October 2025 One Page Salon
October 7, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CDT
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The One Page Salon (called “the best literary evening in town” by the Austin American-Statesman) is a monthly reading series presented by the Writers’ League of Texas.
On Tuesday, October 7, join us for our next edition of the one-of-a-kind One Page Salon! It will be a night of revelry and literary fun. Five outstanding writers – C. Prudence Arceneaux, Bret Anthony Johnston, Olivia Lee, Richard Z. Santos, and Savannah Williams – will read one page from a work in progress or recently published work, which means the audience will be among the first to hear new material from our talented line-up. Your host for the evening will be Becka Oliver.
The One Page Salon takes place on the lovely outdoor patio (weather permitting) at Radio Coffee & Beer in South Austin where attendees can enjoy coffee and beer and other libations. There are some food trucks if you want to pick up a tasty bite to eat and Reverie Books will be on hand selling an assortment of great reads, including our readers’ latest books.
CONTINUING YOUR WRITING JOURNEY
Featured Presenter(s)
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C. Prudence Arceneaux, a native Texan, teaches English and Creative Writing, and is the Department Chair of Creative Writing, at Austin Community College, in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The Academy of American Poets’Poem- A- Day,Limestone, New Texas, Hazmat Review, Texas Observer, Whiskey Island Magazine, African Voices and Inkwell. She is the author of two chapbooks of poetry-- DIRT (2018 Jean Pedrick Prize) and LIBERTY-- and the full length collection PROPRIOCEPTION. -
Bret Anthony Johnston is the internationally bestselling author of the novels We Burn Daylight and Remember Me Like This, and the multi-award-winning collection Corpus Christi: Stories. He also edited Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and wrote the documentary film Waiting for Lightning, which was released in theaters around the world by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Among his many honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Glasgow Prize, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award, “the world’s richest and most prestigious prize for a single short story.” His work has been widely translated and appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. 
Olivia Lee has lived in Austin for half her life, moving here with her family from Augusta, Georgia in high school. She attended the University of Texas and graduated with a BA in Psychology and Liberal Arts Honors. After college, she did Teach for America and taught 9th and 10th grade English in rural South Carolina. Then she came back to Austin to attend law school at the University of Texas School of Law. She currently works as a special education attorney at Disability Rights Texas. In her free time, she writes and advocates for endometriosis education legislation. She loves working out, attending Art from the Streets shows, and collecting first edition Stephen King novels. She has been writing poetry since she was 19, and hopes to publish a book of poems as a memoir.-
Richard Z. Santos' debut novel, Trust Me, was a finalist for the Writer's League of Texas Book Awards and was named one of the best debuts of the year by Crime Reads. He's the editor of the anthology A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories. His fiction has been nominated for The Pushcart, Best of the Net, the International Thriller Writers Awards, and has been cited in Best American Mystery and Suspense. His stories, nonfiction, and essays have appeared in Texas Monthly, The Rumpus, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Like the Wind, Austin Noir, Lone Stars Rising, and more. -
Savannah Williams is a student at Texas State’s MFA program for poetry. She has been writing poetry all her life. She is from Austin, Texas. She thanks everyone for being here tonight, and Radio coffee for hosting such an inclusive literary space.
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