Out Loud HSV monthly open mic and features create a space for literary arts and spoken word to grow! Join us in Pizzelle's Confections, studio RR4 (or Railroad Room Number 4) at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment, for this event. Come early to sign up for the open mic, where you will have 5 minutes to share your work. Then we will have a 30 minute feature with Alina Stefanescu!

Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Alabama with her partner and four small mammals. Stories to Read Aloud to Your Fetus, a hybrid poetry collection, was published by Finishing Line Press in October 2017. Her first fiction collection, 'Every Mask I Tried On', won the 2016 Brighthorse Books Prize. Find her writing in recent issues of Cloudbank, Volt, New South, (b)OINK, and others. More online at www.alinastefanescu.com.