I Scream Social: featuring Randall J. Tyrone and Roger Reeves

This February, we are embracing radical love and celebrating writers we deeply admire: Randall James Tyrone and Roger Reeves. Hosted by Annar Veröld & Claire Bowman! Free & open to all lovers of literature.

Presented by Host Publications, I Scream Social is a monthly feminist reading series and ice cream party that takes place at Alienated Majesty Books. We aim to celebrate and empower historically marginalized writers and share incredible literature and diverse perspectives to an Austin-area audience. Hosted by Host Publications editors Annar Veröld & Claire Bowman! Free & open to all!

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Roger Reeves is the author three collections: Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction and a finalist for the 2024 Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism; Best Barbarian, recipient of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award; and his debut collection King Me, which won the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, a John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and a Library Journal Best Poetry Book of the year. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. Among other awards, he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a Whiting Award, an NEA Fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is currently a Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Randall J. Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. His poems have appeared in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky, Oversound Poetry, Indiana Review, Southern Indiana Review, Nomadic Press, Prairie Schooner and Gulf Coast. His poetry collection City of Dis (TRP, 2025) is now available and he's very excited for you. 

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Open mic details: sign ups for the open mic begin at 6:45pm.

The open mic is reserved for writers from historically marginalized communities.

Because slots are limited and we want to make room for everyone, we ask that you wait until 7:10 to sign up if you joined us for the open mic the previous month.

***********************Notes ************************

✦ This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

✦ Health and safety note: masks are encouraged and will be provided for this month's I Scream Social

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