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February 28th, 2025
I Scream Social
featuring Sasha West, C. Rees, Turi Sioson
Free & Open to All | Alienated Majesty Books
 

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.

This February, we are embracing radical love and celebrating writers we deeply admire: Sasha West, C. Rees, and Turi Sioson. Hosted by Annar Veröld & Claire Bowman! Free & open to all lovers of literature.

Open mic sign-ups begin at 6:45pm and are reserved for writers from historically marginalized communities.

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

Health & Safety Statement: masks are strongly encouraged and will be provided for this event.

✦✦✦ ABOUT THE READERS ✦✦✦

Turi Sioson (she/they) | @turi_s99 on IG | loves mint chocolate chip, dark chocolate, & mango sorbet ice cream

Turi Sioson is a poet, editor, and publicist from Austin, TX. She is editor and publicity director of Sunstroke Press, and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, Epiphany Magazine, The Texas Review, and The Freshwater Review, among others. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection. You can find her sitting in the sun after a long swim or at turisioson.com.

C. Rees (they/them) | @17_yrbrood on IG | loves moose tracks ice cream

C. Rees (they/them) is a queer Pennsylvania-born eco-poet, writer, bookseller, cultural worker, and New Writers Project alumnus living in Austin, TX. You can read some of that work in Gulf Coast, Territory, The Poetry Society of America, Apocalypse Confidential, and elsewhere. Stop Cop City; free Palestine.

Sasha West (she/her) | @sasha.s.west on IG | loves mint chocolate ice cream

Sasha West is the author of How to Abandon Ship (2024) and Failure and I Bury the Body (2013), recipient of the National Poetry Series and a Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award. As part of eco-arts collaborative Hammonds + West, her multi-media shows with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Texas A&M, ArtPrize Michigan, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor at St. Edward’s University, where she founded the Environmental Humanities program.

✦✦✦ ABOUT HOST PUBLICATIONS ✦✦✦

Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.

✦✦✦ WHERE TO PARK ✦✦✦

Alienated Majesty is located at 613 W 29th St. There is (limited) free parking in our lot, as well as free street parking in the surrounding neighborhood.

✦✦✦ ABOUT ALIENATED MAJESTY BOOKS ✦✦✦

Alienated Majesty Books is a bookstore and community space in central Austin that specializes in small presses, comics, works in translation, and titles you might not find elsewhere. In 2024, AMB was voted Best Obscure Literature Collection by the Austin Chronicle.


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