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Women On Top: Five Fiesty Females
To celebrate National Women’s History Month, Three Rooms Press presents “WOMEN ON TOP: Five Feisty Females” at Cornelia Street Cafe Friday, March 6 at 6 p.m. The event features readings and performances by five passionate, irreverent, and intense women writers, artists, and cultural leaders including poet and activist Hettie Jones; New York Times health and science writer Pam Belluck; post-punk, post-modern, post-traumatic prose artist Margot Olavarria; poet, novelist, and avid cyclist Marci Blackman; and writer, storyteller, and performer Beth Lisick. Three Rooms Press co-director Kat Georges hosts. MORE
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Watery Self Event
Join Three Rooms Press and Mote Marine Laboratory at OUR WATERY SELVES, an evening with Dr. Stephen Spotte, to celebrate the release of his powerful new autobiography MY WATERY SELF: Memoirs of a Marine Scientist with special guest Mary Lou Johnson, award-winning photographer and author of THE LURE OF LONGBOAT KEY.
RSVP here
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Under 26?
We Want Your Writing!
Hate your job? Unsure about your finances? Wonder where you’re going in life? Are you 26 or under? Sounds like you’re in the throes of your very own quarter-life crisis—which, coincidentally, is the name of our Short Story Competition for Writers 26 and Under! Send us your energy and your ambition, your emotion and your edgiest prose. We want characters who are indebted, who are Internet addicts, who work three jobs to support their art, or who still live with their moms—or who are moms. We want characters of all genders, nationalities, sexualities, ideologies, creeds, experiences, histories. We want the strong and the weak, the self-aware and those who reject reality. We’re celebrating the millennial—it’s time to proclaim who we are with our own damn voices. For full guidelines and to submit, click here.
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In the News . . .
ANTI: A theater review
by Ann Firestone Ungar
ANTI, an avant-garde one-act play by Peter Carlaftes, premiered in New York City to strong and sustained applause on February 23 at the Barrow Street Theatre. Portrayed by skilled actresses, the characters Ave (an unfulfilled dreamer), Riddle (a subsidized rebel), and Pierce (a government stooge), meet backstage in a theater where there’s no show. They live in a totalitarian society marked by sirens and sounds of chaos penetrating from outside. Every action is observed, and yet the characters manage to retain their humanity. Societal control is so strong that if you want to rob a bank, for example, there’s a bank you can go to and rob. No problem. You’re being watched, and, well, have a good time. Read more
Congratulations to our Goodreads Giveaway winners for My Watery Self and Teatrophy!
You still have a chance to win a free Advanced Reader Copy of Dark City Lights here.
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Author Profile
Mwa ha ha! All Your Ron Dakron Are Ours
Ron Dakron talks books, lilacs, and Hello Devilfish! with 3RP editor Constance Renfrow
Hello Devilfish! began as a Tokyo bildungsroman that wandered into stasis. Meanwhile, the taboo-tweaking Hello Devilfish! narrator nudged his perky way through my sleeping brain slime—one of those rare writing coups where a character leaps up fully formed and raring to rave, mwah ha ha. I gave my monster from the Id (a la Forbidden Planet) free rein. Geeraa!
Read the full interview here.
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Save the Date
Upcoming Three Rooms Press events
Friday, March 6: Women on Top: A celebration of Women in honor of National Women’s History Month, featuring Margot Olivierra (founding member of the Go-Go’s), Alice Bag (L.A. performance artist), Beth Lisick (author, Yokohama Three Way), Marci Blackman (author, Po Man’s Child), and Hettie Jones. 6 pm, Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, $12 (includes free drink).
Thursday, March 12: Official launch for MY WATERY SELF: Memoirs of a Marine Scientist, by Stephen Spotte, with special guest Mary Lou Johnson, photographer and author of The Lure of Longboat Key. 5:30 pm, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, Sarasota, Florida. Free admission.
Friday, April 3: 2nd annual CODE POETRY FESTIVAL, in honor of National Poetry Month. Details to come. 6 pm, Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC. $12 (includes free drink).
April 8-11, AWP Conference. Three Rooms Press will be at booth 204, with special offers on upcoming titles and our terrific backlist. Stop by the booth, mention this newsletter and win a free, super-cool gift! Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN.
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