, the co-creator of the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious.
Gottlieb is the winner of the Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant-Garde, the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in more than 50 anthologies.
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SNS | 6-25-22
Featuring:
Ivan Hobson
Theme:
Lucky
Saturday, June 25, 2022
8pm – 10pm Central Time
Featuring: Ivan Hobson
Theme: Lucky
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday June 25, 2022
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
Join SNS for an extra lucky open mic on the last Saturday in June.
Have you ever wished on a dandelion? Thrown I-Ching Pennies? Read a horoscope, had a tarot reading, found a 4-leaf clover? Cast a spell? Owned a happy cat charm? Do you have a dice tattoo? What about the parking gods? Are they on your side? Have you dodged a bullet? Kissed a Blarney Stone or a frog? Thrown broken dishes at a house? Been crapped on by a bird? Thrown salt or knocked on wood?
For this month's writing challenge, you are invited to write about luck. Do you believe (or unbelieve?) Are you lucky or unlucky? What's your secret to luck?
Come share your poems, stories, songs, dances, or short comedy sketches at our open mic.
Join Event on Zoom
Meeting ID: 923 8487 1607
Password: 280277
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/92384871607?pwd=L0ZwejU3S1V6U2V5SU5vanBaVDJmdz09
Password: 280277
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll):
+13462487799,92384871607# or +16699006833,92384871607#
Sign Up to Read at SNS
The theme is optional | Time limit is not optional
Please plan ahead and keep your reading to 3 MINUTES MAX
Author Bio
Ivan Hobson is an MFA graduate from San Francisco State University. Along with teaching English at Diablo Valley College, he also works as a shipyard machinist on Mare Island. Ivan's poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in publications including the North American Review, Oxford Poetry, The Malahat Review, as well as Ted Kooser and The Poetry Foundation’s American Life in Poetry. Ivan’s first book, Cutting Teeth, was recently released by Meadowlark Press.
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