PAWETRY: Stories or Poems About Our Family Pets LIVE at Heritage Park Gazebo Downtown Lancaster TX

Come get your day started with PAWETRY at Heritage Park Gazebo! Located at 250 N Dallas Ave Downtown Lancaster Tx. You are invited to come listen or share your favorite stories or poems about our beloved family pets. Whether you have a funny furry friend, a silly scaly companion, or a feathered bird buddy, all are welcome to participate. Let's celebrate the joy our pets bring to our lives in a cozy-cool-covered outdoor setting. Don't miss out on this heartwarming event! Promoting Adoption Awareness. All pets must be on a leash and maintained for safety. Doogie Poo Bags available. Free human refreshments and pet-friendly snacks Bring a chair or blanket and get ready to hear some incredibly heart warming stories.

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Contact Mike Guinn (972) 704-5001

From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters ("I loved it" —Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It: a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances.

"You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone.
      But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far worse: a murderous entity whose desperate, driving purpose includes kidnapping Owen to serve as its Renfield. As Owen tries to outwit his new master, and Hal, Athena, and Erin reckon with how the choices they made as teens might connect to the apocalyptic event unfurling over the Lone Star State, shocking alliances form, old and new romances brew, and three unsuccessful adults and one frightened teen are all that stand between reality and oblivion. 
      From one of the boldest, most brilliant voices in modern fantastical horror, The Dissonance is a thrilling and beautifully written story of magic and monsters, forgiveness and friendship.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SHAUN HAMILL received his BA in English from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His debut novel, A Cosmology of Monsters, was published in 2019. His fiction has appeared in Carve and Come Join Us By the Fire 2. His nonfiction has appeared at Crimereads and Tor Nightfire. He lives and works near Dallas-Fort Worth.

ALEX TEMBLADOR is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Secrets of the Casa Rosada, Half Outlaw, and Writing An Identity Not Your Own. She is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Alex lives in Dallas, Texas, where she runs a literary panel series called LitTalk.

Thursday, July 25th, 6:00PM

On this night we invite poets, spokenword artists, storytellers, drama queens and kings to come share and have fun, win cash & trophies! The 2nd Annual SpOscars (Spokenword Oscars) An Annual Performance Celebration Open Mic & Word Challenges 100% of all proceeds go to the The Dock Bookshop &Dock Community and the artists. Sign up and come have some fun.

WHO WILL BE THE FIRST TO WIN ALL CATEGORIES AND BE THE UNDISPUTED BEST ALL AROUND POET IN TEXAS! SIGN UP FOR MULTIPLE CATEGORIES

Best Spokenword Slam Poet (First 5 Poets) $25 Cash Prize

One Poem Best Monologue From A Movie Or Play (Only 3 Actors) $25 Cash Prize

Best Children's Book (3 Participants Only) $25 Cash Prize

Best Storyteller (3 Minute Story- Only 3 Tellers) $25 Cash Prize

$8 - $35 Best Poem With Accent or Different Voice (Only 3 Poets) $25 Cash Prize

Best Haiku Poet (Only 3 Poets) $25 Cash Prize

Most Supportive Fan (For Person Who The Brings Most People)

The trophies have been bought. $25 Cash Prize The Prize Money Is Building For Each Category! Now it's time for poets to choose a category and sign up. Poets can sign up for All Categories This Year: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-open-mic-night-at-the-dock-cash-prizes-trophies-tickets-646091305487?aff=oddtdtcreator

Seeking Vendors and Sponsors Poets in the contest get free space on table for their merch only,

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7:30-10pm $10 admission for all ages.

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Come join us for a double feature event with award winning poets and authors, KB Brookins and Joaquin Zihuatanejo in conversation in celebration of the launch of Brookins’ memoir, Pretty!

KB BROOKINS is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. They are the author of Freedom House and How to Identify Yourself with a Wound. Brookins has poems, essays, and installation art published in Academy of American Poets, Teen Vogue, Poetry Magazine, Prizer Arts & Letters, Okayplayer, Poetry Society of America, Autostraddle, and other venues. They have earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, Equality Texas, and others.

JOAQUIN ZIHUATANEJO is a poet, spoken word artist, and award-winning teacher. Born and raised in the barrio of East Dallas, in his work Joaquín strives to capture the duality of the Chicano culture. He’s been called, “one of the most dynamic and passionate performance poets in the country, melding equal parts comedy, poetry, and dramatic monologue into a crowd-pleasing display of verbal fireworks… always thrilling, Joaquín’s hilariously manic presentation is full of compassion and nuance, never sacrificing substance for style.” Joaquin was a National Poetry Slam Finalist, a Grand Slam Spoken Word Champion, HBO Def Poet, and inaugural Poet Laureate of Dallas, performing at universities, conferences and poetry slams all over the North America and Europe.

Come join Melissa Cundieff and Rebecca Bernard for an afternoon of reading on the roof!

Melissa Cundieff received an MFA in poetry from Vanderbilt University, where she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and is a lecturer for the English department at Harvard. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in places such as Best of the Net, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter, Four Way Review, TriQuarterly, The Adroit Journal, and Tongue: A Journal of Writing and Art. She has published a chapbook, Futures With Your Ghost.

Rebecca Bernard’s debut collection of stories won the 2021 Non/Fiction prize from The Journal and was published by Ohio State’s Mad Creek Books in August 2022. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Wigleaf, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Fiction from the University of North Texas and an MFA from Vanderbilt University. Her work received notable mention in the Best American Short Stories of 2018. She is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Angelo State University.  She serves as a Fiction Editor for The Boiler.