THE FICTION SESSIONS: A READING SERIES
A partnership with Third Lantern Lit
A New Community Partnership!
We're so excited to announce The Fiction Sessions: A Reading Series in partnership with Third Lantern Lit.
Upcoming events will include quarterly generative writing and revising sessions, workshops on reading your work to an audience, and readings selected from submissions.
Each quarter will focus on a different theme, and 3LL will call for submissions. The theme for November is speculative fiction. March's theme is period fiction.
Watch for future dates, themes, and calls for submissions in the coming months. We'll post them on this page, or you can visit the 3LL page HERE.
This event series is free and open to the community and held at our venue sponsor, Beanlandia, 3300 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70117.
November 16 Fiction Reading
Samuel Cooley is from Vidalia, Louisiana and has lived in the Bayou State all of his life. He is in his third year studying Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans and is an alumnus of Louisiana Tech University. You can spot his work in The Pinnacle, Daikaijuzine, the anthology It Always Finds Me, and elsewhere. You can follow his writing journey on Bluesky @writingsam52.
Rachel Dunphy is a fiction writer, journalist, and essays with bylines in New York Magazine and Literary Hub. She also serves as the lead producer and narrative director at Tinkture Design, a studio that produces story-driven immersive experiences and events. Currently she is hard at work on Happy Little Trees, an immersive adventure opening in the Bywater in late December.
Jacob Edenfield is a writer and creative director living in New Orleans. His current projects include a novel about blossoming love in the post-economic-collapse company towns of Florida and a humor story collection of imagined conversations and correspondence.
John R. Greene was born and raised in New Orleans. He worked as a professional archaeologist for the ACRP, focusing on both the historic and prehistoric archaeology of southeastern Louisiana, from 1980-88. Following that, he worked as a marine archaeologist and social scientist for the Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior, until 1998. After leaving the Department of the Interior, he began a new career as an exploration geologist and worked for the next two decades as an independent geologist. He has an abiding love for the history, culture, geology, and geography of New Orleans and southeastern Louisiana matched by a passion for music, which he translates into his writing.
Laura McKnight is a Thibodaux native and New Orleans resident with over 20 years of experience as a journalist. She still works in communications and loves to dance, solve crossword puzzles, and check out all kinds of live shows.
TQ Sims writes stories that center Queer characters in supernormal situations. Their story “The Ritual” was chosen as a finalist in competition at the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. Their work has appeared in Louisiana Words, Beyond Queer Words, and The Queer and Trans Guide to Storms. They live in New Orleans with their partner and a growing number of cats. Instagram: @t.q.sims
Featured Writer: Alex Jennings is a writer/editor/teacher/poet living in New Orleans. He is the Program Director of DreamFoundry’s Con or Bust and pens a regular speculative poetry review column in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction called “Chapter and Verse.” His writing has appeared in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Electric Velocipede, Uncanny Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, New Suns, and Current Affairs, among other venues. His debut novel, The Ballad of Perilous Graves is available wherever books are sold. You can find him goofing around on Instagram: @magicknegro and Twitter: @magicknegro.
