Author Event: Multi-Genre Reading, Q&A, and Conversation

Join us for a lively literary evening, as Austin's Alienated Majesty Books hosts a reading and conversation between writers across multiple genres.

Austin-based poet Hollie Hardy will read from her new poetry collection, Lions Like Us, recently released on Red Light Lit Press. Fiction writer Emily Jon Tobias will read from her recently published debut story collection, MONARCH (Black Lawrence Press). Local author and podcaster Scott Semegran will host and read a teaser from his latest novel, The Codger and the Sparrow (TCU Press).

Book signing and refreshments to follow Q&A.

Please note: Your RSVP/ ticket helps us plan, but Eventbrite will only let us give out a limited number of tickets (though we can accommodate twice that). If we "sell out," please come anyway; no one will be turned away :)

Hollie Hardy is a writer, educator, and author of two books of poetry, (Red Light Lit Press, 2024) and (Punk Hostage Press, 2014) winner of the Annual Poetry Center Book Award at San Francisco State University. She holds an MFA in Poetry from SFSU and teaches private writing workshops online. She is the founder of Praxis Poetry: Weekly Prompts for Poets, and host of the long-running monthly reading series Saturday Night Special: A Virtual Open Mic. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including Bay Area Generations, Colossus, The Common, Dispatches from Quarantine, Eleven Eleven, Fourteen Hills, Migozine, Milvia Street Journal, Mixed Bag of Tricks, Parthenon West Review, Passionfruit Review, sPARKLE & bLINK, Transfer, and elsewhere. She lives in Austin, TX.
Website: holliehardy.com Facebook: @hollie.hardy.3 Instagram: @hollie.hardy

Emily Jon Tobias is an American author and poet. She is an award-winning writer whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, along with other honorable mentions, and has been featured in literary journals such as Santa Clara Review, Talking River Review, Flying South Literary Journal, Furrow Literary Journal, The Opiate Magazine, The Ocotillo Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Big Muddy, Spoon Knife, Peauxdunque Review, and elsewhere. Midwestern-raised, she now lives and writes on the coast of Southern California and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University Oregon. (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) is her debut collection.

Website: emilyjontobias.com Instagram: @emilyjontobias

Scott Semegran is an award-winning writer of nine books. BlueInk Review described him best as “a gifted writer, with a wry sense of humor.” His latest novel, (Paperback from TCU Press, Audiobook from Vibrance Press), is a comical yet moving story about a 65-year-old widower’s unlikely friendship with a 16-year-old troublemaker. His eight previous books include The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island, which was the first-place winner for Middle-Grade/Young Adult fiction in the 2021 Writer’s Digest Book Awards, and To Squeeze a Prairie Dog, which was the winner of the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal for Humor. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife. They have four kids, two cats, and a dog. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in English. Scott Semegran is co-host of the web series Austin Liti Limits.

Website: scottsemegran.com Facebook: @scottsemegran.writer
Instragram: @scott_semegran

Host or Publisher Hollie Hardy