Hollie Hardy
Poet, Educator, Literary Arts Organizer
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Hollie Hardy
Hollie Hardy
HOLLIE HARDY is a poet, educator, and award-winning author of How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems. She teaches private poetry workshops, edits manuscripts, and hosts the monthly reading series Saturday Night Special, a Virtual Open Mic. She lives in Austin, TX.
Upcoming Classes & Events
5/21 Contemporary Poetry Workshop Workshop
5/21 Contemporary Poetry Workshop Workshop
Explore the craft of poetry through the lens of award-winning contemporary writers in this 6-week online workshop. Each class will focus on a different poet — Bob Hicok, Kimiko Hahn, Analicia Sotelo, Andrea Gibson, Arthur Sze — using deep discussion of their work as inspiration for poetic experiment
4/25 Saturday Night Special presents: Sirens
4/25 Saturday Night Special presents: Sirens
In honor of National Poetry Month, join us online for an evening of literary performances featuring Austin Poet Laureate Zell Miller III and San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus Tongo Eisen-Martin, plus open mic readings hosted by Hollie Hardy. Saturday, April 25, 2026, 8pm CT. Free event.
4/18 The Write-In with Hollie Hardy
4/18 The Write-In with Hollie Hardy
April 18, 2026—In this generative afternoon workshop with poet Hollie Hardy, creative writers gather online to work on new poems or stories on the monthly theme. Prompts provided. All levels and genres welcome. Writing in community is a great way to show up for yourself, connect with other creatives
4/1 April Poetry Challenge — 30 Poems in 30 Days
4/1 April Poetry Challenge — 30 Poems in 30 Days
April is National Poetry Month! Build or energize your writing practice in this fun, supportive 30-day poetry challenge! Daily prompts and poems provided. Join a community of writers; get inspired; commit to your poetry; show up to the page; experiment; play! At the end of the month, you’ll have 30
Praxis Poetry: Weekly Prompts for Poets
Praxis Poetry: Weekly Prompts for Poets
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Workshops, Write-Ins, Manuscript Review, Private Coaching
Workshops, Write-Ins, Manuscript Review, Private Coaching
Saturday Night Special: A Virtual Open Mic
Saturday Night Special: A Virtual Open Mic
More Readings & Events
More Readings & Events
Books
Lions Like Us by Hollie Hardy
Lions Like Us by Hollie Hardy
"Reading this book is like falling in love, then parting, then returning to the beloved, again and again and again. Reader, enter to weep, to laugh, to find solidarity. Enter to find, in its purest, most intense, most direct and available form, poetry." ~Matthew Zapruder, author of Story o
How to Take a Bullet by Hollie Hardy
How to Take a Bullet by Hollie Hardy
How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014), Hollie Hardy’s debut poetry collection, winner of the San Francisco State University Annual Poetry Center Book Award, judged by Mukta Sambrani, contains how-to poems with titles appropriated from The Worst-Case Scenario Surviv
Mixed Bag of Tricks: A Short Story Anthology
Mixed Bag of Tricks: A Short Story Anthology
Multicultural stories from women about women that will delight, entertain and occasionally break your heart. Featuring stories by: Antonia Pròtano Biggs, Ishita Fernandes, Roanna Flowers, GESS, Ilene Haddad, Hollie Hardy, Britta Jensen, Heidi Kasa, N.J. Knight, Kara Stockinger, E.A. Williams. Edited
Interviews & Reviews
SPEED READING: Book Review of Lions Like Us / Hollie Hardy — THE RACKET
SPEED READING: Book Review of Lions Like Us / Hollie Hardy — THE RACKET
SPEED READING Lions Like Us / Hollie Hardy a short review by Kathleen J. Woods
A Thin Slice of Anxiety Review by Nadia Bruce-Rawlings of Lions Like Us by Hollie Hardy
A Thin Slice of Anxiety Review by Nadia Bruce-Rawlings of Lions Like Us by Hollie Hardy
A Virtual Interview with Hollie Hardy | cindyhuyser
A Virtual Interview with Hollie Hardy | cindyhuyser
Background BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading features Hollie Hardy and Laurel Benjamin Thursday, January 8, 2026 7:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. CST 5501 N. Lamar #A-105, Austin, TX 78751 and on Zo…
INTERVIEW: Hollie Hardy (Lions Like Us) — THE RACKET
INTERVIEW: Hollie Hardy (Lions Like Us) — THE RACKET
INTERVIEW Hollie Hardy ( Lions Like Us) by Miah Jeffra
Podcast from Parley Lit: Totally Biased Review— in Conversation with Hollie Hardy
Podcast from Parley Lit: Totally Biased Review— in Conversation with Hollie Hardy
Voyage Austin — Interview with Hollie Hardy
Voyage Austin — Interview with Hollie Hardy
Published Poems
Tender Hearts Club: Volume One - Telegraph Hill Books
Tender Hearts Club: Volume One - Telegraph Hill Books
We are making this book now because the world is asking us-over and over-to harden. To look away. To shrink our circles of care. To treat love as private, sentimental, optional. This anthology gathers love in all its forms. Erotic love and everyday love. Revolutionary love and quiet love. The love that aches, that long
Colossus: Current
Colossus: Current
Synkroniciti — How We Recover by Hollie Hardy
Synkroniciti — How We Recover by Hollie Hardy
Individual issues of Synkroniciti are available for $7. These are online e-books; after processing (which requires we receive your order and send it manually), you’ll receive a link in your e…
Call Me [Crazy] — 2 poems by Hollie Hardy
Call Me [Crazy] — 2 poems by Hollie Hardy
Four Tulips — Where Did We Begin? by Hollie Hardy
Four Tulips — Where Did We Begin? by Hollie Hardy
by Hollie Hardy
Synkroniciti — Things We Talked about While You Were Sleeping
Synkroniciti — Things We Talked about While You Were Sleeping
Poetry Super Highway — Capitalism or the Guy Who Ate a $120,000 Banana...by Hollie Hardy
Poetry Super Highway — Capitalism or the Guy Who Ate a $120,000 Banana...by Hollie Hardy
Alchemy Magazine — Autobiography of My Childhood by Hollie Hardy
Alchemy Magazine — Autobiography of My Childhood by Hollie Hardy
The Quarter(ly) — Green Onions
The Quarter(ly) — Green Onions
Parley Lit | Issue 5 — Portrait of Your Lover in Grief
Parley Lit | Issue 5 — Portrait of Your Lover in Grief
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